Myers Education Press: 16 books
Democracy and Education by John Dewey
With a Critical Introduction by Patricia H. Hinchey
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Some hundred years after John Dewey worked to illuminate what it means to educate and how public education serves as the bedrock of democracy, his seminal Democracy and Education speaks urgently not only to critical contemporary educational issues but to contemporary political issues as well. As mania...
Moral Principles in Education and My Pedagogic Creed by John Dewey
With a Critical Introduction by Patricia H. Hinchey
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Contemporary political and socioeconomic conditions largely characterized by corruption and inequity have added new urgency to recurring calls for reorienting American public schools to their historic purpose: educating a citizenry both equipped and motivated to serve as the ultimate guardians of...
Getting to Where We Meant to Be
Working Toward the Educational World We Imagine/d
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
How is it, this text asks, that given such good intentions among education professionals, things in schools can go so very wrong?
The problem, Hinchey and Konkol posit, is that unspoken and misleading assumptions result in choices, decisions and policies with disastrous consequences for kids....
The New Henry Giroux Reader
The Role of the Public Intellectual in a Time of Tyranny
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
The New Henry Giroux Reader presents Henry Giroux’s evolving body of work. The book articulates a crucial shift in his analyses after the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attack, when his writing took on more expansive articulations of power, politics, and pedagogy that addressed education and culture...
by Steven P. Jones, Eric C. Sheffield
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Some students hate school, and some students love it. Some students enter classrooms with an “I dare you try to teach me” look on their faces, and others bounce into class excited to learn and anxious to please the teacher. We know we can’t automatically blame teachers or schools when students...
by Yvonna S. Lincoln, Gaile S. Cannella, M. Francyne Huckaby
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
This volume engages researchers with the notion of critical qualitative inquiry (CQI) as a direct practice of resistance. As female educators and researchers who have (through our politically activist sister) been referred to as “Nasty Women” in the US presidential debates, we believe that it...
Indigeneity and Decolonial Resistance
Alternatives to Colonial Thinking and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
To be able to promote effective anti-colonial and decolonial education, it is imperative that educators employ indigenous epistemologies that seek to threaten, replace and reimagine colonial thinking and practice. Indigeneity and Decolonial Resistance hopes to contribute to the search for a more radical...
Student Activism in the Academy
Its Struggles and Promise
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
Student Activism in the Academy: Its Struggles and Promise is a wide-ranging, provocative survey of student activism in America’s colleges and universities that critically analyzes the contentious problems and progress of a movement that has stirred public reaction in and out of academe. Its fundamental...
Why Kids Love (and Hate) School
Reflections on Difference
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
This collection consists of theoretical discussions, personal reflections, research reports, and policy suggestions sourced in the experiences of our most vulnerable students with an eye to making schools places all students might love rather than hate. The essays take up these issues from the perspectives...
Making Research Public in Troubled Times
Pedagogy, Activism, and Critical Obligations
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
These are certainly troubled times in which neoliberal capitalist patriarchy and the tyranny of racism and domination are continually reinscribed on the bodies and lives of so many. However, critical researchers understand the necessity for, as well as the difficulty of, using research to facilitate...
Philanthropy, Hidden Strategy, and Collective Resistance
A Primer for Concerned Educators
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019
In 1971, corporate lawyer and future U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell wrote a detailed memo that galvanized a small group of conservative philanthropists to create an organizational structure and fifty-year plan to alter the political landscape of the United States. Funded with significant...
Womanish Black Girls
Women Resisting the Contradictions of Silence and Voice
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
Womanish Black Girls/Women Resisting Contradictions of Silence and Voice is a collection of essays written by varied black women who fill spaces within the academy, public schools, civic organizations, and religious institutions. These writings are critically reflective and illuminate autobiographical...
The Educational Leader's Guide to Improvement Science
Data, Design and Cases for Reflection
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
The Educational Leader’s Guide to Improvement Science: Data, Design and Cases for Reflection is a collection illustrating applied organizational problem-solving using methods of improvement science in educational leadership. Early chapters introduce improvement science and then the reader is led...
Let's Chat—Cultivating Community University Dialogue
A Coffee Table Textbook on Partnerships
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
From the home of the Paulo Freire Democratic Project and non-profit community organization Padres Unidos, the Chapman University Padres Unidos Partnership presents this truly unique coffee table textbook, Let’s Chat: Cultivating Community University Dialogue – A Coffee Table Textbook on Partnerships....
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