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High-Tech Tots

"There is truly a global focus on the topic with articles on work in New Zealand, Africa, Europe, and North America. This book is a must read for practitioners and preprofessionals and the educators who prepare them." Association of College and Research Libraries Choice

Dialogue and Difference in a Teacher Education Program

"This book will be invaluable for instructors, administrators, and policy developers in teacher education. Based on a 16-year study, it offers a comprehensive approach to effective pre-service programming. The diverse voices and many practical examples make it a pleasure to read. The program studied contains elements crucial for teacher preparation: an integrated program with clear priorities, community building within a cohort structure, careful selection of mentor teachers, and close liaison with placement schools. Extensive longitudinal study of teacher education is rare and allows for continuous refinement of a program and genuine assessment of its effectiveness. Marilyn Johnston-Parsons is a well-known scholar in both teacher education and the self-study of teacher education practices. Her particular forte - integrating theory and practice - paid dividends in the creation of an exemplary teacher education program from which we can all learn a great deal." Clare Kosnik & Clive Beck University of Toronto

Ethics and International Curriculum Work

"By reframing curriculum work from the standpoint of ethical inquiry and value orientation, Helfenbein and Mason provide a set of thought-provoking essays that wrestle with the complex intersection of nation, culture, and epistemological difference. The book explores the opportunities and challenges encountered by curriculum workers operating in cross-cultural contexts, stimulating critical reflection on the power dynamics that traverse curriculum efforts concerned with the conscious practice of freedom. A valuable resource for scholars in curriculum studies, social education, and comparative and international education." Patricia K. Kubow Bowling Green State University

Ethics and International Curriculum Work

"As accelerating globalization exposes the cultural resources and products of all nations to greater critical scrutiny, the flows of educational expertise, innovation, and policy between Western nations and other countries have become increasingly turbulent. Educators who collaborate across historical boundaries of nation, culture, class and ethnicity frequently encounter ethical minefields as they attempt to negotiate issues of power, positioning and identity. The distinctive contribution of the essays assembled here is to provide convincing arguments and evidence for attending explicitly and constructively to the ethical dilemmas and difficulties of performing transnational curriculum work. They are authentic, inspiring, and exciting accounts of the positive effects of difference in mediating and materializing curriculum change." Noel Gough La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia Transnational Curriculum Inquiry

Ethics and International Curriculum Work

"This collection rejects fuzzy pieties for energetic analyses of the ethical demands and dilemmas of international curriculum work. The authors give us a valuable blend of theory and practice on collaboration, education, freedom, and constraint." Walter C. Parker University of Washington, Seattle

Religious Diversity and Children's Literature

"Religious Diversity and Children’s Literature is an outstanding resource for teachers and families as they educate children about the religious diversity of our country and the world. Until now, public teachers have had few resources for introducing young students to religious and spiritual traditions in ways that are educationally sound and constitutionally permissible. This book fills that gap with fair and accurate discussions of a wide variety of religions and beliefs, accompanied by an annotated guide to the best children’s literature available for teaching about those religions and beliefs in the classroom. At a time when learning about religion is vitally important for building understanding across differences at home and abroad, I hope that every elementary and middle school teacher will get a copy of this book—and use it often." Charles C. Haynes Religious Freedom Education Project at the Newseum

Religious Diversity and Children's Literature

"Religious Diversity and Children’s Literature takes one of the most important and controversial topics of today—religious diversity—and seeks to make it accessible through one of our most popular media—children’s literature. In our increasingly multifaith and multifaceted society, an understanding of how others view and understand the world is of paramount importance to adults and children alike. This book comprehensively addresses the need for teaching resources on this important topic. Each religion or belief system is first explored through personal experience, history, practice, sacred texts and so on. This is then followed by a list of literary sources, both fiction and non-fiction. Facts are important; stories possibly even more so, since they lie at the heart of many religious traditions and are a wonderful and memorable way of drawing children into the subject. Religious Diversity and Children’s Literature takes great strides toward increased understanding which, I believe, is vital in our world today and for the future." Anita Ganeri

Computer Games and Instruction

"Sigmund Tobias and J.D. Fletcher, in their edited volume Computer Games and Instruction, provide a much needed attempt to synthesize and bring coherence to existing research on serious games and suggest fruitful directions for future research." Ronald D. Owston York University Educational Researcher

Governing Fables

"In sum, I found this a thoroughly worthwhile text – and one that should prove especially handy for teachers. It offers a useful overview of a hitherto largely neglected aspect of our field. It contains a lot of shrewd, well-informed - and enjoyable - interpretation of narratives with which many teachers and students will already be familiar. It deploys a handy conceptual framework for classifying its subject matter." Christopher Pollitt Katholieke Universiteit Leuven International Review of Administrative Sciences

Governing Fables

"Governing Fables challenges and illuminates, bringing a whole different set of perspectives to bear on analyzing and teaching public administration. While Borins’ reach is broad, it is important to understand the book’s essential focus is captured in sub-title “Learning from Public Sector Narratives”." Evert Lindquist School of Public Administration University of Victoria

Governing Fables

"Borins has opened up new territory and introduced some key concepts that will find further use in our field. This volume will also add to the richness of our thinking about some of those stories that help us make sense of our experiences." Mike Rowe University of Liverpool

Can Educators Make a Difference?

