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International Perspectives on Teacher Well-Being and Diversity: Portals into Innovative Classroom Practice. Understanding Teaching-Learning Practice
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Murphy, Timothy R. N., Ed.; Mannix-McNamara, Patricia, Ed. – Understanding Teaching-Learning Practice, 2021
This book explores teacher well-being in light of the increasingly ethnically diverse profiles of schools and classrooms, focusing on socially and linguistically diverse teaching contexts. It draws attention to the socio-economic disadvantages that can often be characteristic of ethnically diverse classrooms, prior to examining and reviewing the…
Descriptors: Teachers, Well Being, Diversity, Socioeconomic Status
Disrupting Hierarchy in Education: Students and Teachers Collaborating for Social Change. Teaching for Social Justice Series
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Hakim Mohandas Amani Williams Ed.; Hana Huskic Ed.; Christina M. Noto Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2024
This timely book features rich examples of students and teachers, defined as learning partners, disrupting hierarchy in education by collaborating on social change projects. At the book's core is Paulo Freire's theorization of students and teachers working together toward co-liberation. Co-written by learning partners, each chapter in this…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Power Structure, Social Change, Teacher Student Relationship
Faith and Experience in Education: Essays from Quaker Perspectives
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Rowe, Don, Ed.; Watson, Anne, Ed. – Trentham Books, 2018
This book emerges from a deep concern about the direction of educational policy in the last decade and its effects on children, teachers and school leaders. It addresses contemporary educational issues from the perspectives of justice, peace, equality and truth, and is informed by Quaker approaches to these values. It presents a coherent approach…
Descriptors: Religious Cultural Groups, Religious Factors, Educational Practices, Educational Environment
Classic and Contemporary Readings in the Philosophy of Education. Second Edition
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Cahn, Steven M., Ed. – Oxford University Press, 2011
Now even more affordably priced in its second edition, "Classic and Contemporary Readings in the Philosophy of Education" is ideal for undergraduate and graduate philosophy of education courses. Editor Steven M. Cahn, a highly respected contributor to the field, brings together writings by leading figures in the history of philosophy and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Educational Philosophy, School Choice
Critical Small Schools: Beyond Privatization in New York City Urban Educational Reform
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Hantzopoulos, Maria, Ed.; Tyner-Mullings, Alia R., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2012
Critical Small Schools: Beyond Privatization in New York City Urban Educational Reform features the most current empirical research about the successes and challenges of the small schools movement and the implications of such for urban public educational policy. Situated in a climate of hierarchical reform, many of the principles of the original…
Descriptors: Caring, Achievement Gap, Social Justice, Small Schools
Creating a Global Culture of Peace: Strategies for Curriculum Development and Implementation
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Johnson, Judith Ann, Ed.; Higgins, Michael Leo, Ed. – World Council for Curriculum and Instruction, 2009
The essays in this volume have been selected from papers presented at the 13th World Conference of the World Council for Curriculum and Instruction. The first WCCI Conference held in England in 1974, was followed by conferences in Turkey, the Philippines, Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, Egypt, India, Thailand, Spain, Australia, and again, the…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Curriculum Development, Global Education, Government Employees