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  • Fostering SchoolFamily Relationships in Multicultural Communities

    by Matthew Knoester, Maura G. Robinson, Touorizou Hervé Somé ...
    Series series Multicultural Education Series
    This practitioner-friendly resource will help parents and educators with different values and viewpoints to better communicate, understand, and collaborate for the benefit of all children (K12).Drawing from personal stories and current research, this book suggests ways in which families and schools can work together to optimize the academic, social, and emotional development of all students, with ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Learning to Cross Divides

    Examining Critical Multicultural and Bilingual Schools

    by Matthew Knoester, Assaf Meshulam ...
    Series series Critical Social Thought
    2024 AESA Critics’ Choice Book AwardThis volume demonstrates how multilingual schooling can enhance democracy through a connection with the policies and practices of critical education.With its in-depth analysis of real schools that focus on the dual emphases of multiculturalism and integration, this book offers a comparative look at educational and political controversies over race, citizenship, ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Democratic Education in Practice

    Inside the Mission Hill School

    by Matthew Knoester ...
    Series series Practitioner Inquiry Series
    The Mission Hill School, founded by MacArthur Award winner Deborah Meier and colleagues in 1997, is a small public school that has rethought almost everything about the process of teaching and learning. Beyond richly describing and evaluating this high-achieving school, the author argues that democratic education is increasingly difficult in this era of testing and standardization and that a ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Beyond Testing

    Seven Assessments of Students and Schools More Effective Than Standardized Tests

    by Deborah Meier, Matthew Knoester ...
    The authors of this timely book argue that a fundamentally complex problem—how to assess the knowledge of a child—cannot be reduced to a simple test score. Beyond Testing describes seven forms of assessment that are more effective than standardized test results: (1) student self-assessments, (2) direct teacher observations of students and their work, (3) descriptive reviews of the child, (4) ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Teaching in Themes

    An Approach to Schoolwide Learning, Creating Community, and Differentiating Instruction

    Edited by Deborah Meier, Matthew Knoester, Katherine Clunis D'Andrea ...
    Series series Practitioner Inquiry Series
    How do teachers and schools create meaningful learning experiences for students with diverse skills, abilities, and cultures? How can teachers authentically assess the learning of their students and build on their strengths and interests in ways that enrich the larger community? How can schools be turned into places where everyone is learning from each other? These are the big questions that guide ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Promoting Global Competence and Social Justice in Teacher Education

    Successes and Challenges within Local and International Contexts

    by Burcu Ates, Perien Joniell Boer, Alexandra Brown, Marya Burke, Francesca Caena, Steven Camicia, Marialuisa Di Stefano, Wangari Gichiru, Efrat Harel, Matthew Knoester, Katrina Macht, Alan S. Marcus, Leigh Martin, Mary Petrón, Alison Price-Rom, Sarah Thomas, Tina Waldman, Hilary Wilder, Jacalyn Giacalone Willis, Eleanor Vernon Wilson, David M. Moss ...
    Promoting Global Competence and Social Justice in Teacher Education reconceptualizes the purpose of education to include the attainment of global or cosmopolitan perspectives. This goal has important implications for how we not only educate today’s students, but also how we prepare teachers to teach in a diverse and complex world in which habits of perspective, inquiry, imagination, empathy, ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

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  • Critical Issues in Peace and Conflict Studies

    Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy

    by Ousmane Bakary Bâ, Thomas Boudreau, Jason J. Campbell, Paul Cormier, Nathan C. Funk, Johan Galtung, Nancy Hansen, Sherrill Hayes, Myrtle Hill, Peter Karari, Neil H. Katz, Peter Kellett, Alka Kumar, Brenda LeFrançois, Andrea Levy, Marie Olson Lounsbery, Siobhan McEvoy-Levy, Amos Nadan, Robin Neustaeter, Frederic Pearson, Jean Poitras, Jodi Dueck-Read, Brian Rice, Anna Snyder, Arnaud Stimec, Chuck Thiessen, Hamdesa Tuso, Jean-Guy Vaillancourt, Christina J. Woolner ...
    Peace and Conflict Studies (PCS) includes scholars and practitioners throughout the world working in peace studies, conflict analysis and resolution, conflict management, appropriate dispute resolution, and peace and justice studies. They come to the PCS field with a diversity of ideas, approaches, disciplinary roots, and topic areas, which speaks to the complexity, breadth, and depth needed to ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Educational Theory in the 21st Century

    Science, Technology, Society and Education

    Edited by Yusuf Alpaydın, Cihad Demirli ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book reviews the effects of the twenty-first century scientific-technological and social developments on the educational theory. The first part handles the subject, focusing on technology and educational philosophy. In the second part, the implications of new human and social conceptions towards the education paradigms are examined. In the chapters of the last part of the book, ... Read more

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  • Track Two Diplomacy in Theory and Practice

    by Peter Jones ...
    Track Two diplomacy consists of informal dialogues among actors such as academics, religious leaders, retired senior officials, and NGO officials that can bring new ideas and new relationships to the official process of diplomacy.Sadly, those involved in official diplomacy often have little understanding of and appreciation for the complex and nuanced role that Track Two can play, or for its ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Identity and Cultural Diversity

    What social psychology can teach us

    by Maykel Verkuyten ...
    Identity and Cultural Diversity examines immigration and its effect on diversity from a social psychological perspective. Immigration increases cultural diversity and raises difficult questions of belonging, adaptation, and the unity of societies: questions of identity may be felt by people struggling with the basic problem of who they are and where they fit in, and although cultural diversity can ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Human Rights Education

    Theory, Research, Praxis

    by Nancy Flowers ...
    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    Over the past seven decades, human rights education has blossomed into a global movement. A field of scholarship that utilizes teaching and learning processes, human rights education addresses basic rights and broadens the respect for the dignity and freedom of all peoples. Since the founding of the United Nations and the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, human rights ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • The Codes of the Street in Risky Neighborhoods

    A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Youth Violence in Germany, Pakistan, and South Africa

    by Wilhelm Heitmeyer, Simon Howell, Sebastian Kurtenbach, Abdul Rauf, Muhammad Zaman, Steffen Zdun ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book presents a comparative look at the norms and attitudes related to youth violence. It aims to present a perspective outside of the typical Western context, through case studies comparing a developed / Western democracy (Germany), a country with a history of institutionalized violence (South Africa), and an emerging democracy that has experienced heavy terrorism (Pakistan). Building on ... Read more

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