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Counterpoints eBook Series

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  • Emancipating Education

    Considerations of Deferred Dreams and Visions for Change

    by Shirley R. Steinberg ...
    Series Book 571 - Counterpoints
    At a time when traditional schooling systems perpetuate inequality and suppress student agency, this groundbreaking collection offers bold visions for transforming education from the ground up. Moving beyond surface-level reforms, contributors challenge fundamental assumptions about what schools are and what they could become.From democratic free schools and anarchist learning networks to ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Letters to Paulo

    by Shirley R. Steinberg ...
    Series Book 567 - Counterpoints
    Letters to Paulo brings together scholars, educators, and activists from around the world who write directly to Paulo Freire. Each letter reflects on Freire’s work and its relevance to contemporary struggles over education, democracy, inequality, and social transformation.Writing across generations and continents, the contributors explore how Freire’s ideas resonate in their lives, work, and ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

  • The Stigma of Genius

    Einstein, Consciousness and Critical Education, Second Edition

    by Joe L. Kincheloe, Joe L. Kincheloe, Shirley R. Steinberg, Shirley R. Steinberg, Deborah J. Tippins ...
    Series Book 111 - Counterpoints
    In The Stigma of Genius: Einstein, Consciousness and Critical Education, we muse over ways in which to be, to become and to recognize uniqueness and different paths to genius. Understanding there is no prescribed procedure, we determine multiple actions, means and measures with which we recognize and teach to genius, we look at Einstein’s life and knowledges to connect our pedagogies and students. ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

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  • The Conversation

    How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations

    by Robert Livingston ...
    A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • An essential tool for individuals, organizations, and communities of all sizes to jump-start dialogue on racism and bias and to transform well-intentioned statements on diversity into concrete actions—from a leading Harvard social psychologist.NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE FOR OUTSTANDING LITERARY ACHIEVEMENT • LONGLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • The Unschooled Mind

    How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach

    by Howard Gardner ...
    Merging cognitive science with educational agenda, Gardner makes an eloquent case for restructuring our schools by showing just how ill-suited our minds and natural patterns of learning are to the prevailing modes of education. This reissue includes a new introduction by the author. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Overcoming the Achievement Gap Trap

    Liberating Mindsets to Effective Change

    by Anthony Muhammad ...
    Series series Classroom Strategies
    Ensure learning equality in every classroom. Investigate previous and current policies designed to help close the achievement gap. Examine predominant mindsets that contradict school missions to promote equal academic opportunities, and consider the psychological impact this has on students. Explore strategies for adopting a new mindset that frees educators and students from negative academic ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Atheist's Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life without Illusions

    Enjoying Life without Illusions

    by Alex Rosenberg ...
    A book for nonbelievers who embrace the reality-driven life.We can't avoid the persistent questions about the meaning of life-and the nature of reality. Philosopher Alex Rosenberg maintains that science is the only thing that can really answer them—all of them. His bracing and ultimately upbeat book takes physics seriously as the complete description of reality and accepts all its consequences. He ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Extending Educational Reform

    From One School to Many

    by Amanda Datnow, Lea Hubbard, Hugh Mehan ...
    In an effort to improve student achievement, thousands of US schools have adopted school reform models devised externally by universities and other organizations. Such models have been successful in improving individual schools or groups of schools, but what happens when educational reform attempts to extend from one school to many?Through qualitative data from several studies, this book explores ... Read more

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  • Social Acceleration

    A New Theory of Modernity

    by Hartmut Rosa ...
    Translated by Jonathan Trejo-Mathys ...
    Series Book 32 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    Hartmut Rosa advances an account of the temporal structure of society from the perspective of critical theory. He identifies three categories of change in the tempo of modern social life: technological acceleration, evident in transportation, communication, and production; the acceleration of social change, reflected in cultural knowledge, social institutions, and personal relationships; and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Postpositivism and Educational Research

    by D. C. Phillips, Nicholas C. Burbules ...
    Series series Philosophy, Theory, and Educational Research Series
    This volume presents in a forthright and lively way, an account of the philosophical position generally identified as 'Postpositivistic' that undergirds much of mainstream research in education and the related social sciences. The discussion throughout is informed by recent developments in philosophy of science. Authors D. C. Phillips and Nicholas C. Burbules cite a number of interesting examples ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Social Foundations Reader

    Critical Essays on Teaching, Learning and Leading in the 21st Century

    Edited by Eleanor Blair, Yolanda Medina ...
    The Social Foundations Reader is meant for undergraduate and graduate students in introductory foundations of education classes. No other contemporary reader provides such a broad and yet critical view of the issues typically addressed in an introductory foundations course. Instead, most provide a generic and typically conservative perspective on schools and classrooms and do little to encourage ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • On Dialogue

    by David Bohm ...
    Series series Routledge Great Minds
    David Bohm is considered one of the best physicists of all time. He also had a deep interest in human communication and creativity. Influential in both management and communication theory in what is known 'Bohm Dialogue', On Dialogue is both inspiring and pioneering. Bohm considers the origin and very meaning of dialogue, reflecting on what gets in the way of "true dialogue". He argues that ... Read more

    $38.99 USD