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Living at the Intersections
Social Identities and Black Collegians
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Living at the Intersections: Social Identities and Black Collegians brings together 21 diverse authors from 14 different institutions, including our nation’s most prestigious public and private universities, to advance the use of intersectionality and intersectional approaches in studying Black students...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
The book has drawn an interdisciplinary pool of authors, some of whom are natives of South Asian countries and others who have been involved extensively in the region through their affiliations with various international organizations. The book represents children's issues in six South Asian countries:...
The SoJo Journal
Volume 3 #2
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The SoJo Journal: Educational Foundations and Social Justice Education is an international peerreviewed journal of educational foundations. The Department of Educational Leadership at California State University, East Bay, whose mission is to prepare and influence bold, socially responsible leaders...
Life Stories
Exploring Issues in Educational History Through Biography
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Life Stories: Exploring Issues in Educational History Through Biography consists of 13 essays, each of which offers perspective on one of four key questions that have long drawn scholarly attention: What should schools teach? Who gets to decide? How should educators adapt to a changing world to provide...
Building a Peaceful Society
Creative Integration of Peace Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
To truly move toward a more peaceful society, it is imperative that peace education better address structural and institutional violence. This requires that it be integrated into institutions outside of schools and universities. Doing so will be challenging, as many of these institutions are structured...
Rubric Nation
Critical Inquiries on the Impact of Rubrics in Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
What is a rubric and how are they being used in teacher education and evaluation? When did rubrics become ubiquitous in the field of education? What impact do rubrics have on students, teachers, teacher educators, and the educational enterprise? This book is an edited volume of essays that critically...
Middle Grades Curriculum
Voices and Visions of the SelfEnhancing School
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
High stakes testing, standards, and accountability politics is taking us away from the importance of the affective domain in curriculum development. This critical learning domain is often an unrecognized and infrequently considered topic in the literature. Through this book we extend the current knowledge...
Journal of Character Education Issue
Vol. 12 #2
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The Journal of Character Education is the only professional journal in education devoted to character education. It is designed to cover the field—from the latest research to applied best practices. We include original research reports, editorials and conceptual articles by the best minds in our...
Living in Poverty
Developmental Poetics of Cultural Realities
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This book covers the results of investigation of social realities and their public representation in Brazilian poor communities, with a particular emphasis on the use of cultural tools to survive and create psychological and social novelty under conditions of severe poverty. A relevant part of it brings...
International Perspectives on Bilingual Education
Policy, Practice, and Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
This book is a defense of linguistic pluralism and language policies and practices in education that sustain that ideal. Educational meanings and models are influenced by different populations and different social and historical contexts. International comparisons can shed interesting light on the...
Membership and Moral Formation
Shame as an Educational and Social Emotion
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
This book is an attempt to relate moral formation to democratic life and to the emotional emotion of shame. The argument is that shame is essential to moral formation, that it tells us when we are violating our own moral norms. Contrary to common belief, I argue that shame is neither imposed on us...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
This volume dedicated to the engagement of African American males in community colleges furthers the research agenda focused on improving the educational outcomes of African American males. The theme engagement also supports the anti-deficit approach to research on African American males developed...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
This book is intended to offer college faculty members the insights of the development of reasoning movement that enlighten physics educators in the late 1970s and led to a variety of college programs directed at improving the reasoning patterns used by college students. While the original materials...