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  • Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality

    A Brief History of the Education of Dominated Cultures in the United States

    by Joel Spring ...
    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    Joel Spring’s history of school policies imposed on dominated groups in the United States examines the concept of deculturalization—the use of schools to strip away family languages and cultures and replace them with those of the dominant group. The focus is on the education of dominated groups forced to become citizens in territories conquered by the United States, including Native Americans, ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Ultimate Guide to Kayak Fishing

    A Practical Guide

    by Joel Spring ...
    Series series Ultimate Guides
    A thorough introduction to an increasingly popular fishing sport.Did you know that kayak fishing has shot up in popularity over the past few years? Americans take more than 38 million kayak fishing trips every year. While most outdoors enthusiasts think of kayaks simply as boats, there are many great reasons to take up fishing from a kayak. A kayak is cheaper to maintain than a larger fishing boat ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The American School

    From the Puritans to the Trump Era

    by Joel Spring ...
    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    This comprehensive history of American education is designed to stimulate critical analysis and critical thinking by offering alternative interpretations of each historical period. In his signature straightforward, concise style, Joel Spring provides a variety of interpretations of American schooling, from conservative to progressive, in order to spark the reader’s own critical thinking about ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Today’s Guide to Educational Policy

    Pandemics, Disasters, Nationalism, Religion, and Global Politics

    by Joel Spring ...
    In his latest book, Joel Spring covers major political, economic and social issues affecting US and global education policy today. Crafted to evoke classroom discussion, this book explores contemporary issues such as the pandemic, institutional racism, religious controversies, nationalism and immigration, increased reliance on online instruction, climate change, economics of education and the deep ... Read more

    Was $47.99 USD Now $42.99 USD

  • The Ghosts of Autumn

    A Season of Hunting Stories

    by Joel Spring ...
    This is my cathedral. These are my meditations. I was raised Methodist, but this is my religion.”The fields and woods and old orchards here are sacred ground. I feel the presence of my old friends. I am humbled in the face of the beauty of the place and experience the quiet only found in nature. The peace for which we all search envelops me. On my worst days I’ve never failed to find it here.”The ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Season of Obsession

    by Joel Spring ...
    As the author takes the reader through the landscape of the Catskills in upstate New York, a picture of hunting in the finest sense, as it ought to be and as it was when you hunted with your Dad and raced alongside your dogs for downed birds. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Corporatism, Social Control, and Cultural Domination in Education: From the Radical Right to Globalization

    The Selected Works of Joel Spring

    by Joel Spring ...
    Series series World Library of Educationalists
    Starting with the 1972 publication of his seminal work, Education and the Rise of the Corporate State, Joel Spring has been documenting and analyzing the politics of knowledge and education. Throughout his work he has explored the attempts to use education to advance the economic and political interests of dominant groups. The general term he uses for the relationship between schools and power is ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Educating the Consumer-citizen

    A History of the Marriage of Schools, Advertising, and Media

    by Joel Spring ...
    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    In Educating the Consumer-Citizen: A History of the Marriage of Schools, Advertising, and Media, Joel Spring charts the rise of consumerism as the dominant American ideology of the 21st century. He documents and analyzes how, from the early 19th century through the present, the combined endeavors of schools, advertising, and media have led to the creation of a consumerist ideology and ensured its ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • A New Paradigm for Global School Systems

    Education for a Long and Happy Life

    by Joel Spring ...
    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    This volume is a major new contribution to Joel Spring reportage and analysis of the intersection of global forces and education—offers a new paradigm for global school systems. Education for global economic competition is the prevailing goal of most national school systems. Spring argues that recent international studies by economists, social psychologists, and others on the social factors that ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Intersection of Cultures

    Multicultural Education in the United States and the Global Economy

    by Joel Spring ...
    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    The Intersection of Cultures: Multicultural Education in the United States and the Global Economy, Fourth Edition offers a unique, problem-solving approach to the complex issues involved in educating culturally and linguistically diverse students. Perfect for any course devoted wholly or in part to the study of multicultural education, this text addresses a wealth of topics. A particular focus in ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Wheels in the Head

    Educational Philosophies of Authority, Freedom, and Culture from Confucianism to Human Rights

    by Joel Spring ...
    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    In this popular text Joel Spring provocatively analyzes the ideas of traditional and non-traditional philosophies from Confucianism to human rights regarding the contribution of education to the creation of a democratic society. The goal is to explore how governments use education to control and manage their populations, and to examine forms of education that claim to free people from ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Universal Right to Education

    Justification, Definition, and Guidelines

    by Joel Spring ...
    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    In this book, Joel Spring offers a powerful and closely reasoned justification and definition for the universal right to education--applicable to all cultures--as provided for in Article 26 of the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights.One sixth of the world's population, nearly 855 million people, are functionally illiterate, and 130 million children in developing countries are ... Read more

    $62.99 USD