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Critical Theory, Methods, and Design in Educational Research
Bearing Witness in Times of Deepening InequalitiesEducational researchers chronicle a three?year collaboration exploring class, race, and privilege in urban schools. Using longitudinal ethnography and participatory inquiry, they expose systemic inequities and ethical dilemmas while uncovering creative spaces where young people envision transformative futures.
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Ideology, Curriculum, and the New Sociology of Education
Revisiting the Work of Michael AppleFor more than three decades Michael Apple has sought to uncover and articulate the connections among knowledge, teaching and power in education. This edited collection invites several of the world's leading education scholars to reflect on the relationships between education and power and the continued impact of Apple's scholarship.
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STEM Education Reform in Urban High Schools
Opportunities, Constraints, Culture, and OutcomesGives a nuanced view of the obstacles marginalized students face in STEM education - and explores how schools can better support STEM learners. Reporting the results of a nine-year ethnographic study, the book chronicles the outcomes of various STEM education reforms in eight public high schools.
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Between Two Worlds
Black Students in an Urban Community CollegeFirst published in 1985, this book explores the ‘lived culture’ of urban black students in a community college located in a large northeastern city in the United States.
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Class, Race, and Gender in American Education
"Weis's is the first full-scale treatment of race, class, and gender issues. As such, it is a key original contribution. The book is strong not only because it deals imaginatively with these issues, but also because virtually all of the essays present original data — materials from research — and not simply pontifications on the topic." — Philip G. Altbach, State University of New York at Buffalo
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Crisis in Teaching
Perspectives on Current Reforms"Without discussions such as these that engender debate about educational 'must do's,' the field would be completely controlled by a handful of report writers and educational commissions. Debate and discussion enable differing viewpoints to be heard and encourage critical assessment and analysis of any recommendation." — Lin Goodwin, Teachers College, Columbia University
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Critical Perspectives on Early Childhood Education
"Dogmatic beliefs and unexamined practice will produce neither healthy professionals nor programs and policies consistent with democratic values. The authors and editors are to be congratulated for their efforts to put current policy issues in early childhood education into perspective." — from the Foreword by Mary A. Jensen, State University of New York, Geneseo "The book's strength is that significant themes surface and then resurface later in new surroundings. This caused me to return to earlier chapters to puzzle over the controversial and timely issues they raise." — Margaret Yonemura, State University of New York, Binghamton
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Dropouts From Schools
Issues, Dilemmas, and Solutions"An excellent and comprehensive discussion of the dropout problem. It raises issues in an insightful manner." — Carl A. Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Social Class and Education
Global PerspectivesSocial Class and Education: Global Perspectives is the first empirically grounded volume to explore the intersections of class, social structure, opportunity, and education on a truly global scale.
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Class Reunion
The Remaking of the American White Working ClassThis book is a longitudinal ethnographic study that provides insight into how the lives of these men and women have changed over the last two decades--and what their prospects might be for the future.
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Working Class Without Work
High School Students in A De-Industrializing EconomyThe author of this book explores issues of race, class, and gender among white working class youths, and considers the roles of school and family in the production of the self.
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Class Warfare – Class, Race, and College Admissions in Top–Tier Secondary Schools
From the Suzuki method to calculus-based physics, from AP tests all the way back to early-learning Kumon courses, students are increasingly pushed to excel, with that Harvard or Yale acceptance letter held tantalizingly in front of them. The authors unveil a formidable process of class positioning at the heart of the college admissions process.
€ 38,95