Arts, general Books

Sensory Engagement with Media: A Phenomenological Exploration ofMultimodal Reading" immerses readers in a profound journey through theintricate realm of human perception and media interaction. Thisilluminating exploration delves into the depths of...

If the university should be an open space that meets today's social, cultural and ecological challenges, one must critically review the different disciplines' approaches to education. Our proposals come from various disciplines that contribute in...

Die Studie ist im Bereich der Lehrerforschung im spezifischen Teilbereich der germanistischen Literaturdidaktik zu verorten. Mittels sozialwissenschaftlicher Methoden werden tiefer liegende Strukturen (Deutungsmuster) rekonstruiert, die Überzeugungen und...

Seit Erscheinen der Erfolgsromane Der Kameramörder (2001) und Die Arbeit der Nacht (2006) gehört Thomas Glavinic zu den wichtigen Stimmen der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur. In seinen Romanen erzählt er auf immer wieder neue Weise von Welten und...

The book is a collection of research papers on a wide range of educational issues written by educators and researchers from several different institutions.

This Special Issue is dedicated to Dr. Patricia Somers (22 April 1949-10 March 2023). Pat was a proud mother, feminist educator, devoted colleague, and beloved mentor for her students. Above all, she advocated for the underserved and minoritized,...

The boundaries of sports journalism continue to expand as non-traditional actors emerge and proliferate in the digital environment. This outstanding and vital specialist area within the news industry faces increasing pressure from adjacent fields...

Brass in Color scale studies for trumpet is a seven-book series that introduces students to five-note and one-octave scales. Brass in Color scale studies also introduce students to scale patterns, etudes and the use of key signatures written in...

Do you teach English as a foreign or second language? Are your students at an intermediate or advanced level? If so, this book will save you a lot of lesson prep time. With 50 role plays that span a wide variety of topics, you'll almost always be...

Teachers and principals know that students learn best when involved, challenged and inspired. An integrated curriculum offers teachers the tools to engage, extend and enthuse students. Yet today's curriculum seems to be narrowing and becoming restrictive...

Chapter Summaries250 Classroom Questions197 Questions on Comparative Modes116 Questions on Comparing Texts for Comparative Study  Scene by Scene Classroom Questions are essential resources for English teachers, designed to save time and lead to...

Scene by Scene guides are teaching resources. They are short books of questions, designed to save teachers time and lead to rewarding classroom experiences. Each guide is broken down by scene or chapter, to match and complement the text it accompanies...

Scene by Scene guides are teaching resources. They are short books of questions, designed to save teachers time and lead to rewarding classroom experiences. Each guide is broken down by scene or chapter, to match and complement the text it accompanies...

This is the publication of the influential Rede Lecture by British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow. Its thesis was that "the intellectual life of the whole of western society" was split into the titular two cultures - namely the sciences and...

Building a Community, Having a Home: A History of the Conference on College Composition and Communication Asian/Asian American Caucus documents how Asian/Asian American teacher-scholars have emerged within and contributed to a number of areas in rhetoric...

Music education in Canada is a vast enterprise that encompasses teaching and learning in thousands of public and private schools, community groups, and colleges and universities. It involves participants from infancy to the elderly in formal and informal...

In your relationships does it matter if you and your partner are a giver or a taker? Are there different types of givers and takers? What's the secret to a good marriage? How can you save a rocky marriage? What is the best way to get counseling and what...

In One Vision, Many Voices, Gail Noppe-Brandon shares the results of a twenty-year experiment in generating dialogue-both on paper and between people. She outlines her life-changing "Find Your Voice" coaching method and provides an eclectic compilation...

Teaching Teachers With Theater! Performance Training & Tactics For Classroom Teachers explores classroom performance challenges K-12 teachers face in their day to day and how the practice of certain theater techniques used to train actors can improve the...

And This Little Piggy Had None: Challenging the Dominant Discourse on Farmed Animals in Children's Picturebooks is a fascinating critique of how "farm" animals are represented in children' literature.

Revolutionary STEM Education: Critical-Reality Pedagogy and Social Justice in STEM for Black Males by Jeremiah J. Sims, an educator, researcher, and administrator from Richmond, California, is calling for a revolutionary, paradigm shift in the STEM...

Breakbeat Pedagogy provides a groundbreaking framework for the inclusion of hip-hop culture in schools.

Representing Youth with Disability on Television is a complex and multidimensional mainstream cultural discourse that examines specific stereotypes in fictional programming. The book draws attention to the group labeled as disabled, which is often...

Continuing the explorations begun in the first Produsing Theory volume, this book provides a site at which varied theories - some still emerging - can intersect and shine a light into the spaces between what previously had been neatly separated and...

Encountering Texts represents the theory and praxis uncovered through an ongoing interdisciplinary arts-based critical pedagogy that engages students in critical self-reflection (disciplined, sustained thinking, requiring engagement) on difference.

Happiness, Hope, and Despair makes an important contribution toward meeting this need. It fosters a rethinking of the nature, purpose, and value of education, and opens up possibilities for further scholarly and professional inquiry.

Providing insight based on community-based fieldwork with marginalized youth, the interdisciplinary nature of Digital Youth Praxis is an excellent guide for formal and informal educators interested or engaged in youth media productions.

This textbook offers a practical approach for designing and implementing assessment for learning in the drama classroom.

This book is a comprehensive guide to art education. It covers a wide range of topics related to art education, including the theory and practice of teaching art, the history of art education, and the relationship between art and society. The book...

This classic work on industrial art education provides a compelling argument for the importance of artistic training in the industrial age. Written by educator Walter Smith, it explores the relationship between art, industry, and society, and the role of...

This is a modern fable which tells the story of a world in the grip of two giants whose insatiable appetite is driving it, apparently inevitably, to utter devastation. How a society and its individuals react to such a threat is the subject of this...

The premise of Developing Writing Teachers is this: When teachers of writing identify as writers, it adds a special dimension to their writing pedagogy. Practical and accessible while drawing on a range of relevant research and theory, this text is...

Introducing Applied Linguistics provides in-depth coverage of key areas in the subject, as well as introducing the essential study skills needed for academic success in the field.Introducing Applied Linguistics:• is organised into two Sections: the...

This engagingly written, research- and practice-based book defines how art teachers can build on students' creative initiatives without depending on adult-imposed lesson plans and school requirements. In doing so, art educator and author George Szekely...

Enriching Arts Education through Aesthetics examines the use of aesthetic theory as the foundation to design and implement arts activities suitable for integration in school curricula in pre-school and primary school education. This book suggests...

Actionable Postcolonial Theory in Education illustrates how postcolonial theory can be put to work in education. It offers an accessible and handy overview and comparison of postcolonial theory and other theoretical debates related to critiques of...

Given the current educational climate of high stakes testing, standardized curriculum, and "approved" reading lists, incorporating unauthorized, often controversial, popular literature into the classroom becomes a political choice. The authors examine...