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  • Parenting in Privilege or Peril

    How Social Inequality Enables or Derails the American Dream

    by Pamela R. Bennett, Amy Lutz, Lakshmi Jayaram ...
    Is the American dream that exists for the middle class equally available to the working class? Using extensive interviews with parents and a variety of data sources, this book examines how social contexts and culture affect parenting decisions. By analyzing class differences in neighborhoods, schools, and networks, as well as their relationship to mobility-related parenting practices, the authors ... Read more

    $42.89 CAD

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  • Academically Adrift

    Limited Learning on College Campuses

    by Richard Arum, Josipa Roksa ...
    In spite of soaring tuition costs, more and more students go to college every year. A bachelor’s degree is now required for entry into a growing number of professions. And some parents begin planning for the expense of sending their kids to college when they’re born. Almost everyone strives to go, but almost no one asks the fundamental question posed by Academically Adrift: are undergraduates ... Read more

    $31.89 CAD

  • The Little Book of Restorative Justice

    Revised and Updated

    by Howard Zehr ...
    Series series Justice and Peacebuilding
    Howard Zehr is the father of Restorative Justice and is known worldwide for his pioneering work in transforming understandings of justice. Here he proposes workable principles and practices for making Restorative Justice possible in this revised and updated edition of his bestselling, seminal book on the movement. (The original edition has sold more than 110,000 copies.)Restorative Justice, with ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Light in Their Eyes

    Creating Multicultural Learning Communities: Tenth Anniversary Edition

    by Sonia Nieto ...
    Series series Multicultural Education Series
    In this 10th Anniversary Edition of her popular text, Sonia Nieto reviews where we have been and where we should be going in our pursuit of creating multicultural learning communities in our schools. With a new Introductory Chapter and a new Epilogue, Nieto addresses some of the changes we have experienced during the past decade that help explain the current sociopolitical environment—our ... Read more

    $37.39 CAD

  • The Culturally Inclusive Educator

    Preparing for a Multicultural World

    by Dena R. Samuels ...
    The Culturally Inclusive Educator asks educators to consider what they can do differently to create a welcoming, inclusive, and exciting environment for the 21st century. Based on the author’s national research and consulting work, this book examines the discrepancy between the current educational cultural climate and the need for educators and their institutions to prepare for a growing ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty

    Strategies for Erasing the Opportunity Gap

    by Paul C. Gorski ...
    Series series Multicultural Education Series
    This influential book describes the knowledge and skills educators need to recognize and combat the bias and inequity that undermine educational engagement for students experiencing poverty. This edition features revisions based on new research and lessons from the author’s professional development work, including the dangers of “grit” and deficit perspectives.“A must-read for educators in schools ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Violence Against Women

    Myths, Facts, Controversies

    by Walter S DeKeseredy ...
    In Violence Against Women, award-winning author Walter S. DeKeseredy offers a passionate but well-documented sociological overview of a sobering problem. He starts by outlining the scope of the challenge and debunks current attempts to label intimate violence as gender neutral. He then lays bare the structural practices that sustain this violence, leading to a discussion of long- and short-term ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

  • Psychology, Poverty, and the End of Social Exclusion

    Putting Our Practice to Work

    by Laura Smith ...
    Series series Multicultural Foundations of Psychology and Counseling Series
    Laura Smith argues that if there is any segment of society that should be concerned with the impact of classism and poverty, it is those within the “helping professions”—people who have built their careers around understanding and facilitating human emotional well-being. In this groundbreaking book, Smith charts the ebbs and flows of psychology’s consideration of poor clients, and then points to ... Read more

    $39.59 CAD

  • The Economic Other

    Inequality in the American Political Imagination

    by Meghan Condon, Amber Wichowsky ...
    Economic inequality is at a record high in the United States, but public demand for redistribution is not rising with it. Meghan Condon and Amber Wichowsky show that this paradox and other mysteries about class and US politics can be solved through a focus on social comparison. Powerful currents compete to propel attention up or down—toward the rich or the poor—pulling politics along in the wake ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sociology of Education

    A Systematic Analysis

    by Jenny Stuber, Jeanne Ballantine, Judson Everitt ...
    The ninth edition of The Sociology of Education examines the field in rare breadth by incorporating a diverse range of theoretical approaches and a distinct sociological lens in its overview of education and schooling.Education is changing rapidly, just as the social forces outside of schools are, and to present the material in a meaningful way, the authors of this book provide a unifying ... Read more

    $261.08 CAD

  • Explorations in Diversity

    Examining the Complexities of Privilege, Discrimination, and Oppression

    Edited by Sharon K. Anderson, Valerie A. Middleton ...
    Every person comes to know and understand their life from their own perspective. As a result, it is often difficult and sometimes unbelievable to realize that others, whom one may or may not know, might also experience daily life in a vastly different way. Explorations in Diversity offers readers the opportunity to step into the lives of diverse others and experience their lives through their eyes ... Read more

    $70.39 CAD

  • Ecological Framework: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Susan P. Kemp ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of social work find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD