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Kohlhammer Sprach- Und Schriftsprachforderung Wirksam
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Kohlhammer Gewalt in Abhangigkeitsverhaltnissen: Grundlagen
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£29.75
Kohlhammer Was Erziehung Heute Leisten Kann: Padagogik
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£999.99
Kohlhammer Sexueller Kindesmissbrauch: Padagogisches Handeln
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£28.80
Kohlhammer Cybermobbing: Digitale Gewalt Padagogisch
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£28.80
Kohlhammer Die Neue Kindheitspadagogik: Chancen, Risiken,
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£32.30
Springer International Publishing AG Language Attitudes and Identities in Multilingual China: A Linguistic Ethnography
Book SynopsisThese in-depth case studies provide novel insights in to the fast-changing language situation in multilingual China, and how it changes the meanings of language identity and language learning. This linguistic ethnographic study of language attitudes and identities in contemporary China in the era of multilingualism provides a comprehensive and critical review of the state of the art in the field of language-attitude research, and situates attitudes towards Chinese regional dialects in their social, historical as well as local contexts. The role of language policies and the links between the interactional phenomena and other contextual factors are investigated through the multi-level analysis of linguistic ethnographic data. This study captures the long-term language socialisation process and the moment-to-moment construction of language attitudes at a level of detail that is rarely seen. The narrative is presented in a highly readable style, without compromising the theoretical sophistication and sociolinguistic complexities. Trade Review“The book draws a necessarily complex picture of the various arrays of attitudes, and tries to trace and demonstrate the origins and directions of these arrays. For those who believe in or are bewildered by the complexity, hybridity, and fluidity of modern language experiences, this book would make for a pleasant read. The narrative of the book is clear, authentic, lively, and reflective while remaining intellectually sophisticated. It should be accessible to a broad readership.” (Chengtuan Li, Language in Society, Vol. 45 (1), 2016)Table of ContentsPart I. Introduction: Sociocultural and Sociolinguistic Backgrounds.- 1. Dialect Issues in Multilingual China: A Dog that has Barked.- 2. The Polictics and Sociolinguistics of Chinese Dialects.- Part II. Conceptual and Methodological Frameworks.- 3. Researching Language Attitudes in Multilingual China.- Part III. Becoming Members of a Multidialectal City.- 4. "Mother Tongues" of a Multidialectal City.- 5. Language Socialisation in Multidialectal Households: A Case Study.- 6. Translanguaging Practices in Multidialectal Groups.- Part IV. Putonghua and Regional Dialects at School.- 7. Language Socialisation in Educational Institutions.- 8. Teachers' Attitude Towards Dialects in School.- Part V. Discussion and Reflection.- 9. Problematizing the Monolingual Norm in a Multidialectal City.- 10. Schools in the Era of Multilingualism.- 11. Language Attitudes in Heteroglossia: Methodological Reflections.- Appendix one: The Students' Profiles.- Appendix two: The Schools and the Teachers' Profiles.- Index
£42.74
Duncker & Humblot Anspruch, Kapazitat Und Auswahl:
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£63.92
Duncker & Humblot Preussische Staatsmanner: Herkunft, Erziehung Und
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£71.92
Verlag Herder Umgang Mit Aggressivem Verhalten Von Kindern:
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£20.90
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Lokale Bildungslandschaften: Perspektiven für Ganztagsschulen und Kommunen
Book SynopsisDie Gestaltung lokaler Bildungslandschaften ist eine hochaktuelle bildungspolitische Aufgabe. Der massive öffentlich geförderte Ausbau von Ganztagsschulen hat in Deutschland die Frage der Öffnung von Schulen ins Gemeinwesen auf die bildungspolitische Agenda zurück geholt. Gleichzeitig ist auf kommunaler Ebene das Interesse am Thema Bildung enorm gestiegen, denn attraktive Bildungsangebote sind zum Standortfaktor geworden. Mit diesen Entwicklungen gehen viele Herausforderungen einher: Wie können Schulen und Kommunen zu Bildungspartnern im jeweiligen Sozialraum werden? Wie können dabei Möglichkeiten genutzt werden, um durch Vernetzungen unterschiedlicher Ressorts und Ressourcen optimale Bildungschancen von Kindern und Jugendlichen zu ermöglichen? In diesem Buch stellen sich Praktiker und ausgewiesene Experten unterschiedlicher Disziplinen diesen Fragen.Trade Review"Aufgrund des bisher immer noch als spärlich zu bezeichnenden Kanons entsprechender Literatur zum Thema ist dieses Buch ein gelungener Auftakt hoffentlich weiterer Buchprojekte. Alles in allem: ein überaus begrüßenswerter, spannender und hervorragend editierter Sammelband, dessen Lektüre uneingeschränkt zu empfehlen ist." www.socialnet.de, 19.01.2010Table of ContentsLokale Bildungslandschaften: Eine Antwort auf gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen - Ganztägiges Lernen in lokalen Bildungslandschaften - Lokale Bildungslandschaften aus Sicht von Kindern und Jugendlichen - Steuerung lokaler Bildungslandschaften und Rollen relevanter Akteure Mit Beiträgen von Ulrike Baumheier, Günter Warsewa, Stephan Maykus, Wolfgang Mack, Rita Süssmuth, Peter Bleckmann, Thomas Coelen, Heinz-Jürgen Stolz, Anja Durdel, Gerald Tuschner, Kees Vreugdenhil, Oggi Enderlein, Jürgen Bosenius, Wolfgang Edelstein, Josel Kohorst, Mario Tibussek, Klaus Hebborn, Klaus Schäfer, Heike Kahl, Ulrike Süss, Carmen Harmand, Susanne Felger
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Springer VS Der biographische Ansatz zum Partizipationslernen
Book SynopsisEinleitung.- Partizipation Stand der Politikwissenschaft.- Partizipationslernen die politikdidaktische Debatte.- Der biographisch-personenbezogene Ansatz als Lernweg zu Partizipationskompetenz.- Kompetenzmodelle der theoretische Rahmen für das Modell dieser Arbeit.- Ein Modellvorschlag für Interventionskompetenz.- Die Konstruktion der intervenierenden Unterrichtseinheit.- Empirisches Forschungsdesign und Stichprobe.- Instrumente der Studie.- Hypothesen.- Analyse der erhobenen Daten.- Theoriegeleitete Interpretation.- Literaturverzeichnis.
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Springer VS Die Gouvernementalität von Algorithmen
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Springer VS Stigma Language and Identity
Book SynopsisIntroduction.- Framework Conditions of this Study.- Theoretical Approach.- Biography Analysis with a Sociolinguistic Approach.- Interpretative Analysis of the Interviews.- Results, Closing and Desiderata.
£87.99
Waxmann Verlag GmbH, Germany Teacher Education
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£22.42
Waxmann Verlag GmbH Stories about good education
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£24.67
V&R unipress GmbH Politics, Education and Social Change
Book SynopsisUncovering truths in education policy: Myths, methods and mirrors
£35.99
V&R unipress Citizenship Education in Multicultural Society
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V&R unipress Designing and Implementing Public Policy in Contemporary Society
Book SynopsisKey analyses in the ongoing debate on a responsible and future-oriented educational policy
£35.09
Palgrave Macmillan Global Agendas and Education Reforms
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£33.24
Free Spirit Publishing Inc.,U.S. Tap and Rap, Move and Groove
Book SynopsisYoung children play and learn together with lively dance chants. Tap and Rap, Move and Groove brings movement into homes and early childhood classrooms with rhythmic chants for children to move and dance to. Designed to link movement, language, and rhythm, the chants are for children and adults to do together, saying the words while
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The University of Chicago Press Leaving College
Book SynopsisSynthesizes research on student attrition and on actions institutions can and should take to reduce it. The key to effective retention, the author demonstrates, is in a strong commitment to quality education and the building of a strong sense of inclusive educational and social community on campus.Trade Review"This book appears to be the best compilation of ideas about understanding student departure from college written to date.... Vincent Tinto has pulled together a lavish variety of facts, findings based on empirical studies, theories, and institutional savvy to provide readers with valuable information that should help concerned members of the academic community better understand student departure." (John P. Bean, Journal of Higher Education) "This book is an excellent summary of previous research, a soundly sociological volume, and a very practical guide for action. It is an excellent blend of theory, research, and policy implication. It is also incredibly well written; one could use the book to teach others how to write clearly." (Contemporary Sociology)"
£23.75
The University of Chicago Press The Graduate Advisor Handbook
Book SynopsisIn the sink-or-swim world of academia, a great graduate advisor can be a lifesaver. But with university budgets shrinking and free time evaporating, advisors often need a mentor themselves to learn how to best support their advisees. This book demystifies the advisor-student relationship, and provides tips and advice to students and advisors.Trade Review"This is a terrifically helpful guide that is thoughtful and comprehensive, while being concise and readable. I feel confident I will be a better graduate advisor for having read it." (Lorraine Lopez, Vanderbilt University)"
£16.72
The University of Chicago Press Marketing Schools Marketing Cities
Book SynopsisDiscuss real estate with any young family and the subject of schools is certain to come up - in fact, it will likely be a crucial factor in determining where that family lives. In this title, the author shows how education policy makes overt attempts to prevent, or at least slow, middle-class flight to the suburbs.Trade Review"Maia Bloomfield Cucchiara provides a very clear and compelling example of the involvement of private people and business in public education and of the ways in which market strategies have been at work here. She offers a major contribution that provides a good, detailed look at how 'market mechanisms' play out in practice." (Lisa Stulberg, New York University)"
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Academically Adrift
