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Cathryn van Kessel Ed.; Kimberly Edmondson Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2024
In this collection, scholars from the United States, Canada, and Australia examine the concepts of villainification and anti-villainification in social studies curriculum and popular culture, as well as within broader sociocultural contexts. Villainification is the process of identifying an individual or a small group of individuals as the sole…
Descriptors: Political Issues, Social Studies, Popular Culture, Cultural Influences
Bahena, Sofía, Ed.; Cooc, North, Ed.; Currie-Rubin, Rachel, Ed.; Kuttner, Paul, Ed.; Ng, Monica, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2012
A trenchant and wide-ranging look at this alarming national trend, "Disrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline" is unsparing in its account of the problem while pointing in the direction of meaningful and much-needed reforms. The "school-to-prison pipeline" has received much attention in the education world over the past few…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, At Risk Students, Environmental Influences, Public Schools
Eick, Caroline – Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
Eick explores the history of a comprehensive high school from the world views of its assorted student body, confronting issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, nationality, and religion. Her case study examines the continuities and differences in student relationships over five decades. While she discusses the "dark side" of the high school…
Descriptors: High Schools, World Views, Religion, Educational Experience