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  • Freire and Children's Literature

    Series series Freire in Focus
    Building on and inspired by the work of Paulo Freire, this book offers an accessible introduction to how children's literature can be used in classrooms to explore cultural diversity and nurture collective qualities of shared joy, love and agency. The authors show how critical pedagogy and culturally responsive instruction can create meaningful ways for parents, teachers, and community leaders to ... Read more

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  • Critical Literacy and Urban Youth

    Pedagogies of Access, Dissent, and Liberation

    Series series Language, Culture, and Teaching Series
    Critical Literacy and Urban Youth offers an interrogation of critical theory developed from the author’s work with young people in classrooms, neighborhoods, and institutions of power. Through cases, an articulated process, and a theory of literacy education and social change, Morrell extends the conversation among literacy educators about what constitutes critical literacy while also examining ... Read more

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  • Critical Media Pedagogy

    Teaching for Achievement in City Schools

    Series series Language & Literacy
    “In this important new book the authors present a compelling case for broadening the way we think about literacy in relation to the ‘new media.’ Through compelling case studies, they examine the ways in which youth engage this medium both as active participants and producers of new, original content. The result is a new way of conceptualizing literacy, one that will push the reader to reconsider ... Read more

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  • Tell Your Story

    Teaching Students to Become World-Changing Thinkers and Writers

    Learn how to increase students' skills as writers and storytellers with an innovative, inclusive, and empowering framework for teaching writing that centers student voice.Tell Your Story: Teaching Students to Become World-Changing Thinkers and Writers explores how to help students see themselves as writers and storytellers who are developing the skills and techniques to communicate in ways that ... Read more

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  • Education Across the African Diaspora

    New Opportunities, Emerging Orientations, and Future Outcomes

    This book examines the opportunities, orientations and outcomes that shape education for Black people across time, place and space throughout the African diaspora. It bridges gaps in education studies and African diaspora studies, noting the connections between these two formative fields as central to a fuller understanding of the history and futurity of African descendants around the world.The ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Educating Harlem

    A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community

    Over the course of the twentieth century, education was a key site for envisioning opportunities for African Americans, but the very schools they attended sometimes acted as obstacles to black flourishing. Educating Harlem brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to provide a broad consideration of the history of schooling in perhaps the nation’s most iconic black community.The volume ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Educating Harlem

    A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community

    Over the course of the twentieth century, education was a key site for envisioning opportunities for African Americans, but the very schools they attended sometimes acted as obstacles to black flourishing. Educating Harlem brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to provide a broad consideration of the history of schooling in perhaps the nation’s most iconic black community.The volume ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Stories from Inequity to Justice in Literacy Education

    Confronting Digital Divides

    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    Challenging the assumption that access to technology is pervasive and globally balanced, this book explores the real and potential limitations placed on young people’s literacy education by their limited access to technology and digital resources.Drawing on research studies from around the globe, Stories from Inequity to Justice in Literacy Education identifies social, economic, racial, political ... Read more

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  • The Art of Critical Pedagogy

    Possibilities for Moving from Theory to Practice in Urban Schools

    Series Book 285 - Counterpoints
    This book furthers the discussion concerning critical pedagogy and its practical applications for urban contexts. It addresses two looming, yet under-explored questions that have emerged with the ascendancy of critical pedagogy in the educational discourse: (1) What does critical pedagogy look like in work with urban youth? and (2) How can a systematic investigation of critical work enacted in ... Read more

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    When the State Meets the Street probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats: the frontline social and welfare workers, police officers, and educators who represent government’s human face to ordinary citizens. Too often dismissed as soulless operators, these workers wield a significant margin of discretion and make decisions that profoundly affect people’s lives. Combining insights ... Read more

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  • Ideology, Curriculum, and the New Sociology of Education

    Revisiting the Work of Michael Apple

    For more than three decades Michael Apple has sought to uncover and articulate the connections among knowledge, teaching and power in education. Beginning with Ideology and Curriculum (1979), Apple moved to understand the relationship between and among the economy, political and cultural power in society on the one hand "and the ways in which education is thought about, organized and evaluated" on ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Why Reading Books Still Matters

    The Power of Literature in Digital Times

    Bringing together strands of public discourse about valuing personal achievement at the expense of social values and the impacts of global capitalism, mass media, and digital culture on the lives of children, this book challenges the potential of science and business to solve the world’s problems without a complementary emphasis on social values. The selection of literary works discussed ... Read more

    $66.99 USD