Bücher der Reihe Counterpoints

This collection is the first book devoted to Paulo Freire's ongoing global legacy to provide an analysis of the continuing relevance and significance of Freire's work and the impact of his global legacy. The book contains essays by some of the world's foremost Freire scholars - McLaren, Darder, Roberts, and others.

This collection is the first book devoted to Paulo Freire's ongoing global legacy to provide an analysis of the continuing relevance and significance of Freire's work and the impact of his global legacy. The book contains essays by some of the world's foremost Freire scholars - McLaren, Darder, Roberts, and others.

This revised edition is an updated resource guide for educators in secondary and university classrooms who desire to integrate mainstream and independent films into their instructional content about diversity and social justice.

Justice in Search of Leaders: A Handbook for Equity-Driven School Leadership is a guide for educators who are committed to equity-driven teaching, leading, and policy-making, and would like to operationalize socially-just school practices for all children.

Focusing on crucial issues in higher education, Colleges at the Crossroads: Taking Sides on Contested Issues challenges readers to go beyond taken-for-granted assumptions about America's colleges and universities and instead critically examine important questions facing them in today's troubled world.

This revised edition of provides an overview of the scholarship being done in the field and a framework for questions and discussions regarding the sustainability of teacher leadership efforts. In this edition, each of the five sections is accompanied by an introduction and reflection questions on the various issues related to teachers acting as leaders in classrooms, schools and communities.

Playing for Change introduces a critical pedagogy of arts-based community learning and development (A-CLD), a new discipline wherein artists learn to become educators, social workers, and community economic development agents. The book challenges the assumption that acculturation into a ruling ideology of state development is necessary.

This book examines the struggle against racial and cultural inequity in educational systems. It offers the example of a New Zealand community and its efforts to step outside education's "White spaces" to create a new space for learning and to reclaim educational sovereignty - where individuals have the absolute right to "be Maori," in school.

Basically Queer offers an introduction to what it can look and feel like to live life as lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, two spirited and trans.

Forgotten Places: Critical Studies in Rural Education critically investigates and informs the construction of the rural, rural identity and the understanding of the rural internationally.

This guide focuses on the dissertation work as a step-by-step process and details the structure and the content of dissertation chapters.

Basically Queer offers an introduction to what it can look and feel like to live life as lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, two spirited and trans.

Ma is a curriculum. The Japanese concept of ma refers to the interval between two markers. In a dialectic exploration, the spaces between-private/public, teacher/student, old/new, self/other, among others are probed in ways that contribute to the significant research in teaching and learning that has been undertaken in the last decades.

UnCommon Bonds is a collection of essays written by women representing multiple identities; all uniquely addressing the impactful experiences of race, ethnicity, and friendship in the context of the United States.

UnCommon Bonds is a collection of essays written by women representing multiple identities; all uniquely addressing the impactful experiences of race, ethnicity, and friendship in the context of the United States.

A Road Less Travelled: Critical literacy and language learning in the classroom -- 1964-1996 takes us through what the Blake calls the "jaunty journey" of the English/English Language Arts.

Focusing on crucial issues in higher education, Colleges at the Crossroads: Taking Sides on Contested Issues challenges readers to go beyond taken-for-granted assumptions about America's colleges and universities and instead critically examine important questions facing them in today's troubled world.

Unprepared for What We Learned: Six Action Research Exercises that Challenge the Ends We Imagine for Education explores how twentieth century models of education are not delivering on their promises, or helping to deliver the promise of the next generation.

In Assault on Kids and Teachers, educators from across the United States push back against the neoliberal school reform movements that are taking the "public" out of public education, demonizing teachers, and stealing from youth the opportunity for an equitable, just, and holistic education.

Fearless Engagement of Four Arrows offers a unique strong "medicine" for the reconstruction of a healthy, sane and sustainable future for all.

Keywords in the Social Studies: Concepts and Conversations takes words commonly used in social studies education and unsettles them in ways that will redefine the field for years to come.

The Economic Gulag: Patriarchy, Capitalism and Inequality is a trenchant critical analysis of the devastating ravages of capitalist patriarchy in our modern society and its pervasive and increasingly destabilizing negative influence on our views and values regarding power, gender, wealth and inequality.

Teaching Double Negatives: Disadvantage and Dissent at Community College is an insightful collection that problematizes the assumptions of instructors and powerfully engages the intersectionality of students, appealing the readers across the educational spectrum.

Keywords in the Social Studies: Concepts and Conversations takes words commonly used in social studies education and unsettles them in ways that will redefine the field for years to come.

All Children Are All Our Children explores steps we can take in classrooms, schools, neighborhoods and communities to support the health of the children and of the families that send their children to our schools.

Ma is a curriculum. The Japanese concept of ma refers to the interval between two markers. In a dialectic exploration, the spaces between-private/public, teacher/student, old/new, self/other, among others are probed in ways that contribute to the significant research in teaching and learning that has been undertaken in the last decades.

In The Stigma of Genius: Einstein, Consciousness and Critical Education, we muse over ways in which to be, to become, to recognize uniqueness and different paths to genius. Understanding that there is no prescribed procedure, we look at Einstein's life and knowledges to connect our pedagogies and students.

This book focuses on what learning our young people need if they are to become capable, responsible adults who are able to respond effectively to the crises we face today, and those that will arrive in the future.