Educational Studies

Promoting Diversity and Social Justice

Educating People from Privileged Groups, Second Edition

By Diane J. Goodman

Series: Teaching/Learning Social Justice

Promoting Diversity and Social Justice provides theories, perspectives, and strategies that are useful for working with adults from privileged groups—those who are in a more powerful position in any given type of oppression. The thoroughly revised edition of this accessible and practical guide...

Published March 28th 2011 by Routledge

Exploring Education

An Introduction to the Foundations of Education, 4th Edition

Edited by Alan R. Sadovnik, Peter Cookson, SUSAN SEMEL

This text offers an alternative to traditional foundations texts by combining a point-of-view analysis with primary source readings. Pre- and in-service teachers will find a solid introduction to the foundations disciplines---history, philosophy, politics, and sociology of education---and their...

To Be Published October 31st 2012 by Routledge

What Is Curriculum Theory?

2nd Edition

By William F. Pinar

Series: Studies in Curriculum Theory Series

This primer for teachers (prospective and practicing) asks readers to question the historical present and their relation to it, and in so doing, to construct their own understandings of what it means to teach, to study, to become "educated" in the present moment. Curriculum theory is the scholarly...

Published August 2nd 2011 by Routledge

Dismantling Contemporary Deficit Thinking

Educational Thought and Practice

By Richard R. Valencia

Series: The Critical Educator

Deficit thinking is a pseudoscience founded on racial and class bias. It "blames the victim" for school failure instead of examining how schools are structured to prevent poor students and students of color from learning. Dismantling Contemporary Deficit Thinking provides comprehensive critiques...

Published April 5th 2010 by Routledge

Readings for Diversity and Social Justice

2nd Edition

Edited by Maurianne Adams, Warren Blumenfeld, Carmelita Castaneda, Heather W. Hackman, Madeline L. Peters, Ximena Zuniga

For over ten years, Readings for Diversity and Social Justice has been the go-to anthology for the broadest possible coverage of issues related to identity and oppression from a social justice perspective. This highly-anticipated second edition breaks even further ground, boasting over 40 more...

Published January 19th 2010 by Routledge

Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice

2nd Edition

Edited by Maurianne Adams, Lee Anne Bell, Pat Griffin

For nearly a decade, Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice has been the definitive sourcebook of theoretical foundations and curricular frameworks for social justice teaching practice. This thoroughly revised second edition continues to provide teachers and facilitators with an accessible...

Published April 4th 2007 by Routledge

Marx and Education

By Jean Anyon

Series: Routledge Key Ideas in Education

There was only one Karl Marx, but there have been a multitude of Marxisms. This concise, introductory book by internationally renowned scholar Jean Anyon centers on the ideas of Marx that have been used in education studies as a guide to theory, analysis, research, and practice. Marx and...

Published March 6th 2011 by Routledge

Education Networks

Power, Wealth, Cyberspace, and the Digital Mind

By Joel Spring

Series: Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education

Education Networks is a critical analysis of the emerging intersection among the global power elite, information and communication technology, and schools. Joel Spring documents and examines the economic and political interests and forces —including elite networks, the for-profit education industry...

Published February 8th 2012 by Routledge