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Presents theoretical discussions, personal reflections, research reports, and policy suggestions sourced in the experiences of the most vulnerable students with an eye to making schools places all students might love. The essays explore these issues from the perspectives of poverty, gender, race, ethnicity, language, and religion among others.

This little book is about what we must do to ensure that Black children across the world are loved, safe, and that their souls and spirits are healed from the ongoing damage of living in a world where white supremacy flourishes. It offers strategies and activities to unapologetically love Black children.

Theorizes the layers of autoethnography. The book explores components that may be not only melancholic and empirical, but also emotionally painful. It searches phenomena in autoethnographic happenings that make them redolent.

Connecting cultures to educational settings is an essential component of critical pedagogy. This book addresses many of the key issues and challenges in decolonizing the African school curriculum. It highlights important philosophical arguments on the challenges and possibilities of achieving these goals in a meaningful manner.

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.

Provides a comprehensive review of the various concepts that illustrate how women understand the world around them, make meaning for themselves and their environment, and acknowledge the intersectionality of their identity. In addition, the book breaks new ground in the conversation about the roles of women and gender in higher education.

Analyses the insidious ways heteronormativity produces homophobia and heterosexism, including how this operates and is experienced by those who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and queer.

Teachers' religious identities shape their classroom practices in varied ways. Their religious identities shape their sense of what is possible and impossible within classroom settings. This book examines these complex navigations through portraits of three early-career evangelical Christian teachers.

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.

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.

Gathers contributions from scholars and young adult authors who consider how living in a city affects character identity and growth, and the ways authors world-build the urban setting. The book discusses what the urban landscape means, most especially to those who live in cities, and dispels preconceptions about city living.

Examines conservative philanthropies, the organisations and individuals within their networks, and the strategies they use to shape educational policy and practice. Each chapter examines a philanthropy, philanthropic network, or corporation focused on pushing an agenda of individualism, privatization, and conservative ideologies.

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.

An education playbook applied to the vast mediated universe of Disney. Readers of all ages can critically apply media literacy principles while still conscientiously participating as consumer-citizens, media creators, and agents of change. Media literacy is defined throughout this book as an instructional method rather than a political movement.

Addresses the theory and practice of African-centred education. Contributors provide perspectives on the history, methods, successes and challenges of African-centred education, discussions of efforts counter the miseducation of Black children, and prescriptions for-and analyses of-the way forward for Black children and Black communities.

The term ""teacher leadership"" is not without its problems, since some interpret it to have both corporate and hierarchical implications. Stewardship as Teacher Leadership discusses the impact of changing that language to stewardship, a term that in more inclusive, more professional, and more morally-based.

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.

Explores key philosophical topics in John Dewey's work, including epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics, and relates them to teacher practice and education policy. Each chapter begins with theory and ends with practical implications.

For the past 35 years, Scott Mandel has been teaching students in an urban Los Angeles school district. In addition, he instructs teachers in professional development courses. In those classes, he's known for telling stories. Classrooms in the Real World is a collection of many of those stories, presented as a set of teachable moments.

Invites readers to rethink and re-examine the traditional paradigms in which religion, spirituality, and interfaith (RSI) have been studied within higher education and student affairs settings. This volume introduces new theoretical frameworks that enrich and enliven the study of RSI, making it more dynamic, inclusive, and innovative.

Takes an in-depth look at how culturally-responsive focus groups are developed and implemented within the context of qualitative inquiry broadly, and program evaluation more specifically. The book showcases various forms of focus groups and how they can be responsive to specific communities across different disciplines.

Showcases examples of subversive pedagogy to instruct and inspire teachers and to contextualize subversive ELA pedagogy in the contemporary educational moment. Contributors draw from case studies, narrative inquiry, or other qualitative methodologies to explain how they have variously taken up subversive pedagogy in the ELA classroom.

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.

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.

Addresses the difficulties early career researchers often have with understanding how theory, data analysis and interpretation of findings ""hang together"" in a well-designed and theorized qualitative research investigation, as well as learning how to draw on such understanding to conduct rigorous data analysis and interpretation of their results.