How can we build an organization or institution that treats people equitably? How do we develop conscientious communities where people's voices are heard and not silenced? How can we go from half-truths and alternative facts to real truths? How can we reduce or eliminate societal ills such as racism, ethnocentrism, xenophobia, religious dogmatism, sexism, homophobia, tribalism, colonial mentality, slave mentality, Messiah Complex, and terrorism? How can we get into the mind's eyes of others and...
The teaching of qualitative research skills in universities is now widespread and the number of institutions offering courses in research methods in education and the social sciences is growing, while professionals in the fields of education, health and the social services are increasingly required to carry out research, evaluation and reviews. Qualitative Research in International Settings will be an invaluable resource for all postgraduates and professionals engaged in research of this kind.Dr...
Opening Doors (Social Justice Across Contexts in Education, #7)
by Nga-Wing Anjela Wong
In 2014--for the first time--over 50% of those in U.S. public schools are students of color. Furthermore, children of immigrants, the majority of whom are of Asian and Latinx origin, are the fastest-growing population in the U.S. Addressing their needs has become an important issue facing educators, researchers, and policy makers nationwide. More importantly, working-poor and low-income immigrant families of color need support and resources to negotiate and navigate between their home/community...
Border Crossing "Brothas" (Black Studies and Critical Thinking, #101)
by Ty-Ron M. O. Douglas
Winner of the 2017 Society of Professors of Education Book Award Winner of the 2017 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Award Border Crossing "Brothas" examines how Black males form identities, define success, and utilize community-based pedagogical spaces to cross literal and figurative borders. The tragic deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Tamir Rice in Cleveland, and numerous others from Brooklyn, Britain, and Bermuda whose lives have been taken prematurely suggest that...
Humanization of Education - Yearbook (Humanisierung der Bildung, v. 1)
Mit diesem Band legt der -Forderkreis der Internationalen Akademie zur Humanisierung der Bildung e.V.-, der sich 1997 in Deutschland (Hildesheim und Magdeburg) konstituierte, ein erstes Jahrbuch vor. Die -Internationale Akademie- wurde 1995 auf einem Kongress am Aja-See im Altai (Sibirien) gegrundet. Sie entstand aus einem Kreis von internationalen Bildungsforschern, vornehmlich aus Osteuropa sowie aus Deutschland, England, Australien, Kanada und den USA. Das Jahrbuch versteht sich als Forum fur...
Education in Switzerland
by Choice International School Choice International
Infusion of African and African American Content in the School Curriculum
Intercultural Learning as Identity Negotiation (Berufliche Bildung Im Wandel, #8)
by Susanne Weber
Reel Diversity (Counterpoints, #348)
by Brian C Johnson and Sykra C Blanchard
The first edition of Reel Diversity: A Teacher's Sourcebook won the 2009 Phillip C. Chinn Book Award of the National Association for Multicultural Education. This revised edition is an updated resource guide for educators in secondary and university classrooms who desire to integrate mainstream and independent films into their instructional content about diversity and social justice. The book has transformed difficult dialogues in classrooms around the country by helping educators identify full-...
This significant text employs an intersectional analysis and considers the role of queer frameworks to understand the experiences of Queer People of Color at historically white institutions of higher education in the U.S. By presenting data from student interviews and reflection journals, the book explores what it means to hold multiple minoritized identities, and asks how such intersections are navigated, contested, and experienced on college campuses. Exploring both micro- and macro-level ma...
White Washing American Education: The New Culture Wars in Ethnic Studies [2 Volumes]
What does it mean to lead while Black in America? How do Black educators lead for equity to ensure a quality academic experience for Black children when calls for equality are routinely discredited in our post-racial context? Through this book, Floyd Cobb passionately and honestly draws from his personal and professional experiences to describe his path to accepting the harsh realities of being an equity-minded Black leader in K-12 schools. Offered through the performance of autoethnography, Cob...
Bridging Literacy and Equity
by Althier M. Lazar, Patricia a Edwards, and Gwendolyn Thompson McMillon
Extraordinary K-12 teachers show us what social equity literacy teaching looks like and how it advances children's achievement. Chapters identify six key dimensions of social equity teaching that can help teachers see their students' potential and create conditions that will support their literacy development. Serving students well depends on understanding relationships between race, class, culture, and literacy; the complexity and significance of culture; and the culturally situated nature of l...
Guide to the 400 Best Children's and Adult's Multicultural Books about Art and Artists
by Anna Dunwell and Anna D Friedler
From the Parade Child to the King of Chaos (Complicated Conversation, #49)
by Hongyu Wang
From the Parade Child to the King of Chaos depicts the pedagogical life history of an extraordinary teacher educator and internationally renowned curriculum scholar, William E. Doll, Jr. It explores how his life experiences have contributed to the formation and transformation of a celebrated teacher educator. From the child who spontaneously led a parade to the king of chaos who embraces complexity in education, complicated tales of Doll's journey through his childhood, youth, and decades of tea...
Ask any moderately interested Briton to name a black intellectual and chances are the response will be an American name: Malcolm X or Barack Obama, Toni Morrison or Cornel West. Yet Britain has its own robust black intellectual traditions and its own master teachers, among them C.L.R. James, Claudia Jones, Ambalavaner Sivanandan, Stuart Hall and Paul Gilroy. However, while in the USA black public intellectuals are an embedded, if often embattled, feature of national life, black British thinkers...
This book reports findings of a qualitative study intended to disrupt notions of heteronormativity amongst preservice elementary teachers by engaging them in multimodal writing and text production around issues facing LGBTQIA+ youth. Against the backdrop of increasing anti-transgender sentiment in the United States, the text highlights the necessity of integrating queered pedagogy in teacher education to facilitate candidates’ movement through the continuum and leave them prepared, equipped, an...
Supporting Black Pupils and Parents: Understanding and Improving Home School Relations
by Lorna Cork