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  • 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

  • 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

    $57.99 USD

  • The American School

    From the Puritans to the Trump Era

    by Joel Spring ...
    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    This current, 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 straight-forward, concise style, Joel Spring provides a variety of interpretations of American schooling, from conservative to leftist, in order to spark the reader’s own critical thinking ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • American Education

    by Joel Spring ...
    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    Featuring current information and challenging perspectives on the latest issues and forces shaping the American educational system—with scholarship that is often cited as a primary source—Joel Spring introduces readers to the historical, political, social and legal foundations of education and to the profession of teaching in the United States. In his signature straightforward, concise approach to ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Globalization of Education

    An Introduction

    by Joel Spring ...
    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    Continuing Joel Spring’s reportage and analysis of the intersection of global forces and education, this text offers a comprehensive overview and synthesis of current research, theories, and models related to the topic. Written in his signature clear, narrative style, Spring introduces the processes, institutions, and forces by which schooling has been globalized and examines the impact of these ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • At Forest's Edge

    Tales of Hunting, Friendship, and The Future

    by Joel Spring ...
    Outdoor literature lends itself well to reminiscence of the past; days gone by, hunts with old friends, and good dogs long gone. Joel Spring explored the past in depth with The Ghosts of Autumn (Skyhorse Publishing, 2016). In his latest work, At Forest’s Edge, Spring turns his thoughts and insights to the future and the future of the sport of hunting. In essays span - ning a season afield, At ... Read more

    $10.99 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

    $47.99 USD

  • The Business of Education

    Networks of Power and Wealth in America

    Edited by Joel Spring, John Eric Frankson, Corie A. McCallum, Diane Price Banks ...
    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    The Business of Education—a comprehensive view of how education policy is made in the US and, in some cases, globally—analyzes and critiques the influence of educational policy networks in a wide range of contexts and from a variety of perspectives, including testing, college preparation, juvenile detention centers, special education, the arts, teacher evaluation systems, education of undocumented ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • 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

  • Thursday's Bird

    Hunting Wild Pheasants in a Vanishing Upland

    by Joel Spring ...
    The crisp call of a fall hunting day will always be more inviting after you walk through the uplands hunting with Joel Spring. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Politics of American Education

    by Joel Spring ...
    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    Turning his distinctive analytical lens to the politics of American education, Joel Spring looks at contemporary educational policy issues from theoretical, practical, and historical perspectives. This comprehensive overview documents and explains who influences educational policy and how, bringing to life the realities of schooling in the 21st century and revealing the ongoing ideological ... Read more

    $76.99 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

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook