Teaching Against The Grain

Author : Roger Simon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1992-04-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780313373121

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Conceiving of pedagogy as a form of cultural politics and teachers, therefore, as cultural workers, Simon offers a fresh vision of the notion of pedagogy. Grounded in an ethical and political stance devoted to the advancement of human dignity, Simon reflexively considers the basis on which teachers form their own dispositions and feelings, and urges them to consider not only what they might do as teachers but what social visions are supported by their practices. In this in-depth discussion of the requirements for a pedagogy of possibility, Simon highlights the significance of his theoretical commitment as applied to educational practice. To illustrate the ways that pedagogy is implicated in the construction of a social imaginary, Simon explores how the substance of schooling might be recast in a way that involves the work of teaching in reconstituting a progressive moral project for education that can constitute part of a broadly based social transformation. He subsequently offers a social vision on which a pedagogy of possibility might be founded, and shows how schools, along with other sites of cultural production, may be understood as integral to the struggle to establish such a vision. In addition, he discusses in detail how a practice of pedagogy might be conceptualized that would help establish concrete forms of hopeful practice.

Author : Marilyn Cochran-Smith
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807776537

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Walking the Road by Marilyn Cochran-Smith Pdf

Mapping the way to reconceptualizing teacher education today, Marilyn Cochran-Smith guides the reader through the conflicting visions and ideologies surrounding the education of teachers for a diverse democratic society. “Our profession is at a critical crossroad. . . .We must accept Cochran–Smith’s challenge to speak loudly and articulately for social justice and democracy. Could our society face a more urgent or compelling issue?” —From the Foreword by Jacqueline Jordan Irvine "This volume represents not only the best of Cochran-Smith, it represents the best of teacher education. These essays are hard–hitting yet lyrical, provocative yet poetic, theoretically sophisticated yet practically useful. Teacher education is in good hands.” —Gloria Ladson–Billings, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Author : Sonia Nieto,Melanie C. Brooks,John M. Heffron,Haiyan Qian,Allan Walker,Peter McLaren,Petar Jandric,Lisa Catherine Ehrich,Fenwick W. English,Atiya S. Strothers,Catherine A. Lugg,Susan C. Faircloth,Michelle D. Young,Bryan A. VanGronigen,Polly Hyslop,Brian Jarrett,Izhar Oplatka,Gaetane Jean-Marie,Catherine M. Marshall,Becca Merrill,Jackie M. Blount,Whitney McIntyre Miller,Margaret Grogan,Gloria Ladson-Billings
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807758717

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Leading Against the Grain by Sonia Nieto,Melanie C. Brooks,John M. Heffron,Haiyan Qian,Allan Walker,Peter McLaren,Petar Jandric,Lisa Catherine Ehrich,Fenwick W. English,Atiya S. Strothers,Catherine A. Lugg,Susan C. Faircloth,Michelle D. Young,Bryan A. VanGronigen,Polly Hyslop,Brian Jarrett,Izhar Oplatka,Gaetane Jean-Marie,Catherine M. Marshall,Becca Merrill,Jackie M. Blount,Whitney McIntyre Miller,Margaret Grogan,Gloria Ladson-Billings Pdf

What new ideas and ways of thinking can educational leaders learn from great world leaders who have moved their societies to greater equity and expanded educational opportunity? In this lively, accessible volume, the editors have brought together an impressive group of senior and early-career educational scholars to study the lives and contributions of a wide range of outstanding historical and contemporary leaders from the United States and across the globe. This rich collection of brief biographical commentaries profiles leaders like Wangari Mathaai, John Tippeconic III, Fannie Lou Hamer, Saul Alinsky, Antonia Pantoja, Jimmy Carter, Golda Meir, Sun Yat Sen, José Rizal, and Jesus Christ. Each profile focuses on a single individual and includes (1) an introduction and biographical sketch, (2) a discussion of their context and activities as a leader, (3) a list of the key lessons we can learn from their leadership, and (4) an explanation of how these lessons are relevant for today. This unique collection bridges cultures, professions, and callings to help American education leaders create more just and equitable schools. Book Features: Profiles of a wide range of world leaders. Insights from leading educational scholars and practitioners. A diversity of international location, gender, race, and conceptual focus. An engaging style that bridges theory and practice—perfect for courses and training programs. Lessons school leaders can use to improve their practice.

Author : Bell Hooks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135200015

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Teaching To Transgress by Bell Hooks Pdf

First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Tim Muldoon
Publisher : Loyola Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780829445046

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Living Against the Grain by Tim Muldoon Pdf

2019 Best Book Awards, Finalist: Religion: Christianity 2018 Catholic Press Association Book Awards, Second Place: Children’s Books and Books for Teens By discerning our deepest desires, we discover our truest selves. Today’s popular culture thrives on telling us what we should do and who we should be. We need to have the prestigious job, the perfect relationship, the jam-packed social life, and we need to show it all off on social media. But can achieving those things provide the fulfillment that we all long for? Is there something bigger and better out there waiting for us? Tim Muldoon has counseled countless young adults on this very issue. In Living Against the Grain, Muldoon offers a field-tested strategy for those facing a time of transition to help them discern their deepest desires and discover their true purpose in and for this world. Each chapter focuses on a crucial aspect of decision making, such as traveling the unpaved road, discovering your calling, finding inner freedom, and loving authentically. Throughout the chapters, Muldoon poses reflective questions that make the material both personal and practical. By engaging in the unique discernment process found in this book, you’ll be wholly equipped to find the path you were meant to follow and become the person you were created to be.

Author : George Weigel
Publisher : Crossroad
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015076141525

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Against the Grain by George Weigel Pdf

In this key volume, Catholicism's premier public intellectual presents his most influential writings on today's pressing global issues. Weigel makes an eloquent case for democratic structures, just war, and the central role of reason in an irrational world. With his coinciding book on Jihadism (Doubleday) being an urgent manifesto for measures against the violent forms of Islam, here Weigel presents his broader, comprehensive vision of the distinctively Catholic response to all threats against human dignity.

Author : Julian Lincoln Simon
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1412816130

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A Life Against the Grain by Julian Lincoln Simon Pdf

"Although he spent thirty-five years of his life as a faculty member at three universities, his autobiography contains almost no discussion of departmental affairs or university politics, topics about which Simon had little or no interest. Rather, after the personal chronology and experiences, the book includes substantive chapters on research methods, population economics, and immigration. It also explains how Julian Simon became the economist he was. He analyzes crucial periods in his life when he developed his ideas on fundamental issues."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Joel M. Stern
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118160794

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Against the Grain by Joel M. Stern Pdf

The unique story of a business heretic and his concept of Economic Value Added (EVA) In Against the Grain, Joel Stern shares for the first time, not only the story of how EVA swept the corporate world, but the story behind the story-the intellectual underpinnings of EVA, how he and his colleagues at Stern Stewart & Co. promoted the concept, won its initial acceptance by major corporations, and later turned the concept into a revolution. He has for good reason been called a one-man catalyst for change. In an engaging memoir, he has given us not only an account of his business strategy, but also provided fascinating anecdotes and vignettes of encounters with leading businessmen on four continents. Joel M. Stern (New York, NY) has been the Managing Partner of Stern Stewart & Co. since its founding in 1982 and was coauthor of The EVA Challenge (Wiley: 0-471-40555-8). A recognized authority on financial economics, corporate performance measurement, corporate valuation, and incentive compensation, he is a leading advocate of the concept of shareholder value. Irwin Ross (New York, NY) was retained to write The EVA Challenge with Joel Stern and John Shiely. He is a former roving editor of Reader's Digest and over the years has written for Fortune and a variety of other magazines.

