Education
Confucianism Reconsidered
Explores the rich potential of Confucianism in American and Chinese classrooms of the twenty-first century.
Childhood beyond Pathology
Brings psychoanalytic concepts to the notion of childhood development with a keen eye to discussions of social justice and human dignity.
The Parthenon and Liberal Education
Discusses the importance of the early history of Greek mathematics to education and civic life through a study of the Parthenon and dialogues of Plato.
Shared Governance in Higher Education, Volume 2
Offers valuable insights into the governance process in higher education.
Brokering Tareas
Provides concrete examples of homework mentorship and positive academic interventions among immigrant families.
The Quest for Purpose
Demonstrates how students and educators can resist narrow, utilitarian views of higher education’s purpose.
Getting Personal
Addresses how digital forms of personal writing can be most effectively used by teachers, students, and other community members.
International Librarianship
Demonstrates the impact of global education partnerships related to information access.
Staging Women's Lives in Academia
Argues that institutional change must accommodate women’s professional and personal life stages.
US Latinization
Demonstrates how educators and policymakers should treat the intertwined nature of immigrant education and social progress in order to improve current policies and practices.
Shared Governance in Higher Education, Volume 1
Offers practical advice for achieving shared governance in higher education.
Being Black, Being Male on Campus
Explores how race and gender matter on campus and how Black males navigate college for academic and personal success.
Teaching Politics in Secondary Education
Uses data collected from multiple studies to offer recommendations on best practices for use in a polarized climate.
A Pedagogy of Anticapitalist Antiracism
Argues that the economic system itself is culpable in maintaining our oppressive educational status quo.
Rhetorical Healing
Reveals the rhetorical strategies African American writers have used to promote Black women’s recovery and wellness through educational and entertainment genres and the conservative gender politics that are distributed when these efforts are sold for public consumption.
Inventing the Mathematician
Considers how our ideas about mathematics shape our individual and cultural relationship to the field.
Chinese Philosophy on Teaching and Learning
A translation and discussion of the central Confucian text on education, Xueji (On Teaching and Learning), influential in China from the Han dynasty to the present day.
Fabricating an Educational Miracle
Illustrates the changing significance of what it means to be educated, rural, and ethnic in Southwest China.
Disrupting Adult and Community Education
Reconceptualizes local, national, and transnational adult education practices in light of neoliberalism and globalization.
Born Out of Struggle
Demonstrates how critical race theory can be useful in real-world situations.
The Fifth Element
Explores spoken word poetry as a tool for social justice, critical feminist pedagogy, and new ways of teaching.
Difficult Dialogues about Twenty-First-Century Girls
Introduces new conceptual frameworks for girls' studies.
Community Self-Determination
Examines the educational programs American Indians developed to preserve their cultural and ethnic identity, improve their livelihood, and serve the needs of their youth in Chicago.
Schoolhouse Activists
Examines the role of African American educators in the Birmingham civil rights movement.
Becoming Critical
Presents the key experiences of a diverse group of teachers and students in their journeys of becoming social justice educator/scholars.