Books in the Counterpoints series

Suitable for undergraduate and graduate students in schools of education, this volume features a scholarly group of authors who argue for the continuing importance of the philosophy of education. It directly confronts the evisceration of the topic by those who are interested in commercializing learning.

Fracturing Opportunity

Explores the trajectories and challenges of exceptional men and women athletes who later became outstanding academic scholars. This book reports findings from participatory, qualitative research, and problematizes ways we have come to think about the separation and integration of athletic and academic practices.

Composed of a framing essay and nine sections edited by established and emerging scholars and addressing critical topics for researchers and students of sexualities and education, this title provides an overview of sexualities considered through a variety of educational lenses and theoretical frameworks.

Suitable for contemporary teachers, this title provides practical knowledge for teachers who are struggling to meet the needs of increasingly diverse classrooms.

Suitable for contemporary teachers, this title provides practical knowledge for teachers who are struggling to meet the needs of increasingly diverse classrooms.

This edited book provides readers with a guide for implementing self-assessment and self-evaluation that is based on a model implemented successfully in a diverse range of teacher education courses.

This book continues, extends, and advances the research and conversations introduced in Black Sons to Mothers. With chapters commissioned by the Alphas in the Academy Committee (AAC) of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated, this volume reflects the fraternity's unshakable commitment to improving the contexts and outcomes of African American males in educational settings.

This book continues, extends, and advances the research and conversations introduced in Black Sons to Mothers. With chapters commissioned by the Alphas in the Academy Committee (AAC) of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated, this volume reflects the fraternity's unshakable commitment to improving the contexts and outcomes of African American males in educational settings.

Conceptualizes democratic sexuality education as a commitment to the idea that sexuality education should affirm the right of all young people to construct their own sexual selves and relations as much as possible, so long as they are non-exploitive, consensual, and informed.

Conceptualizes democratic sexuality education as a commitment to the idea that sexuality education should affirm the right of all young people to construct their own sexual selves and relations as much as possible, so long as they are non-exploitive, consensual, and informed.

Analyzes operational behaviors of prestigious and prestige-seeking universities, particularly within context of budget shortfalls and increasing competition. This book challenges entrepreneurial activities within universities by exploring costs of such ventures in terms of honoring commitments to faculty and students.

Assault on Kids

Policing the Campus is a collection of essays by activist academics and campus organizers from a variety of fields and movements. The book fully explores how higher education has entered a state of academic repression.

Policing the Campus is a collection of essays by activist academics and campus organizers from a variety of fields and movements. The book fully explores how higher education has entered a state of academic repression.

Becoming a Teacher

Becoming a Teacher

In the past decade or so, there has been an increasing interest in employing a combination of archival and life history methods to understand the complexities of schooling. This book explores the history of the Beal Technical School in order to discuss the methods and problems involved in researching the story of an institution.

Provides concrete examples of how top-down models of assessment can be embraced and used in ways that are consistent with critical pedagogies. This book offers readers a deepened awareness of how educators can alleviate the effects of standardization, especially for students in poor and working-class communities.

Bringing forward key issues in teacher education, this book demonstrates an exercise of practical judgment, that is, to show how certain kinds of research and writing can address the real life issues encountered in practice.

Suitable for pre-service teachers, classroom teachers, and faculties of education and works well as a textbook for a variety of courses, this title provides a collection of performative texts that retells the lived experiences of children and youth in meaningful ways, while providing readers with an opportunity to participate in the retelling.

Suitable for pre-service teachers, classroom teachers, and faculties of education and works well as a textbook for a variety of courses, this title provides a collection of performative texts that retells the lived experiences of children and youth in meaningful ways, while providing readers with an opportunity to participate in the retelling.

Based on critical and moral pedagogy, The Moral Debate on Special Education is the self-narrative of a disabled special education teacher who is searching for the answers and spaces where this dialogue and narrative can take place. What started as mere research for social justice in education has morphed, unintentionally, into the moral quest for justice and equality in special education.

Fleshing out the theoretical pillars of Critical Anti-Racist Theory (CART) as its central organizing framework, this text responds to the central issue of race in terms of public and academic discourses, meta-narratives, and its implications for social policy. This collection serves as a timely and accessible text for academic and wider audiences.

Fleshing out the theoretical pillars of Critical Anti-Racist Theory (CART) as its central organizing framework, this text responds to the central issue of race in terms of public and academic discourses, meta-narratives, and its implications for social policy. This collection serves as a timely and accessible text for academic and wider audiences.

This book explores how teacher dispositions are defined, developed, cultivated, and assessed. The authors in the volume consider the various and interconnected ways in which educators' values, beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors are performed and how these performances affect experiences and practices of learning.