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On Marx 1 review
Paula Allman
Sense Publishers, 2007
Review of Paula Allan's "On Marx"
In simple and accessible prose, Allman outlines the contemporary importance of Marx in having given us the conceptual tools to understand global capitalism--and to understand its culpability in the production and sustenance of the major problems facing humanity today. Rendering visible the invisible interconnections between economics and politics, Allman forces to the surface the legacy of the ...
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The Politics of Education: An Introduction1 review
T. Monchinski
Sense Publishers, 2007
A note from the author
True I am the author of this modest tome (so how many stars should I have given it??), but let me specify what I think the strengths of this book are. You can spend countless hours and days sifting through Freire, Kincheloe, McLaren, Bourdeau, hooks, Chomsky, Friedman (yes, Uncle Milty that is), and perusing all sorts of material on No Child Left Behind, curriculum foundations and the politics of ...
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Handbook of Research on the Psychology of Mathematics Education 1 review
Sense Publishers, 2006
A "Must-Have" for Researchers!!
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the research presented at PME conferences over the years. I liked the comparisons made between presentations with similar topics, and it provides an effective means of finding references for several related research articles in one place. I also liked the idea of dividng presentations according to topic, as well as the chronological aspect of the ...
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Education Under Occupation: The Heavy Price of Living in a Neocolonized and Globalized World2 reviews
Pierre W. Orelus
Sense Publishers, 2007
Think and change
This book showed me a new perspective of things I alredy knew. It also changed my way of thinking and broke certain stereotypes I had. After reading this book you will see a big need for a world to be changed. You can start with yourself! So, Read, Think, and Change!
Good job, Pierre!
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An Unordinary Death...The Life of a Suicide Bomber11 reviews
K.C. Sabra
Sense Publishers, 2006
So Thoughful and Riveting
So many books on the tragic situation in the Middle East speak of the issues without delving into the heart of the human beings there. This work is moving and opens the heart to the soul of the Palestinians and their very disappointing situation. This story is about a tragedy of the heart. I strongly suggest that this story be taken beyond the mind. I hardly consider it a fiction when the ...
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Re-authoring Teaching: Creating a Collaboratory2 reviews
Peggy Sax
Sense Publishers, 2008
Doctors/mental health professionals - read this book!
As a practicing pediatrician, I found Peggy Sax's new book RE-AUTHORING TEACHING: CREATING A COLLABORATORY, spellbinding, in a very specific way. Consider Chapters 8 and 9. Here are two of the most personal, poignant and profound expressions of what deep depression feels like to Kate (Chap. 8) and Nicole's perplexing world of self-harming behavior and eating disorders (Chap. 9). I will be ...
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Pedagogy and Praxis in the Age of Empire: Towards a New Humanism5 reviews
P. McLaren, N. Jaramillo
Sense Publishers, 2007
Call for Action
Written by two collaborative leaders in the field of critical pedagogy, Pedagogy and Praxis in the Age of Empire: Towards a New Humanism furthers attempts to make the pedagogical more politically informed. The authors' deep personal engagement with the discourse of critical pedagogy creates a work that addresses the ever-shifting realities of the field and schooling itself. Grassroots ...
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Working with Foucault in Education1 review
M Walshaw
Sense Publishers, 2007
Much needed resource
I was so excited to discover this book. I connect Foucault with my teaching a lot, and it's so important to finally have a book that makes these clear connections for me.
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A Philosophy of Curriculum: The Cautionary Tale of Simultaneous Languages in a Decentred World1 review
Bryant Griffith
Sense Publishers, 2007
A "Curriculum of Possibilities"
Critical, creative, and hopeful, Bryant Griffith offers a perspective on curriculum that is complex yet accessible, true to the ever-shifting realities of twenty-first century schools. Historically informed and theoretically wide-ranging, this is a reader-friendly "must read" for all interested in our nation's schools and the current debates raging about and within them. The author's deep ...
