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Latinos in Higher Education: Creating Conditions for Student Success
Wiley 2013; US$ 29.00Latinos’ postsecondary educational attainment has not kept pace with their growing representation in the U.S. population. How can Latino educational attainment be advanced? This monograph presents relevant contemporary research, focusing on the role of institutional contexts. Drawing particularly on research grounded in Latino students’... more...
Chicano Education in the Era of Segregation
University of North Texas Press 2013; US$ 15.16Wherever I Go, I Will Always Be a Loyal American
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 46.95Wherever I Go I'll Always Be a Loyal American is the story of how the Seattle public schools responded to the news of its Japanese American (Nisei) students' internment upon the signing of Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 14, 1942. Drawing upon previously untapped letters and compositions written by the students... more...
The Dreamkeepers
Wiley 2013; US$ 22.95In the second edition of her critically acclaimed book The Dreamkeepers , Gloria Ladson-Billings revisits the eight teachers who were profiled in the first edition and introduces us to new teachers who are current exemplars of good teaching. She shows that culturally relevant teaching is not a matter of race, gender, or teaching style. What matters... more...
The Global Future of Higher Education and the Academic Profession
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 85.00This is the first book to critically analyze the future of higher education systems in the four BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China - and the USA, analyzing academic salaries, contracts and working conditions and how national policy will affect the academic profession in each context. more...
Education for Values
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 57.95Values in education - how they are taught, the ethics of teaching itself, plus their role in the education of educators - is an area of lively and passionate debate. This book provides an essential resource of ideas, issues and current practice for all those with an interest in this area of education. Presenting a range of critical writing, this book... more...
Critical Race Counterstories along the Chicana/Chicano Educational Pipeline
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 95.00Chicanas/os are part of the youngest, largest, and fastest growing racial/ethnic 'minority' population in the United States, yet at every schooling level, they suffer the lowest educational outcomes of any racial/ethnic group. Using a 'counterstorytelling' methodology, Tara Yosso debunks racialized myths that blame the victims for these unequal educational... more...
Language, Literacy, and Pedagogy in Postindustrial Societies: The Case of Black Academic Underachievement
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00In postindustrial economies such as the United States and Great Britain, the black/white achievement gap is perpetuated by an emphasis on language and language skills, with which black American and black British-Caribbean youths often struggle. This work analyzes the nature of educational pedagogy in the contemporary capitalist world-system under... more...
Care in Education: Teaching with Understanding and Compassion
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00This philosophical commentary explores the meaning and significance of care in education, demonstrating how teaching with care enriches the art and soul of pedagogy. Wilde draws upon Western and Eastern philosophies that envision an integrated image of care to illuminate the value of cultivating understanding in the form of awareness, and compassion... more...
St. Philip's College
Texas A&M University Press 2013; US$ 29.95In 1898, St. Philip?s Normal and Industrial School opened its doors in San Antonio, offering sewing classes for black girls. It was the inaugural effort in a program, founded by the West Texas diocese of the Episcopal Church, to educate and train former slaves and other African Americans in that city. Originally tied to St. Philip?s Church, about... more...









