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Many schools have failed to create a nurturing educational environment for LGBTQ students. Our Children are Your Students features a discussion about the various tactics that LGBTQ families use to work with schools that don't anticipate the arrival of their families and children.

In a decidedly anti-intellectual moment, exemplified by such recent phenomena as denials of science, defunding of universities, and distrust of "facts", Intra-Public Intellectualism examines the relationships among qualitative inquiry, truth telling and social activism.

Offers insight into the transformative possibilities of education when enacted as the art of being with. Driven by student voices and their experiences of marginalization, this text takes a clear ethical stance. It asserts that students are both capable and competent.

Provides a comprehensive explanation about the field of improvement science to both novices and current practitioners. This Primer is specifically designed to introduce improvement science to educational audiences.

Provides a narrative and illustration about the purpose and features comprising the Dissertation in Practice and how this culminating experience is suited to using Improvement Science as a signature methodology for preparing professional practitioners.

The most effective and long-lasting student strike in US History took place at San Francisco State College in 1968. The book is written by two participants in the strike. Oral histories of strike leaders are integrated with discussion of the events and significance of the movement.

An edited collection from eleven authors with a wealth of experience teaching in K-12 schools and utilizing culturally relevant practices. This book is current with social justice research and strategies, while connecting to the audience through personal vignettes in each chapter.

Serves as a guide for merging activism into academia. Following the journey of two academics, the book offers stories, frameworks and methods for how scholars can marry their academic selves with their activist commitments to justice, while navigating the realities of raising families and navigating office politics.

Originally published in 1993, Silencing Ivan Illich fell out of print in 1995. David Gabbard revisits the text as a means of opening the question of what schools should be. Inspired by Slavoj Zizek's call for a Positive Universal Project, the book provides an alternative vision of what we ought to be doing in the name of collective learning.

This book is inspired by sustained and reoccurring professional conversations and scholarship that have suggested that not just change is necessary, but that there ought to be a fundamental shift towards reconceptualizing the construct of fraternities and sororities.

With open-ended methods and poststructuralist theory and analysis, this book offers tools to approach and to examine challenging and controversial topics ethically. It argues that to examine data of ""individual"" experience and aspirations requires examining the process of the data production in which these were ""produced"".

A heartrending memoir of love, scholarship, dignity, courage, and the choices one is forced to make when given the devastating diagnosis of a terminal illness. Reminiscent of Still Alice, The Last Ten Days grabs the heartstrings and gives a mighty tug.

Illustrates applied organisational problem-solving using methods of Improvement Science in educational leadership. Chapters introduce Improvement Science, along with an overview, rationale, and challenges for exploring this emerging field. The reader is then led through a logical sequence of inquiry.

Deconstructing, reimagining and planning for a more meaningful, vibrant, social-just-based democracy that problematizes the normative, representative, hegemonic democracy in place that holds sway over formal relations, institutions, processes and education is central to this book.

Examines the ideologies behind the philanthropic efforts in American education from the 1970s to today. The authors examine specific strategies philanthropists have used to impact both educational policy and practice in the US as well as the legal and policy context in which these initiatives have thrived.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Some hundred years after John Dewey worked to illuminate what it means to educate and how public education serves as the bedrock of democracy, his seminal Democracy and Education speaks urgently not only to critical contemporary educational issues but to contemporary political issues as well.