The Apprenticeship that Saved My Life

“I realized that learning a trade was more than just mastering a skill—it was about gaining control over my future.” The Apprenticeship that Saved My Life tells the inspiring story of one man’s journey from Baltimore’s tough streets to a life of purpose, stability, and impact. Cory McCray was on ...

Where Harvard Went Wrong

Where Harvard Went Wrong contains Harvey Mansfield’s addresses, spanning fifty years, to Harvard colleagues and students. Mansfield’s plea is, and has always been, that Harvard abandon its partisanship with the left and adopt instead a bipartisan position that welcomes conservatives as well as li...

Another Sort of Mathematics

Years ago, James V. Schall wrote Another Sort of Learning, a book listing those things you should read but probably were never required to read. It is not a curriculum, except maybe one “for life.” This book you have in your hands is something of a mathematical tribute to Schall’s basic idea and ...

Leadership Skills: High School Manual

Today’s educators face a critical challenge that goes beyond the curriculum: they must nurture appropriate social and emotional behaviors by providing youth with the conflict-resolution and leadership skills necessary for modern life. The Leadership Program’s Violence Prevention Project delivers ...

Hope Circuits

How do we model abundance – in teaching, in learning, in leading organizations, particularly non-profits – when dealing with fiscal austerity and other forms of scarcity thinking? Hope Circuits explores this question, balancing sophisticated ideas with democratizing higher education for everybody.

Leadership Skills: High School Workbook

Today’s educators face a critical challenge that goes beyond the curriculum: they must nurture appropriate social and emotional behaviors by providing youth with the conflict-resolution and leadership skills necessary for modern life. The Leadership Program’s Violence Prevention Project delivers ...

Leadership Skills: Middle School Workbook

Today’s educators face a critical challenge that goes beyond the curriculum: they must nurture appropriate social and emotional behaviors by providing youth with the conflict-resolution and leadership skills necessary for modern life. The Leadership Program’s Violence Prevention Project delivers ...

Undoing the Silence

Undoing the Silence offers guidance to help both citizens and professionals influence democratic process through letters, articles, reports and public testimony.Louise Dunlap, PhD, began her career as an activist writing instructor during the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s. She learned that li...

Performing Communities

Ensemble theater is one of the vibrant, meaningful American performance forms today. It's more than art- it's a social movement. Ensemble theater is one of the hottest, most engaging American performance forms today. It's more than art- it's a movement. Performing Communities is an inquiry into ...

Leadership Skills: Middle School Manual

Today’s educators face a critical challenge that goes beyond the curriculum: they must nurture appropriate social and emotional behaviors by providing youth with the conflict-resolution and leadership skills necessary for modern life. The Leadership Program’s Violence Prevention Project delivers ...

Leadership U.: Preparing Students for College, Career, and Beyond

Early and ongoing intervention is known to be a critical element in increasing the likelihood that students in underserved communities will attend college and then thrive there and beyond. Crucially, intervention is most effective when it starts at an early age—planting the seeds in young minds t...

Boys 2 MENtors Curriculum Manual

Boys 2 MENtors is a leadership program for middle and high school boys. This curriculum manual comprises 50 interactive sessions that address social-emotional learning, leadership, and Common Core standards and that provide opportunities to link to the school day curriculum. Based on research on ...

HERstory Curriculum Suite

HERstory is a leadership program for middle and high school girls. This preventive intervention program is composed of 50–60 interactive sessions that address social emotional learning, leadership, and Common Core standards and that provide opportunities to link to the school day curriculum. Des...

Cultural Competence in Higher Education

This book covers teaching cultural competence in colleges and universities across the United States, providing a comprehensive reference for instructors, researchers, and other stakeholders who are looking for material that will assist them in working to prepare students to become culturally comp...

Shaking the Table

Shaking the Table provides perspectives and narratives of practitioners working in, or who have worked in, identity centers. This book features first-person accounts of the complexities, challenges, joy, and resistance practitioners experience while surviving and healing through and from this work.

History of the University of Pennsylvania, 1740-1940

Following his retirement from teaching in 1934, Edward Potts Cheyney was invited by the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to write a history of the University in celebration of its bicentennial. Cheyney completed the project, published as the present work, in 1940. This, then, is his his...

A Mad Mess

A liberating book for Mad, neurodiverse, and disabled QTBIPOC folks to create a more equitable and playful future in institutions and systems that were not made for them As Mad, neurodiverse, and disabled QTBIPOC folks working in institutions, we are in need of healing. We are at the mercy of sys...

From principle to practice: Evidence-informed teaching

Do you struggle to find time to prioritise your professional development?The From Principle to Practice series from the Chartered College of Teaching will support career-long development for all teachers, leaders and mentors. These short, useful and research-packed guides draw on the professional...

