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Garsdal, Jesper & Ydesen, Christian. (2009, June 15). The debate on educational and psychological testing in the United States: An essay review and outsider perspective with some philosophical musings. Review of Madaus, George; Russell, Michael; and Higgins, Jennifer. (2009). The Paradoxes of High Stakes Testing and Phelps, Richard P. (Ed.) (2009) Correcting Fallacies about Educational and Psychological Testing. Vol. 12 No. 8.

Ohanian, Susan. (2009, June 5) Accountability and the Slippery Language of Public Relations: An Essay Review. Review of Kowalski & Lasley. Handbook of Data-Based Decision Making in Education. Vol. 12 No. 7.

Corbett, Michael. (2009, April 27). Opportunity in crisis: An essay review of Theobald's Education Now. Vol. 12 No. 6.

Vinson, Kevin D.; Wilson, Melissa B; & Swenson, Crystal. (2009, April 17). Multiple levels, multiple messages: An essay review of Levstik & Barton's Researching History Education. Vol. 12 No. 5.

Falk, Thomas M.; Rocha, Sam; & Warnick, Bryan R. (2009, March 24). Social science and its discontents: An essay review of Bent Flyvbjerg's Making Social Science Matter Vol. 12 No.4.

Horn, Jim. (2009, March 5). The KULT of KIPP: An essay review. Review of Mathews, Jay. (2008). Work Hard, Be Nice: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America. Vol. 12 No. 3.

Fetler, Mark. (2009, January 31). Test anxiety: An essay review of Koretz's Measuring Up. Vol. 12 No. 2 Review of Koretz, D. (2008). Measuring Up: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us.

Barrera, Douglas. (2009, January 19). Everyone pays the price for inadequate schools: An essay review. Vol. 12 No. 1 Review of Belfield Clive R. & Levin, Henry M. (2007). The Price We Pay: Economic and Social Consequences of Inadequate Education.

Hudson, Kanna. (2008, December 6). Making community through educational transformation: An essay review. Vol. 11 No. 9 Review of

  • Bennett, Alan. (2007). The Uncommon Reader.
  • Lear, Jonathan. (2008). Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation.
  • Martin, Jane Roland. (2007). Educational Metamorphoses: Philosophical Reflections on Identity and Culture.
  • Suárez-Orozco, Carola, Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, and Irina Todorova. (2008) Learning a New Land: Immigrant Students in American Society.

    Blumenfeld-Jones, Donald S. (2008, October 15). Experience, Body, and the Spontaneous Moment: A Meditation upon Virtuosity and Its Possibilities for All of Us. Vol. 11 No. 8. Review of Howard, V. A. (2008) Charm and Speed: Virtuosity in the Performing Arts. NY: Peter Lang.

    Rosa, Ricardo D. (2008, October 8). Savage neoliberalism and subaltern responses: An essay review. Vol. 11 No. 7. Review of Borg, Carmel & Mayo, Peter. (2007). Public Intellectuals, Radical Democracy and Social Movements: A Book of Interviews. NY: Peter Lang.

    Apple, Michael W. (2008, September 17). Raymond Williams and the Roots of Critical Cultural Studies in Education: An Essay Review. Vol. 11 No. 6. Review of Smith, Dai. (2008). Raymond Williams: A Warrior's Tale. Cardigan, Wales: Parthian Books.

    Liou, Daniel D. (2008, September 12). Beyond Politics of School Size: An Essay Review. Vol. 11 No. 5. Review of Conchas, Gilberto Q. & Rodriguez, Louie F. (2008). Small Schools and Urban Youth Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

    Levin, Benjamin. (2008). In Search of a Broader View of Education Policy: An Essay Review of Glass's Fertilizers, Pills, and Magnetic Strips. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

    Morris, Scott. (2008). Henry Giroux—Urgently Necessary and Necessarily Urgent: An Essay Review. Review of Giroux, Henry. Against the Terror of Neoliberalism: Politics Beyond the Age of Greed. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.

    Childress, Amy & Rud, A. G. (2008). The University at the End of the Last Century: An Essay Review. Review of Frank, David John, & Jay Gabler (2006). Reconstructing the university: Worldwide shifts in academia in the 20th century and Levine, Donald N. (2006). Powers of the mind: The reinvention of liberal learning in America.

    Scott, Jerris Cobb. (2008). War, What is it Good For? An Essay Review. Review of Openshaw, Roger & Soler, Janet. (Eds.) (2007). Reading across International Boundaries: History, Policy, and Politics. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, Inc.

