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  • Teaching Literature and Writing in Prisons

    Edición de Sheila Smith McKoy, Patrick Elliot Alexander ...
    As the work of Malcolm X, Angela Y. Davis, and others has made clear, education in prison has enabled people to rethink systems of oppression. Courses in reading and writing help incarcerated students feel a sense of community, examine the past and present, and imagine a better future. Yet incarcerated students often lack the resources, materials, information, and opportunity to pursue their ... Leer más

    $52.00 USD

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  • Rational Ritual

    Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge

    de Michael Suk-Young Chwe ...
    Why do Internet, financial service, and beer commercials dominate Super Bowl advertising? How do political ceremonies establish authority? Why does repetition characterize anthems and ritual speech? Why were circular forms favored for public festivals during the French Revolution? This book answers these questions using a single concept: common knowledge.Game theory shows that in order to ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Reinventing Diversity

    Transforming Organizational Community to Strengthen People, Purpose, and Performance

    de Howard J. Ross ...
    Diversity in business and other organizations has been a goal for more than a quarter of a century, yet companies struggle to create an inclusive work place. In Reinventing Diversity, one of America's leading diversity experts explains why most diversity programs fail and how we can make them work. In this inspiring guide, Howard Ross uses interviews, personal stories, statistics, and case studies ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Sex Work on Campus

    de Terah J. Stewart ...
    Sex Work On Campus examines the experiences of college students engaged in sex work and sparks dialogue about the ways educators might develop a deeper appreciation for—and praxis of—equity and justice on campus.Analyzing a study conducted with seven college student sex workers, the book focuses on sex work histories, student motivations, and how power (or lack thereof) associated with social ... Leer más

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  • Creating Critical Classrooms

    Reading and Writing with an Edge

    de Mitzi Lewison, Christine Leland, Jerome C. Harste ...
    This popular text articulates a powerful theory of critical literacy—in all its complexity. Critical literacy practices encourage students to use language to question the everyday world, interrogate the relationship between language and power, analyze popular culture and media, understand how power relationships are socially constructed, and consider actions that can be taken to promote social ... Leer más

    $99.99 USD

  • Other Kinds of Families

    Embracing Diversity in Schools

    Edición de Tammy Turner-Vorbeck, Monica Miller Marsh ...
    This important book reconsiders the ways in which families are currently represented and addressed in school curriculum and culture. It addresses such issues as the educational needs of gay and lesbian families, the representation of adoption in children’s literature, and the experiences of homeless students and their families. Includes questions for reflection and discussion at the end of each ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • Designing Socially Just Learning Communities

    Critical Literacy Education across the Lifespan

    de Rebecca Rogers, Mary Ann Kramer, Melissa Mosley, The Literacy for Social Justice Teacher Research Group ...
    Demonstrating the power and potential of educators working together to use literacy practices that make changes in people's lives, this collaboratively written book blends the voices of participants in a teacher-led professional development group to provide a truly lifespan perspective on designing critical literacy practices. It joins these educators’ stories with the history and practices of the ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD

  • Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

    Asking a Different Question

    de Gloria Ladson-Billings ...
    Series series Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies Series
    For the first time, this volume provides a definitive collection of Gloria Ladson-Billings’ groundbreaking concept of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy (CRP). After repeatedly confronting deficit perspectives that asked, “What’s wrong with ‘those’ kids?”, Ladson-Billings decided to ask a different question, one that fundamentally shifted the way we think about teaching and learning. Noting that “those ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Reading Is My Window

    Books and the Art of Reading in Women’s Prisons

    de Megan Sweeney ...
    Drawing on extensive interviews with ninety-four women prisoners, Megan Sweeney examines how incarcerated women use available reading materials to come to terms with their pasts, negotiate their present experiences, and reach toward different futures.Foregrounding the voices of African American women, Sweeney analyzes how prisoners read three popular genres: narratives of victimization, urban ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Education and Equality

    de Danielle Allen, Tommie Shelby, Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Michael Rebell, Quiara Alegría Hudes ...
    American education as we know it today—guaranteed by the state to serve every child in the country—is still less than a hundred years old. It's no wonder we haven't agreed yet as to exactly what role education should play in our society. In these Tanner Lectures, Danielle Allen brings us much closer, examining the ideological impasse between vocational and humanistic approaches that has plagued ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Uniform Feelings

    Scenes from the Psychic Life of Policing

    de Jessi Lee Jackson ...
    In Uniform Feelings, American studies scholar and abolitionist psychotherapist Jessi Lee Jackson reads policing as a set of emotional and relational practices in order to shed light on the persistence of police violence. Jackson argues that psychological investments in U.S. police power emerge at various sites: her counseling room, manuals for addressing bias, museum displays, mortality statistics ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Demystifying the Big House

    Exploring Prison Experience and Media Representations

    de Emily Plec, Adina Schneeweis, Amanda Barnes Cook, Sarah Fenstermaker, Valerie Jenness, J. David Wolfgang, Pauline Matthey, Kathryn M. Whiteley, Meredith Huey Dye, S. Lenise Wallace, Rebecca Kern, Kalen Churcher, Joy Jenkins, L. Clare Bratten, Le’Brian A. Patrick ...
    Series series Perspectives on Crime and Justice
    Essays in this volume illustrate how shows such as Orange Is the New Black and Oz impact the public’s perception of crime rates, the criminal justice system, and imprisonment. Contributors look at prison wives on reality television series, portrayals of death row, breastfeeding while in prison, transgender prisoners, and black masculinity. They also examine the ways in which media messages ignore ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD