Product Description: Teachers as Researchers urges teachers - as both producers and consumers of knowledge - to engage in the debate about educational research by undertaking meaningful research themselves. Teachers are being encouraged to carry out research in order to improve their effectiveness in the classroom, but this book suggests that they also reflect on and challenge the reductionist and technicist methods that promote a 'top down' system of education...read more

Product Description: In this volume, Joe L. Kincheloe and Randall Hewitt have gathered an impressive and scholarly group of authors who argue for the continuing importance of the philosophy of education. Reviving the notion that philosophy is an essential foundation in the study and research of education, contributors to this volume directly confront the evisceration of the topic by those who are interested in commercializing learning...read more

Product Description: This book serves as a complex but accessible introduction to issues surrounding knowledge and education. It provides a unique critique of contemporary dominant modes of knowledge production and a new critical complex way of reframing knowledge production.

Features topographic maps of the continents, general regions, and specific countries, and includes information about time zones, air travel routes, climatic regions, and world statistics

Product Description: By appropriating the very force it battles—popular culture—Christian fundamentalism now employs entertainment media to win converts to the armies of God.

Product Description: Maintaining that urban teaching and learning is characterized by numerous contradictions, this book proposes that there is a wide range of social, cultural, psychological, and pedagogical knowledge that urban educators must possess in order to engage in effective and transformative practice...read more

A two-volume reference work offers fifty-nine essays addressing such issues of importance to urban education as social justice, teaching and pedagogy, bilingual education, and race and ethnicity.