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Education for Democracy
Contexts, Curricula, Assessments
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
Part of the "Research in Social Education" series, this text is divided into three parts: contexts; curricula; and assessments. It covers such topics as the irony of exclusion; teaching tolerance; and multicultural citizenship education.
School Integration Matters
Research-Based Strategies to Advance Equity
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
More than 60 years after the Brown v. Board of Education decision declared segregated schooling inherently unequal, this timely book sheds light on how and why U.S. schools are experiencing increasing segregation along racial, socioeconomic, and linguistic lines. It offers policy and programmatic...
Controls and Choices
The Educational Marketplace and the Failure of School Desegregation
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
Many activists and writers have ascribed continuing racial segregation in American schools to a failure of will. In this view, forced transfers of students and other aggressive judicially mandated policies would lead to greater equality in education if only legislators and judges had the will to continue...
by Yaacov Iram
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
This volume on "Education towards a Culture of Peace" is a timely undertaking, since the United Nations has proclaimed the years 20012010 as the "International Decade for a Culture of Peace and NonViolence for the Children of the World." A culture of peace as defined by the UN...
Math Education for America?
Policy Networks, Big Business, and Pedagogy Wars
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Math Education for America? analyzes math education policy through the social network of individuals and private and public organizations that influence it in the United States. The effort to standardize a national mathematics curriculum for public schools in the U.S. culminated in 2010 when over...
Globalization of Education
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Continuing Joel Spring’s reportage and analysis of the intersection of global forces and education, this text offers a comprehensive overview and synthesis of current research, theories, and models related to the topic. Written in his signature clear, narrative style, Spring introduces the processes,...
Corporatism, Social Control, and Cultural Domination in Education: From the Radical Right to Globalization
The Selected Works of Joel Spring
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Starting with the 1972 publication of his seminal work, Education and the Rise of the Corporate State, Joel Spring has been documenting and analyzing the politics of knowledge and education. Throughout his work he has explored the attempts to use education to advance the economic and political interests...
The Business of Education
Networks of Power and Wealth in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
The Business of Education—a comprehensive view of how education policy is made in the US and, in some cases, globally—analyzes and critiques the influence of educational policy networks in a wide range of contexts and from a variety of perspectives, including testing, college preparation, juvenile...
Globalizing Minds
Rhetoric And Realities In International Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Globalization has a profound effect on the mission and goals of education worldwide. One of its most visible manifestations is the worldwide endorsement of the idea of “education for global citizenship,” which has been enthusiastically supported by national governments, politicians, and policymakers...
Education and Conflict
Complexity and Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
First-place winner of the Society for Education Studies' 2005 book prize, Education and Conflict is a critical review of education in an international context. Based on the author's extensive research and experience of education in several areas afflicted by conflict, the book explores the relationship...
by Allan Luke
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
This collection of Allan Luke’s key writings on educational policy, curriculum, and school reform follows the development and use of critical discourse analyses to study educational policy and practice. Turning to a series of narrative analyses of the relationship between politics, culture, economics,...
First Freire
Early Writings in Social Justice Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In his new book, Carlos Alberto Torres, an internationally renowned critical theorist of education, explores the early writings of Paulo Freire whose ideas have had a tremendous and long-lasting impact on the world of pedagogy and politics. Torres analyzes Freire’s works, from the 1960s and...
Rethinking Common Core
The Missing Piece Sabotaging its Success
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Common Core arose from broad recognition that children were not retaining their learning. Its solution, however, was for students to learn different material--math and English more advanced and better arranged—and adults would declare their learning satisfactory or not. It did not address why children...
Teaching Students to Work Harder and Enjoy It
Practice Makes Permanent
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Teaching Students to Work Harder and Enjoy It: Practice Makes Permanent points out a single, fundamental, and easily-corrected flaw that has held back American education for nearly a century—the design of instruction to achieve familiarization instead of mastery. This book explains the psychological...