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Critical Theory, Methods, and Design in Educational Research

Bearing Witness in Times of Deepening Inequalities

by Lois Weis, Michelle Fine ...

Series series Multicultural Education Series
Two of the foremost educational researchers chronicle their 30-year collaboration across tumultuous shifts in educational studies, bearing witness to cumulative inequities in schools and urban communities.Weis and Fine examine critical research designs with young people from elite, working class, and impoverished class fractions, as well as across racial and ethnic groups, including those ... Read more

$47.99 USD

Two of the foremost educational researchers chronicle their 30-year collaboration across tumultuous shifts in educational studies, bearing witness to cumulative inequities in schools and urban communities.Weis and Fine examine critical research designs with young people from elite, working class, and impoverished class fractions, as well as across racial and ethnic groups, including those
... Read more
STEM Education Reform in Urban High Schools

Opportunities, Constraints, Culture, and Outcomes

by Margaret A. Eisenhart, Lois Weis ...

STEM Education Reform in Urban High Schools gives a nuanced view of the obstacles marginalized students face in STEM education—and explores how schools can better support STEM learners.Reporting the results of a nine-year ethnographic study, the book chronicles the outcomes of various STEM education reforms in eight public high schools with nonselective admissions policies and high proportions of ... Read more

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STEM Education Reform in Urban High Schools gives a nuanced view of the obstacles marginalized students face in STEM education—and explores how schools can better support STEM learners.Reporting the results of a nine-year ethnographic study, the book chronicles the outcomes of various STEM education reforms in eight public high schools with nonselective admissions policies and high proportions of
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Understanding Inequality

The Intersection of Race/Ethnicity, Class, and Gender

by Barbara A. Arrighi, Judi Addelston, Derrick Bell, Karen Blumenthal, Judith Butler, Jane Jerome Camhi, William J. Chamblis, Marc Cooper, Sally Ann Davies-Netzley, Simone de Beauvoir, G William Domhoff, Susan J. Douglas, Wright Dziech, Susan Estrich, Lawrence Otis Graham, Billie Michelle Fine, Judith Lorber, Arturo Madrid, Julia Marusza, Fatema Mernissi, John Stuart Mill, Timothy Nonn, Katha Pollitt, Mary F. Rogers, Kathleen Rowe, Leslie Marmon Silko, Laureen Snider, Haya Stier, Deborah Tannen, Marta Tienda, Stephen Worchel, Richard L. Zweigenhaft, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Walda Katz-Fishman, Michael Kimmel, Charles Lemert, Diane Reay, Edward H. Thompson,Jr., Lois Weis ...

As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals of leading research universities, explores these issues as systems of stratification that work ... Read more

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As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals of leading research universities, explores these issues as systems of stratification that work
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Silenced Voices and Extraordinary Conversations

Re-Imagining Schools

by Michelle Fine, Lois Weis ...

Two noted educators invite new and veteran teachers on an intellectual guided tour through the troubles of bad practice and the delights of good. This volume is a collection of classic essays—as urgently needed now as when they first appeared—on social class, race, gender, and schooling crafted over the course of two decades. The authors invite all of us to take a serious look at the paradox of ... Read more

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Two noted educators invite new and veteran teachers on an intellectual guided tour through the troubles of bad practice and the delights of good. This volume is a collection of classic essays—as urgently needed now as when they first appeared—on social class, race, gender, and schooling crafted over the course of two decades. The authors invite all of us to take a serious look at the paradox of
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The Way Class Works

Readings on School, Family, and the Economy

Edited by Lois Weis ...

Since the 1980s, the relationship between social class and education has been overshadowed by scholarship more generally targeting issues of race, gender, and representation. Today, with the global economy deeply immersed in social inequalities, there is pressing need for serious class-based analyses of schooling, family life and social structure. The Way Class Works is a collection of twenty-four ... Read more

$63.99 USD

Since the 1980s, the relationship between social class and education has been overshadowed by scholarship more generally targeting issues of race, gender, and representation. Today, with the global economy deeply immersed in social inequalities, there is pressing need for serious class-based analyses of schooling, family life and social structure. The Way Class Works is a collection of twenty-four
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Working Class Without Work

High School Students in A De-Industrializing Economy

by Lois Weis ...

Series series Critical Social Thought
The author wxplores issues of race, class, and gender among white working class youths, and she considers the roles of school and family in the production of the self. The book also examines the working class teens' attitudes toward and readiness for postfeminist thinking and the emerging American New Right. Presenting the first sustained ethnographic investigation of white working class youth in ... Read more

$76.99 USD

The author wxplores issues of race, class, and gender among white working class youths, and she considers the roles of school and family in the production of the self. The book also examines the working class teens' attitudes toward and readiness for postfeminist thinking and the emerging American New Right. Presenting the first sustained ethnographic investigation of white working class youth in
... Read more
Class Warfare

Class, Race, and College Admissions in Top-Tier Secondary Schools

by Lois Weis, Kristin Cipollone, Heather Jenkins ...

