Critical Theory and Educational Research

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• Applies European critical theory to North American educational research. The contributors to this anthology bring North American research traditions i... Lees meer

Oil in Troubled Waters

William R Freudenburg, Robert Gramling

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Teacher Empowerment and School Reform
• In some coastal regions of the United States, such as western Louisiana, offshore oil development has long been welcomed. In others, such as northern ... Lees meer

Academic and Workplace Sexual Harassment

Michele A Paludi, Richard B Barickman

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Teacher Empowerment and School Reform
• This book represents the first comprehensive resource manual for understanding and preventing sexual harassment in the academic community and in the w... Lees meer

In Defense of the Lifeworld

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• Offers a radical rethinking of the meaning of work and learning in all domains of adult life: a "best of adult education" reader. In Defense of the Li... Lees meer

Transforming Power

Seth Kreisberg

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• This book is about power -- power in the classroom, in our schools, and in our society. Schools, teachers, students, and teaching exist in a churning ... Lees meer

The Modern Practice of Adult Education

Derek Briton

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Teacher Empowerment and School Reform
• Critiques the modernist tenets and moral integrity of contemporary adult education practice. Challenges educators to reconceptualize adult education a... Lees meer

Literacy, Ideology, and Dialogue

Irene Ward

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• This is the first scholarly examination of the use of dialogic theory and pedagogy by scholars and teachers of writing. Dialogic methods have become e... Lees meer

False Fixes

David Forbes

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• This book examines recent efforts to rid society of addictions and finds them wanting. The author examines everyday addictive patterns within modernis... Lees meer

Paulo Freire on Higher Education

Miguel Escobar, Alfredo L Fernandez, Gilberto Guevara-Niebla

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• Dedicated to a transformation of education so that it becomes an instrument of liberation rather than oppression, Freire discusses in unprecedented de... Lees meer

Critical Pedagogy, the State, and Cultural Struggle

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• Schools have been traditionally defined as institutions of instruction, but the authors of this volume challenge that position in order to generate a ... Lees meer

Reading Paulo Freire

Moacir Gadotti

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• This book was written as Paulo Freire himself would have done it, using a method of learning through victories and defeats in the same way one learns ... Lees meer

Bilingual Education

Marcia Moraes

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• Examines the theories of Bakhtin and Freire in relation to bilingual education and second language learning. Bilingual Education: A Dialogue with the ... Lees meer

What Schools Can Do

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• This book is organized around three themes: mechanisms of domination and control; pedagogies of possibility; and theory as critique. It links educatio... Lees meer

Inquiry and Reflection

Diane Dubose Brunner

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• Inquiry and Reflection shows how stories of schooling can elucidate difficult, and unexamined problems facing teachers. While professional texts tend ... Lees meer

Critical Reasoning in Contemporary Culture

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• Here we have, for the first time in a single volume, diverse perspectives on the meaning, conditions, and goals of critical reasoning in contemporary ... Lees meer

Inside Nursing

Annette Fay Street

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• Annette Fay Street is Director of the Center for Studies in Pediatric Nursing at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. Lees meer

Curriculum as Social Psychoanalysis

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• Contemporary curriculum discourses include historical, political, and autobiographical understandings -- all important in the effort to read criticall... Lees meer

Social Theory and Education

Raymond Allen Morrow, Carlos Alberto Torres

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Teacher Empowerment and School Reform
• Summarizes and critiques theories of social and cultural reproduction as they relate to sociology of education. This book summarizes the body of knowl... Lees meer

Pedagogy, Democracy, and Feminism

Adriana Hernández

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• Shows how recent work in feminist theory, poststructuralist thought, and cultural studies addresses the issue of pedagogy, extending the possibility o... Lees meer

Fear of Crime

Kenneth F Ferraro

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• An examination of the factors that contribute to the risk of being victimized, such as crime rates and environmental and personal variables Ferraro ex... Lees meer

Elementary Schooling for Critical Democracy

Jesse Goodman

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• This book examines the way in which elementary schooling can be used as a means to encourage critical democracy in the United States. It focuses prima... Lees meer

Pedagogy of Praxis

Moacir Gadotti

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• Foreword Beyond Humanistic Education: A Discussion with Moacir Gadotti Peter L. McLaren Foreword Dialectics, Conflict, and Dialogue Carlos Alberto Tor... Lees meer

Transforming Power

Seth Kreisberg

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Teacher Empowerment and School Reform
• This book is about power -- power in the classroom, in our schools, and in our society. Schools, teachers, students, and teaching exist in a churning ... Lees meer

Postmodernism, Feminism, and Cultural Politics

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Teacher Empowerment and School Reform
• This book introduces central assumptions that govern postmodern and feminist theory, offering educators a language to create new ways of conceiving pe... Lees meer