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Decolonizing Foreign Language Education: The Misteaching of English and Other Colonial Languages
1st Edition
Edited
By Donaldo Macedo
January 09, 2019
Decolonizing Foreign Language Education interrogates current foreign language and second language education approaches that prioritize white, western thought. Edited by acclaimed critical theorist and linguist Donaldo Macedo, this volume includes cutting-edge work by a select group of critical ...
Decolonizing Educational Research: From Ownership to Answerability
1st Edition
By Leigh Patel
December 02, 2015
Decolonizing Educational Research examines the ways through which coloniality manifests in contexts of knowledge and meaning making, specifically within educational research and formal schooling. Purposefully situated beyond popular deconstructionist theory and anthropocentric perspectives, the ...
Latino Civil Rights in Education: La Lucha Sigue
1st Edition
Edited
By Anaida Colon-Muniz, Magaly Lavadenz
October 19, 2015
Latino Civil Rights in Education: La Lucha Sigue documents the experiences of historical and contemporary advocates in the movement for civil rights in education of Latinos in the United States. These critical narratives and counternarratives discuss identity, inequality, desegregation, policy, ...
Paulo Freire and the Curriculum
1st Edition
By Georgios Grollios, Henry A. Giroux, Panayota Gounari, Donaldo Macedo
January 30, 2015
How can Paulo Freire s progressive and vital contributions to curriculum planning can be made more relevant today for educators, policy makers and anybody involved in education? This book provides a necessary framework as it articulates significant questions. The first deals with Freire s positions...
Pedagogy of Commitment
1st Edition
By Paulo Freire
October 30, 2014
This first English translation of Pedagogy of Commitment takes readers deep into the acts and meaning of living a life of community and social commitment. Paulo Friere discusses how, for teachers specifically, this commitment is not only to students, to the underprivileged, or to the education of ...
Changing Lives: Working with Literature in an Alternative Sentencing Program
1st Edition
By Taylor Stoehr
January 01, 2013
Changing Lives recounts the experiences of a dozen men on probation in Massachusetts who took classes for three months to read and talk about great works of literature. The men explored the writings of Malcolm X, Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov, amongst others. In these writings the men discovered ...
Culture and Power in the Classroom: Educational Foundations for the Schooling of Bicultural Students
2nd Edition
By Antonia Darder
January 30, 2012
This is a timely second edition of the enormously significant book which changed how teachers and community activists view their own practice. This edition concludes with personal essays by teachers, professors, and community activists explaining the direct impact which Culture and Power in the ...
Latinization of U.S. Schools: Successful Teaching and Learning in Shifting Cultural Contexts
1st Edition
By Jason Irizarry
September 30, 2011
Fueled largely by significant increases in the Latino population, the racial, ethnic, and linguistic texture of the United States is changing rapidly. Nowhere is this 'Latinisation' of America more evident than in schools. The dramatic population growth among Latinos in the United States has not ...
Freedom at Work: Language, Professional, and Intellectual Development in Schools
1st Edition
By Maria E. Torres-Guzman
January 30, 2010
This book explores the freedom to use the language resources we have at our disposal to learn to our fullest, to engage in inquiry about learning and teaching, and to go beyond the surface in topics of schooling and education. Within a particular school context, the author explores how these ...
Dear Paulo: Letters from Those Who Dare Teach
1st Edition
By Sonia Nieto
September 30, 2008
Dear Paulo: Letters from Those Who Dare Teach is a heartfelt response from teachers, academics, and community workers to the work of the internationally renowned educator and author Paulo Freire. From newly minted teachers terrified of facing their first day in the classroom to seasoned academics ...
Howard Zinn on Democratic Education
1st Edition
By Howard Zinn, Donaldo Macedo
March 25, 2008
Perhaps no other historian has had a more profound and revolutionary impact on American education than Howard Zinn. This is the first book devoted to his views on education and its role in a democratic society. Howard Zinn on Democratic Education describes what is missing from school textbooks and...
Daring to Dream: Toward a Pedagogy of the Unfinished
1st Edition
By Paulo Freire, Donaldo Macedo, Ana Maria Araujo Freire
July 30, 2007
-- New from the author of the million-selling Pedagogy of the Oppressed -- In an era when teachers and states are resisting high-stakes testing, this new book from world-renowned author Paulo Freire could not be more timely. Freire's uplifting message u...