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Queer Masculinities: A Critical Reader in Education is a substantial addition to the discussion of queer masculinities, of the interplay between queer masculinities and education, and to the political gender discourse as a whole.

In a globalized neo-colonial world an insidious and often debilitating crisis of knowledge not only continues to undermine the quality of research produced by scholars but to also perpetuate a neo-colonial and oppressive socio-cultural, political economic, and educational system.

These exploratory spaces include courses under construction, cross-college and interdisciplinary collaborations, general education reform initiatives, and fresh perspectives on student support services, faculty development, freshman learning communities, writing across the curriculum, on-line degree initiatives, and teaching and learning centers.

These exploratory spaces include courses under construction, cross-college and interdisciplinary collaborations, general education reform initiatives, and fresh perspectives on student support services, faculty development, freshman learning communities, writing across the curriculum, on-line degree initiatives, and teaching and learning centers.

Society continues to change rapidly, but schools are slow to keep up. This book explores numerous issues related to transforming and modernizing our educational systems; it offers practical insights on how to prepare students with 21st century skills.

Whether this happens in South Africa, Canada, United States, India, Iraq, Brazil, or China, Dei's insights suggest that this hegemony of education in pluralistic and multi-ethnic societies is a false construction.

While the intent of that mission is basically sound in theory-we instill the idea that teachers at all levels are professionals, always learning and growing in knowledge-that theory, that philosophical underpinning does not insure that the students who complete our program are confident about the act or performance of teaching.

This book explores the applications of Critical Pedagogy to actual classroom situations. Written in a concise and lucid form, this book takes the theories behind Critical Pedagogy and illustrates them at work in common classroom environments.

Most would agree that a learning community of practice cultivates social and intellectual development in educational settings but what are the other benefits and what does a learning community actually look like in practice?

We believe this book shows we have lots of reasons to "bother" with critical pe- gogy in teacher education, as current educational policies and the neoliberal discourses that vie for the identities of our own local contexts increasingly do not have education for the public good in mind.

In a globalized neo-colonial world an insidious and often debilitating crisis of knowledge not only continues to undermine the quality of research produced by scholars but to also perpetuate a neo-colonial and oppressive socio-cultural, political economic, and educational system.

Built on previous theories and research, it describes diverse students' experiences in the global and information age, and searches for effective policies and practices that help these students to perform better in school and in life.Readers are forced to step outside of their own experiences and commonly held beliefs about education.

This book details an innovative curriculum design for indigenous students based on the principles of participatory narrative inquiry as well as exemplars of indigenous knowledge. Written from an Australian perspective, it discusses broad international issues.

This thought-provoking volume argues that, far from being a post-colonial world, the struggle for independence of polity and culture is alive and relevant. The book offers the first comparative study of the US and Canada from an anti-colonial perspective.

Presenting case studies that form a wide-ranging critique of contemporary and historical education provision under socialist governance, this well rounded volume also offers positive suggestions for tackling thorny communal issues through socialist pedagogy.

Conducting research on OST learning requires us to broaden and deepen our conceptions of learning as well as to better identify the unique and common qualities of different learning settings.

These essays by teacher-educators explore what it means - practically and intellectually - to teach for social justice in conservative times. The book offers a vision of teacher education based on the principles of social justice, democracy and critical inquiry.