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Direct linkJohnson, Royel M., Ed.; Anya, Uju, Ed.; Garces, Liliana M., Ed. – SUNY Press, 2022
The current socio-political moment--rife with racial tensions and overt bigotry--has exacerbated longstanding racial inequities in higher education. While educational scholars have developed conceptual tools and offered data-informed recommendations for rooting out racism in campus policies and practices, this work is largely inaccessible to the…
Descriptors: Race, Critical Theory, Racial Differences, Higher Education
Smagorinsky, Peter, Ed.; Tobin, Joseph, Ed.; Lee, Kyunghwa, Ed. – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2019
"Dismantling the Disabling Environments of Education: Creating New Cultures and Contexts for Accommodating Difference" challenges assumptions that view people of difference to be "abnormal," that isolate attention to their difference solely in the individual, that treat areas of difference as matters of deficiency, and that…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Environment, Disadvantaged, Students with Disabilities
Mahiri, Jabari – Teachers College Press, 2017
This book answers: (1) how do socially constructed concepts of race dominate and limit understandings and practices of multicultural education; and (2) since race is socially constructed, how do we deconstruct it? The author argues that multicultural education needs to move beyond racial categories defined and sustained by the ideological, social,…
Descriptors: Race, Multicultural Education, Self Concept, Ethnography
Crutchfield, John, Ed.; Schewe, Manfred, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2017
Over the last two decades drama pedagogy has helped to lay the foundations for a new teaching and learning culture, one that accentuates physicality and centres on performative experience. Signs of this 'performative turn' in education are especially strong in the field of foreign/second language teaching. This volume introduces scholars, language…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Drama, Performance, Second Language Instruction
Arthur, James; Gearon, Liam; Sears, Alan – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2010
In recent years a number of popular books have savaged religion arguing it is a dangerous delusion that poisons human societies and relationships. This is but the most recent manifestation of a secularising agenda that has been sweeping contemporary democratic societies since the Enlightenment. This book pushes back against that agenda, examining…
Descriptors: Christianity, Citizenship, Democracy, Politics of Education
Burkholder, Zoe – Oxford University Press, 2011
Between the turn of the twentieth century and the "Brown v. Board of Education" decision in 1954, the way that American schools taught about "race" changed dramatically. This transformation was engineered by the nation's most prominent anthropologists, including Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead, during World War II.…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Cultural Pluralism, Racial Bias, Social Attitudes
Wong, Shelley, Ed.; Gosnell, Elaisa Sánchez, Ed.; Luu, Anne Marie Foerster, Ed.; Dodson, Lori, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2017
Learn how to engage and advocate for undocumented children and youth with this new resource written by and for teachers. "Teachers as Allies" provides educators with the information and tools they need to involve immigrant students and their American-born siblings and peers in inclusive and transformative classroom experiences. The…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Advocacy, Teacher Role, Teacher Student Relationship
Shouse, Roger C.; Lin, Kuan-Pei – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2010
During the past two decades, Taiwan's Ministry of Education has responded to globalization by restructuring school curricular, instructional, and decision making practices along western lines in an attempt to attain legitimacy on the world stage. As a result, Taiwanese principals, once kings within their schools, now must share power with other…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Global Approach, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Quinn, Therese M., Ed.; Ploof, John, Ed.; Hochtritt, Lisa J., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"Art and Social Justice Education" offers inspiration and tools for educators to craft critical, meaningful, and transformative arts education curriculum and arts integration projects. The images, descriptive texts, essays, and resources are grounded within a clear social justice framework and linked to ideas about culture as commons. Essays and a…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Art History, Critical Theory, Elementary Secondary Education
Ayers, William, Ed.; Hunt, Jean Ann, Ed.; Quinn, Therese, Ed. – 1998
This collection discusses the teaching of social justice. Following a preface, "Of Stories, Seeds and the Promises of Social Justice" (Jean Ann Hunt), a foreword, "Popular Education--Teaching for Social Justice" (William Ayers), and an introduction "Teaching for Social Justice" (Maxine Greene), the following chapters…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Development, Cultural Awareness, Democracy
Download full textBusching, Beverly; Slesinger, Betty Ann – 2002
Grounded in the premise that students can learn about the world, nurture the impulse to care about others, and still meet required educational standards, this book outlines a middle school curriculum in which students can learn to identify with, investigate, and then act on social issues. It offers teachers the following resources: an extended…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Learning Problems, Middle Schools, Reading Skills
Sims, Rudine – 1982
The purpose of this monograph is to provide classroom teachers, librarians, and teacher educators in the field of children's literature with information that will enable them to make better informed selections of recent literature for and about Afro-Americans. The first chapter of the work places contemporary realistic fiction about Afro-Americans…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black Culture, Black Literature, Black Youth
Stubbs, Michael – 1980
Intended to provide a basis for a sociolinguistic theory of reading by placing reading within a discussion of the formal and functional characteristics of language use in social settings, this book explores the state of the art of reading and literacy, the relations between spoken and written language, and explanations of reading failure. Chapters…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cultural Influences, English, Language Research
Bearison, David J. – 1975
The relationship between the psychological process of social-cognitive development of elementary children and social science education is reviewed. Social cognition is defined as the ways in which children come to understand the thoughts and feelings of others. For the most part, research findings have shown that a fundamental aspect of social…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Behavioral Sciences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
McKee, Judy Spitler, Ed. – 1977
This is an illustrated collection of 77 articles from journals, popular magazines and other sources, intended for use by early childhood education classes. The articles, representing many points of view, are authored by experts in psychiatry, psychology, pediatrics, educational research, anthropology, toy design, state and public school…
Descriptors: Anthologies, Behavior Problems, Child Abuse, Child Care
