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  • Designing Socially Just Learning Communities

    Critical Literacy Education across the Lifespan

    Demonstrating the power and potential of educators working together to use literacy practices that make changes in people's lives, this collaboratively written book blends the voices of participants in a teacher-led professional development group to provide a truly lifespan perspective on designing critical literacy practices. It joins these educators’ stories with the history and practices of the ... Read more

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  • Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination explores the relationship between the constructions and representations of the relationship between time and the city in literature published between the late eighteenth century and the present. This collection offers a new way of reading the literary city by tracing the ways in which the relationship between time and urban space can shape literary ... Read more

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  • Adult Education Teachers

    Designing Critical Literacy Practices

    This book examines the literacy practices of exemplary adult education teachers working within critical literacy frameworks. It provides an in-depth look at the complexity of adult literacy education through the lenses of these teachers. An understanding of this complexity helps teachers design literacy practices in classrooms on a daily basis. This is an important book for there is considerable ... Read more

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  • The Teaching Gap

    Best Ideas from the World's Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom

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  • Children's Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Children's literature takes many forms - works adapted for children in antiquity, picture books and pop-ups - and now includes the latest online games and eBooks. This vast and amorphous subject is both intimately related to other areas of literary and cultural investigation but also has its own set of concerns, issues and challenges. From familiar authors including Beatrix Potter and Roald Dahl, ... Read more

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  • Reflective Teaching

    An Introduction

    Series series Reflective Teaching and the Social Conditions of Schooling Series
    This popular text provides a clear, succinct explanation of how reflection is integral to teachers’ understandings of themselves, their practice, and their context, and elaborates how various conceptions of reflective teaching differ from one another. The emphasis on the importance of both self and context is embedded within distinct and varied educational traditions (conservative, progressive, ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature

    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Fiction

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    Series series Very Short Introductions
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  • Parallel Curriculum Units for Social Studies, Grades 6-12

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