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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Globalization is changing what citizens need to know and be able to do by interrupting the assumption that the actions of citizens only take place within national borders. If our neighborhoods and nations are affecting and being affected by the world, then our political consciousness must be worldminded....
More Like Life Itself
Simulations as Powerful and Purposeful Social Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
John Dewey wrote in multiple places that education should be an experience of the content and processes of life itself. Too often, social studies is taught in a way that tells students about real-life, but fails to engage them in the process of life for which Dewey advocated. The core purpose of simulations...
Researching Race in Education
Policy, Practice and Qualitative Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
In traditional educational research, race is treated as merely a variable. In 1995, Gloria LadsonBillings and William F. Tate, IV argued that race is undertheorized in education and called for educational researchers to pay closer attention to the relationship between race and educational inequity...
Literacy as Gendered Discourse
Engaging the Voices of Women in Global Societies
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
This volume continues IAP’s dedication to the diverse field of international adult learning in the tradition of those books related to the We Learn and AAHE conferences. It is an edited and refereed collection and part of the larger body of scholarly publications associated with professional organizations...
Learning from the Federal Market?Based Reforms
Lessons for ESSA
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Over the past twenty years, educational policy has been characterized by top?down, market?focused policies combined with a push toward privatization and school choice. The new Every Student Succeeds Act continues along this path, though with decision?making authority now shifted toward the states. These...
Immigrant Youth Who Excel
Globalization's Uncelebrated Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
The book has two parts. Through a series of four interconnected studies, the first focuses on the youths’ perceptions. We, meaning the reader and I, accompany them on their way into the new school, in chapter 1, and listen to evaluations of their academic and social experiences. In chapter 2, we learn...
Confronting Racism in Higher Education
Problems and Possibilities for Fighting Ignorance, Bigotry and Isolation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Racism and ignorance churn on college campuses as surely as they do in society at large. Over the past fifteen years there have been many discussions regarding racism and higher education. Some of these focus on formal policies and dynamics such as Affirmative Action or The Dream Act, while many more...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
The edited volume, Contemporary Perspectives on Capital in Educational Contexts, is timely in its unique and appropriate analyses of the prevailing internal and external dynamics of capital as indicative of the type of currency within institutional structures or the currency among individual stakeholders...
It Takes Team Effort
Men and Women Working Together to Enhance Children’s Lives
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
This book explores the many ways and opportunities in which men and women might work together to highlight creative ways as well as examine the role of men in schools, families, and community engagement. The book helps to broaden the group’s “collective identity” of those who work with male...
Equality of Educational Opportunity and Knowledgeable Human Capital
From the Cold War and Sputnik to The Global Economy and No Child Left Behind
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
This work explores how the generally accepted definition or measure of equality of educational opportunity at the beginning of the twentyfirst century differs from what it was in the immediate postwar era. While there have been differing definitions or measures of equality of educational opportunity,...
Constructivism and the New Social Studies
A Collection of Classic Inquiry Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
The New Social Studies refers to a flurry of academic and commercial activity during the 1960s and 1970s that resulted in the mass development and dissemination of revolutionary classroom materials and teacher resources. In science as well as social studies, a spirit of “inquiry-based teaching”...
Urban Educational Leadership for Social Justice
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The chapters in Urban Educational Leadership for Social Justice: International Perspectives constitute a collection of works that explore dynamics related to equity in multiple contexts. Authors examined these issues in Turkey, Egypt the United States, Thailand and at a global level by comparing and...
Surmounting all Odds Vol. 1&2
Equalizing Education Opportunities in the New Millennium (Vol 1 & 2)
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003