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  • Trust within Learning

    by Devin Thornburg ...
    Trust within Learning provides invaluable insight into the learning relationship between students and teachers, a complex and dynamic area of research. It achieves this aim by reimagining the role of trust in the various sectors of education and exploring its import. Devin Thornburg provides invaluable insight into the learning relationship between students and teachers, a complex and dynamically ... Read more

    $105.99 CAD

  • Psychodynamic Perspectives on Working with Children, Families, and Schools

    by Michael O'Loughlin, Carola B. Chase, Karen L. Lombardi, Karen Lupe, Devin Thornburg, Donna Wolf-Palacio, Derek Bunyard, Carrie Catapano, Jonathan Cohen, Howard H. Covitz0, Daniel B. Frank1, Al Galves2, Leon Hoffman3, Patrick Lewis4, Robbie Lloyd5, Katy Meyer6, Norma Tracey7, Fabio Camargo Bandeira Villela8, Ana Archangelo9 ...
    Series series New Imago
    With the push toward accountability and test performance in schools there has been a decline in emphasis on creativity, imagination, and feelings in schools. Psychodynamic Perspectives on Working with Children, Families, and Schools is designed for students and professionals who are interested in restoring such values to their work with children.There is an absence of psychoanalytic ways of ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • Global Views of Adolescence

    Exploring Relationship-Building, Curriculum Innovation, and School Reform Through Educator Narratives

    Edited by Devin G. Thornburg ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book addresses what teachers and school leaders from a dozen countries see as the social and emotional strengths, interests and needs of adolescents in their schools and communities; how they innovate their programs and practices to respond to their students’ lives. The book also describes how educators themselves benefit from social and emotional supports to be responsive. Rather than assume ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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    A Practitioner's Guide

    by Lisa Aronson Fontes, PhD ...
    Packed with practical pointers and examples, this indispensable, straight-talking guide helps professionals conduct productive interviews while building strong working relationships with culturally and linguistically diverse clients. Chapters cover verbal and nonverbal ways to build rapport and convey respect; how to overcome language barriers, including effective use of interpreters; culturally ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Life Skills Education for Youth

    Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Joan DeJaeghere, Erin Murphy-Graham ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access volume critically reviews a diverse body of scholarship and practice that informs the conceptualization, curriculum, teaching and measurement of life skills in education settings around the world. It discusses life skills as they are implemented in schools and non-formal education, providing both qualitative and quantitative evidence of when, with whom, and how life skills do or ... Read more

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  • The Multicultural Mind

    Unleashing the Hidden Force for Innovation in Your Organization

    by David Thomas ...
    Globalization has created a superheated competitive business environment that demands innovation to stay ahead. But it's also created a hidden source of innovation right in your midst: the people in your organization who have deep experience in more than one culture—multiculturals. Having to integrate different cultural frameworks has enabled them to develop abilities that can contribute ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • Learning in the Global Era

    International Perspectives on Globalization and Education

    Edited by Marcelo Suarez-Orozco ...
    An international gathering of leading scholars, policymakers, and educators takes on some of the most difficult and controversial issues of our time in this groundbreaking exploration of how globalization is affecting education around the world. The contributors, drawing from innovative research in both the social sciences and the neurosciences, examine the challenges and opportunities now facing ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Funds of Knowledge

    Theorizing Practices in Households, Communities, and Classrooms

    Edited by Norma Gonzalez, Luis C. Moll, Cathy Amanti ...
    The concept of "funds of knowledge" is based on a simple premise: people are competent and have knowledge, and their life experiences have given them that knowledge. The claim in this book is that first-hand research experiences with families allow one to document this competence and knowledge, and that such engagement provides many possibilities for positive pedagogical actions.Drawing from both ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Educating for Global Competence

    Preparing Our Students to Engage the World

    by Veronica Boix Mansilla, Anthony W. Jackson ...
    Preparing students to participate fully in today's and tomorrow's world demands that we nurture their global competence, and this book shows teachers how to do just that.In a world rife with rapid change, environmental vulnerabilities, and racial inequities, this second edition of Educating for Global Competence poses an urgent question: What matters most for students to understand about our ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Education for Innovation and Independent Learning

    by Ronaldo Mota, David Scott ...
    Our principal concern in this book is to understand three important ideas: learning, technology and innovation, and to examine these ideas and the relationships between them in situ; that is, we examine a number of cases of learning technologies in action in two countries, England and Brazil. The purpose of our study is to provide an explanation of the means to, and constraints on, improvements to ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Transforming World Language Teaching and Teacher Education for Equity and Justice

    Pushing Boundaries in US Contexts

    Edited by Beth Wassell, Cassandra Glynn ...
    Series Book 103 - New Perspectives on Language and Education
    This edited book expands the current scholarship on teaching world languages for social justice and equity in K-12 and postsecondary contexts in the US. Over the past decade, demand has been growing for a more critical approach to teaching languages and cultures: in response, this volume brings together a group of scholars whose work bridges the fields of world language education and critical ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Early Childhood Education From an Intercultural and Bilingual Perspective

    Edited by Cristina A. Huertas-Abril, María Elena Gómez-Parra ...
    Around the world, school districts and institutions are exploring ways to provide quality education to their students. With this, there is a deeper need for multiculturalism in classrooms, as many students are from varying cultures and speak different languages. Early Childhood Education From an Intercultural and Bilingual Perspective provides emerging research on the use of play, toys, and games ... Read more

    $200.99 CAD