Teachers College Press: 606 books
by Shirley Brice Heath, Milbrey McLaughlin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What do effective youth organizations offer inner-city youngsters that schools do not? This book suggests that educators can learn much from inner-city social and youth organizations, which reach at-risk youngsters by developing a sense of family that many of them fail to get at home.
Addressing...
The Brothers and Sisters Learn to Write
Popular Literacies in Childhood and School Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Building on her groundbreaking work in Writing Superheroes, Anne Dyson traces the influence of a wide-ranging set of “textual toys” from children’s lives—church and hip–hop songs, rap music, movies, TV, traditional jump-rope rhymes, the words of professional sports announcers and radio deejays—upon...
by Thomas D. Fallace
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This penetrating historical study traces the rise and fall of the theory of recapitulation and its enduring influence on American education. Inherently ethnocentric and racist, the theory of recapitulation was pervasive in the social sciences at the turn of the 20th century when early progressive...
Moral Education in America
Schools and the Shaping of Character from Colonial Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This one-of-a-kind, comprehensive history of moral education in American schools provides an invaluable historical context for contemporary debates. McClellan traces American traditions of moral education from the colonial era to the present, illuminating both debates about the subject and actual...
Healing the Soul Wound
Counseling with American Indians and Other Native People
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Eduardo Duran—a psychologist working in Indian country—draws on his own clinical experience to provide guidance to counselors working with Native Peoples. Translating theory into actual day-to-day practice, Duran presents case materials that illustrate effective intervention strategies...
by Bryan R. Warnick
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What rights should students expect to exercise in public schools? Should bible study meetings be allowed during free periods? Should students be allowed to wear t-shirts that exhort taking drugs or committing violent acts? Should students be required to participate in drug testing? In this concisely...
by Nancy R. Smith, Carolee E. Fucigna, Margaret Ann Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The authors skillfully combine a philosophical and pragmatic approach, exploring the cognitive processes behind children’s painting. To deepen children’s understanding, the book suggests meaningful tasks for each phase of imagery and offers methods for encouraging children to discuss the concepts...
Regarding Educacion
Mexican-American Schooling, Immigration, and Bi-national Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The “Latino Education Crisis” not only threatens to dash the middle class aspirations of the nation’s largest immigrant group, it is also an ominous sign for democratic engagement and global competitiveness for U.S. society as a whole. This timely book argues that this crisis is...
by Eugene E. Garcia, Erminda Garcia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Young Hispanic children are the largest and fastest growing ethnic minority population in the United States, representing diverse racial, linguistic, and cultural backgrounds. Educational skills and achievement lag significantly for this population, creating an unacceptable achievement gap at the...
Visions of Childhood
Influential Models from Locke to Spock
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Throughout history certain theories of childhood have influenced the way we have understood, cared for, and educated our young. These theories form the bases of our attitudes toward children, and underpin our popular childrearing pracitces. Yet they have passed through history fort eh most part unexamined....
On Discourse Analysis in Classrooms
Approaches to Language and Literacy Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book in the NCRLL Collection provides an introductory discussion of discourse analysis of language and literacy events in classrooms. The authors introduce approaches to discourse analysis in a way that redefines traditional topics and provokes the imagination of researchers. For those who have...
Inside/Outside
Teacher Research and Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The central concern of Inside/Outside is the assumption that pedagogical knowledge is generated “outside-in”; that is, from the university, to be applied at schools. The first half provides a thoughtful conceptual framework for reading and understanding teacher research, exploring its history,...
Streetsmart Schoolsmart
Urban Poverty and the Education of Adolescent Boys
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“If the cogent messages of this searing and compelling book are heeded and implemented by educational researchers, policymakers, and practitioners, our nation will be greatly enriched by the abundant gifts of young men of color.” —James A. Banks, Kerry and Linda Killinger Professor...
The Great Diversity Debate
Embracing Pluralism in School and Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“Will American’s growing diversity undermine democracy, or is it instead a cornerstone of democracy? The Great Diversity Debate is essential reading for anyone who has thought about this question. Koppelman gives us a fascinating, detailed, and evenhanded account of the long historical...