Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
About the Book Series
This series focuses on studies of public and private institutions, the media, and academic disciplines that contribute to educating--in the broadest sense--students and the general public. The series welcomes volumes with multicultural perspectives, diverse interpretations, and a range of political points of view from conservative to critical. Books accepted for publication in this series will be written for an academic audience and, in some cases, also for use as supplementary readings in graduate and undergraduate courses.
Topics to be addressed in this series include, but are not limited to, sociocultural, political, and historical studies of
Local, state, national, and international educational systems
Elementary and secondary schools, colleges and universities
Public institutions of education such as museums, libraries, and foundations
Computer systems and software as instruments of public education
The popular media as forms of public education
Content areas within the academic study of education, such as curriculum and instruction, psychology, and educational technology
Globalizing Education for Work: Comparative Perspectives on Gender and the New Economy
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard D. Lakes, Patricia A. Carter
May 08, 2015
This book explores how changes in the new world economy are affecting the education of male and female workers. Authors from Australia, Africa, Brazil, Europe, North America, and South Korea use methodologies--such as literature reviews, case studies, legislative analysis, evaluations of model ...
Rethinking Freire: Globalization and the Environmental Crisis
1st Edition
Edited
By Chet A. Bowers, Frederique Apffel-Marglin
May 08, 2015
This landmark collection of essays by Third World activists highlights two major world changes which, they argue, have been neglected by Freire and his many followers: the Third World grass-roots cultural resistance to economic globalization, and the ecological crisis.One source of the ...
Economization of Education: Human Capital, Global Corporations, Skills-Based Schooling
1st Edition
By Joel Spring
April 20, 2015
In this timely, cogent analysis of trends and powerful forces shaping global educational policy today, Joel Spring focuses on how economization is making economic growth and increased productivity the main goals of schools, and the ways these goals are achieved—including measuring educational ...
Globalization of Education: An Introduction
2nd Edition
By Joel Spring
September 04, 2014
Continuing Joel Spring’s reportage and analysis of the intersection of global forces and education, this text offers a comprehensive overview and synthesis of current research, theories, and models related to the topic. Written in his signature clear, narrative style, Spring introduces the ...
U.S. Latinos and Education Policy: Research-Based Directions for Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Pedro R. Portes, Spencer Salas, Patricia Baquedano-López, Paula J. Mellom
March 17, 2014
With the American dream progressively elusive for and exclusive of Latinos, there is an urgent need for empirically and conceptually based macro-level policy solutions for Latino education. Going beyond just exposing educational inequalities, this volume provides intelligent and pragmatic ...
The Great American Education-Industrial Complex: Ideology, Technology, and Profit
1st Edition
By Anthony G. Picciano, Joel Spring
October 19, 2012
The Great American Education-Industrial Complex examines the structure and nature of national networks and enterprises that seek to influence public education policy in accord with their own goals and objectives. In the past twenty years, significant changes have taken place in the way various ...
Education Networks: Power, Wealth, Cyberspace, and the Digital Mind
1st Edition
By Joel Spring
February 09, 2012
Education Networks is a critical analysis of the emerging intersection among the global power elite, information and communication technology, and schools. Joel Spring documents and examines the economic and political interests and forces —including elite networks, the for-profit education industry...
Urban High Schools: Foundations and Possibilities
1st Edition
By Annette B. Hemmings
October 03, 2011
This multidisciplinary overview introduces readers to the historical, sociological, anthropological, and political foundations of urban public secondary schooling and to possibilities for reform. Focused on critical and problematic elements, the text provides a comprehensive description and ...
The Politics of American Education
1st Edition
By Joel Spring
January 19, 2011
Turning his distinctive analytical lens to the politics of American education, Joel Spring looks at contemporary educational policy issues from theoretical, practical, and historical perspectives. This comprehensive overview documents and explains who influences educational policy and how, bringing...
Place- and Community-Based Education in Schools
1st Edition
By Gregory A. Smith, David Sobel
February 25, 2010
Place- and community-based education – an approach to teaching and learning that starts with the local – addresses two critical gaps in the experience of many children now growing up in the United States: contact with the natural world and contact with community. It offers a way to extend...
Critical Pedagogies of Consumption: Living and Learning in the Shadow of the "Shopocalypse"
1st Edition
Edited
By Jennifer A. Sandlin, Peter McLaren
October 30, 2009
"Utopian in theme and implication, this book shows how the practices of critical, interpretive inquiry can help change the world in positive ways…. This is the promise, the hope, and the agenda that is offered."--Norman K. Denzin, From the Foreword "Its focus on learning, education and pedagogy ...
Education and Hope in Troubled Times: Visions of Change for Our Children's World
1st Edition
Edited
By H. Svi Shapiro
April 03, 2009
"Progressive educators have always been better at critique than at possibility. This book promises not to ignore critique, but to favor possibility. It is most rare and greatly welcomed." Richard Quantz, Miami University "The editor argues that in a material world, depicted by consumerism, ...