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American Education in Popular Media
From the Blackboard to the Silver Screen
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
American Education in Popular Media explores how popular media has represented schooling in the United States over the course of the twentieth century. Terzian and Ryan examine prevalent portrayals of students and professional educators while addressing contested purposes of schooling in American society.
Hollywood’s Exploited
Public Pedagogy, Corporate Movies, and Cultural Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2010
This book provides an interdisciplinary and collaborative anthology that seeks to make a compelling and exciting analysis of contemporary Hollywood film texts (and the larger industry and society to which they are dialectically related) in light of Giroux's ideas about public pedagogy. Foreword by Lawrence Grossberg.
Performing Gender Violence
Plays by Contemporary American Women Dramatists
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
Violence against women in plays bywomen has earned little mention. This revolutionary collection fills that gap, focusing on plays by American women dramatists, written in the last thirty years, that deal with different forms of gender violence. Each author discusses specific manifestations of violence...
by C. Carter, Shelly Clay-Robison, L. Pickett
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Carter and Pickett explore how educators and families can teach peace education through youth literature and literacy development. Showing how to assess, choose, and make use of literature that can be used to teach both literacy and peace education, they walk through individual methods: recognizing...
Taiwan Education at the Crossroad
When Globalization Meets Localization
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Chou and Ching examine the processes of schooling in Taiwan amidst social, cultural, economic, and political conflict resulting from local and global dilemmas. Collectively, these issues offer a panoramic and in-depth glimpse from the past to the future of educational trends in Taiwan.
Black Leaders on Leadership
Conversations with Julian Bond
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Drawing on a wealth of oral interviews, Conversations on Black Leadership uses the lives of prominent African Americans to trace the contours of Black leadership in America. Included here are fascinating accounts from a wide variety of figures such as John Lewis, Clarence Thomas, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Angela Davis, Amiri Baraka, and many more.
Critical Pedagogy and Global Literature
Worldly Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
In one volume, this edited collection provides both a theoretical and praxis-driven engagement with teaching world literature, focusing on various aspects of critical pedagogy. Included are nine praxis-driven essays by instructors who have taught world literature courses at the university level.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
In this edited collection, the authors grapple with both the strengths and challenges that HBCUs face as the nation's demographics change, from their place in American society and growing diversity on HBCU campuses to class and elitism issues to study abroad and honors programs.
by Christine Woyshner, Chara Haeussler Bohan
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
This collection of historical essays on race develops lines of inquiry into race and social studies, such as geography, history, and vocational education. Contributors focus on the ways African Americans were excluded or included in the social education curriculum and the roles that black teachers played in crafting social education curricula.
Leading Value Creation
Organizational Science, Bioinspiration, and the Cue See Model
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Every business discipline has a unique vantage point on value creation and destruction, and while specialists have devised solutions, leaders rarely use them because of the inherent complexity in trying to understand which parts fit together to help them achieve goals. The result is a sort of business...
Fixing the African State
Recognition, Politics, and Community-Based Development in Tanzania
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Community-based development' (CBD) or'community-driven development' (CDD) has been the predominant approach to international development in recent years. Drawing on fieldwork and first-hand experience, this book explains why CBD/CDD produces outcomes that are incompatible with its underlying assumptions and intended objectives.
by Jeremy Kowalski
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
This book examines domestic extremism and what is popularly referred to as radicalization. The fear of domestic extremism has been used to dismantle democracy and erect national security states throughout North America, Western Europe, and beyond. Yet, despite the enormous costs citizens have paid...
by Max J. Skidmore
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
This book is an examination of the manner in which American presidents respond to pandemics and other public health crises. Skidmore argues that presidential performance in dealing with emergencies and pandemics varies, but those who are informed, focused, and confident that government can work are...
Expats and the Labor Force
The Story of the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
An investigation into the labor force in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries primarily focusing on labor migration and remittances. The GCC countries have the highest share of foreign labor in the world. The authors examine the multidimensional aspects of such a large foreign population.