Book SynopsisIn spite of soaring tuition costs, more and more students go to college every year. A bachelor's degree is required for entry into a growing number of professions. This title asks the question - are undergraduates really learning anything once they get there.Trade Review"Academically Adrift might be the most important book on higher education in a decade. Combined with students' limited effort and great disparities in benefits among students, Arum and Roksa's findings raise questions that should have been raised long ago about who profits from college and what colleges need to do if they are to benefit new groups of students. In this new era of college for all, their analysis refocuses our attention on higher education's fundamental goals." - James Rosenbaum, Northwestern University"
£87.40
The University of Chicago Press Academically Adrift
Book SynopsisIn spite of soaring tuition costs, more and more students go to college every year. A bachelor's degree is required for entry into a growing number of professions. This title asks the question - are undergraduates really learning anything once they get there.Trade Review"Academically Adrift might be the most important book on higher education in a decade. Combined with students' limited effort and great disparities in benefits among students, Arum and Roksa's findings raise questions that should have been raised long ago about who profits from college and what colleges need to do if they are to benefit new groups of students. In this new era of college for all, their analysis refocuses our attention on higher education's fundamental goals." - James Rosenbaum, Northwestern University"
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Opting Out Losing the Potential of Americas Young
Book SynopsisA study of racial disparity that examines why some talented black undergraduates pursue lower-paying, lower-status careers despite being amply qualified for more prosperous ones.Trade Review"This important book makes a compelling argument that the continuing presence of racism in US society decisively and negatively affects the careers of some of our most talented black college students. Beasley shows that the racism faced by talented blacks of this generation is qualitatively different than previous ones as she weaves together a history of black social mobility that is often misinterpreted and not well known among educators and policy makers." (Barbara Schneider, Michigan State University and the University of Chicago)"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Education Policy in Developing Countries
Book SynopsisSurveying many aspects of education - from administrative structures to the availability of health care to parent and student incentives, this book features contributors who synthesize an impressive diversity of data, paying attention to the gross imbalances in educational achievement that still exist between developed and developing countries.Trade Review"Education Policy in Developing Countries raises the bar in terms of what qualifies as a high-quality study. It goes in-depth into what are perhaps the most important and promising education policy reforms, providing an unbiased and exhaustive review of the evidence and thus a new benchmark that hopefully will be followed in all subsequent research on education policy in developing countries." (Emiliana Vegas, chief of the Education Division, Inter-American Development Bank)"
£35.15
The University of Chicago Press The Public School Advantage Why Public Schools
Book SynopsisNearly the whole of America's partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we should educate our children. This title offers evidence to undercut this belief, showing that public schools in fact outperform private ones.
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The University of Chicago Press The Public School Advantage
Book SynopsisNearly the whole of America's partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we should educate our children. This title offers evidence to undercut this belief, showing that public schools in fact outperform private ones.
£18.00
The University of Chicago Press Schooling Citizens
Book SynopsisAs common schooling emerged in the 1830s, providing white children of all classes and ethnicities with the opportunity to become full-fledged citizens, it redefined citizenship as synonymous with whiteness. This title shows why opposition erupted where it did across the United States in antebellum America.Trade Review"Hilary J. Moss offers an important corrective to the literature of the common schools by identifying race as a factor in their development.... With her detailed case examinations, Moss brings into focus the localized debates that contributed to the patchwork nature of American educational policy and provides awareness of both white and black activism surrounding integration that preceded Brown v. Board of Education by more than a century." (Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth) "Schooling Citizens is a worthy contribution to the study of African-American struggles for access to education and schooling in the pre-Civil War era.... Hilary J. Moss asks us to ponder why Americans, both white and black, often believed in the democratic promise of schooling even though fair treatment and equal opportunity were so rarely realized." (Journal of Interdisciplinary History)"
£25.00
The University of Chicago Press American School Reform
Book SynopsisDissecting twenty years of educational politics in our nation's largest cities, this book evaluates the half-billion-dollar Annenberg Challenge - launched in 1994 - alongside many other large-scale reform efforts that have taken place in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and the San Francisco Bay Area.
