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

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.

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.

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.

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

This text-reader brings together powerful readings that critically situate issues of education in the context of the major cultural, moral, political, economic, ecological, and spiritual crises that confront us as a nation and a global community. It prov

Provides a comparative understanding of the global range of multicultural issues in education and the types of approaches being used to address them. Presents different ways to think, talk, and research about issues of diversity and the effects of power.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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".

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 collection of essays 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 crisis.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Examines content, methodological, and policy issues framing the debate on academic achievement, school engagement, and oppositional culture. This book presents some critical works on these issues as well as examples of programs aimed at re-engagement. It looks at African Americans, and school engagement among Native American and Latino students.

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.

Bringing together a group of the best creative educational thinkers to reflect on the purpose and future of public education, this collection of original essays by leading social and educational commentators in North America attempts to articulate a vision for education, especially public education, and begin to set an alternative direction.