Bücher der Reihe Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education

Subjects the prophets and doctrines of educational neoliberalism to scrutiny in order to provide a rationale and vision for public education beyond the limits of No Child Left Behind. This book combines a history of education policy with an analysis of the origins of such policy and its impact on professional educators.

Examines how neoliberal and neoconservative policies are working in tandem to privatize and commercialize public schools. It looks at how these policies and the agendas behind them have impacted the internal dynamics of school management, teaching, and learning.

This text-reader brings together powerful readings that critically situate issues of education in the context of the major cultural, moral, political, economic, ecological, and spiritual crises that confront us as a nation and a global community. It prov

The study reported in this book focuses on the academic performance of Black American students. Not only do these students perform less well than White students at every social class level, but also less well than immigrant minority students, including Black immigrant students.

Using personal narratives by Yup'ik Eskimo teachers, this text shows how they began to reconcile cultural differences and conflict between the culture of the school and that of the community. The book also provides examples for others who are involved in creating culturally responsive education.

Going beyond just exposing educational inequalities, this volume provides intelligent and pragmatic research-based policy directions and tools for change for U.S. Latino Education and other multicultural contexts.

Going beyond just exposing educational inequalities, this volume provides intelligent and pragmatic research-based policy directions and tools for change for U.S. Latino Education and other multicultural contexts.

Examines the operations of power and knowledge in international education under conditions of globalization, with a focus on the three biggest exporters of higher education--the US, Australia, and the UK. An interdisciplinary approach based on the core social sciences is used to explore the power relations that shape global education networks.

This text charts the rise of consumerism as the dominant American ideology of the 21st century. It documents and analyses how, from the early 19th century through to the present, the combined endeavours of schools, advertising and media have led to the creation of a consumerist ideology.

An ethnographic account of a revolutionary Indigenous self-determination movement that began in 1966 with the Rough Rock Demonstration School. It asks whether school can be a place where children learn, question, and grow in an environment that values and builds upon who they are.

This study of parental involvement in modern education covers such diverse topics as lessons from personal experience, the quest for equity in family-school relations and the obscure side of homework.

The fourteen letters making up this book engage pre-service teachers with a personable and accessible voice. Critiques of traditional methods of language arts are offered together with fresh alternatives to curricula and evaluation.

This text studies what it is like to live on the US-Mexico border. The author describes of a small town and school, languages, social class, history and what it means to be an immigrant. Vignettes from Marleen Pugach's experiences and interpretations of her interviews and observations are included.

This is a volume in the Sociocultural, Political and Historical Studies in Education Series. It covers: the historical and sociopolitical context; identity, culture, race, language and gender; social activism, community involvement and policy implications; and directions for the future.

This critical examination of the origins of mass communication research from the perspective of an educational historian investigates the educational meaning of mass media, with the goal of understanding the essential connection between education and communication.

Challenges teachers, researchers, educational leaders, and community stakeholders to build dynamic learning environments through which indigenous learners can be boldly indigenous in a global world. This book examines topics including: regenerating and transforming language and culture pedagogy that reminds us that what is Contemporary is Native.

Presents John Ogbu's cultural ecological model and various debates that his work has sparked. This book includes theoretical roots of his cultural ecological model. It is organized as a dialogue between John Ogbu and the scholarly community, including his ardent critics; Ogbu's own work can be read at the same time as his critics have their say.

Examines content, methodological, and policy issues framing the debate on academic achievement, school engagement, and oppositional culture. This book presents some critical works on these issues as well as examples of programs aimed at re-engagement. It looks at African Americans, and school engagement among Native American and Latino students.

This guide asseses global education, while looking at the issue from a historical and international viewpoint. Topics include: equality and freedom in Islamic education; India's education, human rights and the global flow; and natural rights and education in the West.

Bringing together a group of the best creative educational thinkers to reflect on the purpose and future of public education, this collection of original essays by leading social and educational commentators in North America attempts to articulate a vision for education, especially public education, and begin to set an alternative direction.

Bringing together a group of the best creative educational thinkers to reflect on the purpose and future of public education, this collection of original essays by leading social and educational commentators in North America attempts to articulate a vision for education, especially public education, and begin to set an alternative direction.

This volume presents research on the US Title I federal compensatory education programmes. It documents the programme's history, and points to its potential for the future, building on 35 years of research, development and practical experience.

Explores consumption and its relation to learning, identity development, and education. This examines educational sites - both formal and informal - where learners and teachers are resisting consumerism and enacting a critical pedagogy of consumption.

Place and community-based education is an approach that addresses two critical gaps in the experience of many children growing up in the United States: contact with the natural world and contact with community. This book explains the purpose and nature of place and community-based education, and provides multiple examples of its practice.

The authors in this book use the metaphors of invisibility and visibility to explore the social and school lives of many children and young people in North America whose complexity, strengths, and vulnerabilities are largely unseen in the society and its