Patrick Shannon: 12 books

“Reading Wide Awake should be required reading for all educators working to implement the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), the greatest opportunity for promoting a real thinking curriculum that I have seen in my 30 years as an educator. I was not only tremendously impressed with this book;...

In this book Shannon’s major premise remains the same as his 1998 Reading Poverty: Poverty has everything to do with American public schooling–how it is theorized, how it is organized, and how it runs. Competing ideological representations of poverty underlie school assumptions about intelligence,...

Through firsthand accounts of classroom practices, this new book ties 130 years of progressive education to social justice work. Based on their commitments to the principle of the equal moral worth of all people, progressive teachers have challenged the obstacles of schooling that prevent some people...

500 pages of spooky haunted house stories from 12 authors! What happens when the place in which you’re meant to feel the safest turns against you? Where do you go when the world inside your four walls is scarier than the world outside? Get ready to find out! From the authors...

Do children, these innocent souls whose lives were cut drastically short, haunt in a different way? Can YOU resist the spirit of a child? Are you ready to take a journey into the afterlife? Everyone loves a good ghost story! But what happens when the ghost is just a child? In the following...

It's the most wonderful time of year...or is it? Christmas Eve is a night of mystery and magic, but not always in ways we expect. Things lurk in the shadows and they're not the least bit jolly or merry. Let's just say some presents are better left unopened. ‘Tis the season to be screaming...

The first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists considers the mind–body relationship from the perspective of athletic skill and sports practice. This landmark work is the first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists...

The rapid growth and development of urban areas in the South have resulted in an increase in the number of urban archaeology projects required by federal and state agencies. These projects provide opportunities not only to investigate marginal areas between the town and countryside but also to recover...

The novels of the South African writer J. M. Coetzee won him global recognition and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. His work offers substantial pedagogical richness and challenges. Coetzee treats such themes as race, aging, gender, animal rights, power, violence, colonial history and accountability,...

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The essays written by established and newer scholars seeks to fill a void in the lacuna by bringing to bear the centrality of Catholic people, groups, and movements on U.S. history, mainly from the mid-19th century to the present, with the essays “linked by a common desire to enrich narratives of United States history.

Engagement is trendy. Although paired most often with community, diverse invocations of engagement have gained cache, capturing longstanding shifts toward new practices of knowledge making that both reflect and facilitate multiple ways of being an academic. Engagement functions as a gloss for these...