Jennifer M Brown: 14 books

Book cover of Improving Criminal Justice Workplaces

Improving Criminal Justice Workplaces

Translating theory and research into evidence-based practice

by Paula Brough, Jennifer M. Brown, Amanda Biggs
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015

All organisations, whether private or public sector, seek to improve criminal justice workplace practice from an evidence base, but often find it difficult to effectively translate research findings into policy or design best-practice interventions. This book provides a direct bridge between academic...
Book cover of African American Students’ Career and College Readiness
by Brandee Appling, Elizabeth Auguste, Christopher T. Belser
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015

African American Students’ Career and College Readiness: The Journey Unraveled explores the historical, legal, and socio-political issues of education affecting African American students and their career and college readiness. Each chapter has been written based on the authors’ experience and...
Book cover of Comrades in Health

Comrades in Health

U.S. Health Internationalists, Abroad and at Home

by Walter J. Lear, Jane Pacht Brickman, Bernard Lown
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013

Since the early twentieth century, politically engaged and socially committed U.S. health professionals have worked in solidarity with progressive movements around the world. Often with roots in social medicine, political activism, and international socialism, these doctors, nurses, and other health...
Book cover of Blended Practices for Teaching Young Children in Inclusive Settings
by Dr. Jennifer Grisham-Brown, Ed.D., Dr. Mary Louise Hemmeter
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017

As more and more early childhood settings implement inclusive practices, teachers need to blend special and general education techniques to help all children learn. They'll find out how with the new edition of this bestselling text, which combines today's best practices for teaching young children...
Book cover of Leading Schools of Excellence and Equity

Leading Schools of Excellence and Equity

Closing Achievement Gaps Via Academic Optimism

by Kathleen M. Brown, Jennifer L. Benkovitz, Anthony J. Muttillo
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010

The purpose of this empirical inquiry of staterecognized “Honor Schools of Excellence” was to explore how these schools of distinction are (or are not) promoting and supporting both academic excellence and systemic equity for all students. In Phase One, quantitative data were collected through...
Book cover of Before Brown

Before Brown

Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South

by Andrew M Manis, John White, Patricia Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015

Before Brown details the ferment in civil rights that took place across the South before the momentous Brown vs. Board of Education decision in 1954. This collection refutes the notion that the movement began with the Supreme Court decision, and suggests, rather, that the movement originated in the...
Book cover of Individual Positive Behavior Supports

Individual Positive Behavior Supports

A Standards-Based Guide to Practices in School and Community Settings

by Martin Agran Ph.D., Richard Albin Ph.D., Sharon Ann Ballard-Krishnan
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016

Aligned with the Association for Positive Behavior Support’s Standards of Practice, this graduate-level text is an authoritative PBS primer for professionals preparing for work in educational and community-based settings. More than 60 leading scholars present the critical skills and knowledge...
Book cover of Cultivating Food Justice

Cultivating Food Justice

Race, Class, and Sustainability

by Kari Marie Norgaard, Ron ReedSr., Carolina Van Horn
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011

Documents how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives. Popularized by such best-selling authors as Michael Pollan, Barbara Kingsolver, and Eric Schlosser, a growing food movement...
Book cover of Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change

Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change

An Intersectional Feminist Analysis

by Ariane M. Balizet, Jacoby Ballard, Diana York Blaine
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016

Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change is the first collection to gather together prominent scholars on yoga and the body. Using an intersectional lens, the essays examine yoga in the United States as a complex cultural phenomenon that reveals racial, economic, gendered, and sexual politics of...
Book cover of Toward a 21st-Century School Library Media Program
by Doug Achterman, Marlene Asselin, Steven M. Baule
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007

This collection of enlightening and stimulating articles, written by some of the most important figures in school librarianship, demonstrates how teacher-librarians, classroom teachers, and administrators can work together to create a 21st century school library media program. With topics that emphasize...
Book cover of The Child in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema
by Eduardo Barros-Grela, María Bobadilla Pérez, Tarah Brookfield
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015

The Child in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema interrogates notions of the child as a symbol of futurity and also loss. By exploring the ways children function discursively within a dystopian framework we may better understand how and why traditional notions of childhood are repeatedly tethered to sites of...
Book cover of Orange Chinook

Orange Chinook

Politics in the New Alberta

by Janet Brown, Brad Clark, Roger Epp
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019

In 2015, the New Democratic Party won an unprecedented victory in Alberta. Unseating the Progressive Conservatives-who had won every provincial election since 1971-they formed an NDP government for the first time in the history of the province. Orange Chinook is the first scholarly analysis of this...
Book cover of Rethinking Disaster Recovery

Rethinking Disaster Recovery

A Hurricane Katrina Retrospective

by Elizabeth Fussell, Timothy J. Haney, James R. Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015

Rethinking Disaster Recovery focuses attention on the social inequalities that existed on the Gulf Coast before Hurricane Katrina and how they have been magnified or altered since the storm. With a focus on social axes of power such as gender, sexuality, race, and class, this book tells new and personalized...
Book cover of Appalachian Health and Well-Being
by Carol S. Baugh, Melanie F. Myers, Michael S. Hendryx
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012

Appalachians have been characterized as a population with numerous disparities in health and limited access to medical services and infrastructures, leading to inaccurate generalizations that inhibit their healthcare progress. Appalachians face significant challenges in obtaining effective care, and...
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