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Over Ten Million Served
(August 2010)
Gendered Service in Language and Literature Workplaces
Michelle A. Massé - Editor
Katie J. Hogan - Editor
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The first book on gender and academic service.
All tenured and tenure-track faculty know the trinity of promotion and tenure criteria: research, teaching, and service. While teaching and research are relatively well-defined areas of institutional focus and evaluation, service work is rarely tabulated or analyzed as a key aspect of higher education’s political economy. Instead, service, silent and invisible, coexists w...(Read More) |
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Unresolved Identities
(March 2010)
Discourse, Ambivalence, and Urban Immigrant Students
Bic Ngo - Author
Deborah P. Britzman - Foreword by
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Explores the ways that immigrant youth identities are shaped by dominant discourses.
In her ethnographic study of Lao American students at an urban, public high school, Bic Ngo shows how simplistic accounts of these students smooth over unfinished, precarious identities and contested social relations. Exploring the ways that immigrant youth identities are shaped by dominant discourses that simplify and confine their experiences w...(Read More) |
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Literacy with an Attitude, Second Edition
(April 2009)
Educating Working-Class Children in Their Own Self-Interest
Patrick J. Finn - Author
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2010 AESA Critics’ Choice Award
A comprehensive update of the classic study that delivers both a passionate plea and strategies for teachers, parents, and community organizers to give working-class children the same type of empowering education and powerful literacy skills that the children of upper- and middle-class people receive.
The classic, indispensable guide for teachers, parents, and community organ...(Read More) |
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Improving Urban Middle Schools
(February 2009)
Lessons from the Nativity Schools
L. Mickey Fenzel - Author
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2010 Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award in the category of "The Professional Studies”, presented by Association of Jesuit Colleges and University and Alpha Sigma Nu
A look at Nativity schools, alternative middle schools that have had great success educating at-risk, urban students.
Nativity schools—there are over forty in urban areas throughout the United States—provide an important alternative to urban middl...(Read More) |
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Educating Democratic Citizens in Troubled Times
(November 2008)
Qualitative Studies of Current Efforts
Janet S. Bixby - Editor
Judith L. Pace - Editor
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Examines various aspects of citizen education programs that serve contemporary youth in the United States.
This bookoffers a groundbreaking examination of citizenship education programs that serve contemporary youth in schools and communities across the United States. These programs include social studies classes and curricula, school governance, and community-based education efforts. The book takes an interdisciplinary approa...(Read More) |
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School Choice Policies and Outcomes
(October 2008)
Empirical and Philosophical Perspectives
Walter Feinberg - Editor
Christopher Lubienski - Editor
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Provides a clear assessment of all sides of the school choice debate.
Perhaps no school reform has generated as much interest and controversy in recent years as the proposal to have parents select their children’s schools. Opponents of school choice fear that rolling back the government’s role will lead to profit-driven financial scandals, sectarianism, and increased class and racial isolation. School choice advoca...(Read More) |
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Always at Odds?
(April 2008)
Creating Alignment between Faculty and Administrative Values
Mary C. Wright - Author
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How faculty and administrators at research universities can create a shared sense of values.
In surveys, research university faculty often report that they value teaching more than their departments do. This incongruence holds implications for job satisfaction, stress, time spent on teaching, organizational continuity, and even student evaluations. Using an interactionist view of organizations, Mary C. Wright examines the reas...(Read More) |
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Imitation and Education
(April 2008)
A Philosophical Inquiry into Learning by Example
Bryan R. Warnick - Author
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Brings together current research in philosophy, cognitive science, and education to uncover and criticize the traditional assumptions of how and why we should learn through imitation.
Imitation and Education provides an in-depth reassessment of learning by example that places imitation in a larger social context. It is the first book to bring together ancient educational thought and startling breakthroughs in the fields of c...(Read More) |
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Teacher and Comrade
(March 2008)
Richard Dudley and the Fight for Democracy in South Africa
Alan Wieder - Author
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A biographical/narrative study of oppression, racism, and resistance in twentieth-century South Africa through the life of Richard Dudley, a teacher/politico.
Teacher and Comrade explores South African resistance in the twentieth century, before and during apartheid, through the life of Richard Dudley, a teacher/politico who spent thirty-nine years in the classroom and his entire life fighting for democracy. Dudley has given ...(Read More) |
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Educating for Human Rights and Global Citizenship
(March 2008)
Ali A. Abdi - Editor
Lynette Shultz - Editor
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Essays that highlight the role of education in bringing about inclusive citizenship and human rights norms.
Nearly sixty years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in spite of progress on some fronts, we are in many cases as far away as ever from achieving an inclusive citizenship and human rights for all. While human rights violations continue to affect millions across the world, there are also ongoing contestat...(Read More) |
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