Cold War Classrooms

How Ontario educators and policymakers aimed to protect children from threats of communism and nuclear war by channelling fears of infiltration and subversion into divisive citizenship education designed to instill loyalty to Western values.

English-Medium Instruction for Language Teachers

This accessible volume equips language teachers and content specialists with practical strategies for planning, teaching, and assessing English-medium instruction in multilingual classrooms. English-Medium Instruction for Language Teachers is a practical and engaging guide to English-Medium Instr...

Post-liberal Futures

Post-Liberal Futures: Epistemic Justice, Ontological Freedom and the Black Archive advances a critique of liberalism’s limits in securing recognition and non-domination, positioning the Black Archive as a conceptual and institutional resource for reimagining democracy through alternative epistemo...

Educating Egypt

The everyday practices, policy ideas, and ideological and political battles that have shaped Egyptian education, from the era of nation-building in the twentieth century to the age of digital disruption in the twenty-firstFrom the 1952 revolution onward, a main purpose of formal education in Egyp...

Missions Impossible

A rigorous examination of higher education policymaking in the Arab worldNone of the momentous challenges Arab universities face is unique either in kind or degree. Other societies exhibit some of the same pathologies—insufficient resources, high drop-out rates, feeble contributions to research a...

Bounded Knowledge

An ethnographic study of how doctoral-level research in the social sciences and humanities is produced in EgyptMuch scholarship has been devoted to debates around how global inequalities of knowledge production arise from asymmetric power relations and disparities in access to material resources,...

American Universities Abroad

Across the globe, American-style and liberal arts universities are being established. However, these universities operate in a distinctive dynamic that must learn to bridge one culture with another, and leadership of such institutions must by its nature focus on such complexities and tensions. Th...

New Ways in Teaching Active Listening

Part of TESOL’s acclaimed New Ways in Teaching series, this volume offers 100+ classroom-tested activities that transform listening into an active, strategic, and collaborative language skill.New Ways in Teaching Active Listening is a new addition to the popular New Ways series, which offers a co...

Manufactured Outrage

Tracing the rise and dismantling of racially integrated public schooling in New Orleans, Sian Elizabeth Zelbo shows that much of what appeared to be spontaneous protest against integration was in fact a coordinated political project.

Power Up Your Curriculum

Great teaching starts with a great curriculum. But how good is the curriculum across your team or school, and how can this be made even better? Through a focus on principles, pitfalls and practical approaches, this book unpacks these questions.We will start by exploring the relationship between k...

Creative Participatory Research

Collaborative inquiry has grown in use and importance across academic disciplines. Researchers now regularly craft processes that bring together multiple stakeholders with varying perspectives to produce original actionable insights. Creative Participatory Research: Experiments with Theory and P...

The Teacher Workload and Wellbeing Crisis

The teaching profession is under strain across the Global North. This book looks beyond the often-proposed solutions of hiring new teachers, their preparation and remuneration and exposes the structural pressures driving workload intensification.

Borders, Displacement and Higher Education

What happens when universities become both sites of opportunity and extensions of the border? The Higher Education Border (HEB) offers a new way of understanding the collective, multi-layered barriers that exclude forced migrants from university. It explores a central contradiction: universities ...

Community-University Engagement and Praxis

Universities have challenging times ahead: the demands of a global student, new technology, employers wanting work-ready graduates and shifting ideologies that influence who holds and creates knowledge. The role of a university as a civic institution becomes increasingly contested. How can and sh...

Crip Authorship

2024 Daniel E. Griffiths Research Award Winner2024 Outstanding Academic Title, given by Choice ReviewsAn expansive volume presenting crip approaches to writing, research, and publishing. Crip Authorship: Disability as Method is an expansive volume presenting the multidisciplinary methods brough...

By Any Media Necessary

The participatory politics and civic engagement of youth in the digital ageThere is a widespread perception that the foundations of American democracy are dysfunctional, public trust in core institutions is eroding, and little is likely to emerge from traditional politics that will shift those co...

Teaching What You're Not

Examines the roles of historical, cultural, and personal identities in the classroomCan whites teach African-American literature effectively and legitimately? What is at issue when a man teaches a women's studies course? How effectively can a straight woman educate students about gay and lesbian ...

Manifesto of a Tenured Radical

In an age when innovative scholarly work is at an all-time high, the academy itself is being rocked by structural change. Funding is plummeting. Tenure increasingly seems a prospect for only the elite few. Ph.D.'s are going begging for even adjunct work. Into this tumult steps Cary Nelson, with a...

