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Building on earlier work that reviewed curriculum texts, this book serves as a much-needed correction to the glaring gaps in US curriculum history. Chapters focus on the curriculum discourses of African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Latinos during what has been construed as the "founding" period of curriculum studies, reclaiming their historical legacy.

When teachers and students are both engaged in the educational enterprise, every day has the potential to be transformative. Lesson Planning with Purpose takes readers on a journey through many pathways to engaging and meaningful educational experiences.

In this guide, the authors outline a program of collaboration to enable novice teachers to gain insight from their experienced colleagues. The book argues that ""epistemic empathy"" is a core attribute to develop in practitioners at all levels of experience in order to apply principles of special education practice in thoughtful and innovative ways.

Using the case study of a Seattle school, this text describes a working model for the education of homeless children in America's public schools.

For the first time, this volume provides a definitive collection of Gloria Ladson-Billings' groundbreaking concept of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy. This compilation of Ladson-Billings' published work on Culturally Relevant Pedagogy examines the theory, how it works in specific subject areas, and its role in teacher education.

An ethnographic study of a child's efforts to belong - to be a child among children - that confronts race and racism head-on. Follow the journey of a small Black child, Ta'Von, as he moves from a culturally inclusive preschool through the early grades in a school located in a majority white neighbourhood

A practical resource to help educators teach about current art and integrate its philosophy and methods into the K-12 classroom. The authors provide a framework that looks at art through the lens of nine themes, highlighting the conceptual aspects of art and connecting disparate forms of expression.

While student agency is considered an important aspect of classroom learning, opportunities to support and promote agency can be easily missed. This book addresses the inner dimensions of student agency to show what it is, why it is needed, and how it can be translated into instructional practices.

Addresses issues of social justice through the regular curriculum and everyday school life. This book illustrates an approach that integrates social justice education with contemporary research on students' development of moral understandings and concerns for human welfare in order to address societal conventions, norms, and institutions.

Many believe that kindergarten no longer reflects a nurturing environment but, instead, has become a race for children to learn skills so they are ready for the academic achievement tests. Resisting the Kinder-Race examines how the race came about, why it must change, and how all stakeholders must take part in the reform process.

Answers questions that educators have asked of the author, who is a former teacher and legal advocate for ELL families, including the differences among immigrant, refugee, green card, and undocumented students; the right of a school to deny immigration officers entry; and the ways that teachers and school leaders can connect families to services.

How can we promote the learning and well-being of all students, especially those who come from some of the most disadvantaged backgrounds? Anindya Kundu argues that we can fight against deeply rooted inequalities in the American educational system by harnessing student agency - each person's unique capacity for positive change.

Reflecting recent knowledge and developments in the field, this practical, easy-to-use guide emphasizes learning how to do case study research - from the first step of deciding whether a case study is the way to go to the last step of verifying and confirming findings before disseminating them.

Teachers can use Teaching History for Justice to show students how activism was used in the past to seek justice, how past social movements connect to the present, and how democratic tools can be used to change society.

Examines how a flux leadership mindset and corresponding tools promote the conditions for educational change that uplift stakeholders and generate contextualized data during emergency situations.

Examines how a flux leadership mindset and corresponding tools promote the conditions for educational change that uplift stakeholders and generate contextualized data during emergency situations.

A book that will help educators rethink their expectations of and practices for developing the literacy skills of Black boys in the elementary school classroom. Tatum shows educators how to bring students' literacy development into focus by creating an early intellectual infrastructure of advanced literacy, knowledge, and personal development.

Looks at the development of mathematical thinking in infants and toddlers, with an emphasis on the earliest stage, when mathematical thinking and problem solving first emerge as natural instincts. The text explores four precursor math concepts, with an emphasis on how development occurs when it is nurtured by loving knowledgeable others.

In this guide, readers will find an in-depth description of both the conceptual model underlying the ECERS-3 and innovative ways of analysing data for a fuller understanding of what can be done with the scale and why it is integral to the evaluation of early care and education.