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Asian/American Curricular Epistemicide: From Being Excluded to Becoming a Mod…
In this important book, Nicholas Hartlep and Daniel Scott’s detailed analyses on both visual and historical representations of Asian Americans in textbooks and teacher manuals used in our elementary and secondary schools poignantly tell us that generations of children are growing up being fed this single story about Asian Americans. As Hartlep and Scott write. Asian Americans have once aga…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-94-6300-639-2
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- XIV, 100
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 370 HAR a
Asia-Pacific Perspectives on Teacher Self-Efficacy
In this book the editors have been able to provide a snapshot of current research being undertaken in the Asia-Pacific region in regards to teacher self-efficacy beliefs. This includes specific focuses on inclusive teaching, professionalism, subject domains, collective efficacy as well as specific contexts of early childhood education and care, primary schools education, special needs schools a…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-94-6300-521-0
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- XXII, 132
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- -
- Call Number
- 370 ASI a
Artist-Teachers in Context: International Dialogues
This book brings together interviews with twenty-one artist-teachers from different parts of the world, offering many insights into their identities, challenges and creative and pedagogic practices they have adopted. Based in a range of educational situations—from compulsory to post-secondary education, art schools, departments of art education and community-based environments—these educato…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-94-6300-633-0
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- XXII, 204
- Series Title
- Doing Arts Thinking: Arts Practice, Research and Education
- Call Number
- 370 VEL a
Art and Intercultural Dialogue
How can art act as an intercultural mediator for dialogue? In order to scrutinize this question, relevant theoretical ideas are discussed and artistic intervention projects examined so as to highlight its cultural, political, economic, social, and transformational impacts. This thought-provoking work reveals why art is needed to help multicultural neighbourhoods and societies be sustainable, as…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-94-6300-423-7
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- -
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- Comparative and International Education: A Diversity of Voices
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- 370 ART a
Creative Intelligence in the 21st Century: Grappling with Enormous Problems a…
How can creative individuals and societies adapt to complex 21st-century conditions? Will civilizations thrive or collapse in the decades to come if they are not creative enough, or if they are too creative? Interest in these questions is growing; however, until now there has been inadequate understanding of the socioeconomic and cultural trends and issues that influence creativity. This book p…
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- 1
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- 9789463005067
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- X, 276
- Series Title
- Advances in Creativity and Giftedness
- Call Number
- 153.53
Playing in a House of Mirrors: Applied Theatre as Reflective Practice
This book explores the concept of reflection through a dramaturgical lens as practitioners in a wide range of disciplines hold up the mirror to their own practice using theatre and theatricality as a way of unpacking their individual and collective practice. Editors and authors consider the use of drama as the vehicle through which learning takes place for the leader, facilitator or manager of …
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- 1
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- 978-94-6300-118-2
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- XVIII, 270
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- -
- Call Number
- 792 VET p
The Global and the Local
The book examines how the understanding of the global and the local has changed in response to ongoing reconfigurations between the state and society. It also emphasizes the importance of schooling as an institution both within and across national contexts, a holistic approach that helps us move beyond a conglomeration of isolated local events to pay attention to global trends. In this regard, …
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- 1
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- 978-94-6300-654-5
- Collation
- X, 158
- Series Title
- The World Council of Comparative Education Societies
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- -
The Foxfire Approach
"This collection of essays by Foxfire practitioners represents the wide range of adaptations by educators of the pedagogical orientation of the Foxfire Magazine and Foxfire Programs for Teachers. Former students in the magazine class at Rabun County High School share the continuing impact of that experience on their lives, including a former student who is pioneering the magazine project with h…
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- 1
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- 978-94-6300-564-7
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- XVIII, 162
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- -
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The Ecology of Home
Education researchers worldwide face a basic question: Is their purpose to use people to develop knowledge, or use knowledge to develop people This book offers an exploration to this fundamental question by examining what three core disciplines – ecology, economics, and ecumenism – have in common. These disciplines have roots in the ancient Greek notion of the household (oikos). By examini…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-94-6300-579-1
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- XVI, 106
- Series Title
- Researching Environmental Learning
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- -
The Contested Role of Education in Conflict and Fragility
"This book brings together new thinking on education’s complex and evolving role in conflict and fragility. The changing nature of conflict, from inter- to intra-state, and with shifting geopolitical power balances, demands a reconceptualization of where education is positioned. Claims that education on its own can be an agent of conflict transformation are disputed. Deliberate attempts at pe…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-94-6300-010-9
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- VIII, 266
- Series Title
- The World Council of Comparative Education Societies
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- -
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