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Essays on Urban Education
This text describes seven faculty members and a graduate student at one university, who engaged in a conversation about their own experiences in urban education over a three-year period. Authors used standpoint epistemology as visas of credibility for their border crossings to urban schools.
LGBTQ Voices in Education
LGBTQ Voices in Education: Changing the Culture of Schooling addresses the ways in which teachers can meet the needs of LGBTQ students and improve the culture surrounding gender, sexuality, and identity issues in formal learning environments. Written by experts from a variety of backgrounds including educational foundations, leadership, cultural studies, literacy, criminology, theology, media assessment, and more, these chapters are designed to help educators find the inspiration and support they need to become allies and advocates of queer students, whose safety, well-being, and academic performance are regularly and often systemically threatened. Emphasizing socially just curricula, supportive school climates, and transformative educational practices, this innovative book is applicable to K-12, college-level, and graduate settings, and beyond.
Practicing Social Justice in Libraries
Practicing Social Justice in Libraries provides practical strategies, tools, and resources to library and information workers and students who wish to drive change in their classrooms, institutions, and communities and incorporate social justice into their everyday practice. With contributions from a diverse group of librarians, who have experience working in different types of institutions and roles, the book showcases the actions information professionals, largely from historically marginalized groups, are taking to create a more socially responsible environment for themselves and their communities. The chapters reflect on personal experiences, best practices for programming, professional ...
The Politics of Inclusion
This volume is a collective departmental effort to delineate what a politics of inclusion on a more structural/macro-level might look like and the inclusion of politics on more micro-levels are as related to urban and other sites, particularly in regard to preservice teachers.
Teacher Education and Urban Education
A discussion of how traditional views of teacher education subject areas do not prepare students for urban education. It argues for a move to more progressive thinking about urban education and a departmental consciousness that seriously engages school restructuring for urban education.
Commitment to Excellence
This volume represents a working commitment by individuals and institutions to improve the education of inner-city youngsters and to transform radically the preparation of people who will teach in the inner city. The authors propose actions that are designed to direct teaching in the inner city.
Life in Schools
This new edition brings McLaren's popular, classic textbook into a new era of Common Core Standards and online education. The book is renowned for its clear, provocative classroom narratives and its coverage of political, economic, and social factors that are undervalued in other educational textbooks. An international committee of experts ranked Life in Schools among the top twelve education books in the world.
Talking Leaves
This book represents a 6-year collection of student narratives on otherness. The purpose is to determine from adult accounts what forms of otherness were experienced by school-aged children and young adults in school. The narratives were shared orally and students identified common threads and differences. The project culminated in multicultural lessons that equipped aspiring teachers with knowledge and skills to address conditions of prejudice, social alienation, and inequities.
The Global Industrial Complex
The Global Industrial Complex: Systems of Domination is a groundbreaking collection of essays by a diverse set of leading scholars who examine the entangled and evolving global array of corporate-state structures of hegemonic power—what the editors refer to as “the power complex”—that was first analyzed by C. Wright Mills in his 1956 classic work, The Power Elite. In this new volume edited by Steven Best, Richard Kahn, Anthony J. Nocella II, and Peter McLaren, the power complex is conceived as co-constituted, interdependent and imbricated systems of domination. Spreading insidiously on a global level, the transnational institutional relationships of the power complex combine the logi...
