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  • 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

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  • Immigrant and Refugee Students in Canada

    by Courtney Anne Brewer, Michael McCabe ...
    Recent immigrants and refugees — both children and their families — often struggle to adapt to Canadian education systems. For their part, educators also face challenges when developing effective strategies to help these students make smooth transitions to their new country.Immigrant and Refugee Students in Canada, researchers join educators and social workers to provide a thorough and wide ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • 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

    $35.69 USD

  • 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

    $55.09 USD

  • African American Males and Education

    Researching the Convergence of Race and Identity

    by T. Elon Dancy, M. Christopher Brown ...
    Series series Contemporary Perspectives in Race and Ethnic Relations
    African American Males in Education: Researching the Convergence of Race and Identity addresses a number of research gaps. This book emerges at a time when new social dynamics of race and other identities are shaping, but also shaped by, education. Educational settings consistently perpetuate racial and other forms of privilege among students, personnel, and other participants in education. For ... Read more

    $44.29 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

  • Breakbeat Pedagogy

    Hip Hop and Spoken Word Beyond the Classroom Walls

    by Brian Mooney ...
    Series Book 512 - Counterpoints
    Breakbeat Pedagogy provides a groundbreaking framework for the inclusion of hip-hop culture in schools. Looking beyond the previous model of hip-hop-based education, Brian Mooney argues for school-wide hip-hop events, such as poetry slams, as the ideal site for students to engage in the elements of hip-hop culture. Working from the perspective of a classroom teacher, the author reflects on the ... Read more

    $45.09 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

  • High Schools, Race, and America's Future

    What Students Can Teach Us About Morality, Diversity, and Community

    by Lawrence Blum ...
    In High Schools, Race, and America’s Future, Lawrence Blum offers a lively account of a rigorous high school course on race and racism.Set in a racially, ethnically, and economically diverse high school, the book chronicles students’ engagement with one another, with a rich and challenging academic curriculum, and with questions that relate powerfully to their daily lives.Blum, an acclaimed moral ... Read more

    $28.49 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

  • Family, Community, and Higher Education

    Edited by Toby S. Jenkins ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    This book explores social topics and experiences that illustrate the various ways in which the family unit influences and impacts college students. In the text, the authors not only explore family memories, but also challenge the traditional lack of inclusion and appreciation for “family” as knowledge producers and educational allies. This book spotlights the family unit as a critical factor ... Read more

    $63.99 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

    $55.09 USD