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This book advances deep understanding of the nature and sources of policy affecting the preparation of teachers in the U.S. and the conflicts or interconnections of these policies with the broader field of education policy.Author: Penelope M. Earley, David G. Imig, Nicholas M. Michelli Kindle Edition: 255 pages Kindle eBook Company: T & F Books US (2011-04-26) (2011-04-26) List Price: $48.95 Amazon Price: 
This essential resource is compiled by experts in the field and contains the best, most recent previously published literature on the contemporary issues and includes trends affecting adult education. Compelling to practitioners in the field as well as useful in foundations or introductory courses on adult education, it covers topics such as social justice; diversity and marginalization; human resource development; lifelong learning; globalization; the role of mass media and popular culture; technology; and heath, welfare, and environment, all within the context of adult education.Author: Sharan B. Merriam, Andre P. Grace Kindle Edition: 513 pages Kindle eBook Company: Jossey-Bass (2011-02-23) (2011-02-23) List Price: $45.00 Amazon Price: 
Critical Issues in Education is designed to be used in courses that examine current, relevant pro and con disputes about schools and schooling. By exploring the major opposing viewpoints on these issues, the text encourages education students to think criAuthor: Jack L Nelson Kindle Edition: 544 pages Kindle eBook Company: Humanities & Social Science (2009-02-26) (2009-02-26) List Price: $96.56 Amazon Price: 
In recent years, Protestant churches and denominations have become increasingly concerned with issues of racial diversity and reconciliation. Recent scholarship has examined this growing awareness, but has seldom attended to issues of diversity on the campuses and seminaries that educate the leaders of these churches and denominations: campuses and seminaries which have, historically, enrolled fewer students of color than nonsectarian institutions.George Yancey explores the methods that Protestant colleges and universities use to promote racial diversity, as well as the attitudes of the white and non-white students on their campuses. He shows that certain measures, such as diversity courses and student-led multicultural organizations, are more effective for promoting than multicultural and anti-racism programs. He also shows that the presence of faculty of color supports efforts towards racial diversity on Protestant campuses. Neither Jew Nor Gentile not only documents which institutional measures are effective, but shows how and why they work. Yancey finds that efforts to encourage interracial communication and unity promote a positive atmosphere more effectively than measures that emphasize differences among racial groups, and that dialogue among racial groups appears to be essential for the development of a positive racial atmosphere on campus. He outlines ways of cultivating such a dialogue and offers advice to educators on handling issues of racial diversity. While Neither Jew Nor Gentile focuses on Protestant campuses, this study will benefit all educators who seek to understand and foster racial diversity on their campuses. Author: George Allan Yancey Kindle Edition: 198 pages Kindle eBook Company: Oxford University Press, USA (2010-09-17) (2010-09-17) List Price: $21.95 Amazon Price: 
This book is designed to prepare K-12 preservice and inservice teachers to address the social, cultural, and critical issues of our times through the use of multicultural children’s books. It will be used as a core textbook in courses on multicultural children’s literature and as a supplement in courses on children’s literature and social studies teaching methods. It can also be used as a supplement in courses on literacy, reading, language arts, and multicultural education.Author: Ambika G. Gopalakrishnan Kindle Edition: 286 pages Kindle eBook Company: Sage Publications, Inc (2010-04-22) (2010-04-22) List Price: $46.95 Amazon Price: 
Praise for The Unfinished Agenda of Brown V. Board of Education"My father, Oliver L. Brown, for whom Brown v. Board of Education is named, was a proud member of a group of a few hundred people, across the country, who took risks by taking a stand for what they believed. He died in 1961, just seven years after the case, so he didn't live long enough to know that Brown would become the foundation on which so much of this country's civil and human rights initiatives would rest. Brown v. Board became important for every citizen, not just African Americans. It shows that the founding documents of our country provided us with sovereign rights that cannot be restricted by state and local governments. That decision impacted the lives of women, persons with disabilities, blacks, whites, Hispanics, Asians, and everyone living in this country. Brown was significant in attacking the silence. It opened up a dialogue and forced the country to take on greater responsibility; we at every level had to start addressing the issue of race. In many ways, once the dialogue started, we finally began to under stand the depths of racism. This case was about gaining access to educational resources; the resources were and remain where the white children are. The Unfinished Agenda of Brown v. Board of Education is about renewing and continuing the promise of Brown." -Cheryl Brown Henderson, president of the Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence, and Research, and daughter of Oliver L. Brown, one of the thirteen plaintiffs in Brown v. Board of Education Author: The Editors of Black Issues in Higher Education, James Anderson, Dara N. Byrne Kindle Edition: 256 pages Kindle eBook Company: Wiley (2004-04-29) (2004-04-29) List Price: $24.95 Amazon Price: 
