Books in the Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education series

The story of Shou Cha, a refugee from Laos who became an American. His lifetime of learning is framed by various historical and sociological contexts that have shaped his life. This book suggests that immigrant parents can contribute to the process of making peace between diverse groups in America.

An assessment of Native Hawaiian education, this text focuses on the historical, political and cultural contexts which produced the system's "institutionalized" structure, which results in marginalization in schools and wider society. This is placed in the context of American minority cultures.

Ronald Heck seeks to introduce beginning researchers to the study of educational and social policy, how it has been examined from a scholarly perspective and the salient issues to consider in conceptualising and conducting policy research.

Analyzes the ideas of traditional and non-traditional philosophies from Confucianism to human rights regarding the contribution of education to the creation of a democratic society. This work explores how governments use education to control their populations, and examines forms of education that claim to free people from authoritarian control.

Examines globalization and its worldwide effects on education. A central thesis of this book is that industrial-consumerism is the dominant paradigm in the integration of education and economic planning in modern economic security states.

During the 1960s and the 1970s standard educational journals were ignoring the rising numbers of Asian-American children. This work analyzes the range of Asian-American education and provides American readers with information about individual ethnic groups.

"In this critical analysis of the intersection among global power elites, ICT, and schools, Joel Spring documents and examines the economic and political interests and forces that are pushing the use of ICT in education and the impact this is having on schools, students, and learning"-- Provided by publisher.

The fourteen letters making up this book engage pre-service teachers with a personable and accessible voice. Critiques of traditional methods of language arts are offered together with fresh alternatives to curricula and evaluation.

This work deals with the politics of identity and the concept of boundaries during a time of rapid change. It investigates how the role of schooling for Hispanos in Northern New Mexico, has changed significantly over the past three generations.

Proposes a prototype for a global school - an eco-school that functions to protect the biosphere and human rights and to support the happiness and well-being of the school staff, students, and immediate community - and for a global core curriculum based on holistic models for lessons and instruction.

Joel Spring explores three major international educational ideologies that are shaping global society: neo-liberal educational ideology, human rights education, and environmentalism. These changes are fueling a clash between the ideas of free-market and consumer-based neo-liberals and those of human rights and environmental educations.

This work offers a reasoned justification and definition for the universal right to education - applicable to all cultures - as provided for in Article 26 of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It concludes by proposing guidelines for human rights education and instruction.

This title takes readers into the lives of urban and suburban adolescents for a close-up look at how they navigate the conflicting discourses and disciplinary practices of American cultural crosscurrents that flow through economic, kinship, religious, and political domains of American life.

A description of the impact of US government civilization and education policies on a Native American tribe from 1793 to 1995. The author dicovers a direct relationship between educational policies and their impact on his family and tribe through the process of civilization.

This work discusses the relationship between the development of the global economy and educational policy, covering topics such as European colonialism, the Japanese response to colonialism, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the World Bank, and the United Nations.

Poverty is an educational issue because it affects children's physical, emotional, and cognitive development. Especially in current times, taken-for-granted ideas about poverty and poor children must be scrutinized and reconsidered. That is the goal of this book.

This is a study of the Pueblo Indians and Indian High School in New Mexico. The school is a non-public, state-accredited, off-reservation boarding school for more than 400 Pueblo, Navajo and Apache Indian students.