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Technology and the Dream : Reflections on the Black Experience at MIT, 1941â€â€¦
Transcripts of more than seventy-five oral history interviews in which the interviewees assess their MIT experience and reflect on the role of blacks at MIT and beyond. This book grew out of the Blacks at MIT History Project, whose mission is to document the black presence at MIT. The main body of the text consists of transcripts of more than seventy-five oral history interviews, in which the i…
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- 9780262232128
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- 1056 halaman
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- 600 WIL t
Teaching to Transform Urban Schools and Communities : Powerful Pedagogy in Pr…
For preservice candidates and novice teachers facing the challenges of feeling underprepared to teach in urban schools, this book offers a framework for conceptualizing, planning, and engaging in powerful teaching. Veteran teacher educator Etta Ruth Hollins builds on previous work to focus on transformative practices that emphasize the purpose and process of teaching. These practices are design…
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- 9781351863254
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- 162 halaman
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- 370 HOL t
The Pedagogics of Liberation : A Latin American Philosophy of Education
"Enrique Dussel is considered one of the founding philosophers of liberation in the Latin American tradition, an influential arm of what is now called decoloniality. While he is astoundingly prolific, relatively few of his works can be found in English translation — and none of these focus specifically on education. Founding members of the Latin American Philosophy of Education Society David …
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- 9781950192274
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- 204 halaman
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- 370 DUS p
Manifesto for a Post-Critical Pedagogy
The belief in the transformative potential of education has long underpinned critical educational theory. But its concerns have also been largely political and economic, using education as the means to achieve a better – or ideal – future state: of equality and social justice. Our concern is not whether such a state can be realized. Rather, the belief in the transformative potential of educ…
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- 9781947447387
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- 110 halaman
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- 370 HOD m
Conflict and complexity : countering terrorism, insurgency, ethnic and region…
Complexity science affords a number of novel tools for examining terrorism, particularly network analysis and NK-Boolean fitness landscapes as well as other tools drawn from non-linear dynamical systems modeling. This book follows the methodologies of compex adaptive systems research in their application to aaddressing the problems of terrorism, specifically terrorist networks, their structure …
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- 9781493917044
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- x, 292 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm.
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- 303.625
The Pedagogics of Unlearning
What does it mean to unlearn? Once we have learned something, is it ever possible to unlearn that something? If something is said to have been unlearned, does that mean that it is simply forgotten or does some residual force of learning, some perverse force, also resonate in ways that might help us to rethink traditional approaches to teaching and learning? Might we say that education today is …
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- 9780692722343
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- 194 halaman
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- 370 DUN p
North-South Knowledge Networks : Towards Equitable Collaboration Between Acad…
Since the 1990s, internationalisation has become key for institutions wishing to secure funding for higher education and research. For the academic community, this strategic shift has had many consequences. Priorities have changed and been influenced by new ways of thinking about universities, and of measuring their impact in relation to each other and to their social goals. Debates are ongoing…
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- 9781928331308
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- 370 NOR
Cracking Facebook: The Importance of Understanding Technology-Based Communica…
This book presents a Facebook study on members of the Cusp Generation, or those born before the "great digital divide" of 1995. This delineation allows for a discussion on the possible socio-cultural implications of Facebook use for people of all ages. Members of the Cusp Generation are in a unique position as "part digital natives" to easily acquire and use new media technologies, while being …
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- 9789463002110
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- X, 154
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- Youth, Media, & Culture Series
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- 384
Disciplinary Struggles in Education
This book discusses disciplinary struggles in education from three perspectives. The chapters in the first section analyse the disciplinary character of educational practice and institutions. The second section focuses on justification of educational knowledge in transmission between theory and practice. The contributions of the third section problematise the aims and functions of educational p…
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- 9789523590021
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- 262 halaman
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- Education / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Education / Adult & Continuing Education
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- 370 HEI d
Mindfulness and Meditation at University : 10 Years of the Munich Model
Why should mindfulness and meditation be taught at universities? What impact could the establishment of such programs have on students and on the education system itself? Andreas de Bruin showcases the remarkable results of the first ten years of the Munich Model »Mindfulness and Meditation in a University Context« - a program started in the year 2010 in which 2000 students have already parti…
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- 9783839456965
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- 216 halaman
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- 370 halaman
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