manufactured contemporary understanding counterpoints

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Educating for Democracy in a Changing World: Understanding Freedom in Contemporary America (Counterpoints: ...

Peter Lang Publishing, 2007

It is the premise of Educating for Democracy in a Changing World that in the wake of the events of 9/11 and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, people recognize that there is an ever-increasing threat to democratic societies and nations. For most citizens of the world, freedom is a requisite condition of democracy. Understanding democracy has become difficult at a time when we are bombarded with phrases and slogans that seek to dichotomize it. ...

Acts of Alignment: Of Women in Math and Science and All of Us Who Search for Balance
Ana Pasztor, Judith J. Slater

Peter Lang Pub Inc, 2000

Acts of Alignment talks of the aspirations and desires of women in higher education in the fields of mathematics and science; of their journey to wholeness and excellence that comes from having the choice and flexibility to create and change their roadmaps at will and thus succeed in a world in which the accepted way of knowing has been different from theirs. This book analyzes women's alignment of their environment, visions, and missions in ...

Teen Life in Asia (Teen Life around the World)

Greenwood Press, 2004

Are teenagers in Tokyo more or less mature than teens in Brooklyn? What do Chinese teens do for weekend recreation? What do they value and care about? This volume shows that the lives of teens in prosperous and westernized Asian countries have much in common with those of American teens. Obtaining a good education is paramount, and Asian interests and tastes--in pop culture and sports, for example--are in sync with their American counterparts. ...

The Educational Forum (Volume 63, Number 3, Spring 1999) (Education in Eastern Europe, Educational Internet ...
Jospeh Slowinski, Slawomir Ziemicki, ...

Kappa Delta Pi, 1999

The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America's Public Schools. (book reviews): An article ...
Judith J. Slater

Corwin Press, Inc., 1997

This digital document is an article from Journal of Teacher Education, published by Corwin Press, Inc. on March 1, 1997. The length of the article is 2599 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, ...

Pedagogy of Place: Seeing Space As Cultural Education (Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.), V. 263.)

1 review

Peter Lang Publishing, 2003

Bold, Thought-Provoking Book
I have benefited greatly from reading this book edited by Callejo-Perez, Fain, and Slater. The editors have conceptualized the idea of "space" for teachers and other public school personnel in such a way that challenges the current dominant ways of thinking about teaching, learning, and curriculum. The interdisciplinary nature of scholarship that is presented here provides a model for other ...

Anatomy of a Collaboration: Study of a College of Education/Public School Partnership (Garland Reference ...
Judith J Slater

Routledge, 1996

This book is a case study of a partnership between a college of education and a large urban school system in a joint project to build and sustain a collaboration for an elementary school to be built on the university campus. It provides insights into the perceptions of each party and describes the basic problems of the collaborative process. The analysis critically examines the conditions that determine success or failure of reform: the ...