Multicultural Education category: 1336 books
The Cultural Proficiency Journey
Moving Beyond Ethical Barriers Toward Profound School Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2010
Because equitable education for every child is a moral imperative!
Providing an excellent education to every child is truly a moral imperative, requiring profound change by organizations and individuals. Recognizing that true change begins from within, this compelling book shows how educators...
Is Everyone Really Equal?
An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This is the new edition of the award-winning guide to social justice education.
Based on the authors’ extensive experience in a range of settings in the United States and Canada, the book addresses the most common stumbling blocks to understanding social justice. This comprehensive resource...
Pushout
The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Strong sales track with solid potential to be matched or exceeded in paperback: The hardcover edition has sold 13,652, with 20,000 copies in print. Educators especially are hungry for the paperback. The New Press has a successful paperback track for books on race, inequality, and education (Other...
The Resegregation of Suburban Schools
A Hidden Crisis in American Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
"The United States today is a suburban nation that thinks of race as an urban issue, and often assumes that it has been largely solved,” write the editors of this groundbreaking and passionately argued book. They show that the locus of racial and ethnic transformation is now clearly suburban...
American Universities Abroad
The Leadership of Independent Transnational Higher Education Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Across the globe, American-style and liberal arts universities are being established. From the first, the American University of Beirut, established in 1866, to the liberal arts institutions being established in Saudi Arabia, Ghana, and elsewhere in the twenty-first century, there is a clear sense...
Teaching against Global Capitalism and the New Imperialism
A Critical Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
This book will address a number of urgent themes in education today that include multiculturalism, the politics of whiteness, the globalization of capital, neoliberalism, postmodernism, imperialism, and current debates in Marxist social theory. The above themes will be linked to critical educational...
Can We Talk about Race?
And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
**Major new reflections on race and schools—by the best-selling author of “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?“
A Simmons College/Beacon Press Race, Education, and Democracy Series Book**
Beverly Daniel Tatum emerged on the national scene in 1997 with...
Young, Gifted and Black
Promoting High Achievement among African-American Students
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Young, Gifted, and Black is a unique joint effort by three leading African-American scholars to radically reframe the debates swirling around the achievement of African-American students in school.
In three separate but allied essays, Theresa Perry, Claude Steele, and Asa Hilliard place students'...
Keeping Faith at Princeton
A Brief History of Religious Pluralism at Princeton and Other Universities
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2012
In 1981, Frederick Houk Borsch returned to Princeton University, his alma mater, to serve as dean of the chapel at the Ivy League school. In Keeping Faith at Princeton, Borsch tells the story of Princeton's journey from its founding in 1746 as a college for Presbyterian ministers to the religiously...
The Skin That We Speak
Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
“Lucid, accessible” research on classroom language bias for educators and “parents concerned about questions of power and control in public schools” (Publishers Weekly).
In this collection of twelve essays, MacArthur Fellow Lisa Delpit and Kent State University Associate Professor Joanne...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
As one of the first scholarly books to focus on colorism in education, this volume considers how connections between race and color may influence school-based experiences. Chapter authors question how variations in skin tone, as well as related features such as hair texture and eye color, complicate...
Teaching Matters
Stories from Inside City Schools
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
As public schools become increasingly embattled by budget shortfalls, crowded buildings, and ever-more-rigid curricula, the burden of these restrictions has drastically changed the way children are expected to learn. Nowhere is this more obvious or more devastating than classrooms in high-need urban...
Educational Interventions for Refugee Children
Theoretical Perspectives and Implementing Best Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
How can schools best prepare themselves to successfully educate refugee children?
By focusing on the education of refugee children, this book takes a rare look at a subject of increasing significance in current educational spheres. Highlighting the many difficulties facing refugee children, the editors...
Urban Teaching
The Essentials, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This significantly revised edition will help prospective and new city teachers navigate the realities of city teaching. Now the classic introduction to urban teaching, this book explains how global, national, state, and local reforms have impacted what teachers need to know to not only survive, but...