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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

By George Allan
Subjects: Education

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

By Kemal Gürüz
Foreword by Nancy L. Zimpher
Subjects: Education

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.

Dreaming in the Classroom

The essential guide on how to teach about dreaming.

Globalization, Social Justice, and the Helping Professions

Explores the impact of globalization and the imperative of social justice for the helping professions in contemporary times.

Racism, Public Schooling, and the Entrenchment of White Supremacy

Demonstrates how ingrained ideas of race created and sustain the achievement gap in U. S. schools.

Educating Democracy

Revisionist analysis of the role of strong leadership in democracies, drawing primarily upon the work of Alexis de Tocqueville.

Splintered Accountability

Detailed study of how real education reform works.

Mediumism

Explores the contemporary pedagogical significance of modernism.

Teachers United

The inspiring history of NYSUT, New York State’s largest union, and a powerful progressive force in the state and in the country.

Integral Education

Leading researchers and practitioners explore the frontiers of education from an integral perspective.

Nurse Educators and Politics

Examines how nurse educators shape the political behavior of nurses.

The Making of a Family Saga

By Jin Feng
Subjects: Education

Looks at China’s Ginling College, the women’s missionary institution of higher learning that developed a discourse of family, recasting the Chinese Confucian family ideal as a female and Christian one.

Intellectual Capital

Edited by Carole G. Basile
Subjects: Education

Stories from participants in Professional Development Schools.

Unresolved Identities

Explores the ways that immigrant youth identities are shaped by dominant discourses.

Teachers Learning in Community

Raises provocative questions about the efficacy, viability, and sustainability of professional learning communities.

Sound-Bite Saboteurs

Argues that the reliance on sound bites in recent political discourse is harmful to the democratic process.

SUNY at Sixty

The comprehensive history of the State University of New York system.

Decision Making for Educational Leaders

A guide to decision making for school administrators.

Who Speaks for Hispanics?

Examines the policy stances of two major Hispanic interest groups.

Universal Preschool

Examines recent trends in state-funded preschool education.