Stories abound about the lengths to which middle- and upper-middle-class parents will go to ensure a spot for their child at a prestigious university. From the Suzuki method to calculus-based physics, from AP tests all the way back to early-learning Kumon courses, students are increasingly pushed to excel with that Harvard or Yale acceptance letter held tantalizingly in front of them. And nowhere ... Read more

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Stories abound about the lengths to which middle- and upper-middle-class parents will go to ensure a spot for their child at a prestigious university. From the Suzuki method to calculus-based physics, from AP tests all the way back to early-learning Kumon courses, students are increasingly pushed to excel with that Harvard or Yale acceptance letter held tantalizingly in front of them. And nowhere
... Read more
Class Reunion

The Remaking of the American White Working Class

by Lois Weis ...

Series series Critical Social Thought
Noted scholar Lois Weis first visited the town of "Freeway" in her 1990 book, *Working Class Without Work.*In that book we met the students and teachers of Freeway's high school to understand how these working-class folks made sense of their lives. Now, fifteen years later, Weis has gone back to Freeway for Class Reunion. This time her focus is on the now grown-up students who are, for the most ... Read more

$76.99 USD

Noted scholar Lois Weis first visited the town of "Freeway" in her 1990 book, *Working Class Without Work.*In that book we met the students and teachers of Freeway's high school to understand how these working-class folks made sense of their lives. Now, fifteen years later, Weis has gone back to Freeway for Class Reunion. This time her focus is on the now grown-up students who are, for the most
... Read more
Working Method

Research and Social Justice

by Lois Weis, Michelle Fine ...

Series series Critical Social Thought
Working Method focuses on the theory, method, and politics of contemporary social research. As ethnographic and qualitative research become more popular, noted scholars Weis and Fine provide a roadmap for understanding the complexities involved in doing this research. ... Read more

$72.99 USD

Working Method focuses on the theory, method, and politics of contemporary social research. As ethnographic and qualitative research become more popular, noted scholars Weis and Fine provide a roadmap for understanding the complexities involved in doing this research.
... Read more
9/11 in American Culture

by Mary Weems, Henry A. Giroux, Douglas Kellner, Peter McLaren, Jack Z. Bratich, Arnold, Shepperson Tomaselli, Patricia Tacineto Clough, Michelle Fine, Joanne Robertson, Karen Staller, Greg Dimitriadis, Angharad N. Valdivia, Laurel Richardson, Heidi Marie Brush, Robert W. McChesney, Dierde Glenn Paul, Joe L. Kincheloe, Shirley Steinberg, Birgit Richard, Cameron McCarthy, Virginia Olesen, Cary Nelson, Kenneth J. Gergen, William L. Miller, Anton J. Kuzel, Mary Gergen, Kathy Charmaz, Davydd J. Greenwood, Shulamit Reinharz, Staceyann Chin, Lois Weis, Arthur P. Bochner, Carolyn Ellis, Ivan Brady, William G. Tierney, Gerardo R. Lopez, H.L Goodall Jr, Karen Scott-Hoy, Tracy K. Lewis, Patricia Geist Martin, James Joseph Scheurich, Dr. Christopher N. Poulos, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Stephen John Hartnett ...

Series series Crossroads in Qualitative Inquiry
In response to the events following September 11, a number of leading cultural studies and interpretive qualitative researchers write from their own experiences and hearts. Their essays-by noted scholars Kellner, Fine, McLaren, Richardson, Denzin, Giroux and others-are collected in this volume, and were written in crisis within days and weeks of September 11. The immediacy of their writing is ... Read more

$43.79 USD

In response to the events following September 11, a number of leading cultural studies and interpretive qualitative researchers write from their own experiences and hearts. Their essays-by noted scholars Kellner, Fine, McLaren, Richardson, Denzin, Giroux and others-are collected in this volume, and were written in crisis within days and weeks of September 11. The immediacy of their writing is
... Read more
Off White

Readings on Power, Privilege, and Resistance

by Michelle Fine, Lois Weis, Linda Powell Pruitt, April Burns ...

With a fascinating new introduction on the proliferation and development of the field of whiteness studies and updated essays throughout, this much-anticipated second ddition continues to redefine our understanding of race and society. Also inlcludes three maps. ... Read more

$76.99 USD

With a fascinating new introduction on the proliferation and development of the field of whiteness studies and updated essays throughout, this much-anticipated second ddition continues to redefine our understanding of race and society. Also inlcludes three maps.
... Read more
Ideology, Curriculum, and the New Sociology of Education

Revisiting the Work of Michael Apple

Edited by Lois Weis, Greg Dimitriadis, Cameron McCarthy ...

For more than three decades Michael Apple has sought to uncover and articulate the connections among knowledge, teaching and power in education. Beginning with Ideology and Curriculum (1979), Apple moved to understand the relationship between and among the economy, political and cultural power in society on the one hand "and the ways in which education is thought about, organized and evaluated" on ... Read more

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For more than three decades Michael Apple has sought to uncover and articulate the connections among knowledge, teaching and power in education. Beginning with Ideology and Curriculum (1979), Apple moved to understand the relationship between and among the economy, political and cultural power in society on the one hand "and the ways in which education is thought about, organized and evaluated" on
... Read more

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