Re: [xmca] FW: [sense] New books on math ed, inclusive ed, research meth, sociology of ed, ed policy, drawing ed, behavioural disorders

[Mike Cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

Thanks for this list of books, Peter.
I believe Michael Roth worked a deal with Sense to get price of one of his
books reduced.
Is that correct, Michael?

They publish some interesting stuff, but the Amazon prices are offputting.
Maybe we could
work an iscar or xmca deal with them??

mike

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Peter Smagorinsky <smago@uga.edu> wrote:

> The first book might be of interest to those recently discussing
> mathematics:
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> From: sense@sensepublishers.com [mailto:sense@sensepublishers.com] On
> Behalf
> Of Peter de Liefde
> Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 11:07 AM
> To: sense List Member
> Subject: [sense] New books on math ed, inclusive ed, research meth,
> sociology of ed, ed policy, drawing ed, behavioural disorders
>
>
>
> Dear Educational Researcher:
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> Sense Publishers kindly invite you to have a free electronic preview of the
> first 2 chapters of the following  books:
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> NOTE: DESK COPIES MAY BE OBTAINED THROUGH edwinbakker@sensepublishers.com
> PLEASE MENTION THE NAME OF THE COURSE FOR WHICH YOU CONSIDER TO OBTAIN THE
> TEXT AND THE ESTIMATED NUMBER OF STUDENTS AS WELL AS YOUR STREET ADDRESS.
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> NEW BOOKS:
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> EFFECTIVE MATHEMATICS TEACHING FROM TEACHERS’ PERSPECTIVES: National and
> Cross-National Studies
> Jinfa Cai, University of Delaware, Newark, USA, Gabriele Kaiser, University
> of Hamburg, Germany, Bob Perry, Charles Sturt University, Australia and
> Ngai-Ying Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Eds.)
>
> What is effective mathematics teaching?  This book represents the first
> purposeful cross-cultural collection of studies to answer this question
> from
> teachers’ perspectives. It focuses particularly on how teachers view
> effective teaching of mathematics.  Teachers’ voices are heard and
> celebrated throughout the studies reported in this volume.  These studies
> are drawn from many parts of the world representing both Eastern and
> Western
> cultural traditions. The editors and authors have deliberately included the
> views of teachers and educators from different cultural backgrounds, taking
> into account that beliefs on effective mathematics teaching and its
> features
> are highly influenced by one’s own culture. …
>
> Please find a free preview at:
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> Effective
> <
> https://www.sensepublishers.com/product_info.php?products_id=829&osCsid=1a7
> a25254c30f7c81b52f872435532ec<https://www.sensepublishers.com/product_info.php?products_id=829&osCsid=1a7%0Aa25254c30f7c81b52f872435532ec>>
>  mathematics
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> THE TEN DIMENSIONS OF INCLUSION: Non-Catholic Students in Catholic Schools
> James Kent Donlevy, University of Calgary, Canada
>
> This book draws upon the authors understanding and findings from four
> qualitative studies conducted within two Canadian provinces as well as an
> amalgam of relevant documents of the Catholic Church, the academic writings
> of others, and media reports. It is from those sources that the authors
> attempts to shed some light on the phenomenon of the inclusion of
> non-Catholic students within 10 dimensions: social/ cultural, political,
> financial, legal, racial, administrative, pedagogical, psychological,
> spiritual, and philosophical. The data from these four studies is from
> constitutionally protected and funded Catholic high schools. The other
> sources of data are both national (Canadian) and international.
>
> Please find a free preview at:
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> The
> <
> https://www.sensepublishers.com/product_info.php?products_id=807&osCsid=1a7
> a25254c30f7c81b52f872435532ec<https://www.sensepublishers.com/product_info.php?products_id=807&osCsid=1a7%0Aa25254c30f7c81b52f872435532ec>>
>  ten dimensions of inclusion
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> LIFE HISTORY RESEARCH: Epistemology, Methodology and Representation
> Rubby Dhunpath and Michael Samuel, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South
> Africa(Eds.)
>
> Much has been written about lifehistory research in recent times. It has
> been paraded as a counterculture to the traditional research canon, and
> celebrated as a genre that promotes methodological pluralism. However,
> lifehistory researchers have an obligation to transcend spurious claims
> about the perceived merits of the methodology and extend the debates around
> how the genre simultaneously problematises and responds to the competing
> challenges of Epistemology, Methodology and Representation.
>
>    In conceiving of each of the chapters from an epistemological
