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The Cambridge Handbook of Service Learning and Community Engagement. Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
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Dolgon, Corey, Ed.; Mitchell, Tania D., Ed.; Eatman, Timothy K., Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2017
With contributions from leading experts across disciplinary fields, this book explores best practices from the field's most notable researchers, as well as important historically based and politically focused challenges to a field whose impact has reached an important crossroads. The comprehensive and powerfully critical analysis considers the…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Best Practices, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
The Routledge Applied Linguistics Reader
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Wei, Li, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"The Routledge Applied Linguistics Reader" is an essential collection of readings for students of Applied Linguistics. Divided into five sections: Language Teaching and Learning, Second Language Acquisition, Applied Linguistics, Identity and Power and Language Use in Professional Contexts, the "Reader" takes a broad…
Descriptors: World Problems, Discourse Communities, Creativity, Applied Linguistics
Back to Basics: Is Social Studies Included? Monograph No. 2.
Scarlett, Jack – 1976
This paper discusses the implication of the back to basics movement in elementary school social studies. The paper is divided into three sections, each of which considers a different aspect of the issue. Part one briefly discusses the nature and extent of the back to basics movement in the United States. The various interpretations of the term…
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Comparative Education, Definitions, Educational Trends
Creating Community: A Roundtable on Canadian Aboriginal Literature.
Eigenbrod, Renate, Ed.; Episkenew, Jo-Ann, Ed. – 2002
This book contains 13 essays on Canadian Aboriginal literature. Topics include literary criticism, pedagogical issues, and the experiences of Native authors and of faculty teaching Aboriginal literature in mainstream institutions. Entries are: (1) "Natives on Native Literature: What Do We Rightly Write? Or: Shot Headfirst from the Canon"…
Descriptors: American Indian Literature, American Indian Studies, Authors, Canada Natives
The Circle Game: Shadows and Substance in the Indian Residential School Experience in Canada.
Chrisjohn, Roland D; Young, Sherri L.; Maraun, Michael – 1997
This book develops an alternative account of Canada's operation of Indian residential schools and provides recommendations for undoing what has been done. Derived from a report on residential schooling submitted to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples in October 1994, the book discusses the language and rhetoric surrounding residential…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Education, American Indians, Boarding Schools
Looking White People in the Eye: Gender, Race, and Culture in Courtrooms and Classrooms.
Razack, Sherene H. – 1998
This book challenges the widely held view that relations between dominant and subordinate groups can be unmarked by histories of oppression, as many cultural diversity theorists, educators, and legal practitioners presume. In this view, problems of communication are mere technical glitches caused by cultural and other differences, and educators…
Descriptors: Canada Natives, Classroom Communication, Consciousness Raising, Court Litigation