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Presents individual concepts and practical models of native educ. programs that have been developed & implemented in native communities & promotes use of these models as a guide for policy-making, leadership & leadership devel., and teaching & learning.

This book is a comprehensive, critical examination of the theory and pedagogy of the field of social foundations of education and its relevance and role within teacher education.

Explores how changes in the new world economy are affecting the education of male and female worker. and examines the current efforts of a number of nations around the world to transform vocational education and training (VET) programs into gender equitable institutions.

Offers a problem-solving approach to the complex issues involved in educating culturally and linguistically diverse students. This work has a particular focus on the global migration of peoples, and the tension between local and global cultures. It is suitable for courses devoted to the study of multicultural education.

Explores consumption and its relation to learning, identity development, and education. This examines educational sites - both formal and informal - where learners and teachers are resisting consumerism and enacting a critical pedagogy of consumption.

In this work, scholars from the USA and Europe explore the promise of "civil society" to rejuvenate systems of public education that are frequently characterized by bureaucratic over-regulation, lack of diversity and choice, and inequality of opportunity.

This work explains and illustrates dialogic teacher research with immigrant and refugee families - which encompasses methods that are at once ethnographic, participatory, and narrative. It gives examples of how dialogic teacher research can inspire changes in teaching.

The authors in this book use the metaphors of invisibility and visibility to explore the social and school lives of many children and young people in North America whose complexity, strengths, and vulnerabilities are largely unseen in the society and its

Bringing together a group of the best creative educational thinkers to reflect on the purpose and future of public education, this collection of original essays by leading social and educational commentators in North America attempts to articulate a vision for education, especially public education, and begin to set an alternative direction.

Explores consumption and its relation to learning, identity development, and education. This examines educational sites - both formal and informal - where learners and teachers are resisting consumerism and enacting a critical pedagogy of consumption.

This volume presents research on the US Title I federal compensatory education programmes. It documents the programme's history, and points to its potential for the future, building on 35 years of research, development and practical experience.

Bringing together a group of the best creative educational thinkers to reflect on the purpose and future of public education, this collection of original essays by leading social and educational commentators in North America attempts to articulate a vision for education, especially public education, and begin to set an alternative direction.

Provides a comparative understanding of the global range of multicultural issues in education and the types of approaches being used to address them. Presents different ways to think, talk, and research about issues of diversity and the effects of power.

This is a volume in the Sociocultural, Political and Historical Studies in Education Series. It covers: the historical and sociopolitical context; identity, culture, race, language and gender; social activism, community involvement and policy implications; and directions for the future.

Examines how neoliberal and neoconservative policies are working in tandem to privatize and commercialize public schools. This book looks at how these policies and the agendas behind them have impacted the internal dynamics of school management, teaching, and learning.

Challenges teachers, researchers, educational leaders, and community stakeholders to build dynamic learning environments through which indigenous learners can be boldly indigenous in a global world. This book examines topics including: regenerating and transforming language and culture pedagogy that reminds us that what is Contemporary is Native.

Examines content, methodological, and policy issues framing the debate on academic achievement, school engagement, and oppositional culture. This book presents some critical works on these issues as well as examples of programs aimed at re-engagement. It looks at African Americans, and school engagement among Native American and Latino students.

Presents John Ogbu's cultural ecological model and various debates that his work has sparked. This book includes theoretical roots of his cultural ecological model. It is organized as a dialogue between John Ogbu and the scholarly community, including his ardent critics; Ogbu's own work can be read at the same time as his critics have their say.

This text-reader brings together powerful readings that critically situate issues of education in the context of the major cultural, moral, political, economic, ecological, and spiritual crises that confront us as a nation and a global community. It prov

This collection of essays by Third World activists highlights two major world changes which, they argue, have been neglected by Freire and his many followers: the Third World grass-roots cultural resistance to economic globalization, and the ecological crisis.