Lexington Books imprint: 3858 books
The American-Style University at Large
Transplants, Outposts, and the Globalization of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
The focus of research on the globalization of higher education has historically been on universities within the United States. More recently, the focus has shifted to the international scene, yet there remain few published works to document this phenomenon.
The American-Style University at Large:...
Educating the Urban Race
The Evolution of an American High School
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
For America's children, for students, growing up urban has become a tainted label. By acquiring one simple label, the urban student has become the other, illegitimate, different from the norm. The urban student has indeed been bastardized in America. The constructs of race/ethnicity, socioeconomic...
The Price of Politics
Lessons from Kelo v. City of New London
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
This book makes the unconventional claim that all of the rights in the U.S. Constitution are unified since they are derived from the same sources. Using the U.S. Supreme Court's controversial decision of Kelo v. City of New London to explore one of the most important constitutional questions of our...
by Hilary Bergsieker, Daniele Conversi, Emilian Kavalski
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
Nationalism remains one of the key political, societal, and sociopsychological phenomena in contemporary Europe. Its significance for the justification of state policies and the stability of political systems, particularly in the context of advanced democracies, and its significance for people's basic...
Turkey and the European Union
The Question of European Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
European identity has always been in a state of construction. With the creation of the European Union, however, this construction now takes place within an institutional framework, introducing a number of new variables. Selcen .ner's Turkey and the European Union: The Question of European Identity...
The Generalist Approach to Conflict Resolution
A Guidebook
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
This book outlines the generalist approach to conflict resolution. The approach was inspired by the generalist approach to social work but has now emerged in the fields of conflict resolution and peace studies. Essentially, the approach considers conflict resolution practice and scholarship very broadly....
Education and Technology
Critical Perspectives, Possible Futures
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2007
There are numerous publications about education and technology. What is missing is a balanced appraisal of the values and cognitive skills technology promotes and those it devalues. This is important for education because the way we teach influences how children think, and it is of more general importance...
The Religion Clauses of the First Amendment
Guarantees of States' Rights?
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The First Amendment of the U. S. Constitution begins: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof . . . ." The Supreme Court has consistently held that these words, usually called the "religion clauses," were meant...
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...
Engaging Civic Engagement
Framing the Civic Education Movement in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Civic education in higher education is housed in various types of institutions (i.e., community colleges, four year universities, public and private institutions), institutional offices, academic departments, and larger, cross-campus initiatives and organizations. Civic education programs promote...
Renewed Accountability for Access and Excellence
Applying a Model for Democratic Professional Practice in Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Renewed Accountability for Access and Excellence advances discussion of a conceptualized model for cultivating democratic professional practice in education (DPPE) and considers its relationship with contemporary teaching and leading praxes. A diverse and highly qualified group of scholars and practitioners...
The Case for Gridlock
Democracy, Organized Power, and the Legal Foundations of American Government
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
The Case for Gridlock explains how Progressive ideas about government have led to severe representational problems in the American political system. Having rejected the Framers' institutional arrangement as sluggish and frustrating, Progressives have, for over a century, worked to circumvent the Madisonian...
The Black Panther Party and Transformative Pedagogy
Place-Based Education in Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
The Black Panther Party and Transformative Pedagogy: Place-Based Education in Philadelphia, by Omari L. Dyson,is the first scholarly text to detail the social relief efforts of the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Branch of the Black Panther Party. Through a postcolonial lens, this story captures the lived...
Imagination and Environmental Political Thought
The Aftermath of Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Imagination and Environmental Political Thought: The Aftermath of Thoreau seeks to correct oversimplified readings of Henry David Thoreau’s political thought by elucidating a key tension within his imagination. With the celebration of Thoreau’s two-hundredth birthday now past, this study outlines,...