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Assessment, Equity, and Opportunity to Learnby Pamela A. Moss; Diana C. Pullin; James Paul Gee; Edward H. Haertel; Lauren Jones Young
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 29.00An engaging introduction to fresh ideas for conceptualizing, enhancing, and assessing OTL. more...
Race in the Schoolyardby Amanda E. Lewis
Rutgers University Press 2003; US$ 21.00Could your kids be learning a fourth R at school: reading, writing, 'rithmatic, and race? Race in the Schoolyard takes us to a place most of us seldom get to see in action?our childrens classrooms? and reveals the lessons about race that are communicated there. Amanda E. Lewis spent a year observing classes at three elementary schools, two multiracial urban and one white suburban. While race of course is not officially taught like multiplication and punctuation, she finds that it nonetheless insinuates itself into everyday life in schools. Lewis explains how the curriculum, both expressed and hidden, conveys many racial lessons. While teachers and other school community members verbally deny the salience of race, she illustrates how... more...
Gender, Policy and Educational Changeby Jane Salisbury; Sheila Riddell
RoutledgeFalmer 1999; US$ 64.95This book is an edited collection of chapters that aims to look at the developments that have taken place in recent years in gender policies. more...
Schooling and Social Change 1964-1990by Roy Lowe
Routledge 1997; US$ 54.95This book looks at the ways in which the social and economic changes of modern period have impacted on the education system. It looks at ways schools and universities were moulded by external influences and thus its effect on modern society. more...
Ideology and Curriculumby Michael W. Apple
Routledge 1990; US$ 160.00With the current conservative emphasis on cultural literacy, this revised paperback edition of a path breaking statement serves as a reminder that our educational practices and policies are never neutral. more...
Feminist Engagementsby Kathleen Weiler
Routledge 2001; US$ 49.95Feminist Engagements is a collection of original essays by some of the top names in feminist education, in which they read, resist and revise the works of the major twentieth-century theorists in education and cultural studies. more...
Answering Backby Jane Kenway; Sue Willis; Jill Blackmore; Leonie Rennie
RoutledgeFalmer 1998; US$ 54.95Answering Back exposes the volatility of gender reform in many different schools and classrooms, drawing on feminist theories, policies and practices, and challenging many sacred ideas of gender reform in schools. more...
Women in Teacher Training Colleges, 1900-1960by Elizabeth Edwards
Routledge 2000; US$ 40.95Focuses on the culture of femininity which pervaded the work of women's teacher training colleges in Britain during the first half of the 20th century. more...
Girl Friendly Schoolingby Judith Whyte; Rosemary Deem; Lesley Kant; Maureen Cruickshank
Routledge 1988; US$ 54.95Asks what makes schooling unfriendly to girls and examines the success or otherwise of interventions intended to bring about change. more...
Sociology and School Knowledgeby John Rubino
Routledge 1985; US$ 51.95This book looks at the ways the theoretical orientation of radical sociology of knowledge has led to its marginalization within the larger educational world. Ladwig outlines a new agenda for constructing an alternative school. more...









