Multicultural Education category: 1336 books
Opening Doors
An Implementation Template for Cultural Proficiency
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
See how one school district made cultural proficiency real—and how you can too!
This book tells the story of Ventura Unified School District's successful implementation of cultural proficiency, which opened long-closed doors for marginalized students and returned gains on every key success...
Pledging Allegiance
Learning Nationalism at the El Paso-Juarez Border
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Offering a critical ethnography of education at the U.S.-Mexico border, Pledging Allegiance explores how public schools teach cultural and national values explicitly and implicitly. Susan J. Rippberger and Kathleen A. Staudt illuminate the complex overlays of culture and learning through the eyes...
The RIISE Roadmap to Independent School Success & Beyond
How This Unique Educational Journey Can Benefit Families Of
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2015
The first installment of The RIISE Roadmap to Independent School Success & Beyond is an introduction to the experiences of Ms. Parker Collins’ family as well as an overview of the culture of independent schools. Subsequent installments will focus on issues including the application process, becoming...
Psychology, Poverty, and the End of Social Exclusion
Putting Our Practice to Work
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Laura Smith argues that if there is any segment of society that should be concerned with the impact of classism and poverty, it is those within the “helping professions”—people who have built their careers around understanding and facilitating human emotional well-being. In this...
Critical Pedagogy and Social Change
Critical Analysis on the Language of Possibility
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
At its core, the main goal of critical pedagogy is deceptively simple—to construct schools and education as agents of change. While noble and ambitious, it is not always realistic in a climate of increased commodification, privatization of schooling, and canned curriculum. By assuming rather than...
Beyond Resistance! Youth Activism and Community Change
New Democratic Possibilities for Practice and Policy for America's Youth
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The failure of current policy to address important quality of life issues for urban youth remains a substantial barrier to civic participation, educational equity, and healthy adulthood. This volume brings together the work of leading urban youth scholars to highlight the detrimental impact of zero...
City Schools and the American Dream
Reclaiming the Promise of American Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What will it take for urban schools to achieve the kind of academic performance required by new state and national educational standards? How can classroom teachers in city schools help to close the achievement gap? What can restore public confidence in public schools?
Pedro Noguera argues...
by Olivia Ball, Paul Gready
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
Since the Declaration of Human Rights over fifty years ago, we acknowledge that universal rights exist, but what does this mean to someone who is tortured or denied education, work, or asylum? This No-Nonsense Guide to Human Rights looks at the theories of rights and universalism. It explores the difficult...
Indigenous Educational Models for Contemporary Practice
In Our Mother's Voice
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2000
What is the philosophy that should drive native education policy and practice? In July 1997 a group of native educational leaders from the United States (including Alaska and Hawai'i), Canada, Australia, and New Zealand gathered to define a potential solution to this question. This book passes on...
Why Theatre Matters
Urban Youth, Engagement, and a Pedagogy of the Real
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
What makes young people care about themselves, others, their communities, and their futures? In Why Theatre Matters, Kathleen Gallagher uses the drama classroom as a window into the daily challenges of marginalized youth in Toronto, Boston, Taipei, and Lucknow. An ethnographic study which mixes quantitative...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
The rapid growth of diversity within U.S. schooling and the heightened attention to the lack of equity in student achievement, school completion, and postsecondary attendance has made equity and diversity two of the principle issues in education, educational leadership, and educational leadership...
Fish Out of Water
Mentoring, Managing, and Self-Monitoring People Who Don't Fit In
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
What do you do when you’re the one who doesn’t fit in?
“Fish Out of Water” are those who don’t fit in the mainstream culture, often due to sexual orientation, gender identity, ableness, income level, or ethnicity. This book focuses on adaptation strategies for Fish Out of Water, as...
The Power of One
How You Can Help or Harm African American Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
YOU have the power to make a difference with your African American students!
This interactive staff development resource helps educators deal with the main barriers—often personal assumptions or mind-sets—that can impede their progress with African American K–12 students. Calling upon...
Teaching Racial Literacy
Reflective Practices for Critical Writing
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Racial literacy, a collection of discursive and decoding skills that allow individuals to interrogate race and racism as well as representation and personal identity, is vital in a contemporary society that professes meritocracy and post-racialism yet where racism and racialism continue to give rise...