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1	Teaching, Learning, and Schooling: A 21st Century Perspective more books like this by Prof. Eugene F Provenzo, Jr. add to wishlist Teaching, Learning, and Schooling: 21st Century argues that American society has undergone a series of profound social, cultural, and political changes since the 1960s that have redefined the meaning of teaching, learning, and schooling in a postmodern culture. The text directs students toward many of the most vital issues in contemporary ... see all copies from $7.90! new only from $52.49!
2	Transformative Learning: Educational Vision for the 21st Century more books like this by Edmund O'Sullivan add to wishlist An analysis of education and educational reform. This book assesses what it means to face the educational challenges of the 21st century, and offers a way for education to develop whole human beings in the context of a sustainable planetary environment. see all copies from $29.72! new only from $29.72! \| SVS
3	Postmodern Education: Politics, Culture, and Social Criticism more books like this by Professor Stanley Aronowitz, Henry A Giroux add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $27.00! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Embracing Identities in Early Childhood Education: Diversities and Possibilities more books like this by Susan Grieshaber add to wishlist Drawing on the work of early childhood teachers and teacher educators, this volume provides examples of creative ways in which practitioners and theorists are rethinking their work. Grounded in principles of equity, difference, and the recognition of racial, ethnic and sexual diversity, the text seeks to open possibilities for thought and action. ... see all copies from $5.93! new only from $24.95!
5	Escaping Education: Living as Learning Within Grassroots Cultures more books like this by Madhu Suri Prakash, Gustavo Esteva add to wishlist Escaping Education challenges the modern certainty that education is a universal good and a human right. It opens doors to alternative landscapes of learning and living that still flourish at the grassroots, within the cultures of the uneducated, the undereducated, and the illiterate who constitute the social majorities or the Two-Thirds World. It ... see all copies from $13.02! new only from $66.61!
6	Postmodernism and Education: Different Voices, Different Worlds more books like this by Robin Usher, Richard Edwards add to wishlist In this book, the authors explore and clarify the nature of postmodernism and provide a detailed introduction to key writers in the field such as Lacan Derrida Foucault Lyotard They examine the impact which this thinking has had upon contemporary theory and practice of education, concentrating particularly upon how postmodernist ideas ... see all copies from $16.78! new only from $59.27! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Postmodern Challenge to the Theory and Practice of Educational Administration more books like this by Dr. Fenwick W English add to wishlist see all copies from $89.09! new only from $89.09!
8	The Post-Formal Reader: Cognition and Education more books like this by Barbara Griffin, Prof. Joe L Kincheloe (Editor), Patricia H Hinchey (Editor) add to wishlist This volume argues that while 20th century educational psychology has made important advances, a time for reassessment has arrived. Recent years have seen the rise of neo-Vygotskian analysis and situated cognition within the discipline of cognitive psychology. The authors of this work have picked up where these theories leave off, to more fully ... see all copies from $13.10! new only from $20.68! \| first editions
9	Counternarratives: Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogies in Postmodern Spaces more books like this by Henry A Giroux, A Giroux Henry, Colin Lankshear add to wishlist To understand contemporary times, we must appreciate how much our lives are affected by the cultural and political struggle between 'official' narratives and the counternarratives which emerge as oppositional responses. Counternarratives develops a concept of 'postmodern counternarratives' as a frame for exploring the politics of media, technology ... see all copies from $6.59! new only from $25.62!
10	Tradition, Modernity, and Post-Modernity in Comparative Education more books like this by Vandra L Masemann add to wishlist This book contains papers around the theme of Tradition, Modernity and Post-modernity in education from an international perspective. The Introduction examines this theme, drawing largely upon the literature in Comparative Education. Succeeding chapters illustrate that traditional, modern and even post-modern elements, or tensions between them, ... see all copies from $20.00! new only from $59.04! \| SVS
11 view cover	Individualism and Community more books like this by Michael Peters, Peters Michael Peters add to wishlist Examining, in the widest sense, the changes in political philosophy that have occurred in Western capitalist states since the early 1980s, this book focuses on the introduction of neo-liberal principles in the combined area of social and education policy. New Zealand presents a paradigm example of the neo-liberal shift in political philosophy. ... see all copies from $19.99! new only from $59.14! \| SVS
12 view cover	Democracy at the Crossroads: International Perspectives on Critical Global Citizenship Education more books like this by Cameron White (Editor), Roger Openshaw (Editor) add to wishlist In Democracy at the Crossroads, the editors argue that there have been too few scholarly attempts to provide a comprehensive critique of the assumptions behind citizenship education. In particular, they ask the distinguished contributors to this volume to address difficult but essential questions that are often avoided or intentionally overlooked: ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.98! \| SVS
13 view cover	Naming the Multiple: Poststructuralism & Education more books like this by Michael Peters add to wishlist Each essay in this collection by and for educators is devoted to the work and educational significance of one of ten major poststructuralist philosophers. The essays examine poststructuralism's links with the intellectual milieu of postwar France and the "structuralist" tradition of linguistics. see all copies from $7.05! new only from $7.82! \| SVS
14 view cover	Modern Practice of Adult Education: A Postmodern Critique more books like this by Derek Briton add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.09! \| SVS
15 view cover	Teaching Toward the 24th Century: Star Trek as Social Curriculum more books like this by Karen Anijar, Anijar Karen add to wishlist "Trekkie" popular culture responds to "Star Trek" as a myth that serves to forge a unifying social identity. In this text, the author explores this phenomenon in light of the influences of television in children's lives, postmodern theories of teaching and learning, and the effects of utopian interpretations of "Star Trek" on teaching practice. see all copies from $45.02! new only from $45.02!