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The University of Chicago Press American School Reform
Book SynopsisDissecting twenty years of educational politics in our nation's largest cities, this book evaluates the half-billion-dollar Annenberg Challenge - launched in 1994 - alongside many other large-scale reform efforts that have taken place in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and the San Francisco Bay Area.
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The University of Chicago Press Aspiring Adults Adrift
Book SynopsisBuilt on interviews and detailed surveys of almost a thousand recent college graduates from a diverse range of colleges and universities, this book reveals a generation facing a difficult transition to adulthood. It compels us to re-examine the aims, approaches, and achievements of higher education.Trade Review"Seriously researched, rich in data.... They excavate a world of ugly facts and unsatisfactory practices that has the gritty look and feel of reality-a reality that has little to do with the glossy hype of world university ratings.... In Academically Adrift, Arum and Roksa paint a chilling portrait of what the university curriculum has become." (Anthony Grafton, New York Review of Books)"
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The University of Chicago Press Organizing Locally How the New Decentralists
Book SynopsisFrom the cherries we buy, to the grocer who sells them, to the school where our child unpacks them for lunch, we express resurgent faith in decentralizing the institutions and businesses that arrange our daily lives. The author reveals the key cornerstones of social organization on which effective decentralization depends.Trade Review"After eras dominated by economics talk, it is refreshing to dip into a vision in which culture and social psychology play central roles. This is in some ways a call to arms, but it is not as didactic or gloomy as those to which we've become accustomed. It stirs the pot of what have become somewhat stale debates, and by incorporating such a broad range of cases, extends its relevance far and wide." (Jeffrey Henig, Teachers College, Columbia University)
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The University of Chicago Press The Aims of Higher Education Problems of Morality
Book SynopsisLooking beyond the arguments over how universities should be financed, how they should be run, and what their contributions to the economy are, the contributors to this book set their sights on higher issues: ones of moral and political value. What are the proper aims of the university? What role do the liberal arts play in fulfilling those aims?Trade Review"This is an ambitious volume, providing valuable philosophical tools to tackle three critical policy questions within higher education: What should the content of curricula and pedagogies be? Who should have access to college education? And what should be the relationship between higher education and broader society?" (Danielle Allen, coeditor of Education, Justice, and Democracy)
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The University of Chicago Press Educational Goods Values Evidence and
Book SynopsisWe spend a lot of time arguing about how schools might be improved. But we rarely take a step back to ask what we as a society should be looking for from education what exactly should those who make decisions be trying to achieve? In Educational Goods, two philosophers and two social scientists address this very question. They begin by broadening the language for talking about educational policy: educational goods are the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that children develop for their own benefit and that of others; childhood goods are the valuable experiences and freedoms that make childhood a distinct phase of life. Balancing those, and understanding that not all of them can be measured through traditional methods, is a key first step. From there, they show how to think clearly about how those goods are distributed and propose a method for combining values and evidence to reach decisions. They conclude by showing the method in action, offering detailed accounts of how it might be ap
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The University of Chicago Press Paying the Price
Book SynopsisIf you are a young person, and you work hard enough, you can get a college degree and set yourself on the path to a good life, right? Not necessarily, says Sara Goldrick-Rab, and with Paying the Price, she shows in damning detail exactly why. Quite simply, college is far too expensive for many people today, and the confusing mix of federal, state, institutional, and private financial aid leaves countless students without the resources they need to pay for it. Drawing on an unprecedented study of 3,000 young adults who entered public colleges and universities in Wisconsin in 2008 with the support of federal aid and Pell Grants, Goldrick-Rab reveals the devastating effect of these shortfalls. Half the students in the study left college without a degree, while less than 20 percent finished within five years. The cause of their problems, time and again, was lack of money. Unable to afford tuition, books, and living expenses, they worked too many hours at outside jobs, dropped classes,
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The University of Chicago Press Schooling Citizens
