Critical Social Thought
Working Method: Research and Social Justice
1st Edition
By Lois Weis, Michelle Fine
July 20, 2004
Working Method focuses on the theory, method, and politics of contemporary social research. As ethnographic and qualitative research become more popular, noted scholars Weis and Fine provide a roadmap for understanding the complexities involved in doing this research....
Learning to Labor in New Times
1st Edition
Edited
By Nadine Dolby, Greg Dimitriadis
April 12, 2004
Learning to Labor in New Times foregrounds nine essays which re-examine the work of noted sociologist Paul Willis, 25 years after the publication of his seminal Learning to Labor, one of the most frequently cited and assigned texts in the cultural studies and social foundations of education....
Rethinking Scientific Literacy
1st Edition
By Wolff-Michael Roth, Angela Calabrese Barton
January 26, 2004
Rethinking Scientific Literacy presents a new perspective on science learning as a tool for improving communities. By focusing on case studies inside and outside of the classroom, the authors illuminate the relevance of science in students' everyday lives, offering a new vision of scientific ...
High Stakes Education: Inequality, Globalization, and Urban School Reform
1st Edition
By Pauline Lipman
December 16, 2003
Noted scholar Pauline Lipman explores the implications of education accountability reforms, particularly in urban schools, in the current political, economic, and cultural context of intensifying globalization and increasing social inequality and marginalization along lines of race and class....
Political Spectacle and the Fate of American Schools
1st Edition
By Mary Lee Smith, Linda Miller-Kahn, Walter Heinecke, Patricia F. Jarvis
October 23, 2003
The authors argue that the most influential and well-known educational policy programs in the past 30 years are not based on democratic consensus, but are instead formulated by the political community as symbolic efforts meant to generate personal partisan gain....
Tough Fronts: The Impact of Street Culture on Schooling
1st Edition
By L. Janelle Dance
July 26, 2002
Tough Fronts takes the difficult issues in urban education head on by putting street-savvy students at the forefront of the discussion on how to best make successful changes for inner city schools. Individual chapters discuss scholarly depictions of black America, the social complexity of the ...
Contradictions of School Reform: Educational Costs of Standardized Testing
1st Edition
By Linda McNeil
April 28, 2000
Parents and community activists around the country complain that the education system is failing our children. They point to students' failure to master basic skills, even as standardized testing is widely employed in efforts to improve the educational system. Contradictions of Reform is a ...
The Uses of Culture: Education and the Limits of Ethnic Affiliation
1st Edition
By Cameron McCarthy
December 17, 1997
The Uses of Culture , a collection of nine of Cameron McCarthy's most provocative essays, explores the issues of race, educational reform and cultural politics. This volume looks at the limitations of the cultural exceptionalism which underwrite current curriculum projects such as Afrocentrism, ...
Education, Power, and Personal Biography: Dialogues With Critical Educators
1st Edition
By Carlos Alberto Torres
December 03, 1997
In dialogues with key thinkers in the area of critical education, this book documents how a tradition of study grew in the United States. Through in-depth interviews, the author asks each of these thinkers to talk about the relationship between their personal experiences and their academic work. ...
Critical Ethnography in Educational Research: A Theoretical and Practical Guide
1st Edition
By Francis Phil Carspecken
December 12, 1995
Ethnographic methods are becoming increasingly prevalent in contemporary educational research. Critical Ethnography in Educational Research provides both a technical, theoretical guide to advanced ethnography--focusing on such concepts as primary data collection and system relationships--and a very...
Power and Method: Political Activism and Educational Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Gitlin
August 31, 1994
Power and Method demonstrates that political activism can and should be infused into the research process. Contesting the traditional assumptions that have dominated thinking about the nature and meaning of research--validity, objectivity and the researcher/"subject" relationship--the volume ...
Public Schools That Work: Creating Community
1st Edition
Edited
By Gregory A. Smith
December 06, 1993
Public Schools That Work addresses the efforts of teachers, administrators and parents to develop alternative educational models capable of overcoming the alienation and intellectual disengagement that have become so common in American schools. Educators working in some of the best alternative ...