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Counterpoints eBook Series

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  • Coloring in the White Spaces

    Reclaiming Cultural Identity in Whitestream Schools

    by Ann Milne ...
    Series Book 513 - Counterpoints
    This book examines the struggle against racial and cultural inequity in educational systems, presenting the case study of a New Zealand school and its community’s determination to resist alienating environments. If we look at an untouched child’s coloring book, for instance, we think of the pages as blank. But they’re not actually blank – each page is uniformly white, with lines established to ... Read more

    PHP3,188.79

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  • Globetrotting or Global Citizenship?

    Perils and Potential of International Experiential Learning

    Edited by Rebecca Tiessen, Robert Huish ...
    Globetrotting or Global Citizenship? explores the broad range of international experiential learning options available to Canadian students, as well as the opportunities and the ethical dilemmas that come with them. Combining practical advice with critical examinations of international experiential learning, this essay collection is designed to help the reader to move beyond photo-ops and travel ... Read more

    PHP1,713.49

  • Being Maori in the City

    Indigenous Everyday Life in Auckland

    by Natacha Gagné ...
    Series series Anthropological Horizons
    Indigenous peoples around the world have been involved in struggles for decolonization, self-determination, and recognition of their rights, and the Māori of Aotearoa-New Zealand are no exception. Now that nearly 85% of the Māori population have their main place of residence in urban centres, cities have become important sites of affirmation and struggle. Grounded in an ethnography of everyday ... Read more

    PHP1,617.79

  • What is Youth Work?

    Edited by Janet Batsleer, Bernard Davies ...
    Series series Empowering Youth and Community Work PracticeýLM Series
    With the proposed development of the ′youth professional′ and the consolidation of graduate professional qualifications, this is an important time for youth work. This book sets out the current state of debate about youth work for those considering, or about to embark on, a degree course. Contemporary debates in youth work are explored, and help to give students a sense of its history and its ... Read more

    PHP3,923.69

  • Freedom to Learn

    by Will Richardson ...
    Series series Solutions
    Give students control over the learning process. The 21st century has seen vast advances in technology—which can connect students and teachers to more information, knowledge, and experts than ever before. Investigate why the traditional education system isn’t working, uncover why the meanings of education and success should be redefined, and understand the teacher’s role in a free learning ... Read more

    PHP1,068.49

  • Cultural Safety in Aotearoa New Zealand

    Edited by Dianne Wepa ...
    In this second edition of Cultural Safety in Aotearoa New Zealand, editor Dianne Wepa presents a range of theoretical and practice-based perspectives adopted by experienced educators who are active in cultural safety education. Thoroughly revised to incorporate the latest methods and research, this edition reflects updates in government policies and nursing practices, and features new chapters on ... Read more

    PHP4,228.59

  • Schooling Selves

    Autonomy, Interdependence, and Reform in Japanese Junior High Education

    by Peter Cave ...
    Balancing the development of autonomy with that of social interdependence is a crucial aim of education in any society, but nowhere has it been more hotly debated than in Japan, where controversial education reforms over the past twenty years have attempted to reconcile the two goals. In this book, Peter Cave explores these reforms as they have played out at the junior high level, the most intense ... Read more

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  • Decolonizing Social Work

    Edited by Mel Gray, John Coates, Michael Yellow Bird, Tiani Hetherington ...
    Series series Contemporary Social Work Studies
    Riding on the success of Indigenous Social Work Around the World, this book provides case studies to further scholarship on decolonization, a major analytical and activist paradigm among many of the world’s Indigenous Peoples, including educators, tribal leaders, activists, scholars, politicians, and citizens at the grassroots level. Decolonization seeks to weaken the effects of colonialism and ... Read more

    PHP4,460.89

  • The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, fourth edition

    Edited by Ulrike Felt, Rayvon Fouche, Clark A. Miller, Laurel Smith-Doerr ...
    The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field.Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and rearrange contemporary societies. The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies provides a comprehensive and ... Read more

    PHP4,171.39

  • Home: Here to Stay

    Edited by Mere Kepa, Marilyn McPherson, Linita Manu'atu ...
    This is a collection of twelve academic essays that consider understandings of home and the impact of dominant societies on indigenous societies and their homes. The book covers home and language preservation, homelessness, retention of land, tobacco use in the home, loss of home through trauma and natural disaster, ageing and health, and the meaning of home. This is the third book in the Nga Pae ... Read more

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  • A Sociology of Japanese Youth

    From Returnees to NEETs

    Edited by Roger Goodman, Yuki Imoto, Tuukka Toivonen ...
    Series series Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    Over the past thirty years, whilst Japan has produced a diverse set of youth cultures which have had a major impact on popular culture across the globe, it has also developed a succession of youth problems which have led to major concerns within the country itself. Drawing on detailed empirical fieldwork, the authors of this volume set these issues in a clearly articulated ‘social constructionist’ ... Read more

    PHP4,113.24

  • Diversity Success Strategies

    by Norma Carr-Ruffino ...
    Powerful self-awareness activities and real-life case studies make this new information fascinating, practical, and easy to apply to the workplace. Seeing the world through the eyes of a person from another group is a potent process for shifting perspective and gaining multicultural people skills. " . . . an informative, comprehensive, and practical book. It is easy to read and is a must for ... Read more

    PHP4,287.06