Education
Soft Science Sustainability
Multifaceted exploration of the dimensions of education for climate justice.
From Blues to Beyoncé
Explores how Black women have continually used sound to convey stories and forge community across generations.
A Thousand Worries
Deeply engaging study of how fourteen Black mothers—including the author—support and advocate for their autistic sons.
Teaching as if Students Matter
A teacher education book that emphasizes the importance of relationships, cultural responsiveness, and engaged learning for all students’ academic and personal success.
Chronicling a Crisis
A primary source collection of the local impact of the COVID pandemic on a college community which both records and reflects upon the nature of daily life during a crisis.
The Jazz Problem
How jazz spurred a generational debate that reshaped American culture.
Doing Qualitative Research in Education Settings, Second Edition
An up-to-date, clearly written, user-friendly guide that students and experienced scholars alike will find invaluable as they plan, implement, and write up qualitative research projects.
Student Success
Helps students achieve their academic and career goals by clarifying the behaviors that they alone are responsible for, explaining why they are important, how they are assessed, and how they can lead to success.
Reauthoring Savage Inequalities
Offers rich, wide-ranging counternarratives to social, political, and educational discourses that characterize urban schools and communities as places of despair, revealing the resources and strategies of resistance that teachers, students, and families use to succeed and thrive.
The Camp Abilities Story
The uplifting story of how one camp gave children with visual impairment new confidence in their own abilities.
Critical Studies on Heidegger
Original reading of Heidegger suggesting what his project could mean for building an ethical way of life now and in the future.
Harold Taylor and Sarah Lawrence College
The engaging memoir of a college president and public intellectual who became one of America's leading mid-twentieth-century social and educational activists.
Racial Equity on College Campuses
Offers insight into race-based disparities in higher education and practical tools for advancing racial equity on college and university campuses.
Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology, and Liberal Education
The first book-length study of Leo Strauss' understanding of the relation between modern democracy, technology, and liberal education.
Black Campus Life
Ethnography of Black engineering majors navigating campus life at a historically White university.
Black Lives Matter in US Schools
A powerful anthology on the role of curricula in perpetuating—and resisting—oppression.
The Other American Dilemma
Examines how Mexican Americans experienced “unofficial” Jim Crow inside and outside the American education system, and how they used the courts, Mexican Consul, and other resources to challenge that discrimination.
The Rorty-Habermas Debate
Argues that out of the confrontation between Rorty and Habermas, we might be able to find a new way to think about the kind of politics we need today.
Creative Inquiry
Introduces both undergraduate students and general readers to the exploratory mindset and hands-on skills essential to the cultivation of creativity.
Power, Constraint, and Policy Change
Examines how state courts change public policy through an analysis of their influence on state education finance reform.
Teaching Race in Perilous Times
Multidisciplinary anthology on teaching issues of race and racism in US college classrooms.
The Ideology of Civic Engagement
Examines the organization, regulation, and enactment of civic engagement within AmeriCorps, an American volunteer service program.
Super Schoolmaster
Traces the controversial poet’s thinking about teaching and learning throughout his career.
Higher Education for Democracy
Uses a cross-national comparison of Los Angeles, New Delhi, and Hong Kong to develop strategies universities should employ to strengthen democracy and resist fascism.
Building Pedagogues
An in-depth account and model of antiracist professional development for white practicing teachers.
Shared Governance in Higher Education, Volume 3
Explores the impact of shared governance in times of campus and system transition.
Sankofa
Explores the complex interplay of race and culture in the doctoral experiences of African American students.
Walter Benjamin's Antifascist Education
A comprehensive study of education in the writings of Walter Benjamin.
Relational Sociology and Research on Schools, Colleges, and Universities
Brings relational sociology to bear on educational research.
Transforming Higher Education in Asia and Africa
Analyzes twelve strategic planning efforts in higher education in eight countries in Asia and Africa.
University Management, the Academic Profession, and Neoliberalism
A unique examination of how faculty and university administrators understand their work and professional identities under neoliberalism.
Improv for Democracy
Explores how improv-based teaching and training methods can bridge differences and promote the communication, leadership, and civil skills our world urgently needs.
Get Real
A thought-provoking overview of the many challenges facing higher education and how to deal with them by a leading thinker in the field.
Shared Governance in Higher Education Set (Volumes 1, 2 and 3)
A trilogy exploring different aspects of shared governance in higher education.
Tuning the Student Mind
Explores the effectiveness and value of meditation in a college classroom.
Buddhisms in Asia
A guide to Buddhism’s rich variety of traditions and cultural expressions for educators who would like to include Buddhism in their undergraduate courses.
Stories of School Yoga
Provides firsthand perspectives from yoga practitioners and educators on the promises and challenges of school-based yoga programs.
New Directions in Jewish American and Holocaust Literatures
Surveys the current state of Jewish American and Holocaust literatures as well as approaches to teaching them.
United University Professions
Tells the story of the nation's largest higher education union from its earliest years to its role today as a powerful organization promoting the interests of faculty, staff, and the entire SUNY community.
