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• The rise of the internet, new technologies, and free and open higher education are radically altering college forever, and this book explores the paradigm changes that will affect students, parents, educators and employers as it explains how we can take advantage of the new opportunities ahead — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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• Distance education.
• Education, Higher.
• Internet in higher education.

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Issued also in electronic format.
• Feminist Pedagogy in Higher Education / Renée Bondy, Jane Nicholas, and Tracy Penny Light — A Restorative Approach to Learning: Relational Theory as Feminist Pedagogy in Universities / Kristina Llewellyn and Jennifer Llewellyn — Feminist Pedagogy in the UK Classroom: Limitations, Challenges, and Possibilities / Jeannette Silva Flores — Activist Feminist Pedagogies: Privileging Agency in Troubled Times / Linda Briskin — Classroom to Community: Reflections on Experiential Learning and Socially Just Citizenship / Carm De Santis and Toni Serafini — Fat Lessons: Fatness, Bodies, and the Politics of Feminist Classroom Practice / Amy Gullage — Engaged Pedagogy Beyond the Lecture Hall: The Book Club as Teaching Strategy / Renée Bondy — Teaching a Course on Women and Anger: Learning From College Students about Silencing and Speaking / Judith A. Dorney — Beyond the Trolley Problem: Narrative Pedagogy in the Philosophy Classroom / Anna Gotlib — The Power of the Imagination-Intellect in Teaching Feminist Research / Susan V. Iverson — From Muzzu-Kummik-Quae to Jeanette Corbiere Lavell and Back Again: Indigenous and Feminist Approaches to the First-Year Course in Canadian History / Katrina Srigley — Don’t Mention the F Word: Using Images of Transgressive Texts to Teach Gendered History / Jacqueline Z. Wilson — Rethinking Students These Days : Feminist Pedagogy and the Construction of Students / Jane Nicholas and Jamilee Baroud — Feminist Pedagogies of Activist Compassion: Engaging the Literature and Film of Female Genital Cutting in the Undergraduate Classroom / Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez — I Can’t Believe I’ve Never Seen That Before! : Feminism, the Sexualization of Culture, and Empowerment in the Classroom / Tracy Penny Light — Jane Sexes It Up…on Campus? Towards a Pedagogical Practice of Sex / Maggie Labinski.
• Contributors from a variety of disciplines provide a critical context for the relationship between feminist pedagogy and academic feminism by exploring the complex ways that critical perspectives can be brought into the classroom. This book discusses the processes employed to engage learners by challenging them to ask tough questions and craft complex answers, wrestle with timely problems and posit innovative solutions, and grapple with ethical dilemmas for which they seek just resolutions. Diverse experiences, interests, and perspectives–together with the various teaching and learning styles that participants bring to twenty-first-century universities–necessitate inventive and evolving pedagogical approaches, and these are explored from a critical perspective. The contributors collectively consider the implications of the theory/practice divide, which remains central within academic feminism’s role as both a site of social and gender justice and as a part of the academy, and map out some of the ways in which academic feminism is located within the academy today. — Publisher’s description.

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• Feminism and higher education.
• Critical pedagogy.
• Critical pedagogy. fast (OCoLC)fst00883676
• Feminism and higher education. fast (OCoLC)fst00922734

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Part of the series Inclusion and teacher education vol. 3
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• Includes bibliographical references (pages [157]-169) and index.

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• Inclusive education.
• Special education.

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• Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-208) and indexes.
• 1. Students of diverse backgrounds and the literacy achievement gap — 2. Understanding the gap : explanations and solutions — 3. Discourses and literacy in the home and community — 4. Workshop approaches to literacy learning — 5. Ownership and building a classroom community — 6. Providing instruction in reading comprehension strategies — 7. Culturally responsive instruction in multiethnic classrooms — 8. Second language learners, multiliteracy, and the language of power — 9. Effective instruction of phonics and other skills — 10. Schoolwide change to improve literacy achievement.
• This book is a sequel to the author’s earlier volume, entitled Literacy Instruction in Multicultural Settings. In addition to extensive updating of earlier material, this book extends the content coverage to include issues of power, attitudes, and systemic change through the application of discourse theory and critical theory. In doing so, however, the author has tried to maintain the brevity, stylistic clarity, and classroom focus of the earlier volume. –BOOK JACKET.

