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  Quantitative Reasoning in Mathematics and Science Education: Papers from an International STEM Research Symposium

  Robert L. Mayes, Georgia Southern University and Larry Hatfield, University of Wyoming

  5-1-2013
  

  Quantitative Reasoning in Mathematics and Science Education: Papers from an International STEM Research Symposium is Monograph 3 in the WISDOMe series. The papers in this volume discuss the value of quantitative reasoning and its impact on future research and practice.

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  A Curriculum of Place: Understandings Emerging through the Southern Mist

  William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern University

  2013
  

  Georgia Southern faculty member William M. Reynolds edited A Curriculum of Place Understandings Emerging Through the Southern Mist.

  Part of Counterpoints Series, Volume 412.

  Since the United States has gone South in a number of respects, it is crucial to our understandings of ourselves and our current milieu to peer through the mist that covers the intricacies of the culture and history of the South. A Curriculum of Place: Understandings Emerging through the Southern Mist presents new and provocative insights into the study of curriculum and place focusing on the South. The essays emphasize understanding the importance of Southern place ... Read more

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  Critical Studies of Southern Place: A Reader

  William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern University

  9-2013
  

  Georgia Southern University faculty member William M. Reynolds co-authored Critical Studies of Southern Place: A Reader.

  Part of Counterpoints Series, Volume 434.

  Critical Studies of Southern Place: A Reader critically investigates and informs the construction of Southernness, Southern identity, and the South past and present. It promotes and expands the notion of a Southern epistemology. Authors from across the South write about such diverse topics as Southern working-class culture; LGBT issues in the South; Southern music; Southern reality television; race and ethnicity in the South; religion in the South; sports in the South; and Southernness. How do these multiple interpretations ... Read more

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  We Saved the Best for You: Letters of Hope, Imagination and Wisdom for 21st Century Educators

  Tricia M. Kress, University of Massachusetts Boston and Robert L. Lake, Georgia Southern University

  12-7-2012
  

  Lake also authored "Reigniting Radical Hope and Social Imagination in 'Dark Times'" alongside non-faculty member Tricia M. Kress and "Imagination, Play and Becoming the Text" in We Saved the Best for You: Letters of Hope, Imagination and Wisdom for 21st Century Educators.

  Book Summary: As standardization and “accountability” have continued to increase in the 21st century, educators and scholars of education have become increasingly frustrated. Yet as frustrated as we are, it is essential that we not send to our our students, children, grandchildren the message that the past was better and they “should have been there.” Instead, we must ... Read more

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  Dear Nel: Opening the Circles of Care (Letters to Nel Noddings)

  Robert L. Lake, Georgia Southern University

  3-9-2012
  

  Book Summary: This collection is a moving tribute to Nel Noddings, a fascinating and influential scholar who has contributed greatly to numerous fields, including education, feminism, ethics, and the study of social justice and equity. Dear Nel: Opening the Circles of Care presents contributions from renowned teachers, educators, and activists, such as David Berliner, Jim Garrison, Madeline Grumet, Denis Phillips, William H. Schubert, Barbara Thayer-Bacon, Cristina Igoa, Eva Feder Kittay, Riane Eisler, and Sara Ruddick. Each provides a personal tribute to Noddings, highlighting stories of her lived experience and drawing on her writing and teaching. This unique volume includes an ... Read more

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  Vygotsky on Education Primer

  Robert L. Lake, Georgia Southern University

  3-31-2012
  

  Book Summary: The Vygotsky on Education Primer serves as an introduction to the life and work of the Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky. Even though he died almost eighty years ago, his life’s work remains both relevant and significant to the field of education today. This book examines Vygotsky’s emphasis on the role of cultural and historical context in learning, while challenging theories that emphasize a universalistic view of learning through fixed, biologically determined stages of development. Given our current preoccupation with standardized outcomes and the corporatization of schooling, Vygotsky’s most important ideas about education need to be reconsidered. The primer ... Read more

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  WISDOMe Monograph Volume 2: Quantitative Reasoning and Mathematical Modeling: A Driver for STEM Integrated Education and Teaching in Context

  Robert L. Mayes, Georgia Southern University and Larry Hatfield, University of Wyoming

  1-1-2012
  

  Book Summary: Quantitative reasoning is an essential tool for scientists, applied mathematicians, and statisticians in their work to model real world phenomena and address grand challenges in environment and energy. Some exemplars from practitioners in the established fields of biology and ecology, as well as from the emerging field of computational science are explicated in this paper. Our intent is to provide support for the argument of incorporating quantitative reasoning into the teaching of science, mathematics, and statistics, since it is an essential tool in the practice of STEM and has the potential to increase student engagement.

