Multicultural Education category: 1336 books
Education in Times of Environmental Crises
Teaching Children to Be Agents of Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The core assumption of this book is the interconnectedness of humans and nature, and that the future of the planet depends on humans’ recognition and care for this interconnectedness. This comprehensive resource supports the work of pre-service and practicing elementary teachers as they teach their...
American Indian Workforce Education
Trends and Issues
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
In this collection of original essays, contributors critically examine the pedagogical, administrative, financial, economic, and cultural contexts of American Indian vocational education and workforce development, identifying trends and issues for future research in the fields of vocational education, workforce development, and American Indian studies.
Standing Up for Something Every Day
Ethics and Justice in Early Childhood Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Standing Up for Something Every Day is written for present and future teachers in the early childhood classroom who truly want to make a difference in the lives of children. Exploring some of the most complex and pressing social and ethical dilemmas confronting early childhood educators, the author...
Chicana/o Struggles for Education
Activism in the Community
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Much of the history of Mexican American educational reform efforts has focused on campaigns to eliminate discrimination in public schools. However, as historian Guadalupe San Miguel demonstrates in Chicana/o Struggles for Education: Activisim in the Community, the story is much broader and more varied...
The Renaissance of American Indian Higher Education
Capturing the Dream
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2003
The Native American Higher Education Initiative (NAHEI), a W.W. Kellogg Foundation project, has supported the development and growth of centers of excellence at Tribal Colleges and Universities across the United States. These are centers of new thinking about learning and teaching, modeling alternative...
Living the Legacy of African American Education
A Model for University and School Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Modeled after a little known historical model and based on the research of Vanessa Siddle Walker*, Living the Legacy of African American Education: A Model for University and School,* describes a sustainable and authentic partnership between a university and its K-12 partners. Designed for school,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
Without proper training on the intricacies of race and culture, pre-service and in-service teachers may unwittingly continue outdated and ineffective pedagogies. As the demographics of student bodies shift to include more diverse backgrounds, fluency in the discourse of social justice becomes necessary....
Educating in Life
Educational Theory and the Emergence of New Normals
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2019
This volume investigates the ubiquitous education of everyday life as people contest the normal, settle on a new convention, and deal with the difficulties that arise. By documenting adolescent Dominican girls, young men in Silicon Valley, successful venture capitalists, and others imagining, explaining,...
Women Leading Education Across the Continents
Finding and Harnessing the Joy in Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
Women Leading Education Across the Continents: Harnessing the Joy in Leadership is the fifth collection of research from scholars around the globe who seek to understand the successes, challenges and progress of girls and women leading in education. Using a variety of approaches to their inquiries,...
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...
Stones into Schools
Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
From the author of the #1 bestseller Three Cups of Tea, the continuing story of this determined humanitarian’s efforts to promote peace through education
In this dramatic first-person narrative, Greg Mortenson picks up where Three Cups of Tea left off in 2003, recounting his relentless, ongoing...
Where Everybody Looks Like Me
At the Crossroads of America's Black Colleges and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
A richly reported account of the forces threatening America's historic black colleges and universities—and how diverse leaders nationwide are struggling to keep these institutions and black culture alive for future generations.
American education is under siege, and few parts of the system...
by William Irwin Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Education is currently a foremost concern for many Americans. Education, however, is about more than teaching children skills for earning a living and how to function in life. It is really a means of transmitting both a culture and a heritage. William Irwin Thompson, one of todays most innovative interdisciplinary...
by David Keiser Lee
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2005
Examines just how the important goals of educating for democracy can be achieved from the perspective of those working in teacher education and in P-12 schools.