Critiques the modernist tenets and moral integrity of contemporary adult education practice. Challenges educators to reconceptualize adult education as a postmodern pedagogy of engagement.

Articulates salient problems of tenure-track faculty, especially women and faculty of color. Offers a new paradigm to delineate ways in which the academic community can help socialize younger faculty, and honor differences more readily.

Contains narratives of the experiences of teachers using the testimonial of Rigoberta Menchu, a Guatemalan Indian woman who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992. Includes background essays on Menchu and the role of her story in political correctness debates.

Presents a critical, Neo-Marxist philosophy of education.

The authors discuss the dilemmas that face those who would educate tomorrow's valuable citizens and describe the day-to-day commitment needed to maintain a community. Important questions are asked: How ...

Examines the theories of Bakhtin and Freire in relation to bilingual education and second language learning.

Provides a rare look at how successive waves of educational reforms have interacted within a single school district.

Winner of the 1998 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Titles

Focusing on the cultural history of the origins of outcome-based education (OBE), this book investigates the social and ...

Explores connections between multicultural education, social activism, and critical analyses of oppression.

Provides an overview of ethnicity and intergroup relations, profiles the development of multiculturalism and ethnic studies, and analyzes the issues related to diversity in higher education as they relate to ethnic studies and multicultural efforts.

Few school superintendents in the United States are women, although many women have leadership positions in schools. This book is a feminist poststructuralist account of women aspiring to the superintendency in K-12 public school systems in the United States. It deals with issues of power, gender, and leadership and provides a framework for understanding the contemporary context of the superintendency.

Addresses a relatively new emphasis in the educational reform movement, the attempt to improve linkages between schools, families, and communities in the delivery of support services to children.

Explores how teachers think about students of color and/or a multicultural curriculum and presents opportunities for reconstructing teacher knowledge of the cultural context.

Examines in close detail public schools' relationships with their parents and communities.

The survival of planet Earth's nourishing life systems ultimately depends on how we humans think about them. Unfortunately, our culture's assumptions about the way the world works ignore recent scientific ...

Looks at the ways in which social structures and relationships within schools define, enable, or constrain an ethic of caring, especially for historically marginalized groups of students.

Presents evidence that S/T/S is a successful reform movement in science education.

This book examines ways in which school structures can change to increase parental involvement.

Addresses the question: How can schools help shape young minds to address the challenges of a democratic society?

Arnstine shows how schools have been distracted from education by reformers urging higher standards—the code word for higher test scores. But education is revealed in the dispositions a person has: ...

This compelling examination (by a former high school teacher in Watts, Los Angeles) shows how poverty affects the lives of young people.

Since the beginning of the school reform movement in the early 1980's, various efforts have been made to improve teacher evaluation. Most of the initial efforts were designed to promote greater accountability. ...

This book provides new teachers with concepts and pedagogical strategies designed to enhance the unique and individual characteristics of an increasingly diverse student population.

Explores social factors that lead to academic success for low-income Chicanos.

Provides insights into and results of a wide variety of experiments with professional development schools in the field of education.