Provides a model to help new teachers adjust to challenges faced as they begin their classroom careers.

International in scope, this is an unprecedented compilation of current theories and perspectives on women and leadership issues in schools at all levels.

A revised edition of the classic text, illuminating the linkages between race and higher education.

Provides a coherent framework for preparing teachers to work with a diverse student population.

A comparative look at the professional development of teachers and teacher educators.

An array of exciting new studies of child and adolescent development phenomena.

An examination of community literacy programs--with an eye toward radical change.

A critical examination of current sociopolitical issues surrounding equity and diversity and their impact on higher education.

The story of one city's experience with school desegregation, as seen through the eyes of the teachers who lived it.

Through the experiences of six students who wish to become high school teachers, this book explores the process of what it means to be a teacher and proposes ten principles for identity development.

Discusses state supreme courts and funding equity reform in Texas, Kentucky, and North Dakota.

Examines the relationship between instruction and academic culture in the college writing classroom.

A poignant study of how a group of poor white urban youth find respite from poverty, violence, and racism in a local community center.

An exploration of the benefits and problems of using the Internet in education.

Shows the tenacious spirit and hard work of women administrators in their struggles to enhance opportunities for women on college campuses.

Explores the university’s altering landscape, the conflicts over its core values and legitimacy, and the challenge for the university to negotiate the new landscape and to redefine itself within a larger educational context.

A full-bodied, robust discussion of issues of concern to faculty in schools of education.

Shows how modern physics supports basic claims of process philosophy.

Attempts to understand recent changes in the canon of American literature through the aid of psychoanalytic theory.

Highlights the struggles of a group of women from rural Kenya to provide educational opportunities for their children.

Considers the impacts of rapid social, economic, and cultural change on child-rearing and early education in Kenya.

Offers the definitive study of United States-Japan educational exchange relationship.

Presents new practices and ideas for mentoring women for school leadership positions.

Studies the intersections of curriculum politics and policy-making throughout the world.

Offers a narrative history of technical writing as a cultural practice and the system of scientific knowledge it controls.