    Margolis, Eric. (2007, November 29). Teaching John Dewey: An essay review of three books on John Dewey.

    Covaleskie, John F. (2007, October 25). The paradoxes of a liberal democratic education: An essay review. An essay review of Blacker, David J. (2007). Democracy Stretched Thin: How Complexity Challenges a Liberal Ideal. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

    Cibils, Lilian & Pruyn, Marc. (2007, October 2) Pedagogy for social justice: An essay review. Vol. 10 No. 11. An essay review of McLaren, Peter & Jaramillo, Nathalia. (2007) Pedagogy and praxis in the age of empire: Towards a new humanism. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.

    Fassbinder, Samuel Day. (2007, October 2) An expanded definition of "pedagogy": An essay review. Vol. 10 No. 12. An essay review of McLaren, Peter & Jaramillo, Nathalia. (2007) Pedagogy and praxis in the age of empire: Towards a new humanism. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.

    Morris, Scott. (2007, September 27). The university and "military metaphysics": An essay review. Vol. 10 No. 10. An essay review of Giroux, Henry. (2007). The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.

    Fetler, Mark. (2007, July 10). NCLB blue: An essay review. Vol. 10 No. 9. An essay review of Commission on No Child Left Behind. (2007). Beyond NCLB: Fulfilling the promise to our nation's children.

    Scott, Catherine. (2007, July 3). Psychology's contribution to education: An essay review. Vol. 10 No. 8. An essay review of Pressley, Michael & McCormick, Christine B. (2006). Child and adolescent development for educators. NY: Guilford Publications.

    Coleman, Linda & Rud, A.G. (2007, June 7). The change process in a culture of learning: An essay review. Vol. 10 No. 7. An essay review of Marshall, S. P. (2006). The power to transform: Leadership that brings learning and schooling to life. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Scapp, R. (2006). Managing to be different: Educational leadership as critical practice. New York: Routledge. Supovitz, J. A. (2006). The case for district-based reform: Leading, building, and sustaining school improvement. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.

    Berhanu, Girma. (2007, June 4). Black Intellectual Genocide: An Essay Review of IQ and the Wealth of Nations. Vol. 10 No. 6. An essay review of Lynn, Richard & Vanhanene, Tatu. (2002). IQ and the Wealth of Nations. Westport, CT: Praeger.

    Wilson, Noel. (2007, April 26). A little less than valid: An essay review. Vol. 10 No. 5. An essay review of AERA, APA & NCME. (2002). Standards for educational and psychological testing. Washington, DC: American Educational Research Association.

    Stake, Robert E. (2007, February 4). NAEP, report cards and education: A review essay. Vol. 10 No. 1. An essay review of Jones, Lyle V. & Olkin, Ingram. The Nation's Report Card: Evolution and Perspectives. Bloomington, IN: Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation.

    Carifio, James & Perla, Rocco J. (2007, April 2). Rejoinder to Geelan: Dancing and playing around while science education and science education research goes up in romantic flames. Vol. 10 No. 4.

    Schutz, Aaron. (2007, March 14). Education scholars have much to learn about social action: An essay review. Vol. 10 No. 3. An essay review of Oakes, Jeannie & Rogers, John with Lipton, Martin. (2006). Learning Power: Organizing for Education and Justice.

    Geelan, David. (2007, February 23). Rumours of theory's death and resurrection greatly exaggerated: Response to Perla and Carifio. Vol. 10 No. 2

    Perla, Rocco J. & Carifio, James. (2006, December 19). Theory resurrected: An essay review. Vol. 9 No. 8. An essay review of Geelan, David. (2006). Undead Theories: Constructivism, Eclecticism and Research in Education. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers.

    Fetler, Mark. (2006, October 19). Food for thought: An essay review. Vol. 9 No. 7. An essay review of Herman, Joan L. and Haertel, Edward H. (2005). Uses and Misuses of Data for Educational Accountability and Improvement. The 104th Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education.

    de Klerk, Gerda. (2006, October 7). HIV/AIDS and the education of African children: An essay review. Vol. 9 No. 6. An essay review of Morisky et al. (2006). Overcoming AIDS: Lessons Learned from Uganda.

    Mullen, Carol A. (2006, September 26). Deconstructing mentoring in academe: An essay review. Vol. 9 No. 5. An essay review of Johnson, W. Brad. (2007). On being a mentor: A guide for higher education faculty.

    Duyar, Ibrahim. (2006, August 26). Analyzing education productivity. Vol. 9 No. 4. An essay review of Subotnik & Walberg, The scientific basis of educational productivity.

