Education
Teaching Politics in Secondary Education
Uses data collected from multiple studies to offer recommendations on best practices for use in a polarized climate.
Sixty-Four Campuses—One University
Handsome, fully illustrated history of the sixty-four State University of New York campuses.
A Pedagogy of Anticapitalist Antiracism
Argues that the economic system itself is culpable in maintaining our oppressive educational status quo.
Meaning-Making, Internalized Racism, and African American Identity
Presents research on how variations in African Americans’ racial self-concept affects meaning-making and internalized oppression.
Rhetorical Healing
Reveals the rhetorical strategies African American writers have used to promote Black women’s recovery and wellness through educational and entertainment genres and the conservative gender politics that are distributed when these efforts are sold for public consumption.
Inventing the Mathematician
Considers how our ideas about mathematics shape our individual and cultural relationship to the field.
Chinese Philosophy on Teaching and Learning
A translation and discussion of the central Confucian text on education, Xueji (On Teaching and Learning), influential in China from the Han dynasty to the present day.
Fabricating an Educational Miracle
Illustrates the changing significance of what it means to be educated, rural, and ethnic in Southwest China.
Disrupting Adult and Community Education
Reconceptualizes local, national, and transnational adult education practices in light of neoliberalism and globalization.
Born Out of Struggle
Demonstrates how critical race theory can be useful in real-world situations.
The Fifth Element
Explores spoken word poetry as a tool for social justice, critical feminist pedagogy, and new ways of teaching.
Difficult Dialogues about Twenty-First-Century Girls
Introduces new conceptual frameworks for girls' studies.
Literacy of the Other
Explores the existential significance of literacy.
Community Self-Determination
Examines the educational programs American Indians developed to preserve their cultural and ethnic identity, improve their livelihood, and serve the needs of their youth in Chicago.
Schoolhouse Activists
Examines the role of African American educators in the Birmingham civil rights movement.
Becoming Critical
Presents the key experiences of a diverse group of teachers and students in their journeys of becoming social justice educator/scholars.
Lifelong Learning in Neoliberal Japan
Explores the trend of lifelong learning in Japan as a means to deal with risk in a neoliberal era.
The Best Kind of College
Small college professors from across the United States explain why liberal arts institutions remain the gold standard for higher education.
Listening to Teach
First book to offer a survey of pedagogical listening in conventional and alternative methodologies.
In the Face of Inequality
First comparative historical analysis of the organizational growth of black colleges.
A Psychoanalyst in the Classroom
Offers a new view of pedagogical practices to psychoanalysts interested in pedagogy.
The Problem of College Readiness
Examines how states, schools, and postsecondary institutions might best help improve college readiness and completion.
The Lure of Literacy
Examines proposals for freshman composition’s abolition and reform while providing a new model for courses.
Young Faculty in the Twenty-First Century
Demonstrates how the success of universities depends on the working conditions of the younger academic generation.
Expanding the Circle
Examines strategies and best practices that effectively integrate LGBTQ areas of teaching and research with student life activities.