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  Pervasive Vulnerabilities: Sexual Harassment in School

  Regina Rahimi, Armstrong State University and Delores D. Liston, Georgia Southern University

  2012
  

  Book Summary: Pervasive Vulnerabilities explores the beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors of adolescent girls and boys and female teachers in order to expose the continuing persistence of sexual harassment in the United States. The book addresses the sexual double standard that continues to hold girls and women accountable for male sexual aggression, and demonstrates that this double standard still dismisses males who harass young women with a cavalier "boys will be boys" attitude, while castigating young women if they express an interest in sexual expression. It discusses issues of sexual harassment through four domains: its impact on women’s lives, sometimes long ... Read more

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  GACE Mathematics Assessment (022, 023)

  Gregory Chamblee, Georgia Southern University

  7-19-2010
  

  Book Summary: If you’re ready to start teaching in Georgia, REA has the GACE test prep you need! REA’s GACE High School Mathematics Assessment (022, 023) Test Prep with TestWare® CD Puts Georgia Teachers in a Class of Their Own! New! First Edition! REA’s newest addition to our GACE (Georgia Assessments for the Certification of Educators) test prep library helps you get one step closer to teaching in a Georgia classroom. This test prep is perfect for teacher candidates, students, out-of-state teachers, and career-changing professionals who are seeking a Georgia teaching license. Completely aligned with the most recent GACE High ... Read more

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  The School Library Media Specialist's Policy and Procedure Writer

  Elizabeth Downs, Georgia Southern University

  2010
  

  Book Summary: In one detailed multimedia source, you'll find everything you need to evaluate your library's current policies and procedures, and suggestions to help you develop new ones in today's more complex digital content environment.

  Among the many areas covered are:

  * Collection Development
  * Acquisitions
  * Budgeting
  * Equipment and Materials Maintenance
  * Year-End Reporting
  * Scheduling
  * Web Publishing and Design
  * Reading Incentive Programs
  * Serving Students with Special Needs
  * Copyright

  You'll find more than 300 sample policies, procedures, and forms you can customize and print to help you manage each aspect of your library's operations. ... Read more

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  Dear Maxine: Letters from the Unfinished Conversation

  Robert L. Lake, Georgia Southern University

  9-30-2010
  

  Book Summary: This collection brings together a prestigious group of individuals who have wondered, looked at, revised, acted on, questioned, and changed their world because of their connection to American philosopher Maxine Greene. Over 75 teachers, students, colleagues, artists, and others, such as Gloria Ladson-Billings, Herb Kohl, Mike Rose, Deborah Meier, and William Ayers have written edgy, thoughtful letters addressed to Maxine about her work, their own, and the spaces in between. Rather than just thanking this master philosopher/teacher, each sets out to discover some of what they have learned from Maxine Greene and to discuss the continued relevance of ... Read more

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  Understanding Curriculum: An Introduction to Historical and Contemporary Discourses

  William F. Pinar, Louisiana State University; William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern University; Patrick Slattery, Texas A&M University; and Peter M. Taubman

  2010
  

  Georgia Southern faculty member William M. Reynolds co-authored Understanding Curriculum: An Introduction to Historical and Contemporary Discourses.

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  Educating the Posthuman: Biosciences, Fiction, and Curriculum Studies

  John A. Weaver, Georgia Southern University

  2-5-2010
  

  Book Summary: Educating the Posthuman is an exciting and refreshing book. Bravo! This book is unique and unusual. Weaver explores the intersections between literature, biosciences and curriculum theory. Understanding the posthuman best happens when scholars explore these three interrelated areas of study. From Frankenstein to Einstein, Weaver creates a fascinating text that all educators, literary scholars and scientists should read. From the problematics of pharmaceuticals to the promise of scholarly debate, this text dazzles. Weaver argues that the scientific issues of our day are best understood through the study of fiction. What does fiction teach that science does not? Are ... Read more

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  Handbook of Asian Education: A Cultural Perspective

  Yong Zhao; Jing Lei; Guofang Li; Ming Fang He, Georgia Southern University; Kaori Okano; Nagwa Megahed; David Gamage; and Hema Ramanathan Ramanathan

  11-30-2010
  

  Comprehensive and authoritative, this Handbook provides a nuanced description and analysis of educational systems, practices, and policies in Asian countries and explains and interprets these practices from cultural, social, historical, and economic perspectives. Using a culture-based framework, the volume is organized in five sections, each devoted to educational practices in one civilization in Asia: Sinic, Japanese, Islamic, Buddhist, and Hindu. Culture and culture identities essentially are civilization identities; the major differences among civilizations are rooted in their different cultures. This framework offers a novel approach to capturing the essence of the diverse educational systems and practices in Asia. Uniquely combining ... Read more

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  On Not Being Able to Play: Scholars, Musicians and the Crisis of the Psyche

  Marla Morris, Georgia Southern University

  3-5-2009
  

  Book Summary: Scholars and musicians from many different backgrounds will find this book helpful as it deals with psychic problems in both professions. This book might help scholars and musicians to find a way out of their psychic dilemmas. From classical musicians to rock stars, from curriculum theorists to music teachers, from anthropologists to philosophers, this book takes the reader through a rocky intellectual terrain to explore what happens when one can no longer play or work. The driving question of the book is this: What do you do when you cannot do what you were called to do? This ... Read more

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  The Civic Gospel: A Political Cartography of Christianity

  William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern University and Julie Webber, Illinois State University

  2009
  

  Georgia Southern faculty member William M. Reynolds co-authored The Civic Gospel: A Political Cartography of Christianity.

