Bücher der Reihe Counterpoints

The Democratic Gulag is a provocative, comprehensive investigation of the pervasive and transparent power of patriarchy in social evolution and contemporary society. The book traces patriarchy through history to our contemporary world by examining its role in shaping democracy, education, religion, politics, economics, leadership and gender relationships.

Helps you to learn how school leaders and teachers try to negotiate educational mandates while serving their students. This book provides suggestions for improving the ways these schools serve their students.

Can something be research if it doesn't "prove" anything? Can something be action research if it's a project run by an expert who does not consider participants co-researchers? What makes critical action research different from action research generally? The book provides a sketch of the topography of critical action research terrain and more.

Education and the Crisis of Public Values

"Featuring and interview with Noam Chomsky."

Suitable for classes working with educational leaders, classroom teachers, sports coaches, and educational researchers, this book aims to document effective practices in urban schools and to provide insight into productive program building and educational practices.

Critical Pedagogy, Ecoliteracy, and Planetary Crisis

Using dialogues exchanged over the course of nine years, combined with heartfelt critical essays, Chomsky and Orelus analytically examine social justice issues - unbalanced relationships between dominant and subjugated languages, democratic schooling, neoliberalism, colonization, and the harmful effect of Western globalization on developing countries, and on the poor living in those countries.

Communities for Social Change: Practicing Equality and Social Justice in Youth and Community Work examines core ideas of social justice and equality that underpin community and youth work.

Uses qualitative research methods to interpret and discuss school resilience in lives of African American female students. This book demonstrates how these girls are simultaneously one of the vulnerable, and one of resilient group of students. It implements alternative approaches to study of intersection of race, class, and gender on schooling.

This is the first book to define the philosophical and practical parameters of critical animal studies (CAS). With apolitical animal studies and exploitative animal research dominating higher education, this book offers a timely counter-narrative that demands the liberation of all oppressed beings and the environment.

Provides a series of studies and guidelines for what the author's have termed 'narrative pedagogy.' This book is suitable for an exploration of those narrative processes that can lead to meaningful change and development for individuals and groups within a learning environment and in life-learning.

Teacher TV: Seventy Years of Teachers on Television, 2nd Edition examines some of the most influential teacher characters presented on television and attempts to "flip the script" to combat the cynicism of today's television narratives and the way those stories influence public perceptions of education in America.

What does it mean to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided by race? Robin DiAngelo reveals the factors that make this question so difficult: mis-education about racism; ideologies such as individualism and colorblindness; segregation; and the belief that to be complicit in racism is to be an immoral person.

Assault on Kids

Through ethnographically informed interviews and observations conducted with six Black middle and high school girls, this book explores how young women navigate the space of Hip Hop music and culture to form ideas concerning race, body, class, inequality, and privilege.

19 Urban Questions

Activist Art in Social Justice Pedagogy

Can something be research if it doesn't "prove" anything? Can something be action research if it's a project run by an expert who does not consider participants co-researchers? What makes critical action research different from action research generally? This book provides a sketch of the topography of critical action research terrain and more.

This book examines the use of new media in pedagogy, as it presents case studies of the integration of technology, tools, and devices in an undergraduate curriculum taught by the author, at an urban research university in the United States.

Child beauty pageants are a phenomenon in rural communities throughout the American South. Girlhood, Beauty Pageants and Power: Trailer Park Royalty explores the participants who compete in these pageants and shows that most are from the lower socio-economic bracket

13 Questions: Reframing Education's Conversation: Science examines thirteen critical questions confronting contemporary science education and a dynamic and evolving universe threatened by issues of sustainability and disharmony.

Learning from Counternarratives in Teach For America utilizes multiple frameworks to analyze the depth and range of TFA corps members' experiences. This book ultimately advocates for a more honest, contextualized, and egalitarian approach to reform - one that openly addresses both individual and systemic realities.

From Education to Incarceration: Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline is a ground-breaking book that exposes the school system's direct relationship to the juvenile justice system.

In this book, H. James Garrett inquires into the processes of learning about the social world, populated as it often is with bewildering instances of loss, violence, and upheaval.

This unprecedented volume includes 30 essays by teachers and students about the teacher characters who have inspired them. Drawing on film and television texts, the authors explore screen lessons from a variety of perspectives.