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Deculturalization And The Struggle For Equality - A Brief History Of The Education Of Dominated Cultures In The United States

by Joel Spring

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 Joel Springâ€™s history of school policies imposed on dominated groups in the United States examines the concept of deculturalizationâ€"the use of schools to strip away family languages and cultures and replace them with those of the dominant group.
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American Education

by Joel Spring

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 Featuring current information and challenging perspectives on the latest issues and forces shaping the American educational system, Joel Spring introduces readers to the historical, political, social, and legal foundations of education and to the profession of teaching in the United States.
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Ecojustice Education - Toward Diverse, Democratic, And Sustainable Communities

by Jeff Edmundson, John Lupinacci e Rebecca A. Martusewicz

70,21€ + 10% CARD

 EcoJustice Education offers a powerful model for cultural ecological analysis and a pedagogy of responsibility. Martusewicz, Edmundson, and Lupinacci provide teachers and teacher educators with the information and classroom practices to develop citizens who are prepared to support and achieve diverse, democratic, and sustainable societies.
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Ecojustice Education - Toward Diverse, Democratic, And Sustainable Communities

by Jeff (University Of Oregon, Usa) Edmundson, John (Washington State University, Usa) Lupinacci e Rebecca A. (Eastern Michigan University, Usa) Martusewicz

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 EcoJustice Education offers a powerful model for cultural ecological analysis and a pedagogy of responsibility. Martusewicz, Edmundson, and Lupinacci provide teachers and teacher educators with the information and classroom practices to develop citizens who are prepared to support and achieve diverse, democratic, and sustainable societies.
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Ecojustice Education - Toward Diverse, Democratic, And Sustainable Communities

by Jeff (University Of Oregon, Usa) Edmundson, John (Washington State University, Usa) Lupinacci e Rebecca A. (Eastern Michigan University, Usa) Martusewicz

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 EcoJustice Education offers a powerful model for cultural ecological analysis and a pedagogy of responsibility. Martusewicz, Edmundson, and Lupinacci provide teachers and teacher educators with the information and classroom practices to develop citizens who are prepared to support and achieve diverse, democratic, and sustainable societies.
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Global Impacts Of The Western School Model - Corporatization, Alienation, Consumerism

by Joel Spring

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 Written in his signature clear, narrative style, Spring introduces the processes, institutions, and forces by which schooling has been refocused on educating for a corporatized and urban consumer culture. Chapters trace the impacts of such factors as religious debates, nationalism, school organization, instructional methods and school staff.
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American School - From The Puritans To The Trump Era

by Joel Spring

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 Joel Spring provides a variety of interpretations of American schooling, from conservative to leftist, in order to spark the readerâ€™s own critical thinking about history and schools.
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Intersection Of Cultures - Multicultural Education In The United States And The Global Economy

by Joel Spring

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 Offers a problem-solving approach to the complex issues involved in educating culturally and linguistically diverse students. This work has a particular focus on the global migration of peoples, and the tension between local and global cultures. It is suitable for courses devoted to the study of multicultural education.
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Intersection Of Cultures - Multicultural Education In The United States And The Global Economy

by Joel Spring

76,84€ + 10% CARD

 Offers a problem-solving approach to the complex issues involved in educating culturally and linguistically diverse students. This work has a particular focus on the global migration of peoples, and the tension between local and global cultures. It is suitable for courses devoted to the study of multicultural education.
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Indigenous Educational Models For Contemporary Practice - In Our Mother''S Voice, Volume Ii

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 The book challenges teachers, researchers, educational leaders, and community stakeholders to build dynamic learning environments through which indigenous learners can be "Boldly Indigenous in a Global World!" It honors the wisdom of ancestors, highlights the diversity of indigenous stories, and illuminates the passion of forward-looking scholars.
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Political Agendas For Education - From Make America Great Again To Stronger Together

by Joel Spring

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 Following the epic, contentious 2016 presidential election, Joel Spring’s ongoing documentation and analysis of political agendas for education reflect the major political issues since 2012. Here he examines the 2016 education planks of the Republican, Democratic, Libertarian, and Green Parties, using their official platforms and other statements, speeches given by each candidate, and media reports and publications. Each party’s position is linked to previous political movements in education. Spring offers an alternative agenda for American schools, including a proposed education amendment to the U.S. Constitution and replacing human capital agendas with goals emphasizing education for a long life and happiness. Taking a fresh look at the social and political forces, educational research, and ideologies shaping their educational agendas and a comparative approach, the book stimulates reflection and discussion.Updates and changes in the Sixth Edition:<ul> <li>Betsy DeVos’s education agenda supporting vouchers, free market competition and for-profit schools and its relationship to the education section of the 2016 Republican platform</li> <li>The important role religion and culture played in the evolution of Republican education policies after the school prayer and Bible decisions of the 1960s</li> <li>The influence of human capital economics on Democratic education proposals</li> <li>How No Child Left Behind and Democratic President Barack Obama opened doors to the growth of the for-profit education industry and investment bankers</li> <li>The 2016 Democratic positions on the cost of higher education and student loan debts</li> <li>The Democratic left as represented by the 2016 campaign of Democrat Bernie Sanders and his influence on the presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party platform</li> <li>The education proposals of the Green and Libertarian parties</li> </ul>
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Knowledge & Power In The Global Economy - The Effects Of School Reform In A Neoliberal/Neoconservative Age

