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Educational Leadership for Ethics and Social Justice
Views from the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
The purpose of this book is to examine and learn lessons from the way leadership for social justice is conceptualized in several disciplines and to consider how these lessons might improve the preparation and practice of school leaders. In particular, we examine philosophy, anthropology, sociology,...
AntiRacist School Leadership
Toward Equity in Education for America’s Students Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Since the passing of Brown versus Board of Education to the election of the first Black president of the United States, there has been much discussion on how far we have come as a nation on issues of race. Some continue to assert that Barack Obama’s election ushered in a new era—making the US...
Democratizing Leadership
Counterhegemonic Democracy in Communities, Organizations and Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Democratizing Leadership: Counter?hegemonic Democracy in Organizations, Institutions, and Communities promotes leadership in the democratization of culture to counter the current hegemony of domination and cultivate an alternative hegemony of collaboration. It is premised on a leadership framework...
Understanding Neoliberal Rule in Higher Education
Educational Fronts for Local and Global Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The word fundamentalism usually conjures up images of religions and their most zealous followers. Much less often the word appears in connection with political economy. The phrase “free market” gives the connotation that capitalism is freedom. Neoliberalism is the rise of global freemarket fundamentalism....
EducationBased Incarceration and Recidivism
The Ultimate Social Justice Crime Fighting Tool
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
EducationBased Incarceration and Recidivism: The Ultimate Social Justice Crime Fighting Tool takes a penetrating look at the needs and challenges of society's disenfranchised jail populations. It is incumbent to encourage public awareness of the causes that underlie the destructive cycles plaguing...
Navigating the Volatility of Higher Education
Anthropological and Policy Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Applied Anthropology provides a new perspective on today’s higher education environment. Volatile and unpredictable forces affect research and instruction across many sectors and levels, and global dynamics are among the strongest drivers of change. Further, within American higher education, daunting...
Applied Developmental Psychology
Theory, Practice, and Research from Japan
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
With a Foreword by Hiroshi Azuma.
Engaging the Avatar
New Frontiers in Immersive Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
This volume has a bold agenda, in which academics create immersive worlds where the avatar is the center of the universe. As the virtual world grows, avatars move away from quasihuman interactions within virtual domiciles, gardens, and businesses to being blood cells in the blood stream, or to be...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
There is intense interest in computer games. A total of 65 percent of all American households play computer games, and sales of such games increased 22.9 percent last year. The average amount of game playing time was found to be 13.2 hours per week. The popularity and market success of games is evident...
Critical Qualitative Research in Second Language Studies
Agency and Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
This volume begins by locating critical inquiry within the epistemological and methodological history of second language study. Subsequent chapters portray researcherparticipant exploration of identity and agency while challenging inequitable policies and practices. Research on internationalization,...
Focusing on the Underserved
Immigrant, Refugee, and Indigenous Asian American and Pacific Islanders in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Recent discussions and dissemination of information regarding the rapid growth of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) across our nation are creating some awareness among administrators and educators in higher education institutions regarding the extensive diversity of AAPIs, the struggles...
Authentic Leadership
An Engaged Discussion of LGBTQ Work as Culturally Relevant
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
This book provides new insights about the roles in which LGBTQ individuals contribute in society and various organizations. The literature is divided into two sections. Section one includes three chapters from higher education administrators, faculty and community activists. The chapters share personal...
Living at the Intersections
Social Identities and Black Collegians
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Living at the Intersections: Social Identities and Black Collegians brings together 21 diverse authors from 14 different institutions, including our nation’s most prestigious public and private universities, to advance the use of intersectionality and intersectional approaches in studying Black students...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
The book has drawn an interdisciplinary pool of authors, some of whom are natives of South Asian countries and others who have been involved extensively in the region through their affiliations with various international organizations. The book represents children's issues in six South Asian countries:...