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• Literacy — Social aspects — United States.
• Language arts — Social aspects — United States.
• Multicultural education — United States.
• Alphabétisation — Aspect social — États-Unis.
• Arts du langage — Aspect social — États-Unis.
• Éducation interculturelle — États-Unis.

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Part of the series Graywolf annual 5;Graywolf annual 5.
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• Cover title: The Graywolf … multi-cultural literacy : opening the American mind.
• Includes bibliographical references.
• A talk to teachers / James Baldwin — Who is your Mother? Red roots of white feminism / Paula Gunn Allen — The path of the red and black ink / Gloria Anzaldua — People, land, and community / Wendell Berry — A journey into speech / Michelle Cliff — If I could write this in fire, I would write this in fire / Michelle Cliff — How I started to write / Carlos Fuentes — In defense of the word / Eduardo Galeano — Documented-undocumented / Guillermo Gomez-Pena — Strangers in the village / David Mura — America: the multinational society / Ishmael Reed — Invisibility blues / Michele Wallace –Report from El Dorado / Michael Ventura.

Subjects:

• Multicultural education — United States.
• Educational anthropology — United States.
• Literacy — United States.
• United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155

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• Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-320) and index.

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• Education, Humanistic — United States — Case studies.
• Education, Higher — Social aspects — United States — Case studies.
• Universities and colleges — United States — Sociological aspects — Case studies.
• Curriculum change — United States — Case studies.

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Part of the series Cambridge studies in early modern British history
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• In the sixteenth century, Erasmus of Rotterdam led a humanist campaign to deter European princes from vainglorious warfare by giving them liberal educations. His prescriptions for the study of classical authors and scripture transformed the upbringing of Tudor and Stuart royal children. Rather than emphasising the sword, the educations of Henry VIII, James VI and I, and their successors prioritised the pen. In a period of succession crises, female sovereignty, and minority rulers, liberal education played a hitherto unappreciated role in reshaping the political and religious thought and culture of early modern Britain. This book explores how a humanist curriculum gave princes the rhetorical skills, biblical knowledge, and political impetus to assert the royal supremacy over their subjects’ souls. Liberal education was meant to prevent over-mighty monarchy but in practice it taught kings and queens how to extend their authority over church and state — Provided by publisher.
• In the early twenty-first century, the value of liberal education is publicly doubted by politicians, businesses, many schools, colleges and universities, and parents in liberaldemocratic nations. Voices from both ends of the political spectrum question the utility of the skills it generates and they argue that the humanities turn their acolytes into rabid liberals. To some, liberal education is too left-wing and secular. To others, it is too western, white, male, privileged, and hetero-normative.1 Its critics rarely acknowledge that they are making use of a discourse that is much older than the liberal-democratic state, or liberalism itself — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1. ‘Thys boke is myne’: how humanism changed the English royal schoolroom, 1422-1509 2. Chivalry, ambition, and bonae litterae, 1509-33 3. Erasmus’ Christian prince and Henry VIII’s royal supremacy 4. Educating Edward VI: from Erasmus and godly kingship to Machiavelli 5. Fortune’s wheel and the education of early modern British queens 6. Education and royal resistance: George Buchanan and James VI and I 7. Britain’s lost Renaissance? The Stuart princes Epilogue Bibliography Index.

Subjects:

• Education, Humanistic — Great Britain — History.
• Education of princes — Great Britain — History.
• Renaissance — Great Britain.