Believing that the primary purpose of professional education is to prepare practitioners, the authors consider variables that affect professional practice. Emphasis is the key role and techniques of experiential education for effective transfer of learnig to practice in medicine, law, social work, and management. Other variables that impact cost and quality of services include cost and length of professional education; specialization, selection, and promotion of faculty; role of research; use of paraprofessionals; and assessment of professional education. Conclusions go beyond education, for the four professions discussed in detail, to challenge current objectives and practices in all professional education. The major conclusion is that professional learning for practice needs to be improved and points to the importance of utilizing and developing experiential education as the key learning approach. Other counterproductive effects of current professional education practices identified are: a tendency to consider isolated problems and ignore clients' needs, inadequate continuing graduate professional education, oversupply of professionals in many areas, failure of many professionals to keep up with changing theory and practice, and overly expensive and poor research as the result of using the same institutions for both. Corrective action is suggested in each case. Kindle Edition: 238 pages Kindle eBook Company: Praeger (1994-10-26) (1994-10-26) List Price: $117.95 Amazon Price: 
Professional Military Education (PME) is broader and more rigorous than is widely understood in the United States. Improving educational programs within the military service branches is at the very center of ongoing force transformation efforts and advanced educational opportunities occur at various, set levels of military experience. Military education increasingly conforms to standards imposed by outside civilian accrediting bodies and is mandated and monitored, to an extent, by Congress. Military Educationexplores this often-overlooked area of education within the context of the modern military force structure. In this unique work, Watson chronicles the evolution of professional military education during the last sixty years. Careful to draw distinctions between training and education, she briefly traces the history of PME and examines some of the major personalities involved in shaping it, as well as the evolution of the curriculum stressed in PME programs. Her narrative, combined with key documents, a glossary, and a timeline of important events, dispels popular notions of an uneducated military force. Author: Cynthia A. Watson Kindle Edition: 208 pages Kindle eBook Company: Praeger (2007-02-28) (2007-02-28) List Price: $60.50 Amazon Price: 
No description availableAuthor: David E. Purpel Kindle Edition: 518 pages Kindle eBook Company: LEA (2009-01-20) (2009-01-20) List Price: $60.95 Amazon Price: 
Hoffman and Summers provide both a conceptual framework and practical approaches relevant to leadership issues in higher education. This book offers solutions for those in leadership positions or those anticipating a position in higher education. It focuses on everyday operational problems and will provide the current or future reader with guidelines for action. Higher education leaders must have both a sense of the past and a vision of the future. The world is changing rapidly and these changes will have an inevitable and profound impact on higher education. Institutions that fail to respond to the trends taking place around them will not likely survive with significance very far into the new millennium. This book offers help in making the transition from traditional manager/administrator to a valued leader in higher education. Author: Allan M. Hoffman, Randal W. Summers Kindle Edition: 235 pages Kindle eBook Company: Praeger (2000-06-30) (2000-06-30) List Price: $131.95 Amazon Price: 
Don't be fooled by the bland title "Personal Hygiene," this is one of the wackiest old films ever made: the topic of personal hygiene is transformed into a musical production! Produced by the United States Army, this film's main character is Homer, a GI who doesn't wash often enough and begins to offend his fellow barrack mates with his smell. In an effort to get him to change his hillbilly ways, they change the lyrics of old folk songs and serenade Homer with such ditties as "Wash Your Socks," "What Are You Going to Do With a Dirty Soldier?" and "Come a fly-yi-yippee-i-ay," a song about attracting disease-carrying flies. The Army used this film as a way to encourage cleanliness among their GIs so that the men could stay healthy and comfortable.DVD: NTSCTitle: Personal Hygiene, Run Time: 31 Minutes, Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White Company: Quality Information Publishers, Inc. (2008) List Price: $9.99 Amazon Price: $4.99 
Director: New Dimension MediaDVD: NTSC Company: New Dimension Media (2011-08-30) List Price: $29.99 Amazon Price: $29.99 
From the Academy Award-winning Director of An Inconvenient Truth comes the groundbreaking feature film that provides an engaging and inspiring look at public education in the United States. Waiting For “Superman” has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of five unforgettable students such as Emily, a Silicon Valley eighth-grader who is afraid of being labeled as unfit for college and Francisco, a Bronx first-grader whose mom will do anything to give him a shot at a better life. Waiting For “Superman” will leave a lasting and powerful impression that you will want to share with your friends and family.Director: Davis Guggenheim DVD: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Company: Paramount Vantage (2011-02-15) List Price: $29.99 Amazon Price: $11.93 Used Price: $10.20 
