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  • Immigration, Diversity and Student Journeys to Higher Education

    by Peter J. Guarnaccia ...
    Series Book 20 - Equity in Higher Education Theory, Policy, and Praxis
    Immigration, Diversity and Student Journeys to Higher Education presents an in-depth understanding of how immigrant students at a major public research university balanced keeping their family cultures alive and learning U.S. culture to get to college. A revitalized anthropological understanding of acculturation provides the theoretical framework for the book. The text builds its analysis using ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Immigration, Diversity and Student Journeys to Higher Education

    by Peter J. Guarnaccia ...
    Series Book 20 - Equity in Higher Education Theory, Policy, and Praxis
    Immigration, Diversity and Student Journeys to Higher Education presents an in-depth understanding of how immigrant students at a major public research university balanced keeping their family cultures alive and learning U.S. culture to get to college. A revitalized anthropological understanding of acculturation provides the theoretical framework for the book. The text builds its analysis using ... Read more

    $92.69 USD

  • A Death Retold

    Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship

    Edited by Keith Wailoo, Julie Livingston, Peter Guarnaccia ...
    Series series Studies in Social Medicine
    In February 2003, an undocumented immigrant teen from Mexico lay dying in a prominent American hospital due to a stunning medical oversight — she had received a heart-lung transplantation of the wrong blood type. In the following weeks, Jesica Santillan’s tragedy became a portal into the complexities of American medicine, prompting contentious debate about new patterns and old problems in ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

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  • Media and Development

    by Martin Scott ...
    Series series Development Matters
    Media matters. From encouraging charitable donations and delivering public health messages to promoting democratic participation and state accountability, the media can play a crucial role in development. Yet the influence of the media is not always welcome. It can also be used as a mechanism of surveillance and control or to disseminate hate speech and propaganda.How then should we respond to the ... Read more

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  • The Social Foundations Reader

    Critical Essays on Teaching, Learning and Leading in the 21st Century

    Edited by Eleanor Blair, Yolanda Medina ...
    The Social Foundations Reader is meant for undergraduate and graduate students in introductory foundations of education classes. No other contemporary reader provides such a broad and yet critical view of the issues typically addressed in an introductory foundations course. Instead, most provide a generic and typically conservative perspective on schools and classrooms and do little to encourage ... Read more

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  • Human Rights Education

    Theory, Research, Praxis

    by Nancy Flowers ...
    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    Over the past seven decades, human rights education has blossomed into a global movement. A field of scholarship that utilizes teaching and learning processes, human rights education addresses basic rights and broadens the respect for the dignity and freedom of all peoples. Since the founding of the United Nations and the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, human rights ... Read more

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  • Decolonizing Social Work

    Edited by Mel Gray, John Coates, Michael Yellow Bird, Tiani Hetherington ...
    Series series Contemporary Social Work Studies
    Riding on the success of Indigenous Social Work Around the World, this book provides case studies to further scholarship on decolonization, a major analytical and activist paradigm among many of the world’s Indigenous Peoples, including educators, tribal leaders, activists, scholars, politicians, and citizens at the grassroots level. Decolonization seeks to weaken the effects of colonialism and ... Read more

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    Edited by Julio Cammarota, Michelle Fine ...
    Series series Critical Youth Studies
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  • Indigenous Social Work around the World

    Towards Culturally Relevant Education and Practice

    by John Coates ...
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    How can mainstream Western social work learn from and in turn help advance indigenous practice? This volume brings together prominent international scholars involved in both Western and indigenous social work across the globe - including James Midgley, Linda Briskman, Alean Al-Krenawi and John R. Graham - to discuss some of the most significant global trends and issues relating to indigenous and ... Read more

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    Transformative Standards

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