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-199).
• Coming to America — A brief history of liberal education — Learning to think — The natural aristocracy — Knowledge and power — In defense of today’s youth.
• The liberal arts are under attack. The governors of Florida, Texas, and North Carolina have all pledged that they will not spend taxpayer money subsidizing the liberal arts, and they seem to have an unlikely ally in President Obama. While at a General Electric plant in early 2014, Obama remarked, I promise you, folks can make a lot more, potentially, with skilled manufacturing or the trades than they might with an art history degree. These messages are hitting home: majors like English and history, once very popular and highly respected, are in steep decline. I get it, writes Fareed Zakaria, recalling the atmosphere in India where he grew up, which was even more obsessed with getting a skills-based education. However, the CNN host explains why this widely held view is mistaken and shortsighted. Zakaria expounds on the virtues of a liberal arts education — how to write clearly, how to express yourself convincingly, and how to think analytically. He turns our leaders’ vocational argument on its head. American routine manufacturing jobs continue to get automated or outsourced, and specific vocational knowledge is often outdated within a few years. Engineering is a great profession, but key value-added skills you will also need are creativity, lateral thinking, design, communication, storytelling, and, more than anything, the ability to continually learn and enjoy learning — precisely the gifts of a liberal education. Zakaria argues that technology is transforming education, opening up access to the best courses and classes in a vast variety of subjects for millions around the world. We are at the dawn of the greatest expansion of the idea of a liberal education in human history.

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• Education, Humanistic.
• Education, Humanistic. fast (OCoLC)fst00903134

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• Why governance? — What governance must accomplish and avoid — Constitutional governance — Checks and balances: the roles of other entities — School rights and obligations — Reimagining the central office — Allocation and control of public funds — Enacting the system into law and managing the politics of implementation — What governance change can and cannot accomplish.

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• Education and state — United States.
• School management and organization — Law and legislation — United States.
• United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155

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• Originally presented as the authors’ shared theses (master’s, Hamline University).
• Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-80).
• Preface –The authors –ch. 1. A sketch of Islamic and Somali culture — Important cultural values — Dispelling myths about Islam — Language — Religion — Islamic festivals and holidays — Family gender roles — Educational system –ch. 2. A brief history of Somalia — Pre-colonial period — Colonial period — Independence and cold ear — Military dictatorship — Post-communist Somalia –The slide into anarchy — From ravages of war to the diaspora — Post-war trauma — Why Minnesota? –ch. 3. The stress on Somali families in Minnesota — Housing — Isolation — Finances — Taking care of relatives — Taking care of children — Role reversals — Individual responsibility — Depression –ch. 4. Accommodating Somali students in public schools –vignette 1. Getting oriented –vignette 2. A simple handshake –vignette 3. Names –vignette 4. Pork –vignette 5. Prayer –vignette 6. Fasting –vignette 7. Physical education –vignette 8. Music class –vignette 9. Using a song in a lesson –vignette 10. Art class –vignette 11. Health class –vignette 12. Dating –vignette 13. Clothes –vignette 14. Halloween –vignette 15. Homework –vignette 16. Race –vignette 17. Gestures –ch. 5. Effects of refugee experience on Somali children — Somali adults’ explanations — Vignettes related to classroom management and discipline –vignette 1. They’re tearing the building down! –vignette 2. Post-traumatic Stress Disorder — More vignettes related to classroom management and discipline –vignette 3. Allah will provide for us. –vignette 4. I don’t have to listen to you! –vignette 5. Spanking –vignette 6. Rural vs. urban –vignette 7. Give me that! –vignette 8. Boys disrespecting girls –vignette 9. Crying –ch. 6. Pedagogical considerations –The need for a structures learning environment — Skill deficits and academic assets — Independent vs. cooperative work –ch. 7. Conclusion — Follow-up questions and activities — Bibliography.

Subjects:

• Somali Americans — Education — Minnesota.
• Somali students — Minnesota.
• Children of immigrants — Education — Minnesota.
• Somalis — Social life and customs.

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