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“kysa nygreen”

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  • These Kids

    Identity, Agency, and Social Justice at a Last Chance High School

    by Kysa Nygreen ...
    Few would deny that getting ahead is a legitimate goal of learning, but the phrase implies a cruel hierarchy: a student does not simply get ahead, but gets ahead of others. In These Kids, Kysa Nygreen turns a critical eye on this paradox. Offering the voices and viewpoints of students at a “last chance” high school in California, she tells the story of students who have, in fact, been left behind ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

    Clashes and Confrontations

    by Dawn Abt-Perkins, Ruth Balf, Matthew Brown, Jacqueline Deal, Elizabeth Dutro, Kimberly Adilia Helmer, Stephanie Jones, Elham Kazemi, Aaron Kuntz, Kysa Nygreen, Eileen Carlton Parsons, Steven Wall, Victoria Whitefield, Melanie Shoffner ...
    The authors in this edited volume reflect on their experiences with culturally relevant pedagogy_as students, as teachers, as researchers_and how these experiences were often at odds with their backgrounds and/or expectations. Each of the authors speaks to the complexity and difficulty in attempting to address students' cultures, create learning experiences with relevance to their lives and ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

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    Whether in wartime or peace, tales of love, laughter and hardship from the girls in the Rowntrees factory in Yorkshire“On a warm Monday morning in 1932, just two days after leaving school, fourteen-year-old Madge was about to join her nine brothers and sisters at Rowntree’s. The smell of chocolate was in the air but as she walked up the road, her footsteps slowed at the daunting thought of what ... Read more

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  • Immigrant and Refugee Students in Canada

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    $24.99 CAD

  • Makeshift Metropolis

    Ideas About Cities

    by Witold Rybczynski ...
    In this new work, prizewinning author, professor, and Slate architecture critic Witold Rybczynski returns to the territory he knows best: writing about the way people live, just as he did in the acclaimed bestsellers Home and A Clearing in the Distance. In Makeshift Metropolis, Rybczynski has drawn upon a lifetime of observing cities to craft a concise and insightful book that is at once an ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Witnessing Whiteness

    The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It

    by Shelly Tochluk ...
    Witnessing Whiteness invites readers to consider what it means to be white, describes and critiques strategies used to avoid race issues, and identifies the detrimental effect of avoiding race on cross-race collaborations. The author illustrates how racial discomfort leads white people toward poor relationships with people of color. Questioning the implications our history has for personal lives ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Educating Elites

    Class Privilege and Educational Advantage

    by Beth Cooper Benjamin, Peter W. Cookson Jr, Raygine DiAquoi, Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández, Shamus Rahman Khan, Peter Kuriloff, June Newman-Graham, Sharon Ravitch, Michael Reichert, Joseph A. Soares, Brett Stoudt, Jenny M. Stuber ...
    The gaze of educational researchers has traditionally been turned "down" toward the experiences of communities deemed at-risk, presumably with the purpose of improving their plight. Indeed, theorizing about the relationship between education, culture, and society has typically emerged from the study of poor and marginalized groups in public schools. Seldom have educational researchers considered ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • African American Males and Education

    Researching the Convergence of Race and Identity

    by T. Elon Dancy, M. Christopher Brown ...
    Series series Contemporary Perspectives in Race and Ethnic Relations
    African American Males in Education: Researching the Convergence of Race and Identity addresses a number of research gaps. This book emerges at a time when new social dynamics of race and other identities are shaping, but also shaped by, education. Educational settings consistently perpetuate racial and other forms of privilege among students, personnel, and other participants in education. For ... Read more

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  • White Teachers, Black Students

    In the Spirit of Yes to African American Student Achievement

    by Mack T. Hines III ...
    Can White teachers teach Black Students? This is the provocative and pointed inquiry that drives the creation of White Teachers, Black Students. The twin purpose of this book is how can White teachers consistently teach and reach Black students? Hines starts the book by framing these inquiries within the historical context of race, whiteness, and white people. He then carefully draws a line from ... Read more

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  • Breakbeat Pedagogy

    Hip Hop and Spoken Word Beyond the Classroom Walls

    by Brian Mooney ...
    Series Book 512 - Counterpoints
    Breakbeat Pedagogy provides a groundbreaking framework for the inclusion of hip-hop culture in schools. Looking beyond the previous model of hip-hop-based education, Brian Mooney argues for school-wide hip-hop events, such as poetry slams, as the ideal site for students to engage in the elements of hip-hop culture. Working from the perspective of a classroom teacher, the author reflects on the ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Street Kids

    Homeless Youth, Outreach, and Policing New Yorks Streets

    by Kristina E. Gibson ...
    Street outreach workers comb public places such as parks, vacant lots, and abandoned waterfronts to search for young people who are living out in public spaces, if not always in the public eye. Street Kids opens a window to the largely hidden world of street youth, drawing on their detailed and compelling narratives to give new insight into the experiences of youth homelessness and youth outreach. ... Read more

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  • The European Union’s Modernisation Agenda for Higher Education and the Case of Ireland

    by Ludovic Highman ...
    Series Book 20 - Cahiers du Collège d’Europe / College of Europe Studies
    The book sets out to offer a national perspective on the complex changes occurring in European higher education systems. The Lisbon European Council (2000) set an ambitious target for the Union to become "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world" with important ramifications for higher education systems and institutions, because of the key role they play in driving ... Read more

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