Books in the Counterpoints series

Presents portraits of a small group of teen mothers trying to finish high school, and describes ways in which reading, writing, and schooling shaped these young women's lives. This book suggests ways in which deeply held ideas about class, appropriate gender roles, and expression of emotion in school affect educators' relationships with students.

Integrating Multiculturalism into the Curriculum: From the Liberal Arts to the Sciences is a reader that introduces the Multicultural Curriculum Transformation and Research Institute, a successful multicultural curriculum transformation paradigm that is a model for colleges and universities across the country and abroad.

Integrating Multiculturalism into the Curriculum: From the Liberal Arts to the Sciences is a reader that introduces the Multicultural Curriculum Transformation and Research Institute, a successful multicultural curriculum transformation paradigm that is a model for colleges and universities across the country and abroad.

While American society has become more visual and digital, the general state of literacy in America is in crisis, with educators and public officials worried about falling educational standards, the rising influence of popular culture, and growing numbers of non-English-speaking immigrants. This book deals with this topic.

A compilation of personal essays by lesbian teachers and students who speak about sexual identity and its influence on the teaching and learning process. It provides twenty-six essays that give readers the opportunity to recognize, connect with, and critically think about the personal and political challenges.

A compilation of personal essays by lesbian teachers and students who speak about sexual identity and its influence on the teaching and learning process. It provides twenty-six essays that give readers the opportunity to recognize, connect with, and critically think about the personal and political challenges.

Stimulates conversation among liberal arts and education professionals as well as inform public school teachers about the life and times of Frederick Douglass. This book facilitates conversation, addressing the liberal arts professor's concern with content and the education professor's concern with pedagogy.

Stimulates conversation among liberal arts and education professionals as well as inform public school teachers about the life and times of Frederick Douglass. This book facilitates conversation, addressing the liberal arts professor's concern with content and the education professor's concern with pedagogy.

Gives a voice to undocumented Americans of Mexican origin. This book is about their stories and how, against the odds, they offer resistance as they navigate across ideological, historical, socio-economic, institutional and educational borders, in an effort to carve out a life in US society.

Looks at the place of movement in young children's lives and addresses how movement as a form of expression can become dance, thus displacing a reliance on linguistic modes of expression and honoring the agency of the body.

Provides a definitive overview of the scholarship and writing being done in the field of teacher leadership. This book introduces the reader to the scholarship of over 35 authors, and thus, becomes an essential tool needed to guide any meaningful discussion of the changing roles and responsibilities of teachers.

Clarifies and elaborates the concept, linking it to other theories including ways of thinking about curriculum and pedagogy to prepare leaders for a more transformative role. This book provides examples of studies conducted using the lens of transformative leadership as well as of research re-analyzed through its perspective.

A Curriculum of Place: Understandings Emerging through the Southern Mist presents new and provocative insights into the study of curriculum and place focusing on the South. The essays emphasize understanding the importance of Southern place politically, educationally, and experientially.

A Curriculum of Place: Understandings Emerging through the Southern Mist presents new and provocative insights into the study of curriculum and place focusing on the South. The essays emphasize understanding the importance of Southern place politically, educationally, and experientially.

Constructing Critical Consciousness unmasks the everyday colonizing operations of hegemonic power, often under the guise of progressive language. Through critical multicultural research and critical race, class, and gender narratives, the book exposes some of the barriers encountered in challenging hegemony and offers ideas for interrupting hegemony in teacher and K-12 education.

Constructing Critical Consciousness unmasks the everyday colonizing operations of hegemonic power, often under the guise of progressive language. Through critical multicultural research and critical race, class, and gender narratives, the book exposes some of the barriers encountered in challenging hegemony and offers ideas for interrupting hegemony in teacher and K-12 education.

Come Closer

Edward Said has been acknowledged as one of the greatest critics and cultural theorists of our time. This book translates Said's complex theory into praxis for readers and educators by gleaning key concepts and methodologies, critical and conceptual frameworks, and uses and ramifications for academic critique.

Unmasks the neoliberal ideology that led modern civilization to withdraw from its previous accomplishments into what may be called the new Dark Ages. In this book, the international group of contributors aggressively rejects the siege of society by capitalism and the resulting deterioration.

Profiles teachers, students, and schools struggling to interrupt the reproduction of social inequalities from one generation to the next. This title illustrates how forces of globalization create greater inequalities, and carefully describes and evaluates efforts to democratize educational opportunities.

Profiles teachers, students, and schools struggling to interrupt the reproduction of social inequalities from one generation to the next. This title illustrates how forces of globalization create greater inequalities, and carefully describes and evaluates efforts to democratize educational opportunities.

A Decolonizing Encounter

A Decolonizing Encounter

A Community of Disagreement

What is research and who is a researcher? Why engage in research and what can be its value? How do we come to know what lies beyond our horizons? This book explores these and other questions pertaining to the nature and process of educational research.

What is research and who is a researcher? Why engage in research and what can be its value? How do we come to know what lies beyond our horizons? This book explores these and other questions pertaining to the nature and process of educational research.

The Gay Agenda: Claiming Space, Identity, and Justice claims and reclaims the language of "agenda" and turns the rhetoric of the religious right on its ear. The contributors provide insightful and sharp commentary on gay agendas for human rights, marriage and family, cultural influences, schooling and education, and politics and law.

This book - grounded in twelve months of critical ethnographic fieldwork at a secondary school in North America - examines how educators and educational leaders pathologize the lived experiences of South Asian boys or "Brown boys", and how they engage in deficit theorizing discourses and practices.

Ivor Goodson is a vital contributor to the study of education and to educational research. This book traces the contours of his morally inflected approach to scholarship, highlighting its contribution to a politics of transformation, all the while acknowledging and encapsulating the practical, passionate, principled humanity that continues to drive Goodson's scholarship.

Emerging Perspectives on 'African Development': Speaking Differently discusses numerous areas of interest and issues about Africa, including contemporary challenges and possibilities of development. It offers cautionary words to field practitioners, researchers, and social theorists who work in development using language that is easily accessible to laypersons.