  Part of Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education Series, Volume: 29

  This book is a result of the times in which we are living. These times demand a response. When the authors began to write this book, it was not popular to dissent against the Bush administration. In fact, dissent was and still is equated with terrorism. Now, it might seem that the tide is turning and maybe after the 2008 election some of this nightmare we have been experiencing will change. At least that ... Read more

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  Popular Culture

  John A. Weaver, Goergia Southern University

  5-19-2009
  

  This revised edition of the Popular Culture Primer is an introductory text that traces the history of popular culture and cultural studies. Besides covering the traditional subjects such as the influence of the Frankfurt School and the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, this book covers the cultural studies of science and technology, the biosciences, drugs, and sports as well as other often-ignored topics such as science fiction, fan cultures, and childhood studies. It looks at the impact these topics have on our understanding of education and popular culture. The Popular Culture Primer is an essential text for any class devoted ... Read more

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  The SAGE Handbook of Curriculum and Instruction

  F. Michael Connelly, The Education University of Hong Kong; Ming Fang He, Georgia Southern University; and JoAnn Phillion, Purdue University

  2008
  

  The SAGE Handbook of Curriculum and Instruction is the first book in 15 years to comprehensively cover the field of curriculum and instruction. Editors F. Michael Connelly, Ming Fang He, and JoAnn Phillion, along with contributors from around the world, synthesize the diverse, real-world matters that define the field. This long-awaited Handbook aims to advance the study of curriculum and instruction by re-establishing continuity within the field while acknowledging its practical, contextual, and theoretical diversity.

  Key Features

  • Offers a practical vision of the field: Defines three divisions—school curriculum subject matter, curriculum and instruction topics and preoccupations, and general curriculum ... Read more

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  Teaching Through the Ill Body: A Spiritual and Aesthetic Approach to Pedagogy and Illness

  Marla Morris, Georgia Southern University

  6-30-2008
  

  Book Summary: This book raises questions around pedagogy and illness. Morris explores two large issues that run through the text. What does the ill body teach? What does the teacher do through the ill body? The body has something to teach while teaching through the ill body. This book is theoretically framed by connections between spirituality and aesthetics. As the great spiritual traditions teach, our responsibility as teachers is to help others, especially those who are marginalized. What is lacking in our educational discourse is a discussion of the responsibility we all have to help those who get sick and ... Read more

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  Understanding Curriculum: An Introduction to Historical and Contemporary Discourses

  William F. Pinar, Louisiana State University; William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern University; Patrick Slattery, Texas A&M University; and Peter M. Taubman

  2008
  

  Georgia Southern faculty member William M. Reynolds co-authored Understanding Curriculum: An Introduction to Historical and Contemporary Discourses.

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  Learning to Teach: Critical Approaches to the Field Experience

  Natalie Adams, University of Alabama - Huntsville; Christine Mary Shea, East Carolina University; Delores D. Liston, Georgia Southern University; and Bryan Deever, Georgia Southern University

  2006
  

  Book Summary: This text is designed to assist preservice and inservice teachers in creating a critical and reflective dialogue with themselves, their assigned classroom cultures, and the larger school environment. It engages readers in a series of classroom and school-based activities, observations, and exercises that can be used in any teacher education course with a field component. Different from other field experience guides, this text aims to disrupt traditional conceptions of teacher education and field experiences--by emphasizing the problematic nature and dynamics of public schooling, and encouraging readers to seek a greater awareness of their own attitudes toward and connections ... Read more

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  Jewish Intellectuals and the University

  Marla Morris, Georgia Southern University

  2006
  

  Book Summary: Marla Morris explores Jewish intellectuals in society and in the university using psychoanalytic theory. Morris examines Otherness as experienced by Jewish intellectuals who grapple with anti-Semitism within the halls of academia. She claims that academia breeds uncertainty and chaos.

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  Understanding Curriculum: An Introduction to Historical and Contemporary Discourses

  William F. Pinar, Louisiana State University; William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern University; Patrick Slattery, Texas A&M University; and Peter M. Taubman

  2006
  

  Georgia Southern faculty member William M. Reynolds co-authored Understanding Curriculum: An Introduction to Historical and Contemporary Discourses.

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  Popular Culture Primer

  John A. Weaver, Goergia Southern University

  1-31-2005
  

  The Popular Culture Primer is an introductory text that traces the history of popular culture and cultural studies. Besides covering the traditional subjects such as the influence of the Frankfurt School and the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, this book will cover the cultural studies of science and technology and other subjects that are generally ignored in introductory texts, such as science fiction, fan cultures, and childhood studies. It looks at the impact that these topics have on our understanding of education and popular culture. The Popular Culture Primer is an essential assigned text for any classroom devoted to teaching ... Read more

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  Understanding Curriculum: An Introduction to Historical and Contemporary Discourses

  William F. Pinar, Louisiana State University; William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern University; Patrick Slattery, Texas A&M University; and Peter M. Taubman

  2004
  

  Georgia Southern faculty member William M. Reynolds co-authored Understanding Curriculum: An Introduction to Historical and Contemporary Discourses.