    Rothfork, John. (2006, March 27). Remaking the American University: Open for Business. Vol. 9 No. 3

    Mulchay, Donal E. (2006, January 9). The Continuing Quest for Equal Schools: An Essay Review. Vol. 9 No. 2

    Vanhuysse, Pieter. (2006, January 1). Bees and foxes, spiders and hedgehogs. Vol. 9 No. 1

    Rothfork, John. (2005, November 30). Doom, gloom, and the misunderstanding of higher education: An essay review.Vol. 8 No. 2

    Anderson, Gary L. (2005, September 27). Academia and activism: An essay review of Jean Anyon's Radical Possibilities. Vol. 8 No. 1

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    Rebollo, María Ángeles. (coord.) (2006). Género e Interculturalidad: educar para la igualdad. Madrid: Editorial La Muralla. Resenhado por Sônia Machado de Oliveira, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS

    Skliar, Carlos. (2007). La educación (que) es del otro. Argumentos y desierto de argumentos pedagógicos. Buenos Aires, Novedades Educativas. Reseñado por Andrea Brito, FLACSO-Argentina

    Carretero, Mario (2007). Documentos de Identidad. La Construcción de la Memoria Histórica en un Mundo Global. Buenos Aires. Editorial Paidós. Reseñado por César López Rodríguez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

    Sanguinetti, Horacio. (2006). La Educación argentina en un laberinto. Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica. Reseñado por Maximiliano E. Korstanje, Universidad de Palermo, Argentina

    López González, María (2008). Mujeres con discapacidad. Mitos y realidades en las relaciones de pareja y en la maternidad. Madrid: Narcea (Colección Mujeres). Reseñado por Verónica Marín Díaz

    Binaburo Iturbide, José Antonio. Gijón Puerta, José. (2007). Cómo elaborar una programación de aula en enseñanza secundaria. Sevilla. Fundación ECOEM. Colección divulgativa

    Binaburo Iturbide, José Antonio. Gijón Puerta, José. (2007). Cómo elaborar unidades didácticas en Enseñanza Secundaria. Sevilla. Fundación ECOEM. Colección divulgativa. Reseñado por Pedro Hernández Benito, IES Cartuja (Granada) España

    Cabero, Julio; Córdoba, Margarita y Fernández Batanero, José Mª (Coords.) (2007). Las TIC para la igualdad. Nuevas Tecnologías y atención a la diversidad. Sevilla: Mad-Eduforma. Reseñado por Mercedes López González, Universidad de Córdoba, España

    Montero Tirado, María del Carmen (2007) ¿Es el trabajo docente una profesión o es la profesión docente un trabajo? México: Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Colección Historia, Ciudadanía y Magisterio. Reseñado por Susan Street, CIESAS-Occidente

    Santos Guerra, Miguel Angel. (2007) Enseñar o el oficio de aprender. Organización escolar y desarrollo profesional. Sevilla (España)-Rosario (Argentina): Homo Sapiens Ediciones -MAD Reseñado por Marina Patricia De Luca, Universidad Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona

    Cabero Almenara, Julio (coord.) (2007). Tecnología Educativa. Madrid: MacGraw-Hill. Reseñado por María López González, Universidad de Córdoba

    Bolívar, Antonio y Jesús Domingo (eds.) (2007). Prácticas eficaces de enseñanza. Madrid: PPC. Reseñado por José A. Pareja Fernández de la Reguera, Universidad de Granada (España)

    Nichols, Sharon L. y David C. Berliner (2007) Daño Colateral. Como los exámenes con consecuencias severas corrompen las escuelas Norteamericanas (original en inglés: Collateral Damage. How High-stakes testing corrupts America's schools). Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Education Press. Reseñado por Julio Carabaña, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, España

    Abar, Celina & Barbosa, Lisbete (2008) WEBQUEST um desafio para o Professor!. São Paulo: Avercamp. Resenhado por João Batista Bottentuit Junior, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Lara, A. (2008). La función tutorial. Un reto en la educación de hoy. Granada: Grupo Editorial Universitario. Reseñado por María Jesús Colmenero Ruiz, Antonio Hernández Fernández y José Antonio Torres González, Universidad de Jaén

    Calero, Jorge. (2006). La equidad en educación. Informe analítico del sistema educativo español. Madrid: Centro de Investigación y Documentación Educativa (CIDE). Reseñado por Diego Sevilla Merino, Universidad de Granada