Book SynopsisWhile white residents of antebellum Boston and New Haven forcefully opposed the education of black residents, their counterparts in slaveholding Baltimore did little to resist the establishment of African American schools. Such discrepancies, the author argues, suggest that white opposition to black education was not a foregone conclusion.Trade Review"I cannot think of any other book that is like Schooling Citizens, which makes an important contribution both to the historiography of African Americans and to the history of education in America. Well written and well argued, this book is an original contribution to scholarship." - Shane White, author of Stories of Freedom in Black New York"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press The Crucible of Desegregation The Uncertain
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Melnick’s even-handed approach to the school desegregation era offers insights into what went right and what went wrong on a very important set of policies. . .readers can take important lessons about how policymakers today can forge a better future that redeems the promise of Brown." * Education Next *"The Crucible of Desegregation offers a patchwork view of desegregation policy, revealing how administrators and judges in lower courts played a pivotal role, with remarkable achievements and setbacks alike. The book is a valuable and pragmatic resource for those interested in learning more about this history of desegregation and the court system in the US." * LSE Review of Books *"Melnick provides exhaustive evidence of American desegregation policy’s many shortcomings. . . Melnick is clear and convincing when showing how Southern de jure segregation was taken down only by a breathtaking rearrangement of institutional roles that disregarded the Constitution’s separation of powers." * The Claremont Review of Books *"The Crucible of Desegregation is tour-de-force analysis of the rise and fall of desegregation and integration. This is well-trodden terrain, but if you think you know everything worth knowing about the topic, think again. This meticulously researched, elegantly written, scrupulously fair-minded account achieves the rarity feat of reshaping our understanding of one of the epochal constitutional and social issues of our time." -- David Kirp | University of California-Berkeley | author of "Improbable Scholars""The Supreme Court is often praised for the clarity of its vision in Brown v. Board of Education, but its subsequent decisions are clouded with ambiguity. We still do not know whether the Constitution is color blind or conscientiously seeks to perfect the racial composition of the nation’s schools. Without guidance from above, lower courts wander in a maze, and the race question, rather than resolving itself, acquires ever more political intensity. Melnick narrates this story succinctly yet with felicity, balance, and appropriate irony." -- Paul Peterson | Harvard Kennedy School"This magisterial yet compelling and thoroughly readable volume by an eminent scholar unpacks the tangled, touchy saga of U.S. school 'desegregation' with all its confusion over goals and uncertainty concerning benchmarks." -- Chester E. Finn | Thomas B. Fordham InstituteTable of ContentsPreface 1 Why Desegregation Still Matters 2 The Great Debate 3 Critical Junctures 4 Breakthrough: The Reconstruction of Southern Education 5 Supreme Abdication 6 Left Adrift: Desegregation in the Lower Courts 7 Varieties of Desegregation Experiences 8 Termination without End 9 Looking Beyond Courts: ESEA and Title VI 10 What Have We Learned? Notes Index
£85.00
The University of Chicago Press The Crucible of Desegregation
Book SynopsisExamines the patchwork evolution of school desegregation policy. In 1954, the Supreme Court delivered the landmark decision of Brown v. Board of Educationestablishing the right to attend a desegregated school as a national constitutional rightbut the decision contained fundamental ambiguities. The Supreme Court has never offered a clear definition of what desegregation means or laid out a framework for evaluating competing interpretations. In The Crucible of Desegregation, R. Shep Melnick examines the evolution of federal school desegregation policy from 1954 through the termination of desegregation orders in the first decades of the twenty-first century, combining legal analysis with a focus on institutional relations, particularly the interactions between federal judges and administrators. Melnick argues that years of ambiguous, inconsistent, and meandering Court decisions left lower court judges adrift, forced to apply contradictory Supreme Court precedents in a wide variety of hTrade Review"Melnick’s even-handed approach to the school desegregation era offers insights into what went right and what went wrong on a very important set of policies. . .readers can take important lessons about how policymakers today can forge a better future that redeems the promise of Brown." * Education Next *"The Crucible of Desegregation offers a patchwork view of desegregation policy, revealing how administrators and judges in lower courts played a pivotal role, with remarkable achievements and setbacks alike. The book is a valuable and pragmatic resource for those interested in learning more about this history of desegregation and the court system in the US." * LSE Review of Books *"Melnick provides exhaustive evidence of American desegregation policy’s many shortcomings. . . Melnick is clear and convincing when showing how Southern de jure segregation was taken down only by a breathtaking rearrangement of institutional roles that disregarded the Constitution’s separation of powers." * The Claremont Review of Books *"The Crucible of Desegregation is tour-de-force analysis of the rise and fall of desegregation and integration. This is well-trodden terrain, but if you think you know everything worth knowing about the topic, think again. This meticulously researched, elegantly written, scrupulously fair-minded account achieves the rarity feat of reshaping our understanding of one of the epochal