Critical Education Practice
Inner-City Schools, Multiculturalism, and Teacher Education: A Professional Journey
1st Edition
Edited
By Joe Kincheloe, Frederick L. Yeo, Shirley R. Steinberg
March 01, 1997
Focusing on the causes for the continuing marginalization of minority children, this book examines inner-city education, its teaching practices, curricular rationales, perspectives of teachers and students, and the institutions themselves....
Liberation Theology and Critical Pedagogy in Today's Catholic Schools: Social Justice in Action
1st Edition
By Thomas Oldenski
March 01, 1997
Grounded in the work of liberation theologians, this book considers peace, love and social justice within a democratic curriculum and underscores the importance of integrating critical discourses with Catholic education....
Democracy, Multiculturalism, and the Community College: A Critical Perspective
1st Edition
By Robert A. Rhoads, James R. Valadez
March 01, 1996
Based on five organizational case studies, this book argues that community colleges face an identity crisis and must find ways of balancing the three traditional roles typically assumed by them: transfer, vocational, and community education.To emphasize one at the expense of another is to fail to ...
Teaching Mathematics: Toward a Sound Alternative
1st Edition
By Brent Davis
March 01, 1996
This book presents an approach to the teaching of mathematics that departs radically from conventional prescription-oriented and management-based methods. It brings together recent developments in such diverse fields as continental and pragmatist philosophy, enactivist thought, critical ...
Occupied Reading: Critical Foundations for an Ecological Theory
1st Edition
By Alan A. Block
January 01, 1995
Today's growing national concern about education centers on the paramount importance of teaching reading and writing. This volume offers a rigorous examination of reading and the pedagogy of reading critically. The book examines the crucial role of reading in the education of the child for the year...