    Leite Méndez, Analia E. (2007). Profesorado, Formación e Innovación: Los grupos de trabajo como vía para la construcción de un profesorado reflexivo y crítico. Sevilla: Publicaciones Cooperación Educativa Reseñado por Susana Archondo Ormachea, Programa Mundusfor - URV - URCA

    Rudduck, Jean e Flutter, Julia. (2007) Cómo mejorar tu centro escolar dando la voz al alumnado. Madrid: Ediciones Morata. Resenhado por Isabel Letícia Pedroso de Medeiros, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

    Ministerio de Educación, Ciencia y Tecnología de la Nación. (2006) Miradas Interdisciplinarias sobre la Violencia en las Escuelas. Buenos Aires: Ministerio de Educación, Ciencia y Tecnología de la Nación. Reseñado por Soledad Vázquez Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, UBA

    Ministerio de Educación Ciencia y Tecnología (2007). El lugar de los adultos frente a los niños y los jóvenes. Aportes para la construcción de la comunidad educativa. Buenos Aires: Ministerio de Educación Ciencia y Tecnologia de la Nación. Resenhado por Suzana Feldens Schwertner, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)

    Del Pozo Delgado, Pilar. (2007). Formación de formadores. Manuales Prácticos. Madrid: Ediciones Pirámide. Reseñado por L Mariana Cecilia Benavidez Rodriguez Adriana Fresquet (org.) (2007) Imagens do desaprender. Uma experiência de aprender com o cinema. Río de Janeiro: Booklink Publicaciones. Reseñado por Lic. Débora Nakache, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

    De la Fuente, Raquel. (2007). Hacia la integración laboral de las personas con discapacidad. Un estudio longitudinal. Burgos: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Burgos. Reseñado por Francisco Javier Blanco Encomienda, Universidad de Granada, España

    Garcez, Lucília Helena do Carmo. (2008) Técnica de redação – o que é preciso saber para bem escrever. 2ª edição/2ªtiragem. São Paulo: Martins Fontes. Resenhado por Joana M. Eleutério, UnB – Brasília.

    de Asís Blas, Francisco (2007). Competencias Profesionales en la Formación Profesional. Madrid: Alianza Editorial. Reseñado por Ana Inés Renta Davids, Universidad Nacional de Salta

    Sergio Lorenzo Sandoval Aragón. (2007). Entre líneas; la lectura autónoma en estudiantes normalistas. Guadalajara: Instituto Superior de Investigación y Docencia para el Magisterio. Reseñado por Susan Street, CIESAS-Occidente

    Marina, J. A. y Bernabeu, R. (2007). Competencia social y ciudadana. Madrid: Alianza Editorial. Reseñado por Mª Carmen Robles Vílchez, Centro UNESCO de Andalucía/Universidad de Granada

    Bonal, Xavier; Tarabini-Castellani, Aina y Verger, Antoni (comps.) (2007). Globalización y Educación. Textos Fundamentales. Buenos Aires: Miño y Dávila. Reseñado por Mónica Torres, Universidad de Granada

    Barkley, Elizabeth; Cross, K. Patricia & Howwell Major, Claire (2007). Técnicas de aprendizaje colaborativo. Madrid: Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia/Morata. Reseñado por Liliana Bergesio y Jorge Montial, Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, Argentina

    Sonia Castrejón (2007) La modernización educativa y el trabajo docente. México: Castellanos Editores. Reseñado por Susan Street, CIESAS-Occidente

    Glass, Gene V (2008). Fertilizers, Pills, And Magnetic Strips. The fate of public education in America (Fertilizantes, pastillas y bandas magnéticas. El destino de la educación pública en América) Charlotte, Information Age Press. Reseñado por Rafael Feito Alonso, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Paraskeva, João M. (org.) (2008). Educação e poder. Abordagens críticas e pós-estruturais, Mangualde: Edições Pedago. Resenhado por Ilana Eleá Santiago, PUC-Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

    Observatorio Argentino de Violencia en las Escuelas (2006). Miradas interdisciplinarias sobre la violencia en las escuelas. Buenos Aires: Ministerio de Educación, Ciencia y Tecnología de la Nación. Reseñado por Dra. Concepción Sánchez Blanco, Universidad de A Coruña, España

    Crato, Nuno (2006). O 'Eduquês em discurso directo – Uma crítica da Pedagogia Romântica e Construtivista, Lisboa: Gradiva. Resenhado por Jorge Pinto, Programa Mundusfor

    Ferreiro, Emilia (2007). Alfabetización de niños y adultos: textos escogidos. Pátzcuaro, México: CREFAL. Reseñado por Rosa María Torres, Instituto Fronesis

    Tatto, María Teresa (2004). La Educación Magisterial: su alcance en la era de la globalización. México, D.F.: Aula XXI, Santillana. Reseñado por Paula Razquin, Equipo del Informe de Seguimiento de la Educación para Todos en el Mundo, UNESCO, Paris

    Sanz Ferramola, Ramón & Medina, Ana (Eds.). (2007). Bioética en la Universidad: hacia la construcción de una ética de la corresponsabilidad en la comunidad del conocimiento. San Luis: Nueva Editorial Universitaria. Reseñado por José Luis Jofré, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina

    Grupo de Calidad de la Educación-PEI. (2007). Educación con calidad ¿Cómo concretárla? (Educação com Qualidade: Como concretiza-la?) Medellín: Universidad de Antioquia. Resenhada por Gabriela Rizo, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro

    Angulo, Rita & Orozco Bertha (Coords.) (2007). Alternativas metodológicas de intervención curricular en educación superior. Colección Educación, Debates e Imaginario Social. Serie Curriculum y Siglo XXI. México: Coedición CONACyT/Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero/Seminario Currículum y Siglo XXI del IISUE-UNAM/Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí/Universidad Autónoma Chapingo/Plaza y Valdés. Reseñado por Dra. Raquel Glazman Nowalski, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

    González Faraco, Juan Carlos (2008). Il cavaliere errante. La poetica educativa di Don Chisciotte (El caballero errante. La poética educativa de Don Quijote). Milano: FrancoAngeli. Reseñado por Sara Cillani, Università di Ferrara, Italia

    Souza, Donaldo Bello De, Ramos, Marise Nogueira, Deluiz, Neise (2007) Educação profissional na esfera municipal. São Paulo: Xamã. Resenhado por Desimary Ferreira Lima de Miranda, UNISINOS

    Angulo Villanueva, Rita (2007) La estructura conceptual científico didáctica. México: Coedición CONACyT/ Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero /Seminario Currículum y Siglo XXI del IISUE-UNAM/Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí/Plaza y Valdés. Reseñado por Lourdes M. Chehaibar Náder, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

    Pinto, Emilio (2007). La educación de los hijos como los pimientos de Padrón. Barcelona: Gedisa. Reseñado por Juan Ramón Jiménez Vicioso, Universidad de Huelva (España)

    Palamidessi, Mariano (Comp.) (2006). La escuela en la sociedad de redes: una introducción a las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación en la educación. Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica. Reseñado por José Luis Ramírez Romero, Universidad de Sonora, México

    de Sousa Santos, Boaventura (2006). A Gramática do tempo: para unha nova cultura política. Porto: Edições Afrontamento.
    Paraskeva, Joao (2007). Ideología, cultura e currículo. Lisboa: Didáctica Editora.
    Reseñados por María Jesús Barreiro Rial, María José Caride Delgado, Jaime Alberto García Serna, Juan Puente Rapela y Carlos Riádigos Mosquera, Universidad de A Coruña, España

    Larrosa, Jorge. (2003). Entre las lenguas. Lenguaje y educación después de Babel. Barcelona: Ediciones Laertes S.A. Reseñados por Jhon Mauricio Taborda Alzate, Universidad CES (Medellín, Colombia)

    Ramirez-Romero, José Luis. (Coordinador) (2007) Las investigaciones sobre la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras en México. Plaza y Valdés UNISON-UABC UNACH-UQROO-UAT UCOL-UDAL. Reseñados por Dra. Caridad Macola Rojo

    Jacquinot-Delaunay Geneviève (2006). Imagem e Pedagogia. Lisboa, Edições Pedago. Resenhado por Carla Sofia da Cunha Ribeiro, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Cortés, Joel Vicente (Coord.) (2006). Educación, sindicalismo y gobernabilidad en Oaxaca, México. México: Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación [SNTE].
    Zorrilla Fierro, Margarita & Villa Lever, Lorenza (Coords.) (2003). Políticas educativas. México: Consejo Mexicano de Investigación Educativa/Grupo Ideograma Editores.
    Reseñados por Ana Carolina Laurrabaquio Alvarado Mijares, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, México

    Teixeira Lopes, João Da democratização à democracia cultural ? uma reflexão sobre políticas culturais e espaço público Porto: Profedições. Resenhado por Rosanne Evangelista Dias, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

       
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