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  • No Citizen Left Behind

    by Meira Levinson ...
    Series series Educational psychology: critical pedagogical perspectives ;
    While teaching at an all-Black middle school in Atlanta, Levinson realized that her students’ individual self-improvement would not necessarily enable them to overcome their historical marginalization. In order to overcome their civic empowerment gap, students must learn how to reshape power relationships through public political and civic action. ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Community Matters

    Challenges to Civic Engagement in the 21st Century

    by William A. Galston, Meira Levinson, Jacob T. Levy, Peter Levine, Robert K. Fullinwider, Mick Womersley ...
    Series series Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy Studies
    Civic matters affect all members of a community and are thus of potential concern to all. In Community Matters: Challenges to Civic Engagement in the 21st Century, six distinguished scholars address three perennial challenges of civic life: the making of a citizen, how citizens are to agree (and disagree), and how to define the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. The thought-provoking ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Dilemmas of Educational Ethics

    Cases and Commentaries

    Edited by Meira Levinson, Jacob Fay ...
    Educators and policy makers confront challenging questions of ethics, justice, and equity on a regular basis. Should teachers retain a struggling student if it means she will most certainly drop out? Should an assignment plan favor middle-class families if it means strengthening the school system for all? These everyday dilemmas are both utterly ordinary and immensely challenging, yet there are ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Instructional Moves for Powerful Teaching in Higher Education

    by Jeremy T. Murphy, Meira Levinson ...
    A toolkit of strategies for postsecondary instructors to use to cultivate safe, inclusive learning spaces and improve teaching.Based on work conducted through the Instructional Moves project at Harvard University, Instructional Moves for Powerful Teaching in Higher Education outlines the many ways in which good college and graduate school teaching is rooted in deliberate pedagogical choices that ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Educational Equity in a Global Context

    Cases and Conversations in Educational Ethics

    Edited by Professor Meira Levinson, Tatiana Geron, Sara O’Brien, Ellis Reid ...
    How do we reconcile individual student needs with the demands of school, district, and national education programs? What are school-based professionals to do in situations where it is impossible to prioritize all students equally? A pair of new parents in Hong Kong deliberate which schooling model best fulfils the hopes and dreams they have for their children. An administrator in Germany ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Civic Contestation in Global Education

    Cases and Conversations in Educational Ethics

    Edited by Professor Meira Levinson, Ellis Reid, Sara O’Brien, Tatiana Geron ...
    Civic Contestation in Global Education takes readers into classrooms and schools on the front lines of civic education in pluralistic and divided democracies. The book offers eight case studies of educators and policy makers wrestling with schools' civic and ethical responsibilities around the globe. Examples of the case studies include teaching critical consciousness in an Anti-CRT state, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Democratic Discord in Schools

    Cases and Commentaries in Educational Ethics

    Edited by Meira Levinson, Jacob Fay ...
    Teaching in a democracy is challenging and filled with dilemmas that have no easy answers. For example, how do educators meet their responsibilities of teaching civic norms and dispositions while remaining nonpartisan? Democratic Discord in Schools features eight normative cases of complex dilemmas drawn from real events designed to help educators practice the type of collaborative problem solving ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Making Civics Count

    Citizenship Education for a New Generation

    Edited by David E. Campbell, Meira Levinson, Frederick M. Hess ...
    "By nearly every measure, Americans are less engaged in their communities and political activity than generations past.” So write the editors of this volume, who survey the current practices and history of citizenship education in the United States.They argue that the current period of “creative destruction”—when schools are closing and opening in response to reform mandates—is an ideal time to ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Forms of Justice

    Critical Perspectives on David Miller's Political Philosophy

    by Daniel Attas, Erica Benner, Simon Caney, Cecile Fabre, Matthew Humphrey, Chandran Kukathas, Meira Levinson, Andrew Mason, Tamar Meisels, David Miller, Serena Olsaretti, Marc Stears, Adam Swift, Michael Walzer, Stuart White, Daniel Weinstock ...
    What is justice? Great political philosophers from Plato to Rawls have traditionally argued that there is a single, principled answer to this question. Challenging this conventional wisdom, David Miller theorized that justice can take many different forms. In Forms of Justice, a distinguished group of political philosophers takes Miller's theory as a starting point and debates whether justice ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

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    Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It

    by Mary Ann Sieghart ...
    An incisive, intersectional look at the mother of all gender biases: a resistance to women’s authority and power.Every woman has a story of being underestimated, ignored, challenged, or patronized in the workplace. Maybe she tried to speak up in a meeting, only to be talked over by male colleagues. Or a client addressed her male subordinate instead of her. These stories remain true even for women ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • How to Be an Ally: Actions You Can Take for a Stronger, Happier Workplace

    by Melinda Briana Epler ...
    Through the power of allyship, each of us can create an equitable, innovative workplace where everyone feels safe, valued, and able to thriveHow can you help someone else thrive? How can you interrupt the biases, microaggressions, and inequities that prevent people around you from excelling? How can you build an innovative workplace fueled by equity, diversity and belonging?Every business leader ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Against Democracy

    by Jason Brennan, Jason Brennan ...
    A bracingly provocative challenge to one of our most cherished ideas and institutionsMost people believe democracy is a uniquely just form of government. They believe people have the right to an equal share of political power. And they believe that political participation is good for us—it empowers us, helps us get what we want, and tends to make us smarter, more virtuous, and more caring for one ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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