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A Compact for Higher Education
This title was first published in 2000. This is a collection of papers which look at the relationship between higher education and those who use it, and those who will in the future. The papers look at how compacts could be developed to encourage the potential for maintaining and improving upon existing education agreements. The book covers the university and higher education institutions and their relationship with government and industry as well as with the students.
Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory
Postmodernism has become the orthodoxy in educational theory. It heralds the end of grand theories like Marxism and liberalism, scorning any notion of a united feminist challenge to patriachy, of united anti-racist struggle, and of united working-class movements against capitalist exploitation and oppression. For postmodernists, the world is fragmented, history is ended, and all struggles are local and particularistic. Written by internationally renowned British and American educational theorists Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory--a substantially revised edition of the original 1999 work Postmodernism in Educational Theory--critically examines the infusion of postmodernism and theories of postmodernity into educational theory, policy, and research. The writers argue that postmodernism provides neither a viable educational politics, nor the foundation for effective radical educational practice and offer an alternative 'politics of human resistance' which puts the challenge to capitalism firmly on the agenda of educational theory, politics, and practice.
The Dispersion
Winner of the 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award In The Dispersion, Stéphane Dufoix skillfully traces how the word “diaspora”, first coined in the third century BCE, has, over the past three decades, developed into a contemporary concept often considered to be ideally suited to grasping the complexities of our current world. Spanning two millennia, from the Septuagint to the emergence of Zionism, from early Christianity to the Moravians, from slavery to the defence of the Black cause, from its first scholarly uses to academic ubiquity, from the early negative connotations of the term to its contemporary apotheosis, Stéphane Dufoix explores the historical socio-semantics of a word that, perhaps paradoxically, has entered the vernacular while remaining poorly understood.
Learning how Children Process Mathematical Problems
This book is the result of three years of qualitative research observation conducted in a classroom. Grade five students were observed during their extended mathematics problem-solving class. Data was audio-taped, video-recorded, and analyzed to isolate the language of problem solving. The children work with multi-step mathematical problems that are well-designed. Insights gleaned from the analysis showed the different ways that children interpret what they understand in mathematics. It also shows how they explain their problem-solving strategies to each other. The study shows teachers and teacher-educators positive ways of assisting the problem-solving process. Through multiple examples of hands-on instruction, manipulatives-based learning environments, and well-designed classroom settings, teachers and teacher-educators can help build positive mathematical experiences for young children. The data also shows that students work in a space that requires high concentration and abstraction, and it brings out the fat that youngsters need to communicate about what they're learning.
Popular Culture in a Globalised India
As India celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of its independence, much praise was lavished on its emergence as a major player on the global stage. Its economic transformation and geopolitical significance as a nuclear power are matched by its globally resonant cultural resources. This book explores India’s rich popular culture. Chapters provide illuminating insights into various aspects of the social, cultural, economic and political realities of contemporary globalised India. Structured thematically and drawing on a broad range of academic disciplines, the book deals with critical issues including: - Film, television and TV soaps - Folk theatre, Mahabharata-Ramayana ,myths, performance, i...
Reading Comprehension and Text Organization
Provides a thorough and highly accessible discussion of reading comprehension theory and the complexities of reading assessment.
A New Era in Educational Leadership--one Principal, Two Schools
Principals are in short supply in Ontario, Canada, and across North America. This work aims to help teachers understand why schools have been twinned (one principal leading two or even three schools) in Ontario and elsewhere, as well as the benefits associated with twinning.
