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Counterpoints eBook Series

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  • Reimagining Education Reform and Innovation

    Edited by Matthew Lynch ...
    Series Book 461 - Counterpoints
    Reimagining Education Reform and Innovation provides scholars and laymen with an assortment of theoretical and practical perspectives for questioning contemporary practices and forging new methods of education reform and innovation. This volume is the leading collection of contemporary essays by the major thinkers in the field of education reform and innovation. Carefully attentive to both theory ... Read more

    $46.07 CAD

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  • The Jossey-Bass Reader on Contemporary Issues in Adult Education

    Edited by Sharan B. Merriam, André P. Grace ...
    THE JOSSEY-BASS READER ON Contemporary Issues in Adult EducationWith contributions from leading experts in the field, The Jossey-Bass Reader on Contemporary Issues in Adult Education collects in one volume the best previously published literature on the issues and trends affecting adult education today. The volume includes influential pieces from foundational authors in the profession such as ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Profession and Practice of Adult Education

    An Introduction

    by Sharan B. Merriam, Ralph G. Brockett ...
    The Profession and Practice of Adult Education is a timely book and an excellent introduction to the field. Drawing from an extensive volume of literature, it provides comprehensive coverage and a clear guide. Graduate students will benefit from it and practitioners will be kept abreast of changes that are occurring.--Peter Jarvis, professor of continuing education and senior research professor, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Educational Leadership at 2050

    Conjectures, Challenges, and Promises

    by Rosemary Papa, Fenwick W. English, Theodore Creighton ...
    This is a practical, bold, no-holds barred look at challenges facing educational leaders and the university programs that prepare them through mid-century. It examines key continuities and discontinuities of current times for school, education, and society. Both practice and preparation occur in contested social space, the implications of which are explored in a post industrial, digital age.The ... Read more

    $38.87 CAD

  • Participatory Practices in Adult Education

    Edited by Pat Campbell, Barbara Burnaby ...
    Although there has been a great deal of rhetoric about learner empowerment in educational and community development circles, this book is the first to offer detailed examples of successful participatory practices in adult education spanning a wide range of program settings, such as schools, institutions, communities, and the workplace. The editors join with practitioner colleagues in the United ... Read more

    $113.33 CAD

  • Literacy in a Digital World

    Teaching and Learning in the Age of Information

    by Kathleen Tyner ...
    Series series Routledge Communication Series
    In this book, Kathleen Tyner examines the tenets of literacy through a historical lens to demonstrate how new communication technologies are resisted and accepted over time. New uses of information for teaching and learning create a "disconnect" in the complex relationship between literacy and schooling, and raise questions about the purposes of literacy in a global, networked, educational ... Read more

    $91.16 CAD

  • Intercultural Communication for Everyday Life

    by John R. Baldwin, Robin R. Means Coleman, Suchitra Shenoy-Packer, Alberto González ...
    Written for students studying intercultural communication for the first time, this textbook gives a thorough introduction to inter- and cross-cultural concepts with a focus on practical application and social action.Provides a thorough introduction to inter- and cross-cultural concepts for beginning students with a focus on practical application and social actionDefines “communication” broadly ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Radical Equality in Education

    Starting Over in U.S. Schooling

    by Joanne Larson ...
    Tinkering with the current educational system from within has not provided a just and equitable education for all children. In this book, acclaimed education theorist Joanne Larson poses basic questions about the nature and purpose of schooling. Proposing that what is needed is a new purpose that is more consistent with contemporary knowledge production processes—one that moves beyond the either ... Read more

    $60.36 CAD

  • Powerful Techniques for Teaching Adults

    by Stephen D. Brookfield ...
    Praise for Powerful Techniques for Teaching Adults"Stephen Brookfield has used his gifts for clear thinking and lucid writing to produce this theoretically informed, immensely practical book on how the dynamics of power and adult teaching intersect. It should be required reading for everyone who teaches adults." ??-Ronald M. Cervero, professor and associate dean, College of Education, University ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Teaching By Numbers

    Deconstructing the Discourse of Standards and Accountability in Education

    by Peter Maas Taubman ...
    Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
    Over the last decade the transformation in the field of education that is occurring under the twin banners of "standards" and "accountability" has materially affected every aspect of schooling, teaching, and teacher education in the United States. Teaching By Numbers, offers interdisciplinary ways to understand the educational reforms underway in urban education, teaching, and teacher education, ... Read more

    $89.93 CAD

  • Alternatives to Privatizing Public Education and Curriculum

    Festschrift in Honor of Dale D. Johnson

    Edited by Daniel Ness, Stephen J. Farenga ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Education, Neoliberalism, and Marxism
    Through conversations in honor of Dale D. Johnson, this booktakes a critical view of the monoculture in curriculum and policy that has developed in education with the increase of federal funding and privatization of services for public education, and examines the shift from public interest and control to private and corporate shareholder hegemony. Most states’ educational responsibilities ... Read more

    $67.75 CAD

  • Race, Gender, and Leadership

    Re-envisioning Organizational Leadership From the Perspectives of African American Women Executives

    by Patricia S. Parker ...
    Series series Routledge Communication Series
    Much has been written about a model of leadership that emphasizes women's values and experiences, that is in some ways distinct from male models of leadership. This book redirects the focus to a view of leadership as a multicultural phenomenon that moves beyond dualistic notions of "masculine" and "feminine" leadership, and focuses more specifically on leadership as the management of meaning, ... Read more

    $75.14 CAD