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FOCI eBook Series

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  • Cool Rules

    Anatomy of an Attitude

    by David Robins, Dick Pountain ...
    Series series FOCI
    Cool Rules introduces the reader to a new cultural category. While the authors do not claim to have discovered Cool, they believe they are the first to attempt a serious, systematic analysis of Cool’s history, psychology, and importance.The contemporary Cool attitude is barely 50 years old, but its roots are older than that. Cool Rules traces Cool’s ancient origins in European, Asian, and African ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

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  • Understanding White Privilege

    Creating Pathways to Authentic Relationships Across Race

    by Frances Kendall ...
    Series series Teaching/Learning Social Justice
    Knowingly and unknowingly we all grapple with race every day. Understanding White Privilege delves into the complex interplay between race, power, and privilege in both organizations and private life. It offers an unflinching look at how ignorance can perpetuate privilege, and offers practical and thoughtful insights into how people of all races can work to break this cycle. Based on thirty years ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Contested Policy

    The Rise and Fall of Federal Bilingual Education in the United States, 1960-2001

    by Guadalupe San Miguel Jr. ...
    Series series Al Filo, Mexican American Studies Series
    Bilingual education is one of the most contentious and misunderstood educational programs in the country. It raises significant questions about this countrys national identity, the nature of federalism, power, ethnicity, and pedagogy. In Contested Policy , Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr., studies the origins, evolution, and consequences of federal bilingual education policy from 1960 to 2001, with ... Read more

    $12.69 USD

  • Critical Perspectives on bell hooks

    Edited by Maria del Guadalupe Davidson, George Yancy ...
    Series series Critical Social Thought
    Although bell hooks has long challenged the dominant paradigms of race, class, and gender, there has never been a comprehensive book critically reflecting upon this seminal scholar’s body of work. Her written works aim to transgress and disrupt those codes that exclude others as intellectually mediocre, and hooks’ challenge to various hegemonic practices has heavily influenced scholars in numerous ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Multicultural Leader

    Developing a Catholic Personality, Second Edition

    by Dan Sheffield ...
    This book is intended as a resource for provoking dialogue on the nature of leadership in multicultural congregations. When the first edition was written, more than a decade ago, there was a limited pool of resources available to help practitioners in the field, even less addressing the Canadian context. Dan Sheffield brought a missiologist's perspective to this discussion that had been shaped by ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Home-School Connections in a Multicultural Society

    Learning From and With Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families

    Edited by Maria Luiza Dantas, Patrick C. Manyak ...
    Series series Language, Culture, and Teaching Series
    Educators everywhere confront critical issues related to families, schooling, and teaching in diverse settings. Directly addressing this reality, Home-School Connections in a Multicultural Society shows pre-service and practicing teachers how to recognize and build on the rich resources for enhancing school learning that exist within culturally and linguistically diverse families.Combining ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • A Chinese Perspective on Teaching and Learning

    Edited by Betty C. Eng ...
    Series series Routledge Series on Schools and Schooling in Asia
    Bringing together educators from a range of backgrounds - psychology, sociology, social work, counseling, and teaching - this volume shows how Asian cultural values and beliefs can provide a lens through which to understand and envision how curriculum and pedagogy can be creatively adapted, not only in a local Chinese classroom context, but in a global context as well. ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Elusive Quest for Equality

    150 Years of Chicano/Chicana Education

    Edited by José F. Moreno ...
    Series series HER Reprint Series
    The Elusive Quest for Equality documents both the plight and the struggle of Chicano communities over the past 150 years, using the guiding themes of segregation, Americanization, and resistance in the history of education for Chicanos/Chicanas.The history of the Chicano community's quest for educational equality is long and rich. Since the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo formalized the conquest of ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Rethinking Madrasah Education in a Globalised World

    Edited by Mukhlis Abu Bakar ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Asian Education
    Why is there a need to rethink madrasah education? What is the positioning of Muslims in contemporary society, and how are they prepared? What is the role of the ulama in the reform process? This book explores these questions from the perspective of madrasah education and analyses curricular and pedagogic innovations in Islamic faith-based education in response to the changing place of Islam in a ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching

    by Keith Johnson ...
    Series series Learning about Language
    An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching provides an engaging, student-friendly guide to the field of foreign language learning and teaching. Aimed at students with no background in the area and taking a task-based approach, this book:introduces the theoretical and practical aspects of both learning and teaching;provides discussion and workshop activities throughout each chapter ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Aboriginal Student Engagement and Achievement

    Educational Practices and Cultural Sustainability

    by Lorenzo Cherubini ...
    Aboriginal people in Canada want an education that reflects their cultural values and linguistic heritages, an education that will foster their children’s engagement and identity and not marginalize them as learners.Lorenzo Cherubini investigates the effectiveness of culturally relevant programs in Ontario by turning the spotlight on a rare success story – one urban high school’s attempt to ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • An Asset-Based Approach to Latino Education in the United States

    Understanding Gaps and Advances

    by Eugene E. Garcia, Mehmet Ozturk ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Educational Equality and Diversity
    Challenging perspectives that often characterize Latinos as ‘at-risk,’ this book takes an ‘asset’ approach, highlighting the favorable linguistic, cognitive, education, and cultural assets Latino children bring to educational settings. An Asset-Based Approach to Latino Education in the United States addresses the increasingly important challenge and opportunity of educating the linguistic and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD