Cheryl Walker: 8 books
Indian Nation
Native American Literature and Nineteenth-Century Nationalisms
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1997
Indian Nation documents the contributions of Native Americans to the notion of American nationhood and to concepts of American identity at a crucial, defining time in U.S. history. Departing from previous scholarship, Cheryl Walker turns the "usual" questions on their heads, asking not how...
Waveform
Twenty-First-Century Essays by Women
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Waveform celebrates the role of women essayists in contemporary literature. Historically, women have been instrumental in moving the essay to center stage, and Waveform continues this rich tradition, further expanding the dynamic genre’s boundaries and testing its edges. With thirty essays by thirty...
Identity Work in the Classroom
Successful Learning in Urban Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book provides classroom examples to demonstrate how identity-making is integral to the teaching and learning process. Responding to school reform efforts that focus on top-down reform measures, this book proposes “identity work” as an alternative approach. The author argues that efforts...
The Dating Game
Short Stories About the Search for Mr. Right
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
From fairytale romances to dating disasters and everything in between, The Dating Game chronicles the stories of hopefuls on their journey toward happily ever after. In this compilation of dating stories, sixteen writers share tales of adventures and experiences while on the quest toward finding Mr....
Socializing Care
Feminist Ethics and Public Issues
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2006
Criticism is often levied that care ethics is too narrow in scope and fails to extend to issues of social justice. Socializing Care attempts to dispel that criticism. Contributors to the volume demonstrate how the ethics of care factors into a variety of social policies and institutions, and can indeed...
Renewed Accountability for Access and Excellence
Applying a Model for Democratic Professional Practice in Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Renewed Accountability for Access and Excellence advances discussion of a conceptualized model for cultivating democratic professional practice in education (DPPE) and considers its relationship with contemporary teaching and leading praxes. A diverse and highly qualified group of scholars and practitioners...
Transforming the Academy
Faculty Perspectives on Diversity and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
In recent decades, American universities have begun to tout the “diversity” of their faculty and student bodies. But what kinds of diversity are being championed in their admissions and hiring practices, and what kinds are being neglected? Is diversity enough to solve the structural inequalities...
by Lynn Ahlgrim-Delzell Ph.D., Stephanie Al Otaiba Ph.D., Jill Allor
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
How can today’s educators teach academic content to students with moderate and severe developmental disabilities—while helping all students meet Common Core State Standards? This text has answers for K-12 teachers, straight from 37 experts in special and general education. A followup...