This book catalogues an exhibition of textbooks by authors from the University of Alberta. Each finished textbook contains its own story of challenges and victories. And each has its own power as a record of knowledge, a teaching tool, and an object of permanence and beauty.
This is an up-to-the-moment, engaging, multicultural introduction to education and teaching and the challenges and opportunities they present.
... by no means a new concept to American history, but its significance is understood in the last decade of the twentieth century perhaps better than and differently from the way it was understood in Frederick Jackson Turner's heyday.
Climate change? Confederate statue controversies? Immigration? Hate speech? In Teaching When the World Is on Fire, Delpit turns to a host of crucial issues facing teachers in these tumultuous times.
This book describes how we can (and must) transform education and teaching; create such a generation; and build such a future.
Examining teacher education in an international context, this book captures the diversity of the world's educators.
This is an exciting, and unsettling, time to be teaching world literature, writes David Damrosch. Because the range of works taught in world literature courses has expanded enormously, both historically...
This guide bridges theory and practice, inviting scholars, educators, and professionals of all areas of world language specialization to create new opportunities for their students.
This book showcases an expansive variety of educational practices fostered across international contexts by real teachers: active and empowering learning strategies, critical thinking and creative problem-solving, cultural responsiveness ...
Sadker, M. and Sadker, D. (1994) Failing at Fairness, New York: Scribner's. Stone, l. (1996) “Feminist political theory: Contributions to a conception of citizenship,” Theory and Research in Social Education 24 (1): 36–53.
With an explicit focus on comparative and international studies and improving the knowledge, understanding and practice of effective pedagogies for children’s learning, this book reflects on key issues such as: Standards for learner ...