Black Women and Social Justice Education
Focuses on Black women’s experiences and expertise in order to advance educational philosophy and provide practical tools for social justice pedagogy.
Trans People in Higher Education
Addresses the experiences of trans college students, faculty, and staff in a single volume for the first time.
The Room Is on Fire
Blends history and theory with practical descriptions of how spoken word poetry is taught and how to produce spoken word events.
Confucianism Reconsidered
Explores the rich potential of Confucianism in American and Chinese classrooms of the twenty-first century.
Childhood beyond Pathology
Brings psychoanalytic concepts to the notion of childhood development with a keen eye to discussions of social justice and human dignity.
The Parthenon and Liberal Education
Discusses the importance of the early history of Greek mathematics to education and civic life through a study of the Parthenon and dialogues of Plato.
Shared Governance in Higher Education, Volume 2
Offers valuable insights into the governance process in higher education.
The Quest for Purpose
Demonstrates how students and educators can resist narrow, utilitarian views of higher education’s purpose.
Brokering Tareas
Provides concrete examples of homework mentorship and positive academic interventions among immigrant families.
Getting Personal
Addresses how digital forms of personal writing can be most effectively used by teachers, students, and other community members.
Staging Women's Lives in Academia
Argues that institutional change must accommodate women’s professional and personal life stages.
Art as Contemplative Practice
Art as yoga and meditation for artists, contemplative practitioners, art educators, and art therapists.
Being Black, Being Male on Campus
Explores how race and gender matter on campus and how Black males navigate college for academic and personal success.
Shared Governance in Higher Education, Volume 1
Offers practical advice for achieving shared governance in higher education.
International Librarianship
Demonstrates the impact of global education partnerships related to information access.
US Latinization
Demonstrates how educators and policymakers should treat the intertwined nature of immigrant education and social progress in order to improve current policies and practices.
Teaching Politics in Secondary Education
Uses data collected from multiple studies to offer recommendations on best practices for use in a polarized climate.
A Pedagogy of Anticapitalist Antiracism
Argues that the economic system itself is culpable in maintaining our oppressive educational status quo.
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.
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.
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.
Ernest L. Boyer
Assesses the challenges plaguing our higher education system through selections of Ernest L. Boyer’s writings
Time to Write, Second Edition
Analyzes interviews with students, teachers, and administrators to develop a new set of literacies essential for student success in the digital age.
Contemplative Learning and Inquiry across Disciplines
A wide-ranging consideration of the emerging field of contemplative education.
Creating a College That Works
Examines the life of education activist Audrey Cohen and her founding of Metropolitan College of New York.
Beyond Banneker
An in-depth look at the lives, experiences, and professional careers of Black mathematicians in the United States.
Faculty Fathers
Explores the challenges faculty fathers face in navigating the demands of work and family.
A Pedagogy of Witnessing
Explores the curating of “difficult knowledge” through the exhibition of lynching photographs in contemporary museums.
The Pursuit of Wisdom and Happiness in Education
Explores the nature and role of wisdom in education.
A Wizard of Their Age
A collection of student essays that captures the passionate engagement their generation brings to the Harry Potter phenomenon.
We, the Students and Teachers
Provides practical applications of democratic teaching for classes in history/social studies education, multicultural and social justice education, community service and civic engagement, and education and public policy.
The Social Studies Curriculum
This fully revised and updated edition includes twelve new chapters on contemporary topics such as ecological democracy, Native studies, inquiry teaching, and Islamophobia.
Striving Together
Chronicles the development of a framework for collective impact in education through the perspectives of its founders and lessons learned from pioneering sites.
Building a Smarter University
Demonstrates how universities can use Big Data to enhance operations and management, improve the education pipeline, and educate the next generation of data scientists.
Inside Ocean Hill–Brownsville
The story of an Ocean Hill–Brownsville teacher who crossed picket lines during the racially charged New York City teachers’ strike of 1968.
The Principal's Office
The first comprehensive history of principals in the United States.
Black Passports
A resource guide that uses African American memoir to address a variety of issues related to mentoring and curriculum development.
The Prosthetic Pedagogy of Art
Uses autobiographical and cultural narratives related to art research and practice to explore, experiment, and improvise multiple correspondences between and among learners’ own lived experiences and understandings, and those of others.
Improvisation, Creativity, and Consciousness
Using insights from Integral Theory, describes how the improvisational methods of jazz can inform education and other fields.
Education Feminism
Collection of important essays by feminist scholars from cultural studies, philosophy of education, curriculum theory, and women’s studies.
Higher Education Systems 3.0
An exploration of multi-campus higher education systems and their role in improving communities and their economies.
Modes of Learning
A highly accessible reading of Whitehead's writings on education and their connection to his metaphysics.
Transforming Self and Others through Research
Brings the transformative approaches of transpersonal psychology to research in the human sciences and humanities.
Meditation and the Classroom
A ground-breaking book on using meditation in education and how it can enhance teaching and learning.
Higher Education and International Student Mobility in the Global Knowledge Economy
Second, updated edition of a landmark study of how the international mobility of students, scholars, programs and institutions of higher education has evolved over time, and the ways in which it is occurring in today's global knowledge economy.