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  • Literacy, Place, and Pedagogies of Possibility

    by Barbara Comber ...
    Series series Expanding Literacies in Education
    How can teachers ensure a pedagogy of possibility underpinned by social justice, and what has literacy got to do with this? This book explores the positive synergies between critical literacy and place-conscious pedagogy. Through rich classroom research it introduces and demonstrates how a synthesis of insights from theories of space and place and literacy studies can underpin the design and ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • A Research Agenda for Critical Literacies

    Challenges and Possibilities in Troubling Times

    Edited by Hilary Janks, Barbara Comber, Vivian Vasquez ...
    Series series Elgar Research Agendas
    Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This cutting-edge Research Agenda offers a way forward for critical literacies that takes into account current conditions of possibility. Expert contributing ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Negotiating Critical Literacies in Classrooms

    Edited by Barbara Comber, Anne Simpson ...
    Negotiating Critical Literacies in Classrooms brings together accounts of educators who have sought to make a difference in the lives of their students through literacy education--from university classrooms in the United States, England, and South Africa, to policy and curriculum development in Singapore and Australia. Each chapter represents the results of extended research on classroom practice ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • International Handbook of Research on Children's Literacy, Learning and Culture

    Edited by Kathy Hall, Teresa Cremin, Barbara Comber, Luis C. Moll ...
    The International Handbook of Research in Children's Literacy, Learning and Culture presents an authoritative distillation of current global knowledge related to the field of primary years literacy studies.Features chapters that conceptualize, interpret, and synthesize relevant researchCritically reviews past and current research in order to influence future directions in the field of ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Literacy, Leading and Learning

    Beyond Pedagogies of Poverty

    by Debra Hayes, Robert Hattam, Barbara Comber, Lyn Kerkham, Ruth Lupton, Pat Thomson ...
    Series series Local/Global Issues in Education
    How might educational leaders and teachers improve literacy achievement in schools serving communities experiencing high levels of poverty? This question is the focus of this book. Drawing on long-term case studies of four primary schools located in these communities, this book describes the difference between what is commonly practiced and those practices that have a greater chance of supporting ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Tadeusz Baird. The Composer, His Work, and Its Reception

    Translated by John Comber ...
    by Barbara Literska, Maciej Gołąb ...
    Series Book 17 - Eastern European Studies in Musicology
    This book is the first monographic study of Tadeusz Baird – one of the greatest Polish composers of the second half of the 20th century, a connoisseur of music tradition and a prophet of the future of music (postmodernity), a composer of worldwide renown, an erudite. Baird was deeply engaged in art, aware of the threats and problems of contemporary world, and endowed with a sense of a mission. His ... Read more

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  • Nineteenth-Century Transcriptions of Works by Fryderyk Chopin

    Translated by John Comber ...
    by Barbara Literska, Maciej Gołąb ...
    Series Book 16 - Eastern European Studies in Musicology
    This book is the first monographic study of nineteenth-century transcriptions of Chopin's music. The work is based on the quantitatively and qualitatively rich source material, which formed the basis for considerations from the perspective of social history, music analysis and aesthetics. Thanks to these multiple perspectives, as well as the time range and the source base, this study may ... Read more

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  • New Music at Darmstadt

    Nono, Stockhausen, Cage, and Boulez

    by Martin Iddon ...
    Series series Music since 1900
    New Music at Darmstadt explores the rise and fall of the so-called 'Darmstadt School', through a wealth of primary sources and analytical commentary. Martin Iddon's book examines the creation of the Darmstadt New Music Courses and the slow development and subsequent collapse of the idea of the Darmstadt School, showing how participants in the West German new music scene, including Herbert Eimert ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony

    Edited by Julian Horton ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    Few genres of the last 250 years have proved so crucial to the course of music history, or so vital to public musical experience, as the symphony. This Companion offers an accessible guide to the historical, analytical and interpretative issues surrounding this major genre of Western music, discussing an extensive variety of works from the eighteenth century to the present day. The book ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Richard Strauss

    Edited by Charles Youmans ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    Richard Strauss is a composer much loved among audiences throughout the world, both in the opera house and the concert hall. Despite this popularity, Strauss was for many years ignored by scholars, who considered his commercial success and his continued reliance on the tonal system to be liabilities. However, the past two decades have seen a resurgence of scholarly interest in the composer. This ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Beethoven's Symphonies

    An Artistic Vision

    by Lewis Lockwood ...
    “[Beethoven’s] music never grows old— and, enjoyed alongside Mr. Lockwood’s expert commentary, it sparkles with fresh magic.”—Wall Street JournalMore than any other composer, Beethoven left to posterity a vast body of material that documents the early stages of almost everything he wrote. From this trove of sketchbooks, Lewis Lockwood draws us into the composer’s mind, unveiling a creative process ... Read more

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