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

Areas discussed in this text include: a moral outlook; circumstances of education; judgements for excellence; the goodness of teachers; the goodness of students; privilege; and American values.

Place and community-based education is an approach that addresses two critical gaps in the experience of many children growing up in the United States: contact with the natural world and contact with community. This book explains the purpose and nature of place and community-based education, and provides multiple examples of its practice.

The study reported in this book focuses on the academic performance of Black American students. Not only do these students perform less well than White students at every social class level, but also less well than immigrant minority students, including Black immigrant students.

This work is a cross-cultural examination of globalization and women in higher education. The book compares experiences of Western and Asian women within a framework that raises important questions about cultural difference and institutional power.

An ethnographic account of a revolutionary Indigenous self-determination movement that began in 1966 with the Rough Rock Demonstration School. It asks whether school can be a place where children learn, question, and grow in an environment that values and builds upon who they are.

This text studies what it is like to live on the US-Mexico border. The author describes of a small town and school, languages, social class, history and what it means to be an immigrant. Vignettes from Marleen Pugach's experiences and interpretations of her interviews and observations are included.

Using personal narratives by Yup'ik Eskimo teachers, this text shows how they began to reconcile cultural differences and conflict between the culture of the school and that of the community. The book also provides examples for others who are involved in creating culturally responsive education.

This guide asseses global education, while looking at the issue from a historical and international viewpoint. Topics include: equality and freedom in Islamic education; India's education, human rights and the global flow; and natural rights and education in the West.

Subjects the prophets and doctrines of educational neoliberalism to scrutiny in order to provide a rationale and vision for public education beyond the limits of No Child Left Behind. This book combines a history of education policy with an analysis of the origins of such policy and its impact on professional educators.

This critical examination of the origins of mass communication research from the perspective of an educational historian investigates the educational meaning of mass media, with the goal of understanding the essential connection between education and communication.

This text charts the rise of consumerism as the dominant American ideology of the 21st century. It documents and analyses how, from the early 19th century through to the present, the combined endeavours of schools, advertising and media have led to the creation of a consumerist ideology.

Examines the operations of power and knowledge in international education under conditions of globalization, with a focus on the three biggest exporters of higher education--the US, Australia, and the UK. An interdisciplinary approach based on the core social sciences is used to explore the power relations that shape global education networks.

This study of parental involvement in modern education covers such diverse topics as lessons from personal experience, the quest for equity in family-school relations and the obscure side of homework.

Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in an urban elementary school, this volume focuses on the webs of social relations that embed schools in neighbourhoods, cities, states, and regions. It raises questions such as what we mean when we talk about "school".

This landmark collection by Third World activists highlights two major world changes which, they argue, have been neglected by Freire and his many followers: the Third World grass-roots cultural resistance to economic globalization, and the ecological cr

This book takes a critical look at the impact of globalization as it relates to educating women for work. It explores current efforts in a number of nations to make vocational education and training gender equitable.

Scholars from the US & Europe explore the promise of "civil society" to rejeuvenate systems of public education that are frequently characterized by bureaucratic over-regulation, lack of diversity and choice, and inequality of opportunity.

The Business of Education¿a comprehensive view of how education policy is made in the US and, in some cases, globally¿analyzes and critiques the influence of educational policy networks in a wide range of contexts and from a variety of perspectives, including testing, college preparation, juvenile detention centers, special education, the arts, teacher evaluation systems, education of undocumented immigrants, college faculty preparation, and financial aid. A network chart in most chapters illustrates how the major political actors, mainly private philanthropic foundations, for-profit companies, government officials, and politicians involved in the network, are linked. Joel Spring, internationally renowned scholar and analyst of educational policy, situates and frames the network studies in an introduction discussing general theories of education policy networks.

The authors in this book use the metaphors of invisibility and visibility to explore the social and school lives of many children and young people in North America whose complexity, strengths, and vulnerabilities are largely unseen in the society and its

Going beyond just exposing educational inequalities, this volume provides intelligent and pragmatic research-based policy directions and tools for change for U.S. Latino Education and other multicultural contexts.

Going beyond just exposing educational inequalities, this volume provides intelligent and pragmatic research-based policy directions and tools for change for U.S. Latino Education and other multicultural contexts.

Challenges teachers, researchers, educational leaders, and community stakeholders to build dynamic learning environments through which indigenous learners can be boldly indigenous in a global world. This book examines topics including: regenerating and transforming language and culture pedagogy that reminds us that what is Contemporary is Native.

The Native American Higher Education Initiative (NAHEI) has supported the development and growth of centres of excellence at Tribal Colleges and Universities across the USA. This text aims to translate the knowledge gained through the programmes into a form that can be adapted by a wide audience.

This work explains and illustrates dialogic teacher research with immigrant and refugee families - which encompasses methods that are at once ethnographic, participatory, and narrative. It gives examples of how dialogic teacher research can inspire changes in teaching.

This volume presents research on the US Title I federal compensatory education programmes. It documents the programme's history, and points to its potential for the future, building on 35 years of research, development and practical experience.

This is a volume in the Sociocultural, Political and Historical Studies in Education Series. It covers: the historical and sociopolitical context; identity, culture, race, language and gender; social activism, community involvement and policy implications; and directions for the future.

Examines how neoliberal and neoconservative policies are working in tandem to privatize and commercialize public schools. It looks at how these policies and the agendas behind them have impacted the internal dynamics of school management, teaching, and learning.

Documents the development and growth of centers of excellence at Tribal Colleges and Universities in the U.S. through a program supported by the Native American Higher Education Initiative, a W.W. Kellogg Foundation Project.

Presents individual concepts and practical models of native educ. programs that have been developed & implemented in native communities & promotes use of these models as a guide for policy-making, leadership & leadership devel., and teaching & learning.