Multicultural Education is a reader for educators that consists of articles written by the top scholars in the field. It helps them understand the concepts, paradigms, and explanations needed to become more effective practitioners in culturally, racially and language diverse classrooms. Each chapter now incorporates new theoretical, conceptual, and research developments in the field. A new chapter focuses on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues. Every statistical table, figure, and chart has also been updated to present the most current information. Educators will gain insight that they’ll be able to apply in the classroom.Author: James A. Banks, Cherry A. McGee Banks Paperback: 480 pages Company: Wiley (2009-09-08) ISBN: 0470483288 List Price: Amazon Price: $59.85 Used Price: $40.00 
Critical Issues in Education is designed to be used in courses that examine current, relevant pro and con disputes about schools and schooling. By exploring the major opposing viewpoints on these issues, the text encourages education students to think critically and develop their own viewpoints. The clear writing and dramatic dialectic approach are conducive to dynamic classroom discussions that help students grasp the many sides of these complex issues. Three integrating themes provide a solid framework for examining the eighteen topics covered. Each part begins with a chapter-length introduction that provides background material and organizing themes for the issues that follow. Each issue is then presented from two divergent viewpoints, each one written in advocate language to be as compelling as possible. The book's objective, in addition to informing the reader about the issues, is to develop critical thinking skills within the context of education.Author: Jack Nelson, Stuart Palonsky, Mary Rose McCarthy Paperback: 544 pages Company: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages (2009-02-26) ISBN: 007337864X List Price: Amazon Price: $63.99 Used Price: $58.27
Author: Tex.) National Congress on Civil Engineering Education 2001 (Houston, Donn E. Hancher
Paperback: 109 pages Company: Amer Society of Civil Engineers (2001-08) ISBN: 0784405905 List Price: $43.00 Amazon Price: $39.00 Used Price: $20.47 
What constitutes a high quality teacher education program and what standards teacher candidates should meet before receiving their teaching credential? This volume advances deep understanding of the nature and sources of policy affecting the preparation of teachers in the U.S. and the conflicts or interconnections of these policies with the broader field of education policy. Contributions from actors in the policy world and experts representing the stakeholders are balanced and based on issues currently facing the field. Policy is viewed as evolving and political. The connection or lack thereof between policy and research is examined. Policy case studies ground the principles developed within specific chapters in practice and illustrate that policy questions and solutions are continually evolving and unsettled. Chapter-end commentaries by the editors relate the focus of each chapter to the overarching themes of the book: policy formation, policy influences, policy paradoxes, and connections to research. This volume is an essential resource for understanding and resolving today’s uncertainty and confusion over teacher education policy. Paperback: 256 pages Company: Routledge (2011-04-10) ISBN: 041588361X List Price: $48.95 Amazon Price: $40.65 Used Price: $45.72 
Praise for The Unfinished Agenda of Brown V. Board of Education"My father, Oliver L. Brown, for whom Brown v. Board of Education is named, was a proud member of a group of a few hundred people, across the country, who took risks by taking a stand for what they believed. He died in 1961, just seven years after the case, so he didn't live long enough to know that Brown would become the foundation on which so much of this country's civil and human rights initiatives would rest. Brown v. Board became important for every citizen, not just African Americans. It shows that the founding documents of our country provided us with sovereign rights that cannot be restricted by state and local governments. That decision impacted the lives of women, persons with disabilities, blacks, whites, Hispanics, Asians, and everyone living in this country. Brown was significant in attacking the silence. It opened up a dialogue and forced the country to take on greater responsibility; we at every level had to start addressing the issue of race. In many ways, once the dialogue started, we finally began to under stand the depths of racism. This case was about gaining access to educational resources; the resources were and remain where the white children are. The Unfinished Agenda of Brown v. Board of Education is about renewing and continuing the promise of Brown." -Cheryl Brown Henderson, president of the Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence, and Research, and daughter of Oliver L. Brown, one of the thirteen plaintiffs in Brown v. Board of Education Author: The Editors of Black Issues in Higher Education, James Anderson, Dara N. Byrne Hardcover: 256 pages Company: Wiley (2004-04-29) ISBN: 0471649260 List Price: $24.95 Amazon Price: $3.98 Used Price: $0.01 
Engineering education in K-12 classrooms is a small but growing phenomenon that may have implications for engineering and also fo the other STEM subjects--science, technology, and mathematics. Engineering in K-12 Education reviews the scope and impact of engineering curriculum today and makes several recommendations to address curriculum, policy, and funding issues. The book also analyzes a number of K-12 engineering curricula in dept and discusses what is know from the cognitive sciences about how children learn engineering-related material. 