> perspective, the authors focus on how their individual work has crossed or
> expanded traditional borders of epistemology and ontology; of how the work
> has satisfied the rigours of thesis production and contributed to changing
> conceptions of knowledge, what knowledge gets produced and how knowledge is
> produced when we make particular methodological choices. …
>
> Please find a free preview at:
>
> Life
> <
> https://www.sensepublishers.com/product_info.php?products_id=815&osCsid=1a7
> a25254c30f7c81b52f872435532ec<https://www.sensepublishers.com/product_info.php?products_id=815&osCsid=1a7%0Aa25254c30f7c81b52f872435532ec>>
>  history research
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> SOCIOLOGY AS METHOD: Departures from the Forensics of Culture, Text and
> Knowledge
> Paul Dowling, Institute of Education, University of London, UK
>
> Dowling is using the term, forensics, to refer to approaches to research
> that claim to uncover truths about the world that are somehow independent
> of
> the means of their uncovering. For some time, now, such approaches have
> been
> widely regarded as naïve, but it is not clear that the implications of this
> recognition have always been adequately or appropriately taken into
> account.
> In attempting to do just that, Dowling presents a mature exposition of his
> organisational language, social activity method (SAM) in dialogue with a
> wide range of cultural settings, texts and technologies. SAM has been
> developed over a period of some twenty years via the transaction between a
> fundamental, theoretical principle and empirical data. This principle
> asserts that the sociocultural is to be understood in terms of strategic,
> autopoietic action directed at the formation, maintenance and destabilising
> of alliances and oppositions and the alliances and oppositions that are
> themselves emergent upon such action. …
>
> Please find a free preview at:
>
> Sociology
> <
> https://www.sensepublishers.com/product_info.php?products_id=817&osCsid=1a7
> a25254c30f7c81b52f872435532ec<https://www.sensepublishers.com/product_info.php?products_id=817&osCsid=1a7%0Aa25254c30f7c81b52f872435532ec>>
>  as method
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> EDUCATION, DECOLONIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT: Perspectives from Asia, Africa
> and the Americas
> Dip Kapoor, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada  (Ed.)
>
> This book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the
> ‘coloniality of power’ as it has affected indigenous peoples in Asia,
> Africa
> and the Americas. First, Kapoor and his contributors break new intellectual
> ground in departing from stuffy and often times arid social science theory
> in developing novel approaches to analysing indigenous movements and issues
> that capture the complexity, contradictions and world views of the
> colonised. In this respect this collection of essays presents us with
> possibilities for reconceptualising its salient themes of Education,
> Decolonisation and Development from below, instead of from the lofty
> vantage
> points of the western social science canon. Second, these authors
> consistently remind us that we do not live in a post-colonial era - as some
> writers would have us believe – but that the 21st century is as much
> defined
> by colonialism/imperialism as were the 19th and 20th centuries. They also
> remind us, however, that neo-liberal globalisation (the hands off,
> contemporary version of colonial rule) has not gone unchallenged by
> indigenous communities. Rather, collective forms of indigenous resistance
> have emerged that have undermined colonial/imperial rule and which, in
> certain instances, have also generated counter-hegemonic alternatives from
> within the different contexts analysed in the book.  As Kapoor and his
> collaborators show, these forms of resistance have assumed very different
> forms depending on their respective national, regional and local cultural
> contexts. Last, and perhaps most importantly, these essays contribute to
> the
> construction of a methodology of the margins that has the potential to give
> voice to those who have been silenced in history. In brief, this is a
> remarkable book that will become a standard text in courses on indigenous
> studies, the sociology/anthropology of development, international education
> and research methodology.
>
> STEVE JORDAN, CHAIR, DEPARTMENT OF INTEGRATED STUDIES IN EDUCATION, FACULTY
> OF EDUCATION, MCGILL UNIVERSITY, QUEBEC, CANADA
>
> Please find a free preview at:
>
> Education,
> <
> https://www.sensepublishers.com/product_info.php?products_id=819&osCsid=1a7
> a25254c30f7c81b52f872435532ec<https://www.sensepublishers.com/product_info.php?products_id=819&osCsid=1a7%0Aa25254c30f7c81b52f872435532ec>>
>  decolonization and development
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> DRAWN TOWARD TRANSFORMATION: Conversations on Teaching and Learning Drawing
> Nadine Kalin, University of North Texas, Denton, USA
>
> This book examines the transformative potential of collaborative teacher
> research. Specifically, Kalin shares the perspectives of educators as they
