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Literacies eBook Series

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  • City Literacies

    Learning to Read Across Generations and Cultures

    by Eve Gregory, Ann Williams ...
    Series series Literacies
    City Literacies explores the lives and literacies of different generations of people living in two contrasting areas of London at the end of the 20th century: Spitalfields and the City. This contrast outwardly symbolizes the huge difference between poverty and wealth existing in Britain at this time. The book presents a study of living, learning and reading as it has taken place in public settings ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • The Morning Star - Andalusia

    Travel & Learn with Kids'n'Go - Guide to Crosscurricular Home Schooling, #6

    by Magdalena Matulewicz ...
    Series Book 6 - Travel & Learn with Kids'n'Go - Guide to Crosscurricular Home Schooling
    A spiky friend? Sure! A blobby one? Why not! Join us now and explore the Andalusian beach early in the morning only to find out how easy it is to make friends with creatures from the Mediterranean Sea. Some of them are really shy, others very wriggly, but all of them may need your help. Get ready! To the rescue!Our Travel & Learn with Kids'n'Go series is a collection of educational articles for ... Read more

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  • America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-Blind Politics

    Education, Incarceration, Segregation, and the Future of the U.S. Multiracial Democracy

    by Grace Lee Boggs, Benjamin DeMott, Erica Frankenberg, Andrew Grant-Thomas, Lani Guinier, Maria Hinojosa, Gary Howard, Colbert I. King, Marc Mauer, Trinh Minh-Ha, Michael Omi, John Telford, Lisa Thurau, Johanna Wald, James J. Zogby, Nell Irvin Painter, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Houston Baker, Bob Herbert, Arthur Levine, Manning Marable, Alvin F. Poussaint, Cornel West, john a. powell ...
    Over 40 years ago the historic Kerner Commission Report declared that America was undergoing an urban crisis whose effects were disproportionately felt by underclass populations. In America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics, Curtis Ivery and Joshua Bassett explore the persistence of this crisis today, despite public beliefs that America has become a "post-racial" nation after ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Language and Literacy Development in Bilingual Settings

    Edited by Aydin Yücesan Durgunoglu, PhD, Claude Goldenberg, PhD ...
    Series series Challenges in Language and Literacy
    Grounded in state-of-the-art research, this book explores how English language learners develop both the oral language and literacy skills necessary for school success. Chapters examine the cognitive bases of English acquisition, and how the process is different for children from alphabetic (such as Spanish) and nonalphabetic (such as Chinese) language backgrounds. The book addresses a key ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Outbursts!

    A Gay and Lesbian Erotic Thesaurus

    by A.D. Peterkin ...
    Erotic slang words from Great Britain, Canada, the United States, Australia, and other English-speaking nations number well into the tens of thousands. But the history of terms used to describe the sexual activities of gays and lesbians have opposing sources: one, the discreet networks of gay men and lesbians who sought to come up with a new terminology for the pleasures of their secret lives; and ... Read more

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  • Social Justice, Peace, and Environmental Education

    Transformative Standards

    Edited by Julie Andrzejewski, Marta Baltodano, Linda Symcox ...
    Series series Teaching/Learning Social Justice
    The concept of "standards" seems antithetical to the ways critical educators are dedicated to teaching, but what would "standards" look like if they were generated from social justice perspectives and through collaborative and inclusive processes? Such is the central question posed by the contributors of this groundbreaking collection on the interconnectivity of social justice, peace, and ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Race Frameworks

    A Multidimensional Theory of Racism and Education

    by Zeus Leonardo ...
    Series series Multicultural Education Series
    This is a comprehensive introduction to the main frameworks for thinking about, conducting research on, and teaching about race and racism in education. Renowned theoretician and philosopher Zeus Leonardo surveys the dominant race theories and, more specifically, focuses on those frameworks that are considered essential to cultivating a critical attitude toward race and racism. The book examines ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Handbook of Multicultural School Psychology

    An Interdisciplinary Perspective

    Edited by Emilia C. Lopez, Sara G. Nahari, Sherrie Proctor ...
    Series series Consultation, Supervision, and Professional Learning in School Psychology Series
    The second edition of the Handbook of Multicultural School Psychology continues the mission of its predecessor, offering a comprehensive, interdisciplinary view of the field of multicultural school psychology and addressing the needs of children and families from diverse cultural backgrounds. The revised organizational structure includes the following: History and Professional Issues; Consultation ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

  • Education and Sustainability

    Learning Across the Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Divide

    by Seonaigh MacPherson ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    This book critically examines the impact of migration, education, development, and the spread of English on global bio-linguistic and cultural diversity. Derived from findings from a comparative eco-linguistic study of intergenerational language, culture, and education change in the Tibetan Diaspora, the book extends its analysis to consider the plight of other peoples who find themselves ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • US Education in a World of Migration

    Implications for Policy and Practice

    Edited by Jill Koyama, Mathangi Subramanian ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics
    Given the protracted, varied, and geographically expansive changes in migration over time, it is difficult to establish an overarching theory that adequately analyzes the school experiences of immigrant youth in the United States. This volume extends the scholarly work on these experiences by exploring how immigrants carve out new identities, construct meanings, and negotiate spaces for themselves ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Educational Attainments

    Issues and Outcomes in Multicultural Education

    Edited by Gajendra Verma, Peter Pumfrey ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education and Multiculturalism
    Originally published in 1988. This book presents an account of some of the challenges to society involved in multicultural education, together with recent empirical evidence concerning the educational attainments of British pupils of Afro-Caribbean, Asian and British origins. Promising policies and practices are identified. Individuals from different ethnic groups and professional orientations ... Read more

    $36.99 USD