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Ghosts of No Child Left Behind

Through the eyes of Muslim teachers, students, and members of Islamic communities, this title offers a comprehensive understanding of the problems, perspectives, and possibilities of sexuality education for Muslim youth living in the West. It explores how these youth negotiate between Muslim and popular cultural constructions of sexuality.

The theory of Nuyorganics joins Nuyorican poetry to organic intellectualism. Examining its possibilities, this book questions existing theories of the dominant elite and offers new theories for those who struggle for accurate representation in their academic environments.

Fanon and Education

Suitable for education classes that deals with diversity and administration in higher education, this book creates dialogue and develop support networks for faculty members who may have similar experiences, and to increase institutions' awareness of how faculty of color experience life within academy.

Suitable for education classes that deal with diversity and administration in higher education, this book creates dialogue and develop support networks for faculty members who may have similar experiences, and to increase institutions' awareness of how faculty of color experience life within the academy.

Critical Essays on Resistance in Education

Does Your Vote Count?

Engages Indigenous knowledges more than a contest of the marginals, challenging the way oppositional knowledges are positioned, particularly in the Western academy. This book recognizes and acknowledge Indigenous knowledges as legitimate knowings in their own right, and not necessarily in competition with other sources or forms of knowledge.

Einstein and Zen

This book recounts the life and thought of Paulo Freire, a man who appeared at a critical point in history, and whose courageous, prophetic voice of conscience remains extraordinarily relevant.

Discourses and Identities in Contexts of Educational Change

Discourses and Identities in Contexts of Educational Change

Presents portraits of a small group of teen mothers trying to finish high school, and describes ways in which reading, writing, and schooling shaped these young women's lives. This book suggests ways in which deeply held ideas about class, appropriate gender roles, and expression of emotion in school affect educators' relationships with students.

Integrating Multiculturalism into the Curriculum: From the Liberal Arts to the Sciences is a reader that introduces the Multicultural Curriculum Transformation and Research Institute, a successful multicultural curriculum transformation paradigm that is a model for colleges and universities across the country and abroad.

Integrating Multiculturalism into the Curriculum: From the Liberal Arts to the Sciences is a reader that introduces the Multicultural Curriculum Transformation and Research Institute, a successful multicultural curriculum transformation paradigm that is a model for colleges and universities across the country and abroad.

While American society has become more visual and digital, the general state of literacy in America is in crisis, with educators and public officials worried about falling educational standards, the rising influence of popular culture, and growing numbers of non-English-speaking immigrants. This book deals with this topic.

A compilation of personal essays by lesbian teachers and students who speak about sexual identity and its influence on the teaching and learning process. It provides twenty-six essays that give readers the opportunity to recognize, connect with, and critically think about the personal and political challenges.

A compilation of personal essays by lesbian teachers and students who speak about sexual identity and its influence on the teaching and learning process. It provides twenty-six essays that give readers the opportunity to recognize, connect with, and critically think about the personal and political challenges.

Stimulates conversation among liberal arts and education professionals as well as inform public school teachers about the life and times of Frederick Douglass. This book facilitates conversation, addressing the liberal arts professor's concern with content and the education professor's concern with pedagogy.

Stimulates conversation among liberal arts and education professionals as well as inform public school teachers about the life and times of Frederick Douglass. This book facilitates conversation, addressing the liberal arts professor's concern with content and the education professor's concern with pedagogy.

Gives a voice to undocumented Americans of Mexican origin. This book is about their stories and how, against the odds, they offer resistance as they navigate across ideological, historical, socio-economic, institutional and educational borders, in an effort to carve out a life in US society.

Looks at the place of movement in young children's lives and addresses how movement as a form of expression can become dance, thus displacing a reliance on linguistic modes of expression and honoring the agency of the body.

Provides a definitive overview of the scholarship and writing being done in the field of teacher leadership. This book introduces the reader to the scholarship of over 35 authors, and thus, becomes an essential tool needed to guide any meaningful discussion of the changing roles and responsibilities of teachers.

Clarifies and elaborates the concept, linking it to other theories including ways of thinking about curriculum and pedagogy to prepare leaders for a more transformative role. This book provides examples of studies conducted using the lens of transformative leadership as well as of research re-analyzed through its perspective.

A Curriculum of Place: Understandings Emerging through the Southern Mist presents new and provocative insights into the study of curriculum and place focusing on the South. The essays emphasize understanding the importance of Southern place politically, educationally, and experientially.

A Curriculum of Place: Understandings Emerging through the Southern Mist presents new and provocative insights into the study of curriculum and place focusing on the South. The essays emphasize understanding the importance of Southern place politically, educationally, and experientially.