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Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Focusing on the socially explosive concept of race and how it has affected human interactions, this work examines the social and scientific definitions of race, the implementation of racialized policies and practices, the historical and contemporary manifestations of the use of race in shaping social...
Growing Up in San Francisco's Chinatown
Boomer Memories from Noodle Rolls to Apple Pie
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Chinese American baby boomers who grew up within the twenty-nine square blocks of San Francisco's Chinatown lived in two worlds. Elders implored the younger generation to retain ties with old China even as the youth felt the pull of a future sheathed in red, white and blue. The family-owned shops,...
Schooling the Next Generation
Creating Success in Urban Elementary Schools
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Public schools are among the most important institutions in North American communities, especially in disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods. At their best, they enable students to overcome challenges like poverty by providing vital literacy and numeracy skills. At their worst, they condemn students to...
Educating the Urban Race
The Evolution of an American High School
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
For America's children, for students, growing up urban has become a tainted label. By acquiring one simple label, the urban student has become the other, illegitimate, different from the norm. The urban student has indeed been bastardized in America. The constructs of race/ethnicity, socioeconomic...
Toward a Literacy of Promise
Joining the African American Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
"[This book] gives us strategies for bringing life back to school; it allows us to think creatively about connecting instruction to the lives of children who have not been well-served; it helps us learn to value the gifts with words our children of color bring; and it gives us hope for educating...
Stop Leading Like It's Yesterday!
Key Concepts for Shaping Today's School Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Leadership practices from the Industrial Revolution are no longer effective in 21st century classrooms. Explore the Leading for Excellence and Fulfillment model, and discover practical, research-based strategies that will be relevant to school leaders today and tomorrow. Integrate ready-to-use techniques...
The Power of Community
Mobilizing for Family and Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2001
Fifteen years ago, Concha Delgado-Gaitan began literacy research in Carpinteria, California. At that time, Mexican immigrants who labored in nurseries, factories, and housekeeping, had almost no voice in how their children were educated. Committed to participative research, Delgado-Gaitan collaborated...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Carefully curated to highlight research from more than twenty countries, the International Critical Pedagogy Reader introduces the ways the educational phenomenon that is critical pedagogy are being reinvented and reframed around the world. A collection of essays from both historical and contemporary...
by Luan Hanratty
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2012
This course covers international relations and trade, tax and spending, the gap between rich and poor, globalization, culture, commerce, civil liberties, crime & punishment and other ethical dilemmas of state.
The 24 lesson plans contain:
•concise overviews of the topics
•cue cards...
by Marianella Sclavi
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
A field-research and contribution for the de-bronxification of ordinary social life. “The Art of Listening, reduced to the most essential terms, is an art for the transformation of pains and anxieties into opportunities for knowledge and awareness.”
The Seven Rules of the Art of Listening...
Elusive Justice
Wrestling with Difference and Educational Equity in Everyday Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Elusive Justice addresses how educators think about and act upon, differences in schools - be they based on race, gender, class, or disability - and how discourse and practice about such differences are intimately bound up with educational justice. Rather than skip over contentious or uncomfortable...
by Dr. Raphael A. Mizzell
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
In this book, students will learn about the lives of famous African American inventors and inventions and more importantly, about how they achieved their goals and how their contributions helped change the world. Students will be able to take the knowledge they will gain from this book and not only...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2014
The increasing internationalization of today’s classrooms calls for learning institutions to prepare students for success in an interdependent and technologically-advanced world. Faculty who are competent in multiple 21st century skills are best equipped to engage students in curricula that are relevant,...
Through Students' Eyes
Writing and Photography for Success in School
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Today’s educators—pre- and in-service teachers and teacher educators serve increasing percentages of adolescents who have limited relationships to school. These young people are often our most diverse youth; they are frequently English Language Learners (ELLs) and immigrants, and they are too...