Language, Culture, and Power

Lourdes Diaz Soto

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Social Context of Education
• Provides insights into the impact that eliminating bilingual education programs has on the lives of families and communities. Persuasively argues that... Lees meer

Global Convulsions

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Social Context of Education
• Global Convulsions affords the reader an array of observations, data, and insights pertaining to both local and global events around the issues of rac... Lees meer

To Live Heroically

Delores J Huff

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Social Context of Education
• Analyzes American Indian education in the last century and compares the tribal, mission, and Bureau of Indian Affairs schools. To Live Heroically exam... Lees meer

Struggling To Be Heard

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Social Context of Education
• The social, psychological, and educational needs of Asian Pacific American youth often go unmet. This book, written by multicultural educators, social... Lees meer

Multicultural Education as Social Activism

Christine E Sleeter

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Social Context of Education
• Explores connections between multicultural education, social activism, and critical analyses of oppression. Connecting multicultural education with po... Lees meer

Practicing What We Teach

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Social Context of Education
• Provides new teachers with concepts and pedagogical strategies designed to enhance the unique and individual characteristics of an increasingly divers... Lees meer

Removing College Price Barriers

Michael Mumper

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Social Context of Education
• Presents the political, economic, and demographic factors that interact to produce and perpetuate increasing college price barriers. The dream of coll... Lees meer

The Other Struggle for Equal Schools

Rubén Donato

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Social Context of Education
• Contrary to popular belief that the struggle for educational opportunity during the civil rights era was waged exclusively by African Americans, this ... Lees meer

Standing Outside on the Inside

Olga M Welch, Carolyn R Hodges

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Social Context of Education
• the result of a longitudinal study of academic achievement and pre-college enrichment for disadvantaged Black adolescents, offers fresh insights on ba... Lees meer

Cooperative Learning in Context

Evelyn Jacob

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Social Context of Education
• Explains why powerful educational innovations like "cooperative learning" do not always reach their full potential in everyday classrooms. Cooperative... Lees meer

Teaching Diverse Populations

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Social Context of Education
• This book presents current knowledge about teaching culturally diverse populations, traditionally underserved in the nation's public schools. It appro... Lees meer

Subtractive Schooling

Angela Valenzuela

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Social Context of Education
• Provides an enhanced sense of what's required to genuinely care for and educate the U.S.-Mexican youth in America. Winner of the 2000 Outstanding Book... Lees meer

Children and Families at Promise

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Social Context of Education
• Shows how the labeling of children as "at-risk" actually perpetuates the inequities, racism, and discrimination facing many families in America. This ... Lees meer

Women's Agency and Educational Policy

Mutindi Mumbua Kiluva-Ndunda

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Social Context of Education
• Highlights the struggles of a group of women from rural Kenya to provide educational opportunities for their children. This fascinating book examines ... Lees meer

Teacher Thinking in Cultural Contexts

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Social Context of Education
• Explores how teachers think about students of color and/or a multicultural curriculum and presents opportunities for reconstructing teacher knowledge ... Lees meer

Defining and Designing Multiculturalism

Pepi Leistyna

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Social Context of Education
• An activist group works to bring a multicultural education program to an urban public school system. Just outside a major urban center on the east coa... Lees meer

Anti-Racist Scholarship

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Social Context of Education
• Offers discussion and examples of how white scholars can use anti-racist scholarship as part of the long-term civil rights struggle to create real equ... Lees meer

Speaking the Unpleasant

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Social Context of Education
• At New Mexico State University Rudolfo Chavez Chavez is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and James O'Donnell is Assistant Professor of Curricul... Lees meer

Language and Learning

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Social Context of Education
• This book explores the challenges of teaching an increasingly multilingual and multicultural American school population. Six million American children... Lees meer

African-Centered Pedagogy

Peter C Murrell Jr

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Social Context of Education
• Integrates the historical, cultural, political, and developmental considerations of the African American experience into a theory for the educational ... Lees meer

Navigators

Theresa Jenoure

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Social Context of Education
• Through excerpts and profiles, this inspiring book presents the experiences of twelve African American artists who teach at traditionally White colleg... Lees meer

Parent-School Collaboration

Mary E Gardiner

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Social Context of Education
• Examines in close detail public schools' relationships with their parents and communities. Mary E. Henry examines in close detail public schools' rela... Lees meer

Educational Administration in a Pluralistic Society

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Social Context of Education
• In this bold, provocative supplemental text for the field of educational administration, Colleen Capper and contributors challenge administrators, pol... Lees meer

Double Jeopardy

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Social Context of Education
• Enables teachers and other school personnel working with students with disabilities to provide a gender equitable educational experience. 2002 CHOICE ... Lees meer