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21st Century Literacy
Renita Schmidt and P. L. Thomas The guiding mission of the teacher education program in the university where we teach is to create teachers who are scholars and leaders. While the …
The Education of Diverse Student Populations
This book takes up the challenge of examining the thorniest educational issue from a global perspective. It contributes to the evidence-based conversation among policy makers, …
The Socially Just School
This book explores schools and how they can function as social institutions that advance the interests and life chances of all young people, especially those who are already the …
Politics of Anti-Racism Education: In Search of Strategies for Transformative Learning
This collection of essays invites readers to think through critical questions concerning anti-racism education, such as: How does anti-racism education centre race as an analytic …
Critical Voices in Teacher Education
We live in dangerous times when educational policies and practices are debated largely in terms of how they fit with the needs of the free market. This volume is a collection of …
Youth Identities, Localities, and Visual Material Culture
This invaluable addition to Springer’s Explorations of Educational Purpose series is a revelatory ethnographic account of the visual material culture of contemporary youths in …
Critical Pedagogy and the Everyday Classroom
Critical Pedagogy addresses the shortcomings of mainstream educational theory and practice and promotes the humanization of teacher and student. Where Critical Pedagogy is often …
Education Reform: The Unwinding of Intelligence and Creativity
This book pays special attention to the impact that a student's early childhood and socioeconomic status has on his or her educational achievement. It argues that discussions of …
The Practice of Theoretical Curiosity
The desire for knowledge is an abiding facet of human experience and cultural development. This work documents curiosity as a sociohistorical force initiating research across the …
Latina/o Hope
There are an estimated forty-eight million Latinas/os living in the United States, roughly sixteen percent of the population. Not only are they the largest minority group in the …
Logics of Socialist Education
For some, socialism is a potent way of achieving economic, political and social transformations in the twenty-first century, while others find the very term socialism outdated. …