constitutional and social issues of our time." -- David Kirp | University of California-Berkeley | author of "Improbable Scholars""The Supreme Court is often praised for the clarity of its vision in Brown v. Board of Education, but its subsequent decisions are clouded with ambiguity. We still do not know whether the Constitution is color blind or conscientiously seeks to perfect the racial composition of the nation’s schools. Without guidance from above, lower courts wander in a maze, and the race question, rather than resolving itself, acquires ever more political intensity. Melnick narrates this story succinctly yet with felicity, balance, and appropriate irony." -- Paul Peterson | Harvard Kennedy School"This magisterial yet compelling and thoroughly readable volume by an eminent scholar unpacks the tangled, touchy saga of U.S. school 'desegregation' with all its confusion over goals and uncertainty concerning benchmarks." -- Chester E. Finn | Thomas B. Fordham InstituteTable of ContentsPreface 1 Why Desegregation Still Matters 2 The Great Debate 3 Critical Junctures 4 Breakthrough: The Reconstruction of Southern Education 5 Supreme Abdication 6 Left Adrift: Desegregation in the Lower Courts 7 Varieties of Desegregation Experiences 8 Termination without End 9 Looking Beyond Courts: ESEA and Title VI 10 What Have We Learned? Notes Index
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press The Sex Education Debates
Book SynopsisSince the 1980s, intense political and cultural battles have been waged between believers in abstinence until marriage and advocates for comprehensive sex education. Drawing on ethnographic research in five states, the author reveals important differences and surprising commonalities shared by purported antagonists in the sex education wars.Trade Review"The Sex Education Debates is a comprehensive analysis of US sex education debates, policies, and classroom practice. With incisive readings of the field data, Nancy Kendall offers a rigorous engagement with issues of structural and other social inequalities. Her analysis makes a significant contribution." (Jessica Fields, San Francisco State University)"
£30.00
John Wiley & Sons The State of the System A Reality Check on
Book SynopsisA provocative and revealing analysis of K-12 public education that will serve as catalyst for public policy debate and discussion.Trade Review"The State of the System draws connections and tells a national story, something rarely done in Canadian education policy. This book tells the tale of struggle from the point of view of the parent, the community member, the teacher, and the student, all of which work together to cleverly reinforce Bennett's main aspiration - to recover the place of the local at the centre of the education enterprise in our times." Deani Van Pelt, Fraser Institute
£32.40
McGill-Queen's University Press International Education as Public Policy in
Book SynopsisIn the early twenty-first century international education emerged as an almost ubiquitous concept within discussions of educational curriculum; the objectives of schools, universities, and colleges; and government policies for K12 and higher education. Although far from a new phenomenon, many jurisdictions now view international education as a highly competitive global industry. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of international education policy in Canada, tracing the complex history of when, how, and why it emerged as a policy area of strategic importance. Illuminating a uniquely Canadian perspective, influenced by regional interests and federal-provincial tensions, International Education as Public Policy in Canada addresses challenging questions: Why was Canada a latecomer in addressing this policy issue? What is the relationship between international education and Canadian immigration policy? How did international education develop as a major Canadian industry?Trade Review"Engaging a wide range of policy theories and taking historical, federal, regional/provincial, intersectoral, and multi-actor perspectives, International Education as Public Policy in Canada provides a comprehensive look at Canada’s broader policy context. The book is a serious advance in state-of-the-art research on Canadian international education, and the authors tell the Canadian story of international education as policy as a highly nuanced narrative." Michael Owen, Brock University
£90.25
Columbia University Press Schools for Conflict or for Peace in Afghanistan
Book SynopsisDana Burde shows how aid to education in Afghanistan bolstered conflict both deliberately in the 1980s through violence-infused, anti-Soviet curricula and inadvertently in the 2000s through misguided stabilization programsTrade ReviewThis masterly book offers the first comprehensive fieldwork-based research on education in contemporary Afghanistan. Dana Burde makes the convincing case that NGOs have generally been neglecting education and that jihadist programs in the 1980s implied a huge exposure of children to the message of violence and intolerance. Post-2001, Burde points to the general failure of the counterinsurgency strategy to provide adequate support to education. -- Gilles Dorronsoro, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Public education in conflict-ridden societies should be a force for peace and stability, if done well. But Dana Burde shows that international aid to education in Afghanistan sowed conflict when its political goals prioritized jihad against the Soviet occupation or favored some ethnic groups over others. Impeccably researched, this book has global implications for thinking about politics, education policy, and foreign aid. -- Jack Snyder, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies and Department