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The controversies surrounding the use of educational acceleration have remained unresolved throughout the past century. This book has been written to provide American practitioners with the information they need to make appropriate decisions…. More >>
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The Academic Acceleration of Gifted Children
January 28th, 2010Consuming Children: Education-Entertainment-Advertising
January 22nd, 2010Product Description
Who are today’s young people and how are they constructed in media-consumer culture and in relation to adult cultures in particular? How are the issues of pleasure, power, and agency to be understood in the corporatized global community? How are teachers to educate young people? What new practices are required? Buy delight, kids rule, adults are dim and schools are dull. These are canons of children’s consumer cultures. In the places where kids, commodities and i… More >>

