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Teachers on the Waves of Transformation School Culture Before and After 1989
ISBN: PB: 9788024643779, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2021
275 pp., 20.3x14.6 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! It is known that a society in transformation undergoes significant changes on many levels, but structural and cultural changes are arguably two of the most significant. How do such monumen...
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Testing Charade Pretending to Make Schools Better
ISBN: PB: 9780226644882, ISBN: HB: 9780226408712, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 4 line drawings, 1 table
For decades we've been studying, experimenting with, and wrangling over different approaches to improving public education, and there's still little consensus on what works, and what to do. The one thing people seem to agree on, however, is that scho...
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Talking Art The Culture of Practice and the Practice of Culture in MFA Education
ISBN: PB: 9780226560212, ISBN: HB: 9780226560182, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones
In "Talking Art", acclaimed ethnographer Gary Alan Fine gives us an eye-opening look at the contemporary university-based master's-level art program. Through an in-depth analysis of the practice of the critique and other aspects of the curriculum, Fi...
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Teaching Evolution in a Creation Nation
ISBN: PB: 9780226331300, ISBN: HB: 9780226331270, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
No fight over what gets taught in American classrooms is more heated than the battle over humanity's origins. For more than a century we have argued about evolutionary theory and creationism (and its successor theory, intelligent design), yet we seem...
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£48,00
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Teaching Embodied Cultural Practice in Japanese Preschools
ISBN: PB: 9780226263106, ISBN: HB: 9780226263076, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 188 halftones
When we look beyond lesson planning and curricula – those explicit facets that comprise so much of our discussion about education – we remember that teaching is an inherently social activity, shaped by a rich array of implicit habits, comportments, a...
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Trying Biology The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Antievolution Movement in American Schools
ISBN: PB: 9780226273440, ISBN: HB: 9780226029450, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
208 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 halftones
In "Trying Biology", Adam R. Shapiro convincingly dispels many conventional assumptions about the 1925 Scopes "monkey" trial. Most view it as an event driven primarily by a conflict between science and religion. Countering this, Shapiro shows the imp...
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Teaching Artist Handbook Volume 1: Tools, Techniques, and Ideas to Help Any Artist Teach
ISBN: PB: 9780226256887, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
272 pp., 23x15 cm
The creation of art is deeply personal yet remains strongly rooted within the collaborative meeting of teacher and student. Over centuries, techniques and encouragement have been passed along from experienced mentors to budding novices. Those who can...
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Teaching and Learning in Bilingual Classrooms New Scholarship
ISBN: HB: 9781563686238, Gallaudet University Press, January 2015
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, figures, tables
A new initiative known as the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) strives to improve education today by methodically examining and assessing the vital component of classroom interaction. This collection presents research by five professors wh...
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Talent Wants to Be Free Why We Should Learn to Love Leaks, Raids, and Free Riding
ISBN: HB: 9780300166279, Yale University Press, February 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.
This timely book challenges conventional business wisdom about competition, secrecy, motivation and creativity. Orly Lobel, an internationally acclaimed expert in the law and economics of human capital, warns that a set of counterproductive mentaliti...
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Teaching the Museum Careers in Museum Education
ISBN: PB: 9781933253923, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, February 2014
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Education departments in museums of all kinds serve millions of students and adult learners every year, using the objects and other resources of the museum to teach and inspire. The rapidly growing field of museum education provides hands-on, experie...
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