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Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education


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This series focuses on studies of public and private institutions, the media, and academic disciplines that contribute to educating--in the broadest sense--students and the general public. The series welcomes volumes with multicultural perspectives, diverse interpretations, and a range of political points of view from conservative to critical. Books accepted for publication in this series will be written for an academic audience and, in some cases, also for use as supplementary readings in graduate and undergraduate courses.

Topics to be addressed in this series include, but are not limited to, sociocultural, political, and historical studies of

Local, state, national, and international educational systems

Elementary and secondary schools, colleges and universities

Public institutions of education such as museums, libraries, and foundations

Computer systems and software as instruments of public education

The popular media as forms of public education

Content areas within the academic study of education, such as curriculum and instruction, psychology, and educational technology

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Invisible Children in the Society and Its Schools

Invisible Children in the Society and Its Schools

3rd Edition

Edited By Sue Books
October 23, 2006

The authors in this book use the metaphors of invisibility and visibility to explore the social and school lives of many children and young people in North America whose complexity, strengths, and vulnerabilities are largely unseen in the society and its schools. These “invisible children&...

Education Between State, Markets, and Civil Society Comparative Perspectives

Education Between State, Markets, and Civil Society: Comparative Perspectives

1st Edition

Edited By Heinz-Dieter Meyer, William Lowe Boyd
May 08, 2015

*How should education be organized in pluralistic and multicultural societies? *What are the roles in education of civil society, markets, governments, and the family? *How can the idea of the civil society help to reorient education policy discussions that are sometimes stuck in either-or ...

Globalizing Education for Work Comparative Perspectives on Gender and the New Economy

Globalizing Education for Work: Comparative Perspectives on Gender and the New Economy

1st Edition

Edited By Richard D. Lakes, Patricia A. Carter
May 08, 2015

This book explores how changes in the new world economy are affecting the education of male and female workers. Authors from Australia, Africa, Brazil, Europe, North America, and South Korea use methodologies--such as literature reviews, case studies, legislative analysis, evaluations of model ...

Rethinking Freire Globalization and the Environmental Crisis

Rethinking Freire: Globalization and the Environmental Crisis

1st Edition

Edited By Chet A. Bowers, Frederique Apffel-Marglin
May 08, 2015

This landmark collection of essays by Third World activists highlights two major world changes which, they argue, have been neglected by Freire and his many followers: the Third World grass-roots cultural resistance to economic globalization, and the ecological crisis.One source of the ...

Economization of Education Human Capital, Global Corporations, Skills-Based Schooling

Economization of Education: Human Capital, Global Corporations, Skills-Based Schooling

1st Edition

By Joel Spring
April 20, 2015

In this timely, cogent analysis of trends and powerful forces shaping global educational policy today, Joel Spring focuses on how economization is making economic growth and increased productivity the main goals of schools, and the ways these goals are achieved—including measuring educational ...

Globalization of Education An Introduction

Globalization of Education: An Introduction

2nd Edition

By Joel Spring
September 04, 2014

Continuing Joel Spring’s reportage and analysis of the intersection of global forces and education, this text offers a comprehensive overview and synthesis of current research, theories, and models related to the topic. Written in his signature clear, narrative style, Spring introduces the ...

Globalization and Educational Rights An Intercivilizational Analysis

Globalization and Educational Rights: An Intercivilizational Analysis

1st Edition

By Joel Spring
June 01, 2001

This is the first book to explore the meaning of equality and freedom of education in a global context and their relationship to the universal right to education. It also proposes evaluating school systems according to their achievement of equality and freedom. Education in the 21st century is ...

How Educational Ideologies Are Shaping Global Society Intergovernmental Organizations, NGOs, and the Decline of the Nation-State

How Educational Ideologies Are Shaping Global Society: Intergovernmental Organizations, NGOs, and the Decline of the Nation-State

1st Edition

By Joel Spring
March 31, 2004

In this book Joel Spring explores three major international educational ideologies that are shaping global society: neo-liberal educational ideology, human rights education, and environmentalism. Neo-liberal ideology reflects a rethinking of nationalist forms of education as the nation-state slowly...

Place- and Community-Based Education in Schools

Place- and Community-Based Education in Schools

1st Edition

By Gregory A. Smith, David Sobel
February 25, 2010

Place- and community-based education – an approach to teaching and learning that starts with the local – addresses two critical gaps in the experience of many children now growing up in the United States: contact with the natural world and contact with community. It offers a way to extend...

Teaching Social Foundations of Education Contexts, Theories, and Issues

Teaching Social Foundations of Education: Contexts, Theories, and Issues

1st Edition

Edited By Dan W. Butin
April 28, 2005

This book, the first comprehensive, critical examination of the theory and pedagogy of the field of social foundations of education and its relevance and role within teacher education:*Articulates central questions in the field--such as "What is social foundations?"; "Is there a social ...

American Dreams, Global Visions Dialogic Teacher Research With Refugee and Immigrant Families

American Dreams, Global Visions: Dialogic Teacher Research With Refugee and Immigrant Families

1st Edition

Edited By Donald F. Hones
August 12, 2002

This book presents the struggle for dialogue and understanding between teachers and refugee and immigrant families, in their own words. Forging a stronger connection between teachers, newcomers, and their families is one of the greatest challenges facing schools in the United States. Teachers need ...

U.S. Latinos and Education Policy Research-Based Directions for Change

U.S. Latinos and Education Policy: Research-Based Directions for Change

1st Edition

Edited By Pedro R. Portes, Spencer Salas, Patricia Baquedano-López, Paula J. Mellom
March 17, 2014

With the American dream progressively elusive for and exclusive of Latinos, there is an urgent need for empirically and conceptually based macro-level policy solutions for Latino education. Going beyond just exposing educational inequalities, this volume provides intelligent and pragmatic ...

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