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Complicating Culture—how to build on the different languages and cultures found in contemporary schools. Conceptualizing Control—how to manage a classroom of 30 or more teenagers and create a climate where learning can take place.  The First Year of Teaching offers an array of classroom scenarios that will spark in-depth discussions in teacher preparation classes and professional development workshops, particularly in the context of problem-based, problem-posing pedagogies.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49676430573841,"sku":"CIN0807755478G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50304688980241,"sku":"CIN0807755478VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0807755478.jpg?v=1762595718"},{"product_id":"shooting-for-excellence-book-jabari-mahiri-9780807737880","title":"Shooting for Excellence","description":"Two teachers, both African American, teach English in the same inner-city high school. Ms. Parks has astounding success with her students, who read, interact, and strive for success. Ms. Johnson's students, on the other hand, are frequently disruptive and even fall asleep in class. Why the difference? This book probes deep into the causes of this and other issues that affect American schools today. Through a series of vignettes, Jabari Mahiri demonstrates how two connected cultures—of African Americans and of youth—cannot be ignored if one is to effect change in education. His scope encompasses computer technology, multiculturalism, tracking, race relations, and the canon, as well as specific aspects of African American culture, such as signifying and receiver-centered discourse.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49800917025041,"sku":"CIN0807737887VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0807737887.jpg?v=1751106710"},{"product_id":"what-they-dont-learn-in-school-book-jabari-mahiri-9780820450360","title":"What They Dont Learn in School","description":"Contributors to this book have illuminated the practices of literacy and learning in the lives of urban youth. Their descriptions and assessments of these practices are anchored in perspectives of New Literacy Studies. The ten studies explore a number of urban scenes in order to engage, understand, and present multiple youth identities, attitudes, activities, representations, and stories connected to a range of situated, adaptive, and voluntary uses of literacy. The authors use a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches to explicate the various skills, the distinct methods of production or composition, the subjective and collective meanings, the mutable and variegated texts, and the dynamic contexts that urban youth utilize for expression, affirmation, and pleasure. There is a response to each chapter by a major scholar in its area of focus. Together, these studies and responses contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the pedagogies, politics, and possibilities of literacy and learning in and out of school.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49897175318801,"sku":"CIN0820450367G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0820450367.jpg?v=1750883065"},{"product_id":"digital-tools-in-urban-schools-book-jabari-mahiri-9780472051533","title":"Digital Tools in Urban Schools","description":"\"Today there is massive interest in how digital tools and popular culture are transforming learning out of school and lots of dismay at how digitally lost our schools are. Jabari Mahiri works his usual magic and here shows us how to cross this divide in a solidly grounded and beautifully written book.\" ---James Paul Gee, Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies, Arizona State University  \"Digital Tools in Urban Schools is a profoundly sobering yet inspiring depiction of the potential for committed educators to change the lives of urban youth, with the assistance of a new set of technical capabilities.\" ---Mimi Ito, Professor in Residence and MacArthur Foundation Chair in Digital Media and Learning, Departments of Informatics and Anthropology, University of California, Irvine  \"An uplifting book that addresses a critical gap in existing literature by providing rich and important insights into ways teachers, administrators, and members of the wider community can work together with students previously alienated---even excluded---from formal education to enhance classroom learning with appropriate digital tools and achieve inspiring results under challenging circumstances.\"  ---Colin Lankshear, James Cook University, and Michele Knobel, Montclair State University  Digital Tools in Urban Schools demonstrates significant ways in which high school teachers in the complex educational setting of an urban public high school in northern California extended their own professional learning to revitalize learning in their classrooms. Through a novel research collaboration between a university and this public school, these teachers were supported and guided in developing the skills necessary to take greater advantage of new media and new information sources to increase student learning while making connections to their relevant experiences and interests. Jabari Mahiri draws on extensive qualitative data---including blogs, podcasts, and other digital media---to document, describe, and analyze how the learning of both students and teachers was dramatically transformed as they utilized digital media in their classrooms. Digital Tools in Urban Schools will interest instructional leaders and participants in teacher preparation and professional development programs, education and social science researchers and scholars, graduate and undergraduate programs and classes emphasizing literacy and learning, and those focused on urban education issues and conditions.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51313184538897,"sku":"CIN0472051539G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51313226285329,"sku":"GOR012663417","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0472051539.jpg?v=1751135124"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-jabari-mahiri.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}