16 view cover	Knowledge, Power and Learning more books like this by Dr. Carrie Paechter (Editor), Dr. Margaret Preedy (Editor), David Scott (Editor) add to wishlist 'This is a very useful collection. It brings a wide range of articles on aspects of learning in different settings - from high tech companies in Cambridge to school classrooms' - Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning 'This book will stimulate thought in any reader and could be of interest to academics in all subjects, or to educational ... see all copies from $19.10! new only from $35.42! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Changing Places? more books like this by Richard Edwards add to wishlist Flexibility has become a central concept in much policy and academic debate. Individuals, organizations and societies are all required to become more flexible so that they can participate in the ongoing processes of change involved in lifelong learning. This book explores how the notion of a learning society has developed over recent years: the ... see all copies from $19.90! new only from $29.90! \| SVS
18 view cover	Re-Schooling Society more books like this by David Hartley add to wishlist This text describes and explains the sense of uncertainty faced by educators as the millenium approaches. It highlights the many transitions taking place in all aspects of public life and education during the postmodern phase of late capitalism by using examples from the study of childhood, curriculum, pedagogy, assessment and organization of ... see all copies from $38.72! new only from $52.85! \| SVS
19 view cover	Expanding the Boundaries of Transformative Learning: Essays on Theory and Praxis more books like this by Edmund O'Sullivan (Editor), Amish Morrell (Editor), Mary A O'Connor (Editor) add to wishlist Transformative learning involves experiencing a deep, structural shift in the basic premises of thought, feelings, and actions. It is a shift of consciousness that dramatically and permanently alters our way of being in the world. Such a shift involves our understanding of ourselves and our self-locations; our relationships with other humans and ... see all copies from $25.00! new only from $52.87! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Post-Formal Reader: Cognition and Education more books like this by Prof. Joe L Kincheloe, Patricia H Hinchey, Shirley R Steinberg add to wishlist This volume argues that while 20th century educational psychology has made important advances, a time for reassessment has arrived. Recent years have seen the rise of neo-Vygotskian analysis and situated cognition within the discipline of cognitive psychology. The authors of this work have picked up where these territories leave off, to more fully ... see all copies from $25.95! new only from $25.95!
21 view cover	Education, Power, and Personal Biography: Dialogues with Critical Educators more books like this by A Torres Carlos, Carlos Torres (Editor) add to wishlist In dialogues with key thinkers in the area of critical education, this book documents how a tradition of study grew in the United States. Through in-depth interviews, the author asks each of these thinkers to talk about the relationship between their personal experiences and their academic work. The reader will learn, through listening to these ... see all copies from $30.00! new only from $44.30! \| first editions
22 view cover	Generation X Goes to College more books like this by Peter Sacks add to wishlist This is a true story which tells how the author, a journalist-turned-college professor, dealt with Generation X - jaded, unachieving, highly demanding youth. Sacks analyses his experience in the context of recent social changes, and concludes that Generation X consists of genuine postmoderns. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $39.99!
23 view cover	Thinking Again: Education After Postmodernism more books like this by Nigel Blake, Paul Smeyers, Richard Smith add to wishlist The authors of this volume argue that educational theory is at an impass and that the ideas of postmodernist thinkers such as Derrida, Foucault and Lyotard are needed in order to think creatively about education. see all copies from $45.64! new only from $45.64! \| first editions
24 view cover	Feminism and the Classroom Teacher: Research, Praxis, Pedagogy more books like this by Amanda Coffey, Coffey Amanda, Dr. Sara Delamont add to wishlist Combining feminist theory and empirical material, drawing on feminist writing and their own research experience, the authors provide an interpretation of teachers and their teaching. see all copies from $34.84! new only from $46.70! \| SVS
25 view cover	Paradigm Debates in Curriculum and Supervision: Modern and Postmodern Perspectives more books like this by Dr. Jeffrey Glanz (Editor), Linda S Behar-Horenstein, Robert J Starratt (Foreword by) add to wishlist How do paradigm debates in other educational fields, such as curriculum and supervision, shape educators' understanding and practice? This volume suggests that educators' adherence to particular views of curriculum and supervision is influential in guiding their beliefs and subsequent actions. see all copies from $65.00! new only from $75.00! \| first editions \| SVS

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