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  • Beyond Critique

    Exploring Critical Social Theories and Education

    This book introduces educational practitioners, students, and scholars to the people, concepts, questions, and concerns that make up the field of critical social theory. It guides readers into a lively conversation about how education can and does contribute to reinforcing or challenging relations of domination in the modern era. Written by a group of experienced educators and scholars, in an ... Read more

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  • We Are All Equal

    Student Culture and Identity at a Mexican Secondary School, 1988–1998

    We Are All Equal is the first full-length ethnography of a Mexican secondary school available in English. Bradley A. U. Levinson observes student life at a provincial Mexican junior high, often drawing on poignant and illuminating interviews, to study how the the school’s powerful emphasis on equality, solidarity, and group unity dissuades the formation of polarized peer groups and affects ... Read more

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  • Advancing Democracy Through Education? U.S. Influence Abroad and Domestic Practices

    Series series Education Policy in Practice: Critical Cultural Studies
    This book explores the diversity of American roles in such cross-cultural engagement in education for democracy, both within the United States and around the world. Cross-cultural engagement in education for democracy inevitably bears the impressions of each culture involved and the dynamics among them.Even high-priority, well-funded U.S. government programs are neither monolithic nor ... Read more

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  • Reimagining Civic Education

    How Diverse Societies Form Democratic Citizens

    This volume surveys the new global landscape for democratic civic education. Rooted in qualitative researc, the contributors explore the many ways that notions of democracy and citizenship have been implemented in recent education policy, curriculum, and classroom practice around the world. From Indonesia to the Spokane Reservation and El Salvador to Estonia, these chapters reveal a striking ... Read more

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  • Agency in Constrained Academic Contexts

    Explorations of Space in Educational Anthropology

    Agency in Constrained Academic Contexts: Explorations of Space in Educational Anthropology examines how social agents construct autonomous spaces in the context of neoliberal education. The contributors to this edited collection consider the ways that educators, students, and families assert agency, claim space, and thereby reshape the constraints imposed by the durability of the academic ... Read more

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  • A Companion to the Anthropology of Education

    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
    A Companion to the Anthropology of Education presents a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of the field, exploring the social and cultural dimension of educational processes in both formal and nonformal settings.Explores theoretical and applied approaches to cultural practice in a diverse range of educational settings around the world, in both formal and non-formal contextsIncludes ... Read more

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  • Schooling the Symbolic Animal

    Social and Cultural Dimensions of Education

    This anthology introduces some of the most influential literature shaping our understanding of the social and cultural foundations of education today. Together the selections provide students a range of approaches for interpreting and designing educational experiences worthy of the multicultural societies of our present and future. The reprinted selections are contextualized in new interpretive ... Read more

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  • Ethnography

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    One of anthropology's leading writers on ethnographic methods, Harry Wolcott discusses the fundamental nature of ethnographic studies. Tracing its development from its disciplinary origins in sociology and anthropology, he points out what is distinctive about ethnography and what it means to conduct research in the ethnographic tradition. In this engaging and thought-provoking book, Wolcott ... Read more

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  • Ideology, Curriculum, and the New Sociology of Education

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    For more than three decades Michael Apple has sought to uncover and articulate the connections among knowledge, teaching and power in education. Beginning with Ideology and Curriculum (1979), Apple moved to understand the relationship between and among the economy, political and cultural power in society on the one hand "and the ways in which education is thought about, organized and evaluated" on ... Read more

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  • Race, Empire, and English Language Teaching

    Creating Responsible and Ethical Anti-Racist Practice

    Series series Multicultural Education Series
    This timely and critical look at the teaching of English shows how language is used to create hierarchies of cultural privilege in public schools across the United States. Drawing on the work of four ESL teachers who pursued anti-racist pedagogical practices during their first year of teaching, the author provides a compelling account of how new teachers might gain agency for culturally responsive ... Read more

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    Series series Handbooks in Communication and Media
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