Author: Miriam Ben-Peretz
Publisher: State University of New York Pre
Keywords: curriculum, series, issues, inquiries, texts, teachers, encounter, freeing, teacher, tyranny
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 1990-08-01
List price: $56.50
ISBN-10: 0791403750
ISBN-13: 9780791403754

In this ground-breaking book the author analyzes the roles and functions of teachers as they use and construct curriculum materials. She presents a conceptual framework for interpreting different kinds of materials, for planning instructional settings based on these interpretations, and provides teachers with concepts and strategies that will enable them to use curriculum materials professionally and flexibly. The book addresses the need for more professional and creative use of curriculum materials, and heightened teacher involvement in the process. Implications of her proposed approach for t

Author: John R. Searle
Publisher: New York Review Book
Keywords: consciousness, mystery
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1997-09-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0940322064
ISBN-13: 9780940322066

It has long been one of the most fundamental problems of philosophy, and it is now, John Searle writes, "the most important problem in the biological sciences": What is consciousness? Is my inner awareness of myself something separate from my body?In what began as a series of essays in The New York Review of Books, John Searle evaluates the positions on consciousness of such well-known scientists and philosophers as Francis Crick, Gerald Edelman, Roger Penrose, Daniel Dennett, David Chalmers, and Israel Rosenfield. He challenges claims that the mind works like a computer, and that brain functi

Author: Andrew Reid Fuller
Publisher: State University of New York Pre
Keywords: phenomenological, psychology, premises, exploration, value, insight
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1990-07-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0791403297
ISBN-13: 9780791403297

Author: Patrick J. Fi
Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
Keywords: children, own, interest, class, working, attitude, educating, literacy
Number of Pages: 243
Published: 1999-09-01
List price: $49.50
ISBN-10: 0791442853
ISBN-13: 9780791442852

This book is for teachers, parents, and community organizers who are on the side of working-class children. It’s about the resistance of working class children to the kind of education they typically receive, education designed to make them useful workers and obedient citizens. It’s about working-class habits of communication and ways of using language that interfere with schooling. It’s about a new brand of teachers, followers of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire who are developing effective methods for teaching powerful literacy in American working-class classrooms. It’

Author: James O. Grunebaum
Publisher: State University of New York Pre
Keywords: friendship
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2003-03-27
List price: $57.50
ISBN-10: 0791457176
ISBN-13: 9780791457177

Addresses the question of whether special preference for friends is morally justified.

Author: Herb Childre
Publisher: State University of New York Pre
Keywords: landscapes, series, environmental, architectural, phenomenology, suny, teenagers, betrayal, joy, curtisville, lives
Number of Pages: 351
Published: 2000-04-01
List price: $60.50
ISBN-10: 0791445771
ISBN-13: 9780791445778

Authors:Weaver Santaniello,  Jacob Golomb, David Tracy
Publisher: State University of New York Pre
Keywords: jews, god, nietzsche
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 1994-09-30
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0791421368
ISBN-13: 9780791421369