Despite the abolishment of discriminatory policies that have historically marginalized many students from certain racial and ethnic groups, there are still groups in North America that continue to exp
Basing his analysis on ethnographic narrative inquiry fieldwork investigating an 11th-grade social studies class in a North American high school, the author argues that "brown boys" (i.e., South Asian
This book won the 2014 AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award. Engaging Culture, Race and Spirituality addresses a critical question rarely addressed in our conversation
This collection of seven essays shows how faith can be an integral part of engagement with culture and exploration of one's place in the equation that is race and spirituality. The essays ask how migh
What is research and who is a researcher? Why engage in research and what can be its value? How do we come to know what lies beyond our horizons? Paradigms of Research for the 21st Century opens the d
A research paradigm is a system of inquiry, a way of knowing, a model of what knowledge is accessible and how. It is a self-consistent framework that unites theory of knowledge and practice of knowled
This reader offers 24 chapters providing theoretical and empirical perspectives on transformative leadership in education, which is defined by editor Shields (dean, College of Education, Wayne State U
The Bible has long served as the standard for Christian practice, yet believers still disagree on how biblical passages should be interpreted and applied. Only when readers fully understand the const
A biblical and practical case for three main evangelical views on remarriage after divorce Among born-again Christians, 27 percent have experienced divorce as compared to 24 percent in the general pop
What does the Bible say about women's roles in the church? With pros and cons on either side of a heated, ongoing debate, no definitive conclusions have emerged. This book furnishes you with a clear
Both neo-liberal and Third Way politicians have accepted globalization as the key determinant of social and political organization, says Conroy (religious education, U. of Glasgow), and have therefore
This book observes and analyzes the communication patterns of Latino students in an English course at the college level, closely observing the interaction between Latino students and the teacher, as w
Containing narrative essays, short stories, and poems, this volume explores the meaning of the dress in the lives of women in Western society. Thirty-two contributions describe women's personal experi
Eleven academics, all but one from the U.S., revisit Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences some 20 years after Gardner's text, Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences , intro
This text features the original version of Purpel's (U. of North Carolina, Greensboro) 1989 work, The Moral and Spiritual Crisis in Education including the introduction by Henry Giroux and Paolo Freir
Education scholars, most from the US but one Australian/Canadian hybrid, mine the territory where science fiction and education overlap. In addition to the genre as part of the curriculum, they explor
Tanaka (human development, Pacific Oaks College, Pasadena, California) argues that Americans have not been adequately trained to effectively handle the country's racial and ethnic diversity. He outli
In this postmodern study, Diaz-Greenberg (education, California State U., San Marco) introduces herself as a critical educator who learned English as a second language as a teen. She presents the voic
Three sociologists from the University of Barcelona set out not the theories they like best, but the ones that are most used, and most referred to in contemporary sociological practice. They write pri
Hoping to encourage educators to incorporate visual images into their pedagogies, Sanders-Bustle (art education, U. of Louisiana at Lafayette) presents five chapters that explore the interconnections
Reynolds (curriculum studies, Georgia Southern University) explores curriculum theory from hermeneutics and phenomenology to poststructuralism in these essays from 1982-2002. Democratic schools, the a
O'Riley (education, U. of Victoria, Canada) explores an alternative to the technological literacy now dominant in education, one that affirms and celebrates difference. She doubts that the current dis
Ferneding (U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) questions the technocentric and functionalist-based assumptions driving current reform policies in education. She suggests that the current approach advoc
A textbook for a graduate course in epistemology for students of the philosophy of education and related fields. It looks at the discipline from a feminist perspective. Thayer-Bacon's (education, U. o
Gur-Ze'ev's compelling text takes to task the ideological education in Israel which, he argues, suppresses acknowledgment of the realities and histories of the Other, including the Palestinians, and u
Though this is not a festschrift, Ted Aoki (emeritus, curriculum studies, U. of British Columbia), who is one of the contributors, is frequently mentioned as a source of new ways of thinking about tea
Eighteen contributors from science, research, science education, teacher preparation, multicultural education, and cultural anthropology provide multiple perspectives on the complex issues of multicul
Sidorkin (education, Bowling Green State U., Ohio) develops a theoretical approach to education based on the notion of relation. He defines learning as "production of useless things," and schools as t
Inspired by the work of John Dewey, contributors challenge the guiding vision that has dominated Western educational thought for the past four centuries and encourage educators to reevaluate their phi
As a result of the increasing violence in American schools, educators are being asked to include character education in the classroom. Ryan, Sweeder, and Bednar (all education, La Salle U., Philadelph
Before migrating to North America, Li (teacher education, California State U., Long Beach) experienced the Cultural Revolution and taught at universities in China. In this volume, she employs both pro
US, Canadian, and Australian science educators argue that the cultural studies of science is not anti-science. They examine the work of selected French thinkers, present a vision of what a postmodern
Brown (emeritus, education, State University of New York) challenges the new reform concept of problem as it relates to problem posing and solving, and the notion of connection with the real world as
Willinsky (literacy and technology, U. of British Columbia) presents this collection of 13 essays from the past decade and a half; some have been previously published, while others are published here
Kincheloe (education, City U. of New York, and Brooklyn College) believes that social studies education in the U.S. has gone through 40 years of confusion, and is now in critical need of reform. In t
