Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “peter w; vecchi”
Skip side bar filters

  • Loris Malaguzzi and the Schools of Reggio Emilia

    A selection of his writings and speeches, 1945-1993

    Edited by Paola Cagliari, Marina Castagnetti, Claudia Giudici, Carlina Rinaldi, Vea Vecchi, Peter Moss ...
    Series series Contesting Early Childhood
    Loris Malaguzzi was one of the most important figures in 20th century early childhood education, achieving world-wide recognition for his educational ideas and his role in the creation of municipal schools for young children in the Italian city of Reggio Emilia, the most successful example ever of progressive, democratic and public education.Despite Malaguzzi’s reputation, very little of what he ... Read more

    $122.99 CAD

  • The First Class

    Transits of Brazilian Literature Abroad

    by Saavedra, Carola; Perrone, Charles A.; Finazzi-Agrò, Ettore; Garramuño, John; Passos, José Miguel; Schwarcz, Lilia Moritz; Pardo, M. Carmen Villarino; Librandi-Rocha, Marília; Riaudel, Michel; Schulze, Peter W.; Vecchi, Roberto; Santos, Vivaldo Andrade, Florencia; Sorá, Gustavo; Rocha, João Cezar de Castro; Salles, João Moreira; Gledson, José Luiz;, Wisnik ...
    Translated by Norman, John ...
    What does a professor Brazilian or otherwise think and do on the first day of class, standing before a group of “foreign” students to talk about Brazilian literature? This apparently simple question that gave rise to the essays gathered in this book opens a series of other questions: Who is this professor? How did he or she go about planning that first class? What challenges do professors ... Read more

    Free

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Being Cultured

    in defence of discrimination

    by Angus Kennedy ...
    Series Book 19 - Societas
    Today culture is everywhere as maybe never before. We read culture reviews, watch culture shows, live in Cities of Culture, and witness the Cultural Olympiad. Government, museums and arts councils worry that we are not getting enough culture and shape policy around notions of art and culture for all. Access and inclusion are in. Difficulty and exclusivity out. In "Being Cultured: in defence of ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Utopias and Architecture

    by Nathaniel Coleman ...
    Utopian thought, though commonly characterized as projecting a future without a past, depends on golden models for re-invention of what is. Through a detailed and innovative re-assessment of the work of three architects who sought to represent a utopian content in their work, and a consideration of the thoughts of a range of leading writers, Coleman offers the reader a unique perspective of ... Read more

    $156.99 CAD

  • The Moral Neoliberal

    Welfare and Citizenship in Italy

    by Andrea Muehlebach ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
    Morality is often imagined to be at odds with capitalism and its focus on the bottom line, but in The Moral Neoliberal morality is shown as the opposite: an indispensible tool for capitalist transformation. Set within the shifting landscape of neoliberal welfare reform in the Lombardy region of Italy, Andrea Muehlebach tracks the phenomenal rise of voluntarism in the wake of the state’s withdrawal ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Dance Studies: The Basics

    by Jo Butterworth ...
    Series series The Basics
    A concise introduction to the study of dance ranging from the practical aspects such as technique and choreography to more theoretical considerations such as aesthetic appreciation and the place of dance in different cultures. This book answers questions such as:Exactly how do we define dance?What kinds of people dance and what kind of training is necessary?How are dances made?What do we know ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Introducing Malaguzzi

    Exploring the life and work of Reggio Emilia’s founding father

    by Sandra Smidt ...
    Series series Introducing Early Years Thinkers
    Loris Malaguzzi is recognised as the founder of the extraordinary programmes of preschool education that developed after the war in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Deeply embedded in the cultures and communities they serve, these unique preschools have justifiably become famous throughout the world.In this accessible and engaging text, Sandra Smidt examines how Malaguzzi’s philosophy developed out of his ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Alternative Narratives in Early Childhood

    An Introduction for Students and Practitioners

    by Peter Moss ...
    Series series Contesting Early Childhood
    Challenging dominant discourses in the field of early childhood education, this book provides an accessible introduction to some of the alternative narratives and diverse perspectives that are increasingly to be heard in this field, as well as discussing the importance of paradigm, politics and ethics.Peter Moss draws on material published in the groundbreaking Contesting Early Childhood series to ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • New Ritual Society. Consumerism and culture in contemporary society

    by Gianpiero Vincenzo ...
    “New Ritual Society is impressively thorough and wide- ranging” - Randall Collins“The development of consumerism-related and mass-culture art is also taken into consideration.And this is not merely by chance, because Vincenzo, professor at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Catania, deems the understanding of such crucial aspects of present society and culture as essential, in order to educate young ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Art of the Network

    Strategic Interaction and Patronage in Renaissance Florence

    by Paul D. McLean, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    Writing letters to powerful people to win their favor and garner rewards such as political office, tax relief, and recommendations was an institution in Renaissance Florence; the practice was an important tool for those seeking social mobility, security, and recognition by others. In this detailed study of political and social patronage in fifteenth-century Florence, Paul D. McLean shows that ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Artist, Researcher, Teacher

    A Study of Professional Identity in Art and Education

    by Alan Thornton ...
    Artist, Researcher, Teacher explores the relationship of three professional identities that often intersect in the lives of art practitioners, educators, and students.Challenging conventional wisdom about specialization and professional identity, Alan Thornton shows that many individuals have complex, varied, and evolving relationships with visual art—relationships that do not fit into any single ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Storming Heaven

    Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism

    by Steve Wright, Riccardo Bellofiore, Massimiliano Tomba ...
    Storming Heaven is the only book which looks at Italian workerist theory and practice, from its origins in the anti-Stalinist left of the 1950s to its heyday twenty years later. It focuses on the theme of workerism, or 'operaismo', which includes the refusal of work, class self-organisation, mass illegality and the extension of revolutionary agency, of of which are still practiced today by workers ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus