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  • Difficult Empathy and Rhetorical Encounters

    by Eric Leake ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
    Difficult Empathy takes up the question of empathy as fundamentally a rhetorical concern, focusing on the ways we encounter and understand one another in what we read and write, hear and say. The book centres around the argument that empathy as a rhetorical event occurs not simply in the minds of individuals but as a product of the rhetorical situations, practices, cultures, and values in which we ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Empathy and the Other

    Difference, Connection, and the Teaching of Writing

    Edited by Lisa Blankenship, Eric Leake ...
    Series series Path to Open
    Empathy and the Other: Difference, Connection, and the Teaching of Writing focuses on the theoretical basis for empathy as a pedagogical concern,adding to important conversations happening in writing studies about how to foster empathetic understanding and practices for teachers and students. It offers ways for higher education classrooms to become sites for the cultivation of a critical form of ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Enacting Empathy

    Stories and Strategies from the Writing Classroom

    Edited by Lisa Blankenship, Eric Leake ...
    Series series Path to Open
    Featuring vignettes and praxis pieces focused on classroom experiences and reflections on teaching empathy, Enacting Empathy: Stories and Strategies from the Composition Classroom provides inspiration and consideration of how and why teachers might adopt an emphasis on empathy. Contributors locate empathy in the particulars of writing assignments, classroom discussions, responses to students, ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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  • Reflective Teaching

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    by Kenneth M. Zeichner, Daniel P. Liston ...
    Series series Reflective Teaching and the Social Conditions of Schooling Series
    This popular text provides a clear, succinct explanation of how reflection is integral to teachers’ understandings of themselves, their practice, and their context, and elaborates how various conceptions of reflective teaching differ from one another. The emphasis on the importance of both self and context is embedded within distinct and varied educational traditions (conservative, progressive, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • For the Common Good

    Essays of Harold Lewis

    Edited by Michael Reisch ...
    For the Common Good is an anthology of selected essays by Dr. Harold Lewis, one of the intellectual leaders of the social work profession. Social work literature often reflects powerful ahistorical tendencies which, in recent years, have produced analyses of social issues that lack awareness of both the contemporary environment and the historical forces that shaped it. Lewis' insights into the ... Read more

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  • Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship

    Exploring the Role of Education

    Edited by Anna Craft, Guy Claxton, Howard Gardner ...
    "In today′s ′teach-to-the-test′ climate, do we ever need a book about wisdom and creativity! Our focus as educators is enriched by this book."—Robert Di Giulio, ProfessorJohnson State College"Creativity, wisdom, and trusteeship may each sound good enough in itself, but the contributors to this volume make a compelling case for how much they need one another."—David Perkins, ProfessorHarvard ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Centering Educational Administration

    Cultivating Meaning, Community, Responsibility

    by Robert J. Starratt ...
    In this book, Starratt enters the national conversation among educational administration scholars and practitioners about what constitutes the core of their knowledge and practice. In Part I, he develops three main themes--cultivating meaning, community, and moral responsibility--which he then positions against national themes about the core of educational administration: school improvement, ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Powerful Techniques for Teaching Adults

    by Stephen D. Brookfield ...
    Praise for Powerful Techniques for Teaching Adults"Stephen Brookfield has used his gifts for clear thinking and lucid writing to produce this theoretically informed, immensely practical book on how the dynamics of power and adult teaching intersect. It should be required reading for everyone who teaches adults." ??-Ronald M. Cervero, professor and associate dean, College of Education, University ... Read more

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  • Human Behavior in the Social Environment

    A Social Systems Approach

    by Irl Carter ...
    Series series Modern Applications of Social Work Series
    Since the publication of the first edition of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, several generations of students have successfully used this classic text, which takes a social systems approach to human behavior. This systems approach is still widely accepted in the human services disciplines, including social work, education, nursing, psychology, and in human services programs themselves. ... Read more

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  • Building An Ethical School

    A Practical Response To The Moral Crisis In Schools

    by Robert J. Starratt ...
    The author argues for much greater attention to ethical education and responds to sceptics who say that it can't be done in the face of a pluralistic secular society badly fragmented over values. Seeking always for themes and issues that unite rather than divide, the author provides a conceptual foundation for ethical education broad enough for building consensus among teachers and parents, yet ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Intellectual Base of Social Work Practice

    Tools for Thought in a Helping Profession

    by Harold Lewis, Jayne Silberman ...
    This much-needed exploration of the cognitive side of social work practice provides a framework for improving social work practice and education. ... Read more

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