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    Beauty doesn't grow in spite of the mud-it grows because of it.You know what it feels like to carry a weight that was never yours to hold. You have witnessed someone you love being broken, and you have felt the helplessness of not being able to save them. You have heard the screams, endured the silence that followed, and wondered if the cycle would ever end. You have asked yourself whether the ... Read more

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  • Learning to Hide

    The English Learning Classroom as Sanctuary and Trap

    Series series Education Policy in Practice: Critical Cultural Studies
    Just inside the school doors from the back parking lot, in the farthest reaches from the school entrance, there is a short corridor that leads to the hallway that houses Washington River High School’s two English Learning classrooms. These classrooms offer both safe sanctuary for the school’s growing population of Latinx students and a troublingly hidden space that allows most of the school and ... 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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  • The Political Classroom

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    Series series Critical Social Thought
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  • The Social Foundations Reader

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    The Social Foundations Reader is meant for undergraduate and graduate students in introductory foundations of education classes. No other contemporary reader provides such a broad and yet critical view of the issues typically addressed in an introductory foundations course. Instead, most provide a generic and typically conservative perspective on schools and classrooms and do little to encourage ... Read more

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  • Education and Equality

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