Reimagining Instructional Leadership for Social Justice

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Reimagining Instructional Leadership for Social Justice examines how instructional leadership and social justice leadership can be integrated to promote both academic excellence and equity.

Counter-Narratives of Resistance for Women of Color in Higher Education

Counter-Narratives of Resistance for Women of Color in Higher Education explores how systemic inequities across socially constructed spaces in higher education are experienced differently by Women of Color, adding depth to the series’ examination of identity, practice, and student success.

An Inquiry-Based Strategy

An Inquiry-Based Strategy: Using Film to Teach Geography shows how film can become a powerful instructional tool for geographic inquiry in classrooms. This book offers a clear path for using film purposefully, critically, and in alignment with the C3 Framework and state standards.

Teacher Workforce Challenges in Federal Education Systems

Drawing on qualitative and quantitative research, Teacher Workforce Challenges in Federal Education Systems highlights the intersection of policy, practice, and research across decentralized systems and discusses how regional governance shapes responses to teacher workforce issues, and initiative...

The Teacher and The State

Combining theoretical reflection with empirically grounded insight, The Teacher and The State develops a nuanced framework for understanding how global initiatives are translated, resisted, and reshaped within national education fields.

Amazing Awesome Human Body

Get into science and discover amazing, awesome human body facts with this fact-packed STEM book and model kit. Build your own original 16-inch-high human body anatomy model including the skeleton and vital organs. Then dive into the accompanying 32-page book to discover over 100 bite-size facts a...

The Future of Judaism

Could the Jewish People disappear? Through violence? Or internal indifference?THE WORLD IS FACING A DANGEROUS MOMENT IN HISTORY FOR ISRAEL AND WORLD-WIDE JEWRY AND THE FUTURE OF JUDAISMAbout a quarter of the way into the 21st Century, Charles Dickens’ famous reference to the “best of times and th...

Promising Practices for District Leaders

Promising Practices for District Leaders brings together leading voices in educational leadership to offer a comprehensive, research driven roadmap for advancing social emotional well-being, equity, and belonging across entire districts.

Vanishing Schools, Threatened Communities

Traditional schoolhouses and neighbourhood schools are disappearing at an alarming rate, making way for “big box” schools that serve multiple communities and adhere to the logic of modernization, centralization and uniformity. In Vanishing Schools, Threatened Communities, author Paul W. Bennett e...

Embracing Artificial Intelligence in the Classroom, Part 1

Part 1 of Embracing Artificial Intelligence in the Classroom deals with the Frameworks and includes chapters grounded in theory and research that situate AI within the broader educational fields of curriculum design, pedagogy, and educational technology.

Role Strain, Adaptation and Contemporary Challenges in Higher Education

Role Strain, Adaptation and Contemporary Challenges in Higher Education features eleven original contributions that examine student experiences, institutional contexts, mentorship, and pressing issues confronting higher education today.

Current Policies and Practices in European Social Anthropology Education

As Europe becomes more integrated at the economic and political level, attempts are being made to harmonize education policies as well. This volume offers an important contribution in that the authors examine, for the first time,the politics and practices of social anthropology education across...

Neoliberalizing Diversity in Liberal Arts College Life

Far from being synonymous with race or other forms of social difference, diversity is a construct frequently contrasting with the reality of students’ lives. Neoliberalizing Diversity in Liberal Arts College Life focuses on how neoliberal diversity operates at one liberal arts college, explorin...

Learning Democracy

Scholarship on the history of West Germany’s educational system has traditionally portrayed the postwar period of Allied occupation as a failure and the following decades as a time of pedagogical stagnation. Two decades after World War II, however, the Federal Republic had become a stable democ...

Connecting Histories of Education

Embraces fields of educational, colonial and trans-national history Explores influences in post-colonial and indigenous education across different geographical contexts Demonstrates how transnational and cross-cultural exchanges in education have been characterized by appropriation, ...

Playing with the Past

Heritage is all around us, not just in monuments and museums, but in places that matter, the countryside and in collections and stories. It touches all of us. How do we decide what to preserve? And how do we make the case for heritage when there are so many other priorities? Playing with the Pa...

Reconstructing Education

After the unification of Germany had first been greeted with euphoria on both sides of the Wall, it did not take long for disillusion to set in when it became obvious that structures, mentality, values and outlook were very different in the Old and New Bundesländer. Moreover, whereas during the...

Growing Up in Transit

Tanu offers the first ethnographic study of young people who experience high levels of international mobility while growing up, either moving across national borders or by attending international schools with trans-national student bodies.

Bedouin Century

The Bedouin in the Negev region have undergone a remarkable change of life style in the course of the 20th century: within a few generations they changed from being nomads to an almost sedentary and highly educated population. The author, who is a Bedouin himself and has worked in the Israeli M...

