Critical Social Thought
Youth Resistance for Educational Justice: Pedagogical Dreaming from the Classroom to the Streets
1st Edition
Edited
By Miguel N. Abad, Gilberto Q. Conchas
April 14, 2025
Youth Resistance for Educational Justice shows how resistance, especially among minoritized groups, is an increasingly crucial dynamic of social and educational transformation. It illustrates the ways in which young people are conceptualizing and asserting more socially just educational futures ...
Asian American Racialization and the Politics of U.S. Education
1st Edition
By Wayne Au
August 01, 2024
Asian American Racialization and the Politics of U.S. Education explores issues surrounding Asian American education in the United States, and how they relate to educational theory, policy, and practice. The book challenges stereotypes and assumptions that pervade U.S. education, restores absent ...
Culture Wars in American Education: Past and Present Struggles Over the Symbolic Order
1st Edition
By Michael R. Olneck
June 03, 2024
Culture Wars in American Education: Past and Present Struggles Over the Symbolic Order radically questions norms and values held within US Education and analyses why and how culture wars in American education are intense, consequential, and recurrent. Applying the concept of “symbolic order,” this ...
Learning to Cross Divides: Examining Critical Multicultural and Bilingual Schools
1st Edition
By Matthew Knoester, Assaf Meshulam
July 28, 2023
2024 AESA Critics’ Choice Book Award This volume demonstrates how multilingual schooling can enhance democracy through a connection with the policies and practices of critical education. With its in-depth analysis of real schools that focus on the dual emphases of multiculturalism and integration, ...
Creating Third Spaces of Learning for Post-Capitalism: Lessons from Educators, Artists, and Activists
1st Edition
By Gary L. Anderson, Dipti Desai, Ana Inés Heras, Carol Anne Spreen
March 31, 2023
In this book, the authors’ post-capitalist approach to change focuses less on what we need to dismantle and more on what educators and activists are building in its place. Studying schools and other social organizations in the Global North and South, the authors identify and examine some of the ...
Unequal By Design: High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality
2nd Edition
By Wayne Au
July 29, 2022
This new edition of Unequal By Design: High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality critically examines the deep and enduring problems within systems of education in the U.S., in order to illuminate what is really at stake for students, teachers, and communities negatively affected by ...
System Failure: Policy and Practice in the School-to-Prison Pipeline
1st Edition
Edited
By Patricia Burch
March 31, 2022
SYSTEM FAILURE provides a framework for understanding the ways in which education policy across organizational settings contributes to the school-to-prison pipeline, as documented in the literature and as observed by authors in empirical studies of justice-involved youth in regular public schools, ...
Digital Disruption in Teaching and Testing: Assessments, Big Data, and the Transformation of Schooling
1st Edition
Edited
By Claire Wyatt-Smith, Bob Lingard, Elizabeth Heck
April 29, 2021
This book provides a significant contribution to the increasing conversation concerning the place of big data in education. Offering a multidisciplinary approach with a diversity of perspectives from international scholars and industry experts, chapter authors engage in both research- and ...
Hidden Markets: Public Policy and the Push to Privatize Education
2nd Edition
By Patricia Burch
April 20, 2021
Across the United States, test publishers, software companies, and research firms continue to take advantage of the revenues made available by federal policies like the No Child Left Behind Act, Race to the Top, and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. In effect, the education industry has ...
Educating for Critical Consciousness
1st Edition
Edited
By George Yancy
May 09, 2019
In this politically and democratically urgent collection, George Yancy and contributors argue that more than ever, we are in need of classrooms that function "dangerously"—that is, classrooms where people are not afraid to engage in critical discussions that call into question difficult political ...
College Curriculum at the Crossroads: Women of Color Reflect and Resist
1st Edition
Edited
By Kirsten T. Edwards, Maria del Guadalupe Davidson
December 05, 2017
College Curriculum at the Crossroads explores the ways in which college curriculum is complicated, informed, understood, resisted, and enriched by women of color. This text challenges the canon of curriculum development which foregrounds the experiences of white people, men and other dominant ...
The Struggle for the Soul of Teacher Education
1st Edition
By Kenneth M. Zeichner
October 20, 2017
The Struggle for the Soul of Teacher Education is a much-needed exploration of the unprecedented current controversies and debates over teacher education and professionalism. Set within the context of neo-liberal education reforms across the globe, the book explores how the current struggles over ...