Books from Brill - Sense
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Scientific & Mathematical Bodies: The Interface of Culture and Mind
By Wolff-Michael Roth, SungWon HwangThis book is about the sensuous, living body without which individual knowing and learning is impossible.
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Asian/American Curricular Epistemicide: From Being Excluded to Becoming a Model Minority
By Nicholas D. Hartlep, Daniel P. ScottRacial stereotypes. Asian/American Curricular Epistemicide: From Being Excluded to Becoming a Model Minority delves into how these events and issues are portrayed-or, in some cases, ignored-in today's K-12 social studies curricula.
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On Collaboration: Personal, Educational and Societal Arenas
By Michael Baker, Jerry AndriessenBy exploiting benefits of different styles and genres (expository, narrative, fictional, argumentative) this text intends to lead readers towards further reflection on collaboration in their own lives, and towards deeper understanding of ...
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Tertiary Education at a Glance: China
By Kai Yu, Li LiuInspired by the OECD's annual "Education at a Glance" publication, it presents data collected from several sources, including statistical publications such as the National Statistics on Education Yearbook and other statistical yearbooks, ...
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Tertiary Education at a Glance: China
By Kai Yu, Andrea Lynn Stith, Li LiuInspired by the OECD's annual "Education at a Glance" publication, it presents data collected from several sources, including statistical publications such as the National Statistics on Education Yearbook and other statistical yearbooks, ...
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STEM of Desire: Queer Theories and Science Education
By William J. Letts, Steve Fifield: STEM education -- Beyond gender binaries / Michelle L. Knaier -- Children, nomads, and queering : desire and surprise in a wiggly world / Sheri Leafgren and Scott Sander -- Inviting the mess : a children's museum's transgressive tactics ...
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The Critical Media Literacy Guide: Engaging Media and Transforming Education
By Douglas Kellner, Jeff ShareForeword -- Introduction -- Towards critical digital et media literacies -- Ideology et the politics of representation -- Putting theory into practice -- Preparing educators to teach critical media literacy -- Environmental justice is ...
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Keywords in Radical Philosophy and Education: Common Concepts for Contemporary Movements
By Derek R. FordYet in order for this work to be done, we need to begin to establish common frameworks and languages in and with which to move Keywords in Radical Philosophy and Education takes up this crucial and urgent task.
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Inclusion, Disability and Culture
By Elsayed Elshabrawy Ahmad HassaneinThis book examines some theoretical and empirical aspects about complexities of inclusion, disability and culture.
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Enough Already! a Socialist Feminist Response to the Re-Emergence of Right Wing Populism and Fascism in Media
By Faith Agostinone-WilsonThis text explores the re-assertion of right-wing populist and fascist ideologies as presented and distributed in the media.
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Accelerated Universities: Ideas and Money Combine to Build Academic Excellence
By Philip G. Altbach, Liz Reisberg, Jamil SalmiUniversities aspiring to recognition among the top tier of global institutions will find this book indispensable"--
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Continuity and Discontinuity in Learning Careers: Potentials for a Learning Space in a Changing World
By Barbara Merrill, Andrea Galimberti, José González-Monteagudo"Continuity and Discontinuity in Learning Careers: Potentials for a Learning Space in a Changing World focuses on the new challenges and threats posed to adult education as a potential way out of the economic crisis and social change.
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Fireflies: Memory, Identity, and Poetry
By David P. Owen Jr.This work is an example of the "liminal" scholarship advocated in The Need forRevision (2011, by the same author), occupying a space in the academic world's "windows and doorways," not exactly in any one field but rather in the "spaces ...
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Toward Community-based Learning: Experiences from the U.s.a., India, and China
By Raimo NevalainenIn this manner, learning is linked to its natural context, with ideal instruction being actively problem-oriented, holistic, and life-centered.This thought-provoking volume offers an essential and comprehensive picture of community-based ...
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Obstinate Education: Reconnecting School and Society
By Gert BiestaThis text makes a strong case for the connection between education and democracy, both in the context of schools, colleges and universities and in the work of public pedagogy.
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The Societal Unconscious: Psychosocial Perspectives on Adult Learning
By Henning Salling OlesenThe psychosocial approach in this book seeks to re-integrate the societal and the psychodynamic dimensions in analyzing adult learners and learning processes.
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Rich Pickings: Creative Professional Development Activities for University Lecturers
By Daphne LoadsBringing together scholarship and experiential activities, the author challenges both academics and academic developers to reject narrowly instrumental approaches to professional development; bring teachers and teaching into view, in ...
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Power and Possibility: Adult Education in a Diverse and Complex World
By Fergal Finnegan, Bernie GrummellThe aim of this collection is to offer an analysis of power and possibility in adult education which acknowledges, analyses and responds to the complexity and diversity that characterises contemporary education and society.
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Color Struck: How Race and Complexion Matter in the Color-Blind Era
By Lori Latrice Martin, Hayward Derrick Horton, Cedric HerringSkin color and skin tone has historically played a significant role in determining the life chances of African Americans and other people of color. It has also been important to our understanding of race and the processes of racialization.
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Open(ing) Education: Theory and Practice
By Dianne Conrad, Paul PrinslooThe chapters in this book provide us with glimpses of open, opening, and opened, with none of these being permanent states of affairs, but rather contingent, serendipitous, often uncertain, and fluid. 0This book is unique not only with ...