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
How Educational Ideologies Are Shaping Global Society: Intergovernmental Organizations, NGOs, and the Decline of the Nation-State
1st Edition
By Joel Spring
March 31, 2004
In this book Joel Spring explores three major international educational ideologies that are shaping global society: neo-liberal educational ideology, human rights education, and environmentalism. Neo-liberal ideology reflects a rethinking of nationalist forms of education as the nation-state slowly...
Studying Educational and Social Policy: Theoretical Concepts and Research Methods
1st Edition
By Ronald H. Heck
March 31, 2004
The overall purpose of this text is to introduce beginning researchers to the study of educational and social policy, how it has been examined from a scholarly perspective, and the salient issues to consider in conceptualizing and conducting policy research. The emphasis is on "introduce," as the ...
Coming of Age in U.S. High Schools: Economic, Kinship, Religious, and Political Crosscurrents
1st Edition
By Annette B. Hemmings
February 01, 2004
Coming of Age in U.S. High Schools: Economic, Kinship, Religious, and Political Crosscurrents takes readers into the lives of urban and suburban adolescents for a close-up look at how they navigate the conflicting discourses and disciplinary practices of American cultural crosscurrents that flow ...
Educating the Consumer-citizen: A History of the Marriage of Schools, Advertising, and Media
1st Edition
By Joel Spring
April 01, 2003
In Educating the Consumer-Citizen: A History of the Marriage of Schools, Advertising, and Media, Joel Spring charts the rise of consumerism as the dominant American ideology of the 21st century. He documents and analyzes how, from the early 19th century through the present, the combined endeavors ...
Black American Students in An Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagement
1st Edition
By John U. Ogbu
January 01, 2003
John Ogbu has studied minority education from a comparative perspective for over 30 years. The study reported in this book--jointly sponsored by the community and the school district in Shaker Heights, Ohio--focuses on the academic performance of Black American students. Not only do these students ...
The Renaissance of American Indian Higher Education: Capturing the Dream
1st Edition
Edited
By Maenette K.P. A Benham, Wayne J. Stein
October 01, 2002
The Native American Higher Education Initiative (NAHEI), a W.W. Kellogg Foundation project, has supported the development and growth of centers of excellence at Tribal Colleges and Universities across the United States. These are centers of new thinking about learning and teaching, modeling ...
American Dreams, Global Visions: Dialogic Teacher Research With Refugee and Immigrant Families
1st Edition
Edited
By Donald F. Hones
July 01, 2002
This book presents the struggle for dialogue and understanding between teachers and refugee and immigrant families, in their own words. Forging a stronger connection between teachers, newcomers, and their families is one of the greatest challenges facing schools in the United States. Teachers need ...
Rethinking Language Arts: Passion and Practice
2nd Edition
Edited
By Joe Kincheloe, Nina Zaragoza, Shirley R. Steinberg
March 01, 2002
In Rethinking Language Arts: Passion and Practice, Second Edition, author Nina Zaragoza uses the form of letters to her students to engage pre-service teachers in reevaluating teaching practices, thus bringing to life a vision of an alternative classroom environment in which the teacher is the ...
A Place to Be Navajo: Rough Rock and the Struggle for Self-Determination in Indigenous Schooling
1st Edition
By Teresa L. McCarty
January 01, 2002
A Place To Be Navajo is the only book-length ethnographic account of a revolutionary Indigenous self-determination movement that began in 1966 with the Rough Rock Demonstration School. Called Diné Bi'ólta', The People's School, in recognition of its status as the first American Indian ...
Global Constructions of Multicultural Education: Theories and Realities
1st Edition
Edited
By Carl A. Grant, Joy L. Lei
June 01, 2001
This book tells us how various global regions are dealing with three major concerns within the field of multicultural education: *the conceptualization and realization of "difference" and "diversity"; *the inclusion and exclusion of social groups within a definition of multicultural education; and ...
Globalization and Educational Rights: An Intercivilizational Analysis
1st Edition
By Joel Spring
June 01, 2001
This is the first book to explore the meaning of equality and freedom of education in a global context and their relationship to the universal right to education. It also proposes evaluating school systems according to their achievement of equality and freedom. Education in the 21st century is ...
Globalization and Women in Academia: North/west-south/east
1st Edition
By Carmen Luke
June 01, 2001
In this cross-cultural exploration of the comparative experiences of Asian and Western women in higher education management, leading feminist theorist Carmen Luke constructs a provocative framework that situates her own standpoint and experiences alongside those of Asian women she studied over a ...