"If there was ever a time to reclaim and renew the power of democracy it is in this historical moment, when people everywhere are calling for the remaking of society. Can educators make a difference? provides a powerful affirmation to the question, by critically bringing together a variety of philosophical and practical concerns. More important, the book serves as an invaluable pedagogical resource for educators committed to a genuine praxis of democratic life, in the classroom and beyond." Antonia Darder Loyola Marymount University

Can Educators Make a Difference?

"Can educators make a difference in their students’ lives? Most people will automatically answer with an emphatic “YES”. But if we press a bit further and ask: Can educators make a difference in the democratization of societies? Probably we will find a lot more hesitant answers. These are two deceptively simple questions, but I don’t know any “educator” worth the title that doesn’t struggle every day trying to find satisfactory answers to those two questions. Can educators make a difference? Experimenting with, and Experiencing, Democracy in Education is one of those very rare books that will assist teachers, especially those working in teacher education programs, to find effective ways to strengthen the relationships of schooling and democracy. Using detailed analyses of experiments with democratic schools, and experiences of democracy in education, the contributors of this book provide both conceptually sophisticated, as well as proven practical, initiatives to assist educators worldwide to affirm their central role in schools as transformative critical cultural professionals; supporting the goal of making every teacher a teacher of democracy. This is an outstanding book and should be required reading in every teacher education program." Gustavo E. Fischman Arizona State University

Can Educators Make a Difference?

"What a rich collection of thinkers and educators from around the globe, all deeply committed to fostering a thick and robust version of democracy. Their engagement of students, their use of a solid body of theory and data, and their bold challenges to thin and stultifying versions of democracy, come together in this welcome book. I am pleased to report that the question asked in their title is answered in this hopeful text, that it is a resounding “yes,” and that there is still much work to be done." Darren E. Lund University of Calgary

Can Educators Make a Difference?

"I loved this book! It is powerful. It asks hugely important questions about democratic and undemocratic/anti-democratic education, pedagogy, curriculum, organization, ideology and control. As well as asking what (and who) education does currently serve, its international group of writers/researchers/activists also asks what/whose purposes should education serve? And it goes further. It shows how, in different national contexts and with international/global resonance, teachers and students can do deep democratic education. This excellent volume, based on the “Global Doing Democracy Research Project”, really can and does take critical educators, social justice educators, educators for democratic citizenship forward. Exciting stuff!" Dave Hill University of Middlesex (London) The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies

Handbook on International Studies in Education

"In the Handbook on international studies in education, Donald Sharpes has edited a collection of papers organised to provide to emerging scholars of International Studies a sense of how they might approach their research. The essays demonstrate a variety of national and cultural perspectives on such research and are loosely arranged so as not to project any particular research agenda. To a casual reader, such an arrangement might prove slightly disconcerting at first. In the long view, however, the lack of agenda is refreshing and each paper provides subtle differences in approach from the detailed and formulaic to the broad overview designed to provide a context for policy changes." Michael McVey Eastern Michigan University International Review of Education

Teaching and Studying Social Issues

"To strengthen the teaching of social issues is not simply to struggle for a set of educational resources, curricula, or methods. It is to find the inspiration, even more than the information, needed to shape a hopeful future. Teaching and Studying Social Issues makes a significant overall contribution to that effort for secondary teachers and for those who educate them." Sherri McCarthy and Jack R. Ferrell PsycCRITIQUES

Publish Don't Perish

"A gem of a book, filled with practical tips and lots and lots of ways to improve your publishing track record. Perfect for an early career researcher or doctoral student wanting to get their publishing record on track. For once, this is a how-to book for academics that isn't written by a Harvard/Yale/Oxford scholar." Yvonne McNulty, Ph.D. Amazon

Examining the Assistant Principalship

"The book chapters are well organized and structured, enabling the readers to benefit from a host of ideas, insights and empirical data. The book is highly recommended for policy-makers, principals, teachers, and above all, assistant principals who want to better realize the complexity, preparation, practice, and varied nature of the assistant principalship. One of the strengths of this book is the geographical variety of its chapters, which yields data drawn from myriad sources and different educational contexts across the globe. Additionally, the combination of both faculty and practitioners in the authorship of the book chapters is praiseworthy, as it contributes very much to the scholarship of the assistant principalship." Izhar Oplatka TC Record

Teaching Inclusively in Higher Education

"Teaching Inclusively in Higher Education (2010) is a book that surpasses expectations in terms of practicality and applicability. More a guide than a loose set of examples, each chapter provides readers with a hands-on approach to inclusive teaching practices. Based on the need to shift teaching and learning methods to reflect the diversity in student population, this text creates a space, which characterizes and utilizes difference as a learning tool instead of a learning detractor." Robyn Sheridan & Saran Donahoo Southern Illinois University—Carbondale Education Review