By Peggy A. Sissel
November 01, 1999
This book takes the reader inside the workings of Head Start, drawing attention to the inequalities in power, knowledge, and material resources that exist in the United States. It traces the dialectical relationship between the thoughts and actions of staff members and parents....
By John A. Weaver
May 07, 2015
In Rethinking Academic Politics in (Re)Unified Germany and the United States, Dr. John Weaver uses case studies to engage historical and contemporary issues in academic politics, arguing for the importance of this often-dismissed and much-bemoaned facet of academic work. Dr. Weaver's unique ...
By Susan Robertson
May 17, 2000
This book offers an original and challenging theoretical and empirical approach to mapping the changing nature of teachers' work historically and in the contemporary period. It is an attempt to understand how and in what ways teachers' work has changed following the demise of the post-war ...
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By Leslie J. Limage
February 07, 2017
The essays in the book are organized into three sections in order to address the conceptualization of democracy and citizenship, reform efforts towards democratization in various societies, and educational efforts to foster democratic citizens. Each is written from a different historical and ...
By Joseph Watras
August 26, 2016
First Published in 1997. Focusing on a case study from the civil rights movement, the author illuminates the issues and problems that emerge when schools are used to advance social equality. He examines the political controversies surrounding the racial desegregation of public and private schools ...
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By Mark B. Ginsburg, Jorge Gorostiaga
December 11, 2013
The chapters in this edited volume raise important issues of the relation between research and its various external "publics"....
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By Linda Skrla, James Joseph Scheurich
October 28, 2003
Despite the intense political attention that has been focused on accountability, on standardized testing, and on the equity effects of both accountability and testing, the great majority of recent debate in education policy circles has failed to attend to either the dynamism or complexity of these ...
By Shlomo Swirski, Mark B. Ginsburg
October 01, 1999
Politics and Education in Israel focuses on the meeting of European Zionists, Non-Zionist Middle Eastern Jews, and Palestinian Arabs in the Israeli school system, the introduction of ability groupings into Israeli schools, the privatization of education and the expansion of elitist schools....