of Political Science, Columbia University Dana Burde provides rare insights into the potential for Afghanistan's educational system to advance either political violence or peace... [Schools for Conflict or for Peace in Afghanistan] could serve as a foundational text for those who want to understand the issues surrounding education and conflict. -- Paul Clemans H-War Schools for Conflict or for Peace in Afghanistan lays out a detailed history of education in the Afghan context, its importance, and how educational funds can be effectively used to avoid conflict... This book is a welcome contribution to the field of both international and comparative education as well as conflict studies. -- Mujtaba Hedayet Comparative Education Review [Schools for Conflict or for Peace in Afghanistan] provides an excellent overview and diverse analysis of the historical emergence of, and currently existing relationship between, education, peace and conflict within and beyond Afghanistan. South Asia: Journal of South Asian StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Time Line: Education in Modern Afghan History 1. Introduction 2. Humanitarian Action and the Neglect of Education 3. Jihad Literacy 4. Education for Stability 5. Education for the World 6. Conclusion: Education as Hope Notes References Index
£69.26
Columbia University Press To Fulfill These Rights
Book SynopsisIn To Fulfill These Rights, Amaka Okechukwu offers a historically informed sociological account of the struggles over affirmative action and open admissions in higher education. Through case studies of policy retrenchment at public universities, she documents the rollback of inclusive policies in the context of shifting race and class politics.Trade ReviewAn intriguing and informative yet provocative contribution to post-civil rights scholarly literature. * Social Policy and Administration *Essential reading for anyone interested in open admissions. * Choice *This work is part of an ambitious and broad research agenda. Regardless of its shortcomings, it provides a wealth of information that can be used for many types of analysis in different areas of sociological inquiry. I am looking forward to reading the author’s future related work. -- Martha A. Martinez, DePaul University * American Journal of Sociology *A college education is crucial for living a productive and comfortable life. Yet, in To Fulfill These Rights, Amaka Okechukwu reveals disturbing truths: access to college education is rapidly decreasing for Black and Brown Americans given the dismantling of affirmative action and open admission, and racialized disparities are likely to increase. This book should be read because it sheds lights on deeply entrenched inequalities threatening American democracy. -- Aldon Morris, Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Northwestern UniversityI learned something new and interesting on nearly every page. This is an excellent empirical engagement with affirmative action. Amaka Okechukwu’s updated racial formation theory is smart, compelling, and engaging. -- Ellen Berrey, author of The Enigma of Diversity: The Language of Race and the Limits of Racial JusticeIn this timely book, Amaka Okechukwu provides a provocative and engaging account of racialized conflict over affirmative action and open admissions. Highlighting the radical activism of Black and Puerto Rican students as well as opposition to racial justice from liberals and conservatives alike, Okechukwu unveils how the rhetorics of diversity and colorblindness in higher education reproduce white supremacy. This is mandatory reading for anyone interested in understanding and dismantling systemic racism in the twenty-first century. -- Crystal Marie Fleming, author of How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial DivideA truly unique, compelling, and expansive account of how both elite and grassroots political actors define, challenge, and transform admissions policies and practices. Chronicling political contestation across different sites, Amaka Okechukwu advances key concepts to help us understand and situate competing racial logics, discourses, and mobilizing strategies. An essential read for an unsettled debate. -- Michael Omi, University of California, BerkeleyIn this timely book, Amaka Okechukwu illuminates the shifting political landscape and policy retrenchment in the wake of the dismantling of affirmative action. Despite the use of 'diversity' and 'adversity' as proxies for race, Black representation in American universities has fallen precipitously. Okechukwu demonstrates how the original logic of affirmative action has been subverted by two recent ideological movements—neoliberalism and colorblindness. Given the unrelenting mobilization of conservatives, the erosion of liberal support, and the absence of a vehement black protest movement that provided the original impetus for affirmative action policy, Okechukwu reaches the conclusion that the end of affirmative action is imminent. -- Stephen Steinberg, author of Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and PolicyTable of ContentsList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. A Right of Postwar Citizenship: The Emergence of Mass Higher Education and Race- and Class-Inclusive Admissions2. Legal Mobilization: Racial Political Strategy and Affirmative Action Retrenchment in the Federal Courts3. Board Votes and Ballot Initiatives: Racial Political Strategy in Trustee Decision-Making and State Elections4. A Force of Nature: Student Resistance to Policy Elimination5. The Limitations of Diversity: Defensive Innovation After the End of Affirmative Action and Open AdmissionsConclusionAppendix A: Situating Political Struggle Over Affirmative Action and Open AdmissionsAppendix B: Research MethodologyNotesReferencesIndex