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 The second edition of Knowledge and Power in the Global Economy examines how neoliberal and neoconservative policies are working in tandem to privatize and commercialize public schools. It looks at how these policies and the agendas behind them ha
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Non-Western Educational Traditions - Local Approaches To Thought And Practice

by Timothy Reagan

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 Informative and mind-opening, this text uniquely provides a comprehensive overview of a range of non-western approaches to educational thought and practice. Its premise is that understanding the ways that other people educate their children—as well as what counts for them as "education"—may help readers to think more clearly about some of their own assumptions and values, and to become more open to alternative viewpoints about important educational matters. The approach is deliberately and profoundly pedagogical, based in the author’s own teaching practice. Designed to be used in pre-service and in-service teacher education courses where substantial critical discussion and debate are encouraged, the text is enhanced by Questions for Discussion and Reflection in each chapter. Updates and Features of the Fourth Edition• NEW! Chapter 2 exploring key features of the ‘western educational tradition’, and information about the contemporary educational systems in different countries• NEW! Chapter 10 on traditional educational thought and practice in Oceania, with special focus on the Maori in New Zealand, the Hawai’ians, and the Australian Aboriginal peoples• Updated chapter on Africa includes fuller explanation of the diversity within the indigenous African experience, as well as several contemporary cases of state education in Africa• Updated Chapter 4 is designed to help non-Muslims to understand the Muslim educational heritage and the growing issue of Islamophobia• Exploration of Chinese education now includes a special emphasis on the thought of Confucius, the role of the imperial examination system, and the impact of political and economic changes in the 20th century• Updated analysis of contemporary educational practices in Hindu and Buddhist educational thought and practice and brief discussions of Jainism and Sikhism
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Business Of Education - Networks Of Power And Wealth In America

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 The Business of Education—a comprehensive view of how education policy is made in the US and, in some cases, globally—analyzes and critiques the influence of educational policy networks in a wide range of contexts and from a variety of perspectives, including testing, college preparation, juvenile detention centers, special education, the arts, teacher evaluation systems, education of undocumented immigrants, college faculty preparation, and financial aid. A network chart in most chapters illustrates how the major political actors, mainly private philanthropic foundations, for-profit companies, government officials, and politicians involved in the network, are linked. Joel Spring, internationally renowned scholar and analyst of educational policy, situates and frames the network studies in an introduction discussing general theories of education policy networks.
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Politics Of American Education

by Joel Spring

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 Turning his distinctive analytical lens to the politics of American education, Spring looks at contemporary educational policy issues from theoretical, practical, and historical perspectives, providing a comprehensive, thought-provoking overview.
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Politics Of American Education

by Joel Spring

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 Turning his distinctive analytical lens to the politics of American education, Spring looks at contemporary educational policy issues from theoretical, practical, and historical perspectives, providing a comprehensive, thought-provoking overview.
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Invisible Children In The Society And Its Schools

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 The authors in this book use the metaphors of invisibility and visibility to explore the social and school lives of many children and young people in North America whose complexity, strengths, and vulnerabilities are largely unseen in the society and its
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Educating The Consumer-Citizen - A History Of The Marriage Of Schools, Advertising, And Media

by Joel Spring

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 This text charts the rise of consumerism as the dominant American ideology of the 21st century. It documents and analyses how, from the early 19th century through to the present, the combined endeavours of schools, advertising and media have led to the creation of a consumerist ideology.
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Studying Educational And Social Policy - Theoretical Concepts And Research Methods

by Ronald H. Heck

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 The purpose of this textbook is to introduce beginning researchers to the study of policy making, how it has been examined from a scholarly perspective, and the salient issues to consider in conceptualizing and conducting policy research.
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Black American Students In An Affluent Suburb - A Study Of Academic Disengagement

by John U. Ogbu

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 Focuses on the role of community forces in academic disengagement among Black American Students at every social class level; the study extends Ogbu's ongoing research on minority education.
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Minority Status, Oppositional Culture, & Schooling

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 This book is the definitive and final presentation of John Ogbuâ€™s cultural ecological model and the many debates that his work has sparked during the past decade. Organized as a dialogue between John Ogbu and the scholarly community, Minority Status, Oppositional Culture, and Schooling is essential reading for anyone interested in the study of the academic achievement gap
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Economization Of Education - Human Capital, Global Corporations, Skills-Based Schooling

by Joel Spring

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 In this timely, cogent analysis of the trends and powerful forces shaping global educational policy today, Joel Spring focuses on how economization is making economic growth and increased productivity the main goals of schools and the ways these goals are achieved, and raises questions about the effects of economically driven agendas for schools.
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Critical Pedagogies Of Consumption - Living And Learning In The Shadow Of The "Shopocalypse"

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 Distinguished international scholars from a wide range of disciplines explore consumption and its relation to learning, identity development, and education. This volume is unique within the literature of education in its examination of educational sites â€" both formal and informal â€" where learners and teachers are resisting consumerism and enacting a critical pedagogy of consumption.
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Globalization Of Education - An Introduction

by Joel Spring

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 Continuing Joel Springâ€™s reportage and analysis of the intersection of global forces and education, this text is a comprehensive, thought-provokingÂ overview and synthesis of current research, theories, and models related to the topic.
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