> investigate the teaching and learning of drawing within their own
> elementary
> classrooms and within the context of an action research group. The
> innovative a/r/tographic design of the project provides a rich balance
> between the arts and educational research, as it allows for the complex
> unfolding of relational transformation, alongside the artistic renditions
> of
> each person exploring their understandings of drawing. The products and
> processes of this book provide alternative approaches for the design of
> future pre-service and in-service programs that aim to serve teachers as
> learners rather than teachers as teachers. In this vein, the book offers
> worthy insights into how the arts and collaborative action research groups
> assist participants in finding other ways of seeing, imaging, and knowing
> the world. The book will appeal to practitioners, teacher educators,
> educational researchers, as well as those interested in professional
> development, complexity thinking, curriculum studies, collaborative action
> research, and arts-based educational research methodologies.
>
> Please find a free preview at:
>
> Drawn
> <
> https://www.sensepublishers.com/product_info.php?products_id=821&osCsid=1a7
> a25254c30f7c81b52f872435532ec<https://www.sensepublishers.com/product_info.php?products_id=821&osCsid=1a7%0Aa25254c30f7c81b52f872435532ec>>
>  toward transformation
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> INSIDE THE CHILD’S HEAD: Histories of Childhood Behavioural Disorders
> Jennifer Laurence and David McCallum, Victoria University, Melbourne,
> Australia
>
> Inside the Child’s Head traces the emergence of biomedical diagnoses of
> behavior disorders in children. It provides a new critical counterpoint to
> the kind of ‘myth-or-reality’ debate on childhood disorders. Social policy
> debates about ADHD for example, inasmuch as they are conducted around
> essentialist dichotomies of ‘the biological’ and ‘the social’, lead into a
> philosophical cul-de-sac. The authors suggest that understanding and acting
> upon childhood disorders lie not so much in elucidating grand philosophical
> and etiological questions, or in pinning our hopes on new scientific
> discovery of what is going on ‘in the child’s head’, as in the historical
> possibilities of the present-day make-up of this ‘inside’. …
>
> Please find a free preview at:
>
> Inside
> <
> https://www.sensepublishers.com/product_info.php?products_id=827&osCsid=1a7
> a25254c30f7c81b52f872435532ec<https://www.sensepublishers.com/product_info.php?products_id=827&osCsid=1a7%0Aa25254c30f7c81b52f872435532ec>>
>  the child’s head
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>
>
> NEWS:
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> Sense Starts New Journal:
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> EMPIRICAL RESEARCH IN VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING
>
> Aims and Scope: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training is
> a
> new academic journal in the field of Vocational Education and Training
> (VET). In recent years many countries have developed a new interest in
> creating or strengthening the vocational part of the educational system,
> both at the basic and higher education level. These developments ask for a
> sound scientific underpinning of policy decisions and have therefore
> created
> a new need for empirically oriented academic research in VET issues. The
> new
> journal will address VET-specific questions from different academic
> disciplines emphasizing empirical work that fulfils highest methodological
> and statistical standards of research.
>
> The journal Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training will
> follow developments throughout the world in vocational training
> institutions
> and companies. The journal welcomes comparative studies that allow to
> empirically compare the effectiveness, efficiency and equity in different
> VET systems at the school-, company and systemic level. The journal has the
> goal to cover a broad range of topics in the VET field from all relevant
> scientific disciplines. The journal has therefore an international
> pluridisciplinary editorial board and also an advisory board with leading
> international academics in the fields of pedagogy, psychology, sociology
> and
> economics. … Editor-in-Chief: Stefan C. Wolter, University of Bern, Centre
> for Research in Economics of Education.
> More
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>  on this journal
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> Ask for a free sample copy: edwinbakker@sensepublishers.com
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> Sense opens US office
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> Manager for Sense Publishers in North America. Customers in the USA, Canada
> and Mexico are encouraged to direct inquiries to him at: Sense Publishers,
> Attn: Paul Chambers, P.O. Box 51907, Boston MA 02205, USA;, Phone: +1 781
> 985 4411, Fax: +1 781 335 1676
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