Critical Social Thought
The New Political Economy of Urban Education: Neoliberalism, Race, and the Right to the City
1st Edition
By Pauline Lipman
March 21, 2011
Urban education and its contexts have changed in powerful ways. Old paradigms are being eclipsed by global forces of privatization and markets and new articulations of race, class, and urban space. These factors and more set the stage for Pauline Lipman's insightful analysis of the relationship ...
Controversy in the Classroom: The Democratic Power of Discussion
1st Edition
By Diana E. Hess
March 23, 2009
In a conservative educational climate that is dominated by policies like No Child Left Behind, one of the most serious effects has been for educators to worry about the politics of what they are teaching and how they are teaching it. As a result, many dedicated teachers choose to avoid ...
Race, Whiteness, and Education
1st Edition
By Zeus Leonardo
March 23, 2009
In the colorblind era of Post-Civil Rights America, race is often wrongly thought to be irrelevant or, at best, a problem of racist individuals rather than a systemic condition to be confronted. Race, Whiteness, and Education interrupts this dangerous assumption by reaffirming a critical ...
Advocacy Leadership: Toward a Post-Reform Agenda in Education
1st Edition
By Gary L. Anderson
March 06, 2009
In this timely and important new book, Gary Anderson provides a devastating critique of why a managerial role for educational leaders is counterproductive, especially for improving opportunities for low-income students and students of color, and instead proposes ways of re-theorizing ...
Critical Perspectives on bell hooks
1st Edition
Edited
By Maria del Guadalupe Davidson, George Yancy
February 23, 2009
Although bell hooks has long challenged the dominant paradigms of race, class, and gender, there has never been a comprehensive book critically reflecting upon this seminal scholar’s body of work. Her written works aim to transgress and disrupt those codes that exclude others as intellectually ...
Black Literate Lives: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
1st Edition
By Maisha T. Fisher
October 24, 2008
Black Literate Lives offers an innovative approach to understanding the complex and multi-dimensional perspectives of Black literate lives in the United States. Author Maisha Fisher reinterprets historiographies of Black self-determination and self-reliance to powerfully interrupt stereotypes of ...
Rightist Multiculturalism: Core Lessons on Neoconservative School Reform
1st Edition
By Kristen L. Buras
February 21, 2008
For nearly two decades, E. D. Hirsch’s book Cultural Literacy has provoked debate over whose knowledge should be taught in schools, embodying the culture wars in education. Initially developed to mediate against the multicultural "threat," his educational vision inspired the Core Knowledge ...
Market Movements: African American Involvement in School Voucher Reform
1st Edition
By Thomas C. Pedroni
May 24, 2007
Winner of the 2009 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA) Through careful ethnographic research, Market Movements represents community leaders, school officials, and most importantly, African American working class families who have used vouchers as a means...
Reading and Writing the World with Mathematics: Toward a Pedagogy for Social Justice
1st Edition
By Eric Gutstein
December 06, 2005
Mathematics education in the United States can reproduce social inequalities whether schools use either "basic-skills" curricula to prepare mainly low-income students of color for low-skilled service jobs or "standards-based" curricula to ready students for knowledge-intensive positions. And ...
Could It Be Otherwise?: Parents and the Inequalities of Public School Choice
1st Edition
By Lois André-Bechely
June 23, 2005
Parents who wish to choose schools for their children must have more than a desire for different or better - they need detailed knowledge of the processes and practices that will give them access to schools of choice. This book vividly contrasts the experiences of a diverse group of urban parents ...
Race, Identity, and Representation in Education
2nd Edition
Edited
By Cameron McCarthy, Warren Crichlow, Greg Dimitriadis, Nadine Dolby
March 30, 2005
This stunning new edition retains the book's broad aims, intended audience, and multidisciplinary approach. New chapters take into account the more current backdrop of globalization, particularly events such as 9/11, and attendant developments that make a reconsideration of race relations in ...
Mothering for Schooling
1st Edition
By Alison Griffith, Dorothy Smith
December 04, 2004
Griffith and Smith explore the innumerable, hidden, seemingly mundane tasks like getting kids ready for school, helping with homework, or serving on the PTA can all have profound effects on what occurs within school. Based on longitudinal interviews with mothers of school-age children, this book ...