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“beth cooper benjamin”

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  • Educating Elites

    Class Privilege and Educational Advantage

    by Beth Cooper Benjamin, Peter W. Cookson Jr, Raygine DiAquoi, Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández, Shamus Rahman Khan, Peter Kuriloff, June Newman-Graham, Sharon Ravitch, Michael Reichert, Joseph A. Soares, Brett Stoudt, Jenny M. Stuber ...
    The gaze of educational researchers has traditionally been turned "down" toward the experiences of communities deemed at-risk, presumably with the purpose of improving their plight. Indeed, theorizing about the relationship between education, culture, and society has typically emerged from the study of poor and marginalized groups in public schools. Seldom have educational researchers considered ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • Witnessing Whiteness

    The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It

    by Shelly Tochluk ...
    Witnessing Whiteness invites readers to consider what it means to be white, describes and critiques strategies used to avoid race issues, and identifies the detrimental effect of avoiding race on cross-race collaborations. The author illustrates how racial discomfort leads white people toward poor relationships with people of color. Questioning the implications our history has for personal lives ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • A Focus on Hope

    Fifty Resilient Students Speak

    by Frances K. Trotman, Erik E. Morales ...
    Over the course of ten years, this extensive qualitative study focused on the academic resilience phenomenon. The research delves into the educational resilience experiences of fifty low socioeconomic students of color from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds. In addition to chronicling specific protective factors and processes active in the students' lives, several symbiotic relationships ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Creating Multicultural Change on Campus

    by Raechele L. Pope, Amy L. Reynolds, John A. Mueller ...
    Embrace the best practices for initiating multicultural change in individuals, groups, and institutionsHigher education institutions have begun to take steps toward addressing multicultural issues on campuses, but more often than not, those in charge of the task have received little to no training in the issues that are paramount in serving culturally diverse students. Creating Multicultural ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

    Clashes and Confrontations

    by Dawn Abt-Perkins, Ruth Balf, Matthew Brown, Jacqueline Deal, Elizabeth Dutro, Kimberly Adilia Helmer, Stephanie Jones, Elham Kazemi, Aaron Kuntz, Kysa Nygreen, Eileen Carlton Parsons, Steven Wall, Victoria Whitefield, Melanie Shoffner ...
    The authors in this edited volume reflect on their experiences with culturally relevant pedagogy_as students, as teachers, as researchers_and how these experiences were often at odds with their backgrounds and/or expectations. Each of the authors speaks to the complexity and difficulty in attempting to address students' cultures, create learning experiences with relevance to their lives and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • From the Dress-Up Corner to the Senior Prom

    Navigating Gender and Sexuality Diversity in PreK-12 Schools

    by Jennifer Bryan ...
    Very few PreK-12 teachers are adequately trained to address the gender identity and sexual identity of their students in a developmentally-appropriate and pedagogically-sound manner. Yet responsible adults—parents, educators, pre-service teachers, coaches, religious instructors, camp administrators and school counselors— must help children navigate the inherently diverse, increasingly complex ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • White Teachers, Black Students

    In the Spirit of Yes to African American Student Achievement

    by Mack T. Hines III ...
    Can White teachers teach Black Students? This is the provocative and pointed inquiry that drives the creation of White Teachers, Black Students. The twin purpose of this book is how can White teachers consistently teach and reach Black students? Hines starts the book by framing these inquiries within the historical context of race, whiteness, and white people. He then carefully draws a line from ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education

    From Theory to Practice- Selected papers from the 2013 ICLHE Conference

    Edited by Robert Wilkinson, Mary Louise Walsh ...
    Higher education has seen dramatic changes in the past quarter of a century, notably in the language used for instruction. Universities worldwide are increasingly switching to English enabling them to attract a wide student population. This book presents a new collection of original papers showing how universities apply content and language integrated learning to their instructional contexts. The ... Read more

    $83.99 USD

  • Chinese-Heritage Students in North American Schools

    Understanding Hearts and Minds Beyond Test Scores

    Edited by Wen Ma, Guofang Li ...
    This comprehensive look at Chinese-heritage students’ academic, sociocultural, and emotional development in the public schools examines pertinent educational theories; complex (even inconvenient) realities; learning practices in and outside of schools; and social, cultural, and linguistic complications in their academic lives across diverse settings, homes, and communities.Chinese-heritage ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • The European Union’s Modernisation Agenda for Higher Education and the Case of Ireland

    by Ludovic Highman ...
    Series Book 20 - Cahiers du Collège d’Europe / College of Europe Studies
    The book sets out to offer a national perspective on the complex changes occurring in European higher education systems. The Lisbon European Council (2000) set an ambitious target for the Union to become "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world" with important ramifications for higher education systems and institutions, because of the key role they play in driving ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Spatialisation of Higher Education: Poland and Slovenia

    by Mojca Kompara, Tomasz Stępień ...
    Series Book 6 - Studies on Culture, Technology and Education
    The book focuses on European Integration in the Field of Higher Education and Research, as well as the Implementation of the Bologna Process in Slovenia. The common policy of higher education and research belongs to the most important fields in the process of European integration and to the constitutive elements of the European Union. The authors analyse the process constituting the framework of ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Educators Queering Academia

    Critical Memoirs

    Edited by sj Miller, Nelson M. Rodriguez ...
    Series Book 4 - Social Justice Across Contexts in Education
    The memoirs in this collection represent a cross-section of critical reflections by a queerly diverse set of individuals on their experiences inhabiting a variety of spaces within the field of education. In their stories, the authors share how they queered and are continuing to queer the academy in relation to questions of teaching, research, policy, and/or administration. Their memoirs speak ... Read more

    $55.99 USD