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Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Trends throughout my graduate research in education include educational transformation, critical pedagogy and cross-cultural, globally oriented competencies for educators. These threads have woven their way into my lens on the world, prompting questions about educational and curricular policy and reform, particularly challenging the ubiquitous Euro-centric platform from which most schools in the United States operate. In June and July of 2012, sponsored...
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Language
English
Description
"When and where was America founded? Was it in Virginia in 1619, when a pirate ship landed a group of captive Africans at Jamestown? So asserted the New York Times in August 2019 when it announced its 1619 Project. The Times set out to transform history by tracing American institutions, culture, and prosperity to that pirate ship and the exploitation of African Americans that followed. A controversy erupted, with historians pushing back against what...
Author
Series
Explorations of educational purpose volume 18
Publisher
Springer
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Lexington Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"This book, with its attention to literature and the visual arts as well as traditional non-fiction sources, provides a distinctive, wide-ranging exploration of utopia and education. Utopia is examined not as a model of social perfection but as an active, ongoing, imaginative educational process the building of better worlds"--
"Better Worlds: Education, Art, and Utopia hopes to make a distinctive contribution to the international literature on education...