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Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality
A Brief History of the Education of Dominated Cultures in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Joel Spring’s history of school polices imposed on dominated groups in the United States examines the concept of deculturalization—the use of schools to strip away family languages and cultures and replace them with those of the dominant group. The focus is on the education of dominated groups...
by Journal of School Public Relations
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
The Journal of School Public Relations is a quarterly publication providing research, analysis, case studies and descriptions of best practices in six critical areas of school administration: public relations, school and community relations, community education, communication, conflict management/resolution,...
The Death and Resurrection of a Coherent Literature Curriculum
What Secondary English Teachers Can Do
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2012
This book is addressed to teachers who know that the secondary literature curriculum in our public schools is in shambles. Unless experienced and well-read English teachers can develop coherent and increasingly demanding literature curricula in their schools, average high school students will remain...
Teaching Social Foundations of Education
Contexts, Theories, and Issues
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This book, the first comprehensive, critical examination of the theory and pedagogy of the field of social foundations of education and its relevance and role within teacher education:
*Articulates central questions in the field--such as "What is social foundations?"; "Is there a social foundations...
Toward a Literacy of Promise
Joining the African American Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
"[This book] gives us strategies for bringing life back to school; it allows us to think creatively about connecting instruction to the lives of children who have not been well-served; it helps us learn to value the gifts with words our children of color bring; and it gives us hope for educating...
The Language Police
How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
If you’re an actress or a coed just trying to do a man-size job, a yes-man who turns a deaf ear to some sob sister, an heiress aboard her yacht, or a bookworm enjoying a boy’s night out, Diane Ravitch’s internationally acclaimed The Language Police has bad news for you: Erase those words from...
Pushing the Limits
How Schools Can Prepare Our Children Today for the Challenges of Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
How do we prepare children for a future we can't even imagine?
Across Canada, a debate swirls around what our children will need to know in the face of huge technological, economic, social and political change. The question has become an ideological battleground, and there is a hunger for a...
by Daniel F. Chambliss
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Constrained by shrinking budgets, can colleges do more to improve the quality of education? And can students get more out of college without paying higher tuition? Daniel Chambliss and Christopher Takacs conclude that limited resources need not diminish the undergraduate experience. How College Works...
by Eva Zygmunt, Patricia Clark
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Transforming Teacher Education for Social Justice offers teacher educators a new way to think about the development of culturally responsive educators. The authors identify the core components needed to restructure and reorient programs of teacher education to adequately prepare new teachers for the...
by Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson, Mary Louise Pratt
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1991
Controversy over what role “the great books” should play in college curricula and questions about who defines “the literary canon” are at the forefront of debates in higher education. The Politics of Liberal Education enters this discussion with a sophisticated defense of educational reform...
by Roger C. Schank
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
In the author's words: "This book is an honest attempt to understand what it means to be educated in today's world." His argument is this: No matter how important science and technology seem to industry or government or indeed to the daily life of people, as a society we believe that those...
Social Reconstruction Learning
Dualism, Dewey and Philosophy in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
This volume argues that educational problems have their basis in an ideology of binary opposites often referred to as dualism, which is deeply embedded in all aspects of Western society and philosophy, and that it is partly because mainstream schooling incorporates dualism that it is unable to facilitate...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
The Handbook of Social Justice in Education, a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the field, addresses, from multiple perspectives, education theory, research, and practice in historical and ideological context, with an emphasis on social movements for justice. Each of the nine sections explores...
Circulating Communities
The Tactics and Strategies of Community Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
Circulating Communities: The Tactics and Strategies of Community Publishing, edited by Paula Mathieu, Steve Parks, and Tiffany Rousculp, represents the first attempt to gather the myriad of community and college publishing projects, providing not only history and analysis but extended samples of the...