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  • Storying Learning in Early Childhood

    When Children Lead Participatory Curriculum Design, Implementation, and Assessment

    Series Book 54 - Rethinking Childhood
    Storying Learning in Early Childhood documents philosophical, research, and critical questions about notions of childrens’ experiences and learning potential that heavily influence the profession. Critically created, child-centered curriculum and assessment collaborations focus on contexts of homes, schools, and communities. This book brings into focus policy issues, economic issues, and political ... Read more

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  • Making Space for Storied Leadership in Higher Education

    Learning with Migrant and Refugee Populations in Early Childhood and Teacher Education Contexts

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book analyzes stories of university early childhood faculty members, community activists in southern California, and children and the early childhood teacher education students working with them. The grounding of this research is reconceptualization of postmodern narrative theoretical influences. Through narrative inquiry, the book connects ongoing research to ongoing pedagogy. It explores ... Read more

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  • Storying

    A Path to Our Future: Artful Thinking, Learning, Teaching, and Research

    Series Book 13 - Critical Qualitative Research
    This is a book about story, the human experience, teaching and learning, creativity and community. Story is so much more than decoding text and writing using academic language. It also includes literature and all forms of the arts; digital forms of story, from social media to documentation of history; and new forms of multilayered, multigenre research. Story is the backbone and the catalyst for ... Read more

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  • Educating Latino Students

    A Guide to Successful Practice

    Latino/a students are in a unique position in today's society; teachers and administrators are in an influential position in educating them. Community, parents, and educators alike are poised to enable these students to gain the education they need for success. Chapters by recognized authors and successful practitioners explain theory with actual applicable examples, demonstrating where and how ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Precarities of 21st Century Childhoods

    Critical Explorations of Time(s), Place(s), and Identities

    Series series Critical Childhood & Youth Studies: Theoretical Explorations and Practices in Clinical, Educational, Social, and Cultural Settings
    This book locates internally focused, critical perspectives regarding the social, political, emotional, and mental growth of children. Through the radical openness afforded by psychoanalytic and related frameworks, this volume illuminates, promotes, and helps situate subjectivities that are often blotted out for both the child and society. The overall emphasis is on motifs of lostness and ... Read more

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    Working towards Decolonization, Indigeneity and Interculturalism

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book convincingly argues that effective culturally responsive pedagogies require teachers to firstly undertake a critical deconstruction of Self in relation to and with the Other; and secondly, to take into account how power affects the socio-political, cultural and historical contexts in which the education relation takes place. The contributing authors are from a range of diaspora, ... Read more

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  • Funds of Knowledge

    Theorizing Practices in Households, Communities, and Classrooms

    The concept of "funds of knowledge" is based on a simple premise: people are competent and have knowledge, and their life experiences have given them that knowledge. The claim in this book is that first-hand research experiences with families allow one to document this competence and knowledge, and that such engagement provides many possibilities for positive pedagogical actions.Drawing from both ... Read more

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  • Un-Standardizing Curriculum

    Multicultural Teaching in the Standards-Based Classroom

    Series series Multicultural Education Series
    In this second edition of her bestseller, Christine Sleeter and new coauthor Judith Flores Carmona show how educators can learn to teach rich, academically rigorous, multicultural curricula within a standards-based environment. The authors have meticulously updated each chapter to address current changes in education policy and practice. New vignettes of classroom practice have been added to ... Read more

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  • Transforming World Language Teaching and Teacher Education for Equity and Justice

    Pushing Boundaries in US Contexts

    Edited by Beth Wassell, Cassandra Glynn ...
    Series Book 103 - New Perspectives on Language and Education
    This edited book expands the current scholarship on teaching world languages for social justice and equity in K-12 and postsecondary contexts in the US. Over the past decade, demand has been growing for a more critical approach to teaching languages and cultures: in response, this volume brings together a group of scholars whose work bridges the fields of world language education and critical ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Salsa Dancing in Gym Shoes

    Developing Cultural Competence to Foster Latino Student Success

    Cultural competence is a critical skill teachers must posses if they are going to connect with racially diverse students. Misunderstanding or ignorance of the Latino value system, history, and culture create barriers between teachers and students that significantly deteriorate their potential for learning. Consider how you would typically greet a friend or a relative. Perhaps you would shake hands ... Read more

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  • The Arts and Emergent Bilingual Youth

    Building Culturally Responsive, Critical and Creative Education in School and Community Contexts

    The Arts and Emergent Bilingual Youth offers a critical sociopolitical perspective on working with emerging bilingual youth at the intersection of the arts and language learning. Utilizing research from both arts and language education to explore the ways they work in tandem to contribute to emergent bilingual students’ language and academic development, the book analyzes model arts projects to ... Read more

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  • Thinking Comprehensively About Education

    Spaces of Educative Possibility and their Implications for Public Policy

    While much is known about the critical importance of educative experiences outside of school, little is known about the social systems, community programs, and everyday practices that can facilitate learning outside of the classroom. Thinking Comprehensively About Education sheds much-needed light on those systems, programs, and practices; conceptualizing education more broadly through a nuanced ... Read more

    $80.99 USD