education-theory

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The eminent critical educator at UCLA, Carlos Alberto Torres, looks at (engages)the professional biographies of a select group of social thinkers who have, more or less, shaped some of the most salient propositions in critical pedagogy and related issues of social development in the USA, UK and Latin America. Among those interviewed are the late Brazilian philosopher of education, Paulo Freire; the prolific critic of culture and cultural studies in education Henry Giroux; the social and educational scholar Michael Apple; and Maxine Greene, the brilliant philosophe engage. The dialogues are lively, revealing in many interesting ways, and, may be more than anything else, inspirational in concretizing the possibilty of "winning" against many odds with the simple combination of forward-looking intellect and "responsible" posture and praxis firmly expressed on a sheet of paper. If the newly modified maxim, "the pen could be more powerful - please relativize power in this context - than the establishment", has any post-colonial implications, the intellectual history of these educators and social critics may, in effect, apply for candidacy. If Henry Giroux was not wanted by his former university - indeed that has been the case - then looking at power in the eye is not easy. If Maxine Greene could not get intellectual access within her school, then humanistic scholarship must be frightening. And if Carlos Alberto Torres, without a doubt, one of the brightest and most productive scholars in education and social critical thought, was accused of getting his current job at UCLA because of affirmative active, then one may be tempted (tempatations are hardly real and generally dangerous)to advise the brilliant academic to simply move to Harvard (I am serious), Oxford, Heidelberg or McGill (this last one is little bit personal). Who would not want Carlos Alberto Torres in their department or faculty. But the "who" in this context applies only to those who measure men and women based "on the contents of their character". Too good and specially delightful, I might add, that Carlos Alberto Torres actually uses this type of measurement: he admires and dedicates this seminal work to those who stand (that is in person) for the essence of social justice and long overdue human emancipation - Rosa Parks; Martin Luther King Jr, And Others. And to add to the momentous joy of the decades as they went and will go by, this work opens with a poetic memory of that great education and liberation philosopher Paulo Freire. The author also talks how he would have liked to include Cornel West, the philosopher at Harvard. That, of course, would have enriched the book; and even a richer version, I may be permitted to suggest, could have included Ratna Ghosh, current Dean of Education at McGill, and that other no nonsense UCLA educator and authentic cultural critic, Peter McLaren. But again, we should know, that is if we try harder, that there is more to publishing a book, beyond the desires of the editor and especially in critical education, than one may have wished. In all, this is a five star "stuff", and it should be read by all those who see education as a contentious terrain for analyzing and devising social development. Even those who still tenaciously and faithfully cling to the structural-functionalist "wonders" of education, may still learn one or two things from this precious enterprise. A luta continua.

This book is another example of Tony Morrison's committment to achieving better outcomes for children and young people in our society. This book provides a concise outline of the needs and pitfalls to developing and delivering training programs to a multi disciplinary audience. The layout is excellent, giving an outline at the beginning of each chapter and then a summary of content at the end. The only critiscm would be that it is not an easy read - but well worth the time spent.

An Embarrassment of Tyrannies incites true sympathy for the ideas that these authors are working so hard to bring forth. This book is a definite for anyone interested in the censorship of literature and free expression.

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You can take the AP exam after reading this book

This book differs from all others on the subject. Evaluation and testing in nursing education has traditionally been presented as an almost mechanical application of rules. Oermann and Gaberson have written a comprehensive practical guide to the subject that is grounded in a nursing-relevant philosophical and ethical understanding of the legitimate teaching and warranting process of testing and evaluation in nursing education, expressed succinctly in the following: "...professional judgments are 'at the heart of' effective evaluations (p.2-3)" and "(R)egardless of the specificity of the standards and criteria used for evaluating learners, evaluation remains a subjective process (p.3)."

Detailed chapters address and illustrate such key topics as writing objective test items, essay test items, written assignments, evaluation of critical thinking, clinical evaluation, scoring and interpreting test scores. Grading is discussed as an issue involving more than merely summing test scores. The often neglected subject of planning, assembling and administering tests is thoroughly discussed. Social, ethical and legal issues are analyzed in relationship to the testing and evaluation functions. The comprehensive scope of this book extends to chapters on program evaluation and total quality management in nursing education.

I have used this text in a graduate course for nurse educators and students are as enthusiastic about the book as I am. I highly recommend its use for faculties and nurse educator graduate courses.

Bartholomae and Petrosky and their collaborators show in helpful detail the theory and practice of teaching college writing to underprepared students.

This book uncovers an earlier view of economics than Adam Smith, which is not only Austrian, but finds free-market policies compatible with a moral and religous tradition. It's remarkable how modern the thought is of these mid 17th century thinkers...