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“ellen e swartz”

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  • Heritage Knowledge in the Curriculum

    Retrieving an African Episteme

    by Joyce E. King, Ellen E. Swartz ...
    Moving beyond the content integration approach of multicultural education, this text powerfully advocates for the importance of curriculum built upon authentic knowledge construction informed by the Black intellectual tradition and an African episteme. By retrieving, examining, and reconnecting the continuity of African Diasporan heritage with school knowledge, this volume aims to repair the ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD

  • The Afrocentric Praxis of Teaching for Freedom

    Connecting Culture to Learning

    by Joyce E. King, Ellen E. Swartz ...
    The Afrocentric Praxis of Teaching for Freedom explains and illustrates how an African worldview, as a platform for culture-based teaching and learning, helps educators to retrieve African heritage and cultural knowledge which have been historically discounted and decoupled from teaching and learning. The book has three objectives:To exemplify how each of the emancipatory pedagogies it delineates ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • Re-Membering History in Student and Teacher Learning

    An Afrocentric Culturally Informed Praxis

    by Joyce E. King, Ellen E. Swartz ...
    What kind of social studies knowledge can stimulate a critical and ethical dialog with the past and present? "Re-Membering" History in Student and Teacher Learning answers this question by explaining and illustrating a process of historical recovery that merges Afrocentric theory and principles of culturally informed curricular practice to reconnect multiple knowledge bases and experiences. In the ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

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    Two Volumes

    by Sherwood Thompson ...
    The Encyclopedia of Diversity and Social Justice contains over 300 entries alphabetically arranged for straightforward and convenient use by scholars and general readers alike. This reference is a comprehensive and systematic collection of designated entries that describe, in detail, important diversity and social justice themes. Thompson, assisted by a network of contributors and consultants, ... Read more

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  • The Birth of African-American Culture

    An Anthropological Perspective

    by Sidney Wilfred Mintz ...
    This compelling look at the wellsprings of cultural vitality during one of the most dehumanizing experiences in history provides a fresh perspective on the African-American past.From the Trade Paperback edition. ... Read more

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  • Can Education Change Society?

    by Michael W. Apple ...
    Despite the vast differences between the Right and the Left over the role of education in the production of inequality one common element both sides share is a sense that education can and should do something about society, to either restore what is being lost or radically alter what is there now. The question was perhaps put most succinctly by the radical educator George Counts in 1932 when he ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • Words of Fire

    An Anthology of African-AmericanFeminist Thought

    Edited by Beverly Guy-Sheftall ...
    The timeless and essential anthology of Black Feminist thought—showing that Black women have always understood the need for feminism to be intersectional“In this pathbreaking collection of articles, Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall has taken us from the early 1830s to contemporary times. . . . She has refused to cut off contemporary African American women from the long line of sisters who have righteously ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Young, Gifted, and Black

    Promoting High Achievement among African-American Students

    by Theresa Perry, Claude Steele ...
    “An important and powerful book” that radically reframes the debates swirling around the academic achievement of African-American students (Boston Review)“The solutions offered by each essay are creative, inspirational, and good old common sense." —Los Angeles TimesIn 3 separate but allied essays, African-American scholars Theresa Perry, Claude Steele, and Asa Hilliard examine the alleged ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Essays on Social Issues & How They Impact African Americans and Other People of Color

    Law, Literature, and Social Work

    by Antonette Jefferson ...
    Essays on Social Issues spans the gamut of social and political issues in law, literature and social work. It provides a diverse perspective on the practical implications of social policy, marginalization, and The Arts as it relates to people of color. Not only does this research consider traditional and conservative perspectives, but it also embraces radical and progressive paradigms. Research ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • An Afrocentric Manifesto

    Toward an African Renaissance

    by Molefi Kete Asante ...
    Molefi Kete Asante's Afrocentric philosophy has become one of the most persistent influences in the social sciences and humanities over the past three decades. It strives to create new forms of discourse about Africa and the African Diaspora, impact on education through expanding curricula to be more inclusive, change the language of social institutions to reflect a more holistic universe, and ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Making of Americans

    Democracy and Our Schools

    by E. D. Hirsch ...
    From the bestselling author of Cultural Literacy, a passionate and cogent argument for reforming the way we teach our children.Why, after decades of commissions, reforms, and efforts at innovation, do our schools continue to disappoint us? In this comprehensive book, educational theorist E. D. Hirsch, Jr. masterfully analyzes how American ideas about education have veered off course, what we must ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Moral Background

    An Inquiry into the History of Business Ethics

    by Gabriel Abend ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
    In recent years, many disciplines have become interested in the scientific study of morality. However, a conceptual framework for this work is still lacking. In The Moral Background, Gabriel Abend develops just such a framework and uses it to investigate the history of business ethics in the United States from the 1850s to the 1930s.According to Abend, morality consists of three levels: moral and ... Read more

    $63.79 CAD