Author: Carmelita Rosie Castañeda
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: teaching, diverse, populations, routledgefalmer, higher, education, practices, studies, experiences, learning, classrooms, faculty, reflections, pedagogical
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-05-28
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0415949262
ISBN-13: 9780415949262
This study describes how faculty who participated in the Teaching and Learning in Diverse Classroom Faculty and TA Partnership Project (1994-2000) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, reflected on their experiences and pedagogical practices as instructors in diverse classrooms.
Authors:Pamela J. Bettis, Natalie G. Adam,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: diverse, contexts, across, pedagogy, inquiry, series, girlhood, identities, geographies
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 2005-02-15
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 0805846735
ISBN-13: 9780805846737
Geographies of Girlhood: Identities In-Between explores how diverse adolescent girls come to understand themselves as female in this culture, particularly during a time when they are learning what it means to be a woman and their identities are in-between that of child and adult, girl and woman. It illuminates the material everyday realities of adolescent girls and the real issues that concern them, rather than what adult researchers think is important to adolescent girls. The contributing authors take seriously what girls have to say about themselves and the places and discursive spaces that
Authors:Chance W. Lewis, Julie Landsman,
Publisher: Stylus Publishing
Keywords: teachers, classrooms, diverse, eliminating, racism, products, expectations, companion, schools, guide, building, inclusive, promoting
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-04
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1579221475
ISBN-13: 9781579221478
For African Americans, school is often not a place to learn but a place of low expectations and failure. In urban schools with concentrations of poverty, often fewer than half the ninth graders leave with a high school diploma. Black and White teachers here provide an insightful approach to inclusive and equitable teaching and illustrate its transformative power to bring about success. This book encourages reflection and self-examination, calls for understanding how students can achieve and expecting the most from them. It demonstrates what’s involved in terms of recognizing often-unconsciou
Authors:Celia Genishi, Anne Haas Dyson,
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Keywords: language, literacy, series, diverse, teachers, college, learners, children, times, amp
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2009-05-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0807749745
ISBN-13: 9780807749746
’’Contemporary early childhood educators find themselves in contexts that are fundamentally inimical to the time-honored wisdom in our field. Children, Language, and Literacy speaks to all of us with a commitment to the very young and strengthens our collective resolve to work in increasingly more effective ways with children, families, and the next generation of teachers.’’ -- Mary Renck Jalongo, Editor, Early Childhood Education Journal ’’Genishi and Dyson animate sociocultural theories of language learning by inviting us into the intimacy of children̵
Author: Lindsay Paterson
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Keywords: assembly, diverse
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1998-01-15
List price: $36.00
ISBN-10: 0748610073
ISBN-13: 9780748610075
The 1997 Scottish Referendum granted the people of Scotland their first Parliament in nearly 300 years. Paterson compiles a collection of the key arguments for and against the reinstating of a Scottish Parliament. Gathered from newspapers, journals, books and speeches, this book offers a multitude of voices from the major players in the debate.
Author: Paula Rutherford
Publisher: Just ASK Publications
Keywords: learners, diverse, needs, meeting
Number of Pages: 302
Published: 2010-01-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0979728045
ISBN-13: 9780979728044
Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners is designed to help teachers build skillfulness in recognizing, respecting, and responding to the needs of the wide range of diverse students in today’s classrooms. This book provides an array of strategies for use with gifted students, English language learners, and students with special needs. The author’s background as a general education teacher at the secondary and elementary levels, coupled with a graduate degree in special education and years spent working with students with learning disabilities, sets the stage for a clearly articulated
Author: Susan L. Roberson
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Keywords: visions, diverse, travel, defining
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 2007-06-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1934110531
ISBN-13: 9781934110539
With essays by Gloria Anzaldúa, Jean Baudrillard, William Bevis, Homi Bhabha, Michel Butor, Hélène Cixous, Erik Cohen, Michel de Certeau, Wayne Franklin, Paul Fussell, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Caren Kaplan, Eric Leed, Dean MacCannell, Doreen Massey, Carl Pedersen, Gustavo Pérez-Firmat, Mary Louise Pratt, R. Radhakrishnan, Edward W. Said, and Thayer Scudder Travel, movement, mobility--these are some of the essential activities in human life. Whether we travel to foreign lands or just across the city, we all journey, and from our journeying we shape ourselves, our history, and the s