Author : James C. Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 0302240217

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Against the Grain by James C. Scott Pdf

An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations that contradict the standard narrative. Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today's states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle down and form agricultural villages, towns, and states, which made possible civilization, law, public order, and a presumably secure way of living. But archaeological and historical evidence challenges this narrative. The first agrarian states, says James C. Scott, were born of accumulations of domestications: first fire, then plants, livestock, subjects of the state, captives, and finally women in the patriarchal family-all of which can be viewed as a way of gaining control over reproduction. Scott explores why we avoided sedentism and plow agriculture, the advantages of mobile subsistence, the unforeseeable disease epidemics arising from crowding plants, animals, and grain, and why all early states are based on millets and cereal grains and unfree labor. He also discusses the "barbarians" who long evaded state control, as a way of understanding continuing tension between states and nonsubject peoples.

Author : John B. Simon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Problem children
ISBN : UCAL:B4918775

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To Become Somebody by John B. Simon Pdf

Author : Maggie Berg,Barbara Seeber
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781442645561

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Slow Professor by Maggie Berg,Barbara Seeber Pdf

In The Slow Professor, Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber discuss how adopting the principles of the Slow movement in academic life can counter the erosion of humanistic education.

Author : Elizabeth Aaronsohn
Publisher : Corwin
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01-26
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015031856845

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Going Against the Grain by Elizabeth Aaronsohn Pdf

Here is helpful evidence and support to counter the criticism as you encourage your preservice teachers to develop constructivist curricula. Guide them as they learn to foster students' problem-solving skills, lifelong learning habits, and individual interests. Aaronsohn gives you a rich case study showing the challenges that face Sheila, a new student-centered teacher. As Sheila struggles to overcome resistance from other teachers in her new school, she learns how to handle her own uncertainties about her nontraditional curriculum.

Author : William F. Pinar
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 1170 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Education
ISBN : 0820426016

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Understanding Curriculum by William F. Pinar Pdf

Perhaps not since Ralph Tyler's (1949) Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction has a book communicated the field as completely as Understanding Curriculum. From historical discourses to breaking developments in feminist, poststructuralist, and racial theory, including chapters on political theory, phenomenology, aesthetics, theology, international developments, and a lengthy chapter on institutional concerns, the American curriculum field is here. It will be an indispensable textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses alike.

Author : Terry Jo Smith
Publisher : Hampton Press (NJ)
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123350048

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Teaching the Children We Fear by Terry Jo Smith Pdf

"Because the narrative evolves out of life in the classroom, it broaches a broad range of topics from violence to curriculum, from fear to love. This critical teacher story provides both the novice and the experienced teacher with renderings of school life that will provoke deep reflections on fundamental questions of teachering and learning, socialization and control, self and others."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Eli Meyerhoff
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781452960227

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Beyond Education by Eli Meyerhoff Pdf

A bold call to deromanticize education and reframe universities as terrains of struggle between alternative modes of studying and world-making Higher education is at an impasse. Black Lives Matter and #MeToo show that racism and sexism remain pervasive on campus, while student and faculty movements fight to reverse increased tuition, student debt, corporatization, and adjunctification. Commentators typically frame these issues as crises for an otherwise optimal mode of intellectual and professional development. In Beyond Education, Eli Meyerhoff instead sees this impasse as inherent to universities, as sites of intersecting political struggles over resources for studying. Meyerhoff argues that the predominant mode of study, education, is only one among many alternatives and that it must be deromanticized in order to recognize it as a colonial-capitalist institution. He traces how key elements of education—the vertical trajectory of individualized development, its role in preparing people to participate in governance through a pedagogical mode of accounting, and dichotomous figures of educational waste (the “dropout”) and value (the “graduate”)—emerged from histories of struggles in opposition to alternative modes of study bound up with different modes of world-making. Through interviews with participants in contemporary university struggles and embedded research with an anarchist free university, Beyond Education paves new avenues for achieving the aims of an “alter-university” movement to put novel modes of study into practice. Taking inspiration from Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and Indigenous resurgence projects, it charts a new course for movements within, against, and beyond the university as we know it.