Books in the Counterpoints series

This edited volume brings together work from leading scholars and new voices in the field of emotional intelligence. It examines emotional intelligence from the perspectives of educational psychology and positive psychology, with integrations across the two disciplines. Viewing emotional intelligence through these frameworks allows and illuminates the exploration of its positive potential and of emotional processing in contexts such as schools and workplaces. Readers will find leading empirical and theoretical views on emotional intelligence presented in this comprehensive collection, as well as inspiration for future research.

Drawing on critical race theory and empirical data from case studies involving fifty men of African descent, this book presents a perspective on black masculinity, maleness, sexism, and institutional racism.

Includes critical explorations into the key philosophical issues in qualitative research could throw light on distortions, power relations, hidden assumptions and possibilities within the field, and could provide the groundwork for needed change and new directions.

Examining Social Theory

Examining Social Theory

A collection of letters from leading educators and scholars to practicing and future teachers. It offers advice, encouragement, and inspiration in the form of innovative ideas to ignite teachers' passion for their work in the midst of a range of discouraging situations.

A collection of letters from leading educators and scholars to practicing and future teachers. It offers advice, encouragement, and inspiration in the form of innovative ideas to ignite teachers' passion for their work in the midst of a range of discouraging situations.

Ghosts of No Child Left Behind

Through the eyes of Muslim teachers, students, and members of Islamic communities, this title offers a comprehensive understanding of the problems, perspectives, and possibilities of sexuality education for Muslim youth living in the West. It explores how these youth negotiate between Muslim and popular cultural constructions of sexuality.

The theory of Nuyorganics joins Nuyorican poetry to organic intellectualism. Examining its possibilities, this book questions existing theories of the dominant elite and offers new theories for those who struggle for accurate representation in their academic environments.

Fanon and Education

Suitable for education classes that deals with diversity and administration in higher education, this book creates dialogue and develop support networks for faculty members who may have similar experiences, and to increase institutions' awareness of how faculty of color experience life within academy.

Suitable for education classes that deal with diversity and administration in higher education, this book creates dialogue and develop support networks for faculty members who may have similar experiences, and to increase institutions' awareness of how faculty of color experience life within the academy.

Does Your Vote Count?

Engages Indigenous knowledges more than a contest of the marginals, challenging the way oppositional knowledges are positioned, particularly in the Western academy. This book recognizes and acknowledge Indigenous knowledges as legitimate knowings in their own right, and not necessarily in competition with other sources or forms of knowledge.

Einstein and Zen

This book recounts the life and thought of Paulo Freire, a man who appeared at a critical point in history, and whose courageous, prophetic voice of conscience remains extraordinarily relevant.

Discourses and Identities in Contexts of Educational Change

Discourses and Identities in Contexts of Educational Change