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  • Learning in Public

    Lessons for a Racially Divided America from My Daughter's School

    This "provocative and personally searching"memoir follows one mother's story of enrolling her daughter in a local public school (San Francisco Chronicle), and the surprising, necessary lessons she learned with her neighbors.From the time Courtney E. Martin strapped her daughter, Maya, to her chest for long walks, she was curious about Emerson Elementary, a public school down the street from her ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Radical Possibilities

    Public Policy, Urban Education, and A New Social Movement

    by Jean Anyon ...
    Series series Critical Social Thought
    The core argument of Jean Anyon’s classic Radical Possibilities is deceptively simple: if we do not direct our attention to the ways in which federal and metropolitan policies maintain the poverty that plagues communities in American cities, urban school reform as currently conceived is doomed to fail. With every chapter thoroughly revised and updated, this edition picks up where the 2005 ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • I Learned More Than Them; True Story

    About Middle School Students Educating A Teacher

    by Bill Massey ...
    A collective of precious moments and fond memories jointly created and shared with each other by a public school teacher and his middle school students as the teacher brings relevant life experiences into their classroom and his students bring inspiration and gratification into his twilight career. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Education and Democracy in the 21st Century

    by Nel Noddings ...
    Eminent educational philosopher Nel Noddings draws on John Dewey's foundational work to reimagine education's aims and curriculum for the 21st century. Noddings looks at education as a multi-aim enterprise in which schools must address needs in all three domains of life: home and family, occupational, and civic. She raises critical questions about the current enthusiasm for standardization, the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Witnessing Whiteness

    The Journey into Racial Awareness and Antiracist Action

    Witnessing Whiteness offers a comprehensive and empathetic exploration of what white people experience when learning about race, why it is so confusing, how whiteness works in their lives, and how to act against racism. The author combines authentic storytelling, nuanced analysis, and compelling voices from a collection of cross-race guides to lead readers through a self-reflective process that ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Paideia Program

    An Educational Syllabus

    Paideia is a holistic approach to life-long learning with roots in ancient Greece.The Paideia Program is based on the belief that the human species is defined by its capacity and desire for learning. The program itself argues for a public education that is at once more rigorous and more accessible. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Trouble with Boys

    A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parents and Educators Must Do

    by Peg Tyre ...
    From the moment they step into the classroom, boys begin to struggle. They get expelled from preschool nearly five times more often than girls; in elementary school, they’re diagnosed with learning disorders four times as often. By eighth grade huge numbers are reading below basic level. And by high school, they’re heavily outnumbered in AP classes and, save for the realm of athletics, show ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Alone Together

    Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

    by Sherry Turkle ...
    A groundbreaking book by one of the most important thinkers of our time shows how technology is warping our social lives and our inner onesTechnology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends, and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication. But this relentless connection ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • College

    What it Was, Is, and Should Be

    As the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional four-year college experience--an exploratory time for students to discover their passions and test ideas and values with the help of teachers and peers--is in danger of becoming a thing of the past. In College ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Bourdieu and Higher Education

    Life in the Modern University

    This book introduces Bourdieu in the context of higher education for unfamiliar readers or those who would like to see his theories applied in the higher education setting. It builds upon research into higher education leadership and administration to examine how the university sector has changed over recent decades and how it has been reshaped into its current form.The book draws together various ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Free to Learn

    Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life

    by Peter Gray ...
    A leading expert in childhood development makes the case for why self-directed learning -- "unschooling" -- is the best way to get kids to learn.In Free to Learn, developmental psychologist Peter Gray argues that in order to foster children who will thrive in today's constantly changing world, we must entrust them to steer their own learning and development. Drawing on evidence from anthropology, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Idea of the University

    A Reader, Volume 1

    Series Book 17 - Global Studies in Education
    The Idea of the University: A Reader, Volume 1 is a unique compilation of selected works of the major thinkers who have contributed to the discourse on the idea of the university in the German, English, American and French traditions, dating from the establishment of the University of Berlin in 1810. Readings include excerpts from Kant and Humboldt in the German tradition of Bildung through to ... Read more

    $83.99 USD

  • A Pedagogy of Responsibility

    Wendell Berry for EcoJustice Education

    Drawing on the theories of author and conservationist Wendell Berry for the field of EcoJustice Education, this book articulates a pedagogy of responsibility as a three-pronged approach grounded in the recognition that our planet balances an essential and fragile interdependence between all living creatures. Examining the deep cultural roots of social and ecological problems perpetuated by schools ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Real World of College