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Leonardo's Vision: A Guide to Collective Thinking and Action1 review
Valerie A. Brown
Sense Publishers, 2007
A Visionary's vision
A key part of the message in "Leonardo's Vision" is the opportunity to understand and apply principles and actions underpinning collective action to address complex problems - none more complex than working towards a sustainable future! The author describes how traditional Western organisations (including governments and educational institutions) have tended to divide their activities into ...
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Avoiding Simplicity, Confronting Complexity: Advances in Studying and Designing (Computer-Based) Powerful ...
Sense Publishers, 2006
Researchers from all over the world are fascinated by the question on how to design powerful learning environments and how to effectively integrate computers in instruction. Members of the special interest groups 'Instructional Design' and 'Learning and Instruction with Computers' of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction belong to this group of fascinated researchers. By presenting their research on these questions in ...
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Leaders in Philosophy of Education1 review
Sense Publishers, 2008
INTELLECTUAL BIOGRAPHY
Excellent idea to ask leading philosophers of education to write about the influences and history of their own intellectual progress. I know many of these writers, and learning about their favorite books and influences helped make their writings more coherent. However they nearly all come from the analytic tradition, and there are many European and Australian philosophers who do not appear, ...
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Being with A/r/tography
Sense Publishers, 2007
Being with A/r/tography is a collection of essays that explain and exemplify the arts-based research methodology called a/r/tography. Edited by four scholars who are artists, researchers, and teachers (a/r/tographers), this book is a methodology book for practitioners in arts-based educational research. In addition to an introductory essay which contextualizes and theorizes the methodological framework of a/r/tography, the book is divided into ...
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Between the 'Real' and the 'Imagined'
Leslie J. Pereira
Sense Publishers, 2008
How can the idea of leadership be understood in the context of modern day schools? What can contemporary perspectives on knowledge and the nature of its acquisition offer the practicing educator? Between the 'Real' and the 'Imagined' examines the essence of what it means to be a leader. Drawing on a lived experience of the complexities that face those in leadership positions, it explores espoused aims and accepted practices and challenges ...
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Beyond the Modern-Postmodern Struggle in Education
Ilan Gur-Ze'ev
Sense Publishers, 2008
This book is an attempt to historically and conceptually address the present human condition and the current specific role of education as a distinctively creative symbolic violence. In doing so, the book reevaluates the various manifestations and conflicting alternatives to normalizing education. The author suggests a unique, Diasporic, counter-education that transcends modern politics, postmodern philosophical assumptions and spiritual telos ...
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Anti-Colonialism and Education
Sense Publishers, 2006
There is a rich intellectual history to the development of anti-colonial thought and practice. In discussing the politics of knowledge production, this collection borrows from and builds upon this intellectual traditional to offer understandings of the macro-political processes and structures of education delivery (e.g., social organization of knowledge, culture, pedagogy and resistant politics). The contributors raise key issues regarding the ...
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Adult Educational Psychology
Sense Publishers, 2008
ADULT EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY is useful for those encountering psychology as a subject in adult education courses as well as those with an interest in the psychology of adult development. It is directly relevant for teachers in higher education, instructors in technical and further education, staff development and human resource practitioners as well as community educators. It provides the first major text of its type offering a wide ranging ...
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ANALYZING BEST PRACTICES IN TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION
Sense Publishers, 2007
Inspired by a similar book in science education, the editors of this volume have put together a book with a practice-oriented approach towards technology education research. Teachers' accounts of successful classroom activities are used as the basis for reflection on what determines 'good' technology education practice. Part I has eight stories told by teachers. Topics range from puppet making to electronics and biotechnology. The teachers were ...
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Auto/Biography and Auto/Ethnography: Praxis of Research Method (Bold Visions in Educational Research)
Sense Publishers, 2005
In a number of academic disciplines, auto/biography and auto/ethnography have become central means of critiquing of the ways in which research represents individuals and their cultures. Auto/biography and auto/ethnography are genres that blend ethnographic interests with life writing and they tell about a culture at the same time they tell about an individual life. This book presents educational researchers, in exemplary form, the possibilities ...
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