£75.00
Columbia University Press To Fulfill These Rights
Book SynopsisIn To Fulfill These Rights, Amaka Okechukwu offers a historically informed sociological account of the struggles over affirmative action and open admissions in higher education. Through case studies of policy retrenchment at public universities, she documents the rollback of inclusive policies in the context of shifting race and class politics.Trade ReviewAn intriguing and informative yet provocative contribution to post-civil rights scholarly literature. * Social Policy and Administration *Essential reading for anyone interested in open admissions. * Choice *This work is part of an ambitious and broad research agenda. Regardless of its shortcomings, it provides a wealth of information that can be used for many types of analysis in different areas of sociological inquiry. I am looking forward to reading the author’s future related work. -- Martha A. Martinez, DePaul University * American Journal of Sociology *A college education is crucial for living a productive and comfortable life. Yet, in To Fulfill These Rights, Amaka Okechukwu reveals disturbing truths: access to college education is rapidly decreasing for Black and Brown Americans given the dismantling of affirmative action and open admission, and racialized disparities are likely to increase. This book should be read because it sheds lights on deeply entrenched inequalities threatening American democracy. -- Aldon Morris, Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Northwestern UniversityI learned something new and interesting on nearly every page. This is an excellent empirical engagement with affirmative action. Amaka Okechukwu’s updated racial formation theory is smart, compelling, and engaging. -- Ellen Berrey, author of The Enigma of Diversity: The Language of Race and the Limits of Racial JusticeIn this timely book, Amaka Okechukwu provides a provocative and engaging account of racialized conflict over affirmative action and open admissions. Highlighting the radical activism of Black and Puerto Rican students as well as opposition to racial justice from liberals and conservatives alike, Okechukwu unveils how the rhetorics of diversity and colorblindness in higher education reproduce white supremacy. This is mandatory reading for anyone interested in understanding and dismantling systemic racism in the twenty-first century. -- Crystal Marie Fleming, author of How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial DivideA truly unique, compelling, and expansive account of how both elite and grassroots political actors define, challenge, and transform admissions policies and practices. Chronicling political contestation across different sites, Amaka Okechukwu advances key concepts to help us understand and situate competing racial logics, discourses, and mobilizing strategies. An essential read for an unsettled debate. -- Michael Omi, University of California, BerkeleyIn this timely book, Amaka Okechukwu illuminates the shifting political landscape and policy retrenchment in the wake of the dismantling of affirmative action. Despite the use of 'diversity' and 'adversity' as proxies for race, Black representation in American universities has fallen precipitously. Okechukwu demonstrates how the original logic of affirmative action has been subverted by two recent ideological movements—neoliberalism and colorblindness. Given the unrelenting mobilization of conservatives, the erosion of liberal support, and the absence of a vehement black protest movement that provided the original impetus for affirmative action policy, Okechukwu reaches the conclusion that the end of affirmative action is imminent. -- Stephen Steinberg, author of Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and PolicyTable of ContentsList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. A Right of Postwar Citizenship: The Emergence OF Mass Higher Education and Race- and Class-Inclusive Admissions2. Legal Mobilization: Racial Political Strategy and Affirmative Action Retrenchment in the Federal Courts3. Board Votes and Ballot Initiatives: Racial Political Strategy In Trustee Decision-Making and State Elections4. A Force of Nature: Student Resistance to Policy Elimination5. The Limitations of Diversity: Defensive Innovation After the End of Affirmative Action and Open AdmissionsConclusionAppendix A: Situating Political Struggle Over Affirmative Action and Open AdmissionsAppendix B: Research MethodologyNotesReferencesIndex
£23.75
University of Illinois Press New Indians Old Wars
Book SynopsisTrade Review "New Indians, Old Wars is an important addition to the growing works committed to Indigenousness and tribal sovereignties, many of them authored by Native scholars, which Native students - in fact, all students - must read."--Wicazo Sa Review"Cook-Lynn's is an important voice in Indian studies, and this book contains excellent insights into the ways in which this discipline is structured and can move forward. . . . Recommended."--Choice "This passionately argued polemic. . . . [is] recommended for academic libraries supporting programs in Native American studies or U.S. history."--Library Journal"Its careful, though radical, argument is thought-provoking."--True West“In fiercely arguing for a tribal model of Indian studies based on sovereignty and indigenousness, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn brilliantly tells the story of the brutal U.S. colonization of Indian nations as well as its covering up of that history. This new work is as bold as the hard blue sky of Cook-Lynn’s homeland in the northern Plains. It is destined to become a classic of indigenous literature.”--Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie
£29.70