Believing that the primary purpose of professional education is to prepare practitioners, the authors consider variables that affect professional practice. Emphasis is the key role and techniques of experiential education for effective transfer of learnig to practice in medicine, law, social work, and management. Other variables that impact cost and quality of services include cost and length of professional education; specialization, selection, and promotion of faculty; role of research; use of paraprofessionals; and assessment of professional education. Conclusions go beyond education, for the four professions discussed in detail, to challenge current objectives and practices in all professional education. The major conclusion is that professional learning for practice needs to be improved and points to the importance of utilizing and developing experiential education as the key learning approach. Other counterproductive effects of current professional education practices identified are: a tendency to consider isolated problems and ignore clients' needs, inadequate continuing graduate professional education, oversupply of professionals in many areas, failure of many professionals to keep up with changing theory and practice, and overly expensive and poor research as the result of using the same institutions for both. Corrective action is suggested in each case. Hardcover: 240 pages Company: Praeger (1994-10-26) ISBN: 0275933865 List Price: $117.95 Amazon Price: $117.95 Used Price: $113.95 
A supplementary reader for Introduction to Foundations of Education, Introduction to Teaching, or Issues in Education courses. Designed to provide the knowledge and understanding teachers need in order to make informed decisions, this comprehensive selection of readings addresses numerous challenging issues facing education today: vouchers, charter schools, accountability, high-stakes testing, bilingual instruction, technology, and others. The readings were chosen to support today's emphasis on professionalism in teaching, and so meet three essential criteria: 1) They address central issues; 2) they are accessible to prospective, novice, and veteran teachers alike; and, 3) they offer multiple perspectives on the issues they address. The range of authors reflects the broad spectrum of educational thinking today, while the ten-part organization and special features maintain the authors intended focus on maximizing learning opportunities and encouraging personal and professional reflection.Author: Don P. Kauchak, Paul D Eggen, Mary D. Burbank Paperback: 368 pages Company: Prentice Hall (2004-10-16) ISBN: 0131133713 List Price: $50.67 Amazon Price: $30.80 Used Price: $13.99 
This volume analyzes how higher education responses to sociopolitical and economic influences affect gender equality at the nation-state and university levels in the European Union and the United States. Hardcover: 244 pages Company: Palgrave Macmillan (2007-01-15) (2007-02-06) ISBN: 1403968446 List Price: $89.00 Amazon Price: $8.79 Used Price: $8.79 
Global Issues and Adult Educationbrings together seven years of cutting-edge research and analysis from the Cyril O. Houle Scholars in Adult and Continuing Education. These emerging leaders in the field investigate the importance of adult education in responding to the challenges of global issues. The book is divided into five sections, each of which examines one overarching topic—globalization and the market economy, marginalized populations, environment and health, community empowerment, and lifelong learning and educational systems. Each section begins with an introduction that provides a framework for understanding the overarching issues and summarizes the chapters in the section.Hardcover: 560 pages Company: Jossey-Bass (2006-03-10) ISBN: 0787978108 List Price: $60.00 Amazon Price: $45.00 Used Price: $34.40 |
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