Penguin Press, 2019. — 576 p. From the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail, a crucial new big-picture framework that answers the question of how liberty flourishes in some states but falls to authoritarianism or anarchy in others--and explains how it can continue to thrive despite new threats. In Why Nations Fail, Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson argued...
Penguin Press, 2019. — 576 p. From the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail, a crucial new big-picture framework that answers the question of how liberty flourishes in some states but falls to authoritarianism or anarchy in others--and explains how it can continue to thrive despite new threats. In Why Nations Fail, Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson argued...
University of Washington, 2005. — 36 p. James A. Banks, Cherry A. McGee Banks, Carlos E. Cortes, Carole L. Hahn, Merry M. Merryfield, Kogila A. Moodley, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, Audrey Osler, Caryn Park, & Walter C. Parker. The increasing number of immigrant students and English language learners in U.S. schools presents educators with opportunities and challenges: How to...
New York: Simon & Schuster? 1987 - 392 (387) p. The Closing of the American Mind is a 1987 book by Allan Bloom. It describes "how higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students." He focuses especially upon the "openness" of relativism as leading paradoxically to the great "closing" referenced in the book's title. Bloom argues that...
Monograph. — Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. — 256 p. This is a story of the EC at work over fifty years, seen from the perspective of a developing European higher education policy. The book provides a rich background narrative to current strategic efforts to develop the Europe of Knowledge, and to the Bologna Process. Its analytic interest in ideas and individual "policy...
Columbia University Press.2014. 680 p. It has long been recognized that most standard of living increases are associated with advances in technology, not the accumulation of capital. Yet it has also become clear that what truly separates developed from less developed countries is not just a gap in resources or output but a gap in knowledge. In fact, the pace at which developing...
Palgrave Publishers Ltd, 2001. — 260 p. Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Research in Sociology of Education Today Shaping the Sociology of Education over Half-a-Century Purpose: the dominant project Location: the conditions of academic work Context: opportunities and constrains The selection principle and the focus and approaches of the sociology of education in Britain,...
Ferguson R. 2012. The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference (University of Minnesota Press) In The Reorder of Things, Roderick A. Ferguson traces and assesses the ways in which the rise of interdisciplines — departments of race, gender, and ethnicity; fields such as queer studies — were not simply a challenge to contemporary power as...
Hardcover: 192 p. Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd (August 30, 2009) Language: English Description This book outlines a social theory of knowledge for the 21st century. With characteristic subtlety and verve, Steve Fuller deals directly with a world in which it is no longer taken for granted that universities and academics are the best places and people to embody the life of...
Springer, 2018. — 343 p. — (Advances in Mathematics Education). — ISBN: 3319790447. This volume is a forward–looking intersection of Sociological perspectives on mathematics classrooms and socio-political perspectives on mathematics education. The first perspective has generated a substantial body of knowledge in the mathematics education. Interactionist research has deepened...
Ediciones Paidós Ibérica, M.E.S., 1997. - 290 p. Título original: Teachers as Intellectuals. Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning En el texto se tratan temas como la alfabetización, la escritura, los objetivos del aula, el trabajo de los teólogos de la liberación. Y contenidos dentros de esta amplia gama de temas concretos, se discuten problemas más generales: por ejemplo, la...
New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. — 353 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-975501-1. Lessons in Educational Equality details the concrete ways that all children can reap the benefits of a quality education regardless of gender, ethnicity, language, income, or learning difference. It combines global research by leading innovators and unique case studies from three continents to find...
Routledge, 2003. — 197 p. Ten years ago, bell hooks astonished readers with Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. Now comes Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope - a powerful, visionary work that will enrich our teaching and our lives. Combining critical thinking about education with autobiographical narratives, hooks invites readers to extend the...
Routledge, 1994. — 216 p. "After reading Teaching to Transgress I am once again struck by bell hooks's never-ending, unquiet intellectual energy, an energy that makes her radical and loving." -- Paulo Freire In Teaching to Transgress,bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes about a new kind of education, education as the practice of freedom....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 230 p. — ISBN: 1137582839. This book examines the university experiences of first-in-family university students, and how these students' decisions to return to education impact upon their family members and significant others. While it is well known that parental educational background has a substantial impact on the educational levels of family and...
New York: Vintage Books. — 287 p. If you’re an actress or a coed just trying to do a man-size job, a yes-man who turns a deaf ear to some sob sister, an heiress aboard her yacht, or a bookworm enjoying a boy’s night out, Diane Ravitch’s internationally acclaimed The Language Police has bad news for you: Erase those words from your vocabulary! Diane Ravitch is a historian of...
Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 0521483123; ISBN13: 9780521483124. Drawing on an ethnographic study of a remote community in the Auvergne, Dr. Reed-Danahay challenges conventional views about the operation of the French school system. She shows how parents subvert and resist the ideological messages of the teachers, and describes the ways in which a sense...
Routledge, 2003. — 273 p. Notes on contributors Economic geography of higher education: setting the stage 1 Universities, regions and the production of knowledge The response of HEIs to regional needs Governance for university–industry collaboration in Hong Kong Knowledge still travels on foot: an educationalist’s perspective on regional development University knowledge...
New York: Palgrave Pivot, 2013. — 129 p. — ISBN10: 1137308850; ISBN13: 978-1137308856. Focusing on the phenomena of the Surveillance School, Taylor examines the increased presence of surveillance technologies and practices which identify, verify, categorise and track pupils, exploring the impact that invasive and continual monitoring is having upon school children. Surveillance...
Quartz, 2018. — 11 p. Quartz is a business-focused English-language international news organization, it launched from New York City in 2012, and is owned by Japanese business media company Uzabase.
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