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
Title I: Compensatory Education at the Crossroads
1st Edition
Edited
By Geoffrey D. Borman, Samuel C. Stringfield, Robert E. Slavin
February 01, 2001
This volume presents the most recent research on Title I federal compensatory education programs. Over the past three decades, Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act has served as the cornerstone of the federal commitment to equality of opportunity. It is the federal government's ...
Remaining and Becoming: Cultural Crosscurrents in An Hispano School
1st Edition
By Shelley Roberts
December 01, 2000
Remaining and Becoming: Cultural Crosscurrents in an Hispano School deals with the politics of identity and the concept of boundaries during a time of rapid change. It investigates how the role of schooling for Hispanos in the Norteño School District (a pseudonym) in Northern New Mexico--a ...
Rethinking Family-school Relations: A Critique of Parental involvement in Schooling
1st Edition
By Maria Eulina de Carvalho
October 01, 2000
This book addresses the complications and implications of parental involvement as a policy, through an exploratory theoretical approach, including historical and sociological accounts and personal reflection. This approach represents the author's effort to understand the origins, meanings, and ...
Permissible Advantage?: The Moral Consequences of Elite Schooling
1st Edition
By Alan Peshkin
August 01, 2000
This study of Edgewood Academy--a private, elite college preparatory high school--examines what moral choices look like when they are made by the participants in an exceptionally wealthy school, and what the very existence of a privileged school indicates about American society. It extends ...
Puerto Rican Students in U.s. Schools
1st Edition
Edited
By Sonia Nieto
April 01, 2000
This volume--the first edited book on the education of Puerto Ricans written primarily by Puerto Rican authors--focuses on the history and experiences of Puerto Rican students in the United States by addressing issues of identity, culture, ethnicity, language, gender, social activism, community ...
The Universal Right to Education: Justification, Definition, and Guidelines
1st Edition
By Joel Spring
March 01, 2000
In this book, Joel Spring offers a powerful and closely reasoned justification and definition for the universal right to education--applicable to all cultures--as provided for in Article 26 of the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. One sixth of the world's population, nearly ...
Indigenous Educational Models for Contemporary Practice: In Our Mother's Voice
1st Edition
Edited
By Maenette K.P. A Benham, Joanne Elizabet Cooper
February 01, 2000
What is the philosophy that should drive native education policy and practice? In July 1997 a group of native educational leaders from the United States (including Alaska and Hawai'i), Canada, Australia, and New Zealand gathered to define a potential solution to this question. This book passes on ...
Origins of Mass Communications Research During the American Cold War: Educational Effects and Contemporary Implications
1st Edition
By Timothy Glander
December 01, 1999
In this critical examination of the beginnings of mass communications research in the United States, written from the perspective of an educational historian, Timothy Glander uses archival materials that have not been widely studied to document, contextualize, and interpret the dominant expressions...
Educating New Americans: Immigrant Lives and Learning
1st Edition
By Donald F. Hones, Shou C. Cha, Cher Shou Cha
January 01, 1999
Educating New Americans examines what it means to be an American through the history of a refugee from Laos. Shou Cha is a community liaison for an elementary school, an evangelical preacher, a community leader, a husband, and a father. His lifetime of learning, presented mainly in his own voice, ...
Education and the Rise of the Global Economy
1st Edition
By Joel Spring
September 01, 1998
Joel Spring investigates the role of educational policy in the evolving global economy, and the consequences of school systems around the world adapting to meet the needs of international corporations. The new global model for education addresses problems of technological change, the quick exchange...
On the Border of Opportunity: Education, Community, and Language at the U.s.-mexico Line
1st Edition
By Marleen C. Pugach
July 01, 1998
In 1993, the author set out to try and gain some understanding about school and community in Havens, New Mexico--a place where she had the opportunity to be immersed in border culture, where she could learn how the border figured into everyday life, and where she could pay uninterrupted attention ...
Transforming the Culture of Schools: Yup¡k Eskimo Examples
1st Edition
By Jerry Lipka, With Gerald V. Mohatt, Esther Ilutsik
July 01, 1998
This book speaks directly to issues of equity and school transformation, and shows how one indigenous minority teachers' group engaged in a process of transforming schooling in their community. Documented in one small locale far-removed from mainstream America, the personal narratives by Yupík...