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  • Affect, Learning, and Teacher Education

    Getting Stuck in Social Justice

    by Erica E. Colmenares, Scott Jarvie ...
    Series series Routledge Cultural Studies in Knowledge, Curriculum, and Education
    This volume inquires into student teachers’ “stuck moments”—moments of felt crisis—as they occur within the context of a university-based social justice teacher education (SJTE) program. The book complicates the notion that these stuck moments are primarily effects of a gap between theory and practice. Instead, Colmenares and Jarvie argue for a more robust conceptualization, drawing on affect ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Resonances of El Chavo del Ocho in Latin American Childhood, Schooling, and Societies

    Edited by Daniel Friedrich, Dr Erica Colmenares ...
    Series series New Directions in Comparative and International Education
    El Chavo del Ocho is one of the most influential pieces of popular culture to have hit Latin America in the last 50 years, having, at the peak of its popularity in the mid-1970s, reached an approximate audience of 350 million across the Americas. It is also a rare example of a cultural product that has travelled through Latin America, leaving a lasting impact for several decades.Resonances of El ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

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    Series series Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista
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  • Twenty Theses on Politics

    by Eduardo Mendieta, Enrique Dussel ...
    Translated by Geo Maher ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation
    First published in Spanish in 2006, Twenty Theses on Politics is a major statement on political philosophy from Enrique Dussel, one of Latin America’s—and the world’s—most important philosophers, and a founder of the philosophy of liberation. Synthesizing a half-century of his pioneering work in moral and political philosophy, Dussel presents a succinct rationale for the development of political ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • One Child, Two Languages

    A Guide for Early Childhood Educators of Children Learning English as a Second Language, Second Edition

    by Patton Tabors Ed.D. ...
    Today's early childhood educators are serving more children learning English as a second language than ever—in Head Start alone, nearly 30% of the children speak a language other than English at home.* To support second language learners and put them on the path to academic success, every teacher needs this popular, practical, and highly readable ebook.Reflecting 10 years of dramatic change in ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Transforming Teacher Education for Social Justice

    by Eva Zygmunt, Patricia Clark ...
    Transforming Teacher Education for Social Justice offers teacher educators a new way to think about the development of culturally responsive educators. The authors identify the core components needed to restructure and reorient programs of teacher education to adequately prepare new teachers for the racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse communities they will serve upon graduation. They ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • The Hour of Eugenics"

    Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America

    by Nancy Leys Stepan ...
    Stepan's warning regarding the politics of scientific interpretation in the future seems most appropriate.... This is an important book, meticulously done, and will be of significant value to Latin Americanists (especially Brazilianists), to historians of science and medicine and to those concerned with the history of ideas as well as those interested in the rise (and fall?) of eugenics.―American ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Professions of a Lucky Jew

    by Benno Weiser Varon ...
    In 1932, Benno Weiser was studying medicine in Vienna. During a brawl he rescued a fellow Jewish student by cracking the skull of a huge Nazi with two outsized metal keys, while some thirty Nazis watched. He considers this event his rite of passage — proving to himself that “Jews are no cowards.” Life would give him many an opportunity to prove it again.A Jewish Rambo? Not at all. Fellow Viennese ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Afro-Latin America

    Black Lives, 1600–2000

    by George Reid Andrews ...
    Series series The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
    Of the almost 11 million Africans who came to the Americas between 1500 and 1870, two-thirds came to Spanish America and Brazil. Over four centuries, Africans and their descendants—both free and enslaved—participated in the political, social, and cultural movements that indelibly shaped their countries’ colonial and post-independence pasts. Yet until very recently Afro-Latin Americans were ... Read more

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  • Everynight Life

    Culture and Dance in Latin/o America

    Edited by Celeste Fraser Delgado, José Esteban Muñoz ...
    Series series Latin America otherwise
    The function of dance in Latin/o American culture is the focus of the essays collected in Everynight Life. The contributors interpret how Latin/o culture expresses itself through dance, approaching the material from the varying perspectives of literary, cultural, dance, performance, queer, and feminist studies. Viewing dance as privileged sites of identity formation and cultural resistance in ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Language across Difference

    Ethnicity, Communication, and Youth Identities in Changing Urban Schools

    by Django Paris ...
    Once a predominantly African-American city, South Vista opened the twenty-first century with a large Latino/a majority and a significant population of Pacific Islanders. Using an innovative blend of critical ethnography and social language methodologies, Paris offers the voices and experiences of South Vista youth as a window into how today's young people challenge and reinforce ethnic and ... Read more

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  • Teaching the Literature of Today's Middle East

    by Allen Webb ...
    Providing a gateway into the real literature emerging from the Middle East, this book shows teachers how to make the topic authentic, powerful, and relevant. Teaching the Literature of Today’s Middle East:• Introduces teachers to this literature and how to teach it• Brings to the reader a tremendous diversity of teachable texts and materials by Middle Eastern writers• Takes a thematic approach ... Read more

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