    What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be

    Why higher education in the United States has lost its way, and how universities and colleges can focus sharply on their core mission.For The Real World of College, Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner analyzed in-depth interviews with more than 2,000 students, alumni, faculty, administrators, parents, trustees, and others, which were conducted at ten institutions ranging from highly selective ... Read more

    $21.99 USD $18.99 USD

  • The Origin and Goal of History

    by Karl Jaspers ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) was a German psychiatrist and philosopher and one of the most original European thinkers of the twentieth century. As a major exponent of existentialism in Germany, he had a strong influence on modern theology, psychiatry and philosophy. He was Hannah Arendt’s supervisor before her emigration to the United States in the 1930s and himself experienced the consequences of ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Character Compass

    How Powerful School Culture Can Point Students Toward Success

    by Scott Seider ...
    **2013 American Educational Research Association's (AERA) Moral Development and Education Outstanding Book AwardIn Character Compass, Scott Seider offers portraits of three high-performing urban schools in Boston, Massachusetts that have made character development central to their mission of supporting student success, yet define character in three very different ways.**One school focuses on ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Privileged Poor

    How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students

    An NPR Favorite Book of the Year“Breaks new ground on social and educational questions of great import.”—Washington Post“An essential work, humane and candid, that challenges and expands our understanding of the lives of contemporary college students.”—Paul Tough, author of Helping Children Succeed“Eye-opening…Brings home the pain and reality of on-campus poverty and puts the blame squarely on ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Music History Classroom

    Edited by James A. Davis ...
    The Music History Classroom brings together essays written by recognized and experienced teachers to assist in the design, implementation, and revision of college-level music history courses. This includes the traditional music history survey for music majors, but the materials presented here are applicable to other music history courses for music majors and general education students alike, ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Breakdown of Higher Education

    How It Happened, the Damage It Does, and What Can Be Done

    by John M. Ellis ...
    A series of near-riots on campuses aimed at silencing guest speakers has exposed the fact that our universities are no longer devoted to the free exchange of ideas in pursuit of truth. But this hostility to free speech is only a symptom of a deeper problem, writes John Ellis.Having watched the deterioration of academia up close for the past fifty years, Ellis locates the core of the problem in a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Nature, Self-Reliance, Compensation, The American Scholar and other essays

    Emerson's enduring reputation, however, is as a philosopher, an aphoristic writer (like Friedrich Nietzsche) and a quintessentially American thinker whose championing of the American Transcendental movement and influence on Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, William James, and others would alone secure him a prominent place in American cultural history.Emerson is often characterized as an idealist ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bertrand Russell. Collected Works. Illustrated

    PROPOSED ROADS TO FREEDOM: SOCIALISM, ANARCHISM AND SYNDICALISM. THE PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY. MYSTICISM AND LOGIC AND OTHER ESSAYS

    A Nobel Prize winner for literature, Bertrand Russell is considered one of the founders of English neo-realism, as well as neo-positivism.Russell is known for defending pacifism and atheism and supporting liberalism through left-wing political movements. He significantly contributed to the history of philosophy and cognitive theories by examining his own psychological problems through systematic ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • You Are Not Special

    And Other Encouragements

    A profound expansion of David McCullough, Jr.'s popular commencement speech—a call to arms against a prevailing, narrow, conception of success viewed by millions on YouTube—You Are (Not) Special is a love letter to students and parents as well as a guide to a truly fulfilling, happy life.Children today, says David McCullough—high school English teacher, father of four, and son and namesake of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Revivir las aulas

    Un libro para cambiar la educación

    by Axel Rivas ...
    "Necesitamos cambiar la educación. Este libro es el primer gran pasopara lograrlo. Del aula al mundo." Estanislao Bachrach, autor deÁgilMenteArgentina fue la cuna de la educación en América Latina, pero sus aulasse han debilitado y viven en un reino de confusión. Es hora de reflexióny acción profunda. Es hora de discutir sobre educación con el mismofervor que lo hacemos por el fútbol o la política ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • David Hansen and The Call to Teach

    Renewing the Work That Teachers Do

    Edited by Darryl M. De Marzio ...
    The Call to Teach has been used in teacher education and educational research courses the world over. This volume celebrates that landmark text and examines the far-reaching impact of David Hansen’s teaching and scholarship. Essays by international educators and scholars explore his influence on our understanding of a whole host of important themes, including the moral dimensions of teaching, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD