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  • POWER/KNOWLEDGE/PEDAGOGY
    DENNIS CARLSON
    The essays in this volume explore the educational implications of unsettling shifts in contemporary culture associated with postmodernism. These shifts include the fragmentation of established power blocs, the emergence of a politics of identity, growing inequalities between the haves and the have-nots in a new global economy, and the rise in influence of popular culture in def...

    $1,540.00

  • TEACHERS AND CRISIS
    DENNIS CARLSON
    Advocates of the ‘back-to-basics’ movement argue that a basic skills programme ensures that students are educated to a minimum level of literacy required to enter the labour force. Critics charge that these efforts only increase school bureaucracy and undermine teachers’ autonomy in the classroom. First published in 1992, this book moves beyond the rhetoric surrounding the basi...

    $960.00

  • THE EDUCATION OF EROS
    DENNIS L. CARLSON
    The Education of Eros is the first and only comprehensive history of sexuality education and the “problem” of adolescent sexuality from the mid-20th century to the beginning of the 21st. It explores how professional health educators, policy makers, and social and religious conservatives differed in their approaches, and battled over what gets taught about sexuality in schools, ...

    $1,540.00

  • LEAVING SAFE HARBORS
    DENNIS CARLSON
    To rise to the challenges of postmodern culture, Carlson argues, progressives will need to leave the safe harbors of what is familiar and comfortable. A new progressivism can only be forged of a fundamental re-thinking and re-mythologizing of democratic education. Drawing upon cultural studies perspectives, Carlson interrogates philosophy through p ...

    $1,280.00

  • BIOGEOCHEMISTRY OF MARINE DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER
    HANSELL, DENNIS A. / CARLSON, CRAIG A.
    Marine dissolved organic matter (DOM) is a complex mixture of molecules found throughout the world's oceans. It plays a key role in the export, distribution, and sequestration of carbon in the oceanic water column, posited to be a source of atmospheric climate regulation. Biogeochemistry of Marine Dissolved Organic Matter, Second Edition, focuses on the chemical constituents of...

    $1,780.00

  • BIOGEOCHEMISTRY OF MARINE DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER
    HANSELL, DENNIS A. / CARLSON, CRAIG A.
    Interest in marine dissolved organic matter (DOM) is very high because it plays an important role in oceanic and global carbon cycling, which in turn impacts weather. Understanding the processes involved in the transformations of carbon, phosphorus, nitrogen, and other major elements in the oceans has been a primary goal of marine biogeochemists and oceanographers over the past...

    $1,716.00