Education Policy and Equal Opportunity in Japan

In many societies today, educational aims or goals are commonly characterized in terms of “equality,” “equal opportunity,” “equal access” or “equal rights,” the underlying assumption being that “equality” in some form is an intelligible and sensible educational ideal. Yet, there are different v...

The Education of Nomadic Peoples

Educational provision for nomadic peoples is a highly complex, as well as controversial and emotive, issue. For centuries, nomadic peoples educated their children by passing on from generation to generation the socio-cultural and economic knowledge required to pursue their traditional occupatio...

The Nation, Europe, and the World

Textbooks in history, geography and the social sciences provide important insights into the ways in which nation-states project themselves. Based on case studies of France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Greece, Turkey Bulgaria, Russia, and the United States, this volume shows the role that c...

Preserving Order Amid Chaos

The Politics of Education

Although the early history of progressive education is often associated with John Dewey in America, the author argues convincingly that the pedagogues in the elementary schools in the big cities of Imperial Germany were in the avant garde of this movement on the European Continent. Far more tha...

Jewish Inclusion in Ethnic Studies Education

A clarifying re-examination of the issues affecting ethnic studies education in K-12 schools, this book explores how the program’s disregard for the lives of American Jews correlates with the increase in antisemitism with the U.S. Consequently, it advances a renewed framework for thinking about...

Chicanery

Academic appointments can bring forth unexpected and unforeseen contests and tensions, cause humiliation and embarrassment for unsuccessful applicants and reveal unexpected allies and enemies. Chicanery deals with how the founding Chairs at Sydney, the Australian National University, Auckland a...

Children, Families, and States

A comparative, interdisciplinary study Examines the development of ‘time policies’ in Europe Presents national case studies from large and small European countries such as Britain, France, Hungary and the Czech Republic Documents a wide range of thinking and practice about childr...

Meaningful Inconsistencies

School differentiates students-and provides differential access to various human and material resources-along a range of axes: from elected subjects and academic "achievement" to ethnicity, age, gender, or the language they speak. These categorizations, affected throughout the world by neoliber...

Civil Enculturation

For several years now, the concepts of 'civil culture' and 'civil society' have been widely discussed in the social sciences. Theoretically innovative and empirically rich, this volume is one of few studies that offer solid and focused ethnographic research on how the tenets and assumptions of ...

Learning Under Neoliberalism

The contributors of this volume explore the emerging corporality of the education system worldwide and the impact of this new governance on education practices. Explores changes in University regulations against the backdrop of neoliberal trends toward public-private partnerships. De...

Death of the Public University?

Continuous government reforms to make universities ‘world class’, entrepreneurial and drivers of the knowledge economy, are transforming the traditional mission and meaning of the public university and its ability to act as ‘critic and conscience’ of society. This collection explores the new la...

We Come as Members of the Superior Race

We Come as Members of the Superior Race discusses the stereotype of Africans as “primitive” and “unintelligent,” exploring how this legacy has enforced contemporary educational and development discourses which view African societies as subordinated in a global geopolitical order, and how it con...

Toward a Social History of Knowledge

One of the foremost historians of intellectual life and education in Germany, Fritz Ringer has brought together in this volume several of his articles, most of which are not easily available are published here in English for the first time. They focus on a whole range of contemporary and histor...

Humboldt Revisited

Humboldt Revisited offers a fresh perspective on the contemporary discourse surrounding reform of European universities. Drawing from a rich selection of historical sources, this volume challenges the conventional historical narratives on the Humboldt University, providing new insight into the ...

Women Becoming Practitioner Researchers

Sixteen early career researchers (ECRs) tell their stories in Women Becoming Practitioner Researchers, focusing on connecting potential and current doctoral students with an understanding of what to expect in the transition from professional or schoolteacher environments to working for universi...

When Will We Talk About Hitler?

Observation of history classes to analyze student’s relationship to German history Adolescents appropriation of history within peer groups Taking adolescents political position seriously Analyzing schools, families and peer groups together, overstepping disciplinary frontiers ...

Teaching Modernization

Amid the Cold War and global student protests, transnational forces significantly shaped the modernization of educational systems in Spain and Latin America during the 1960s and 1970s. Each study sheds new light on the transnational circulation of modernization discourses, practices, and ideolo...

Global Exchanges

The first comprehensive book on the history of scholarship programs A book which takes into account all geographic areas A book focusing on the human dimension of scholarship programs A book that investigates the political, economic, and cultural interests involved in exchanges

The Experience of Neoliberal Education

The college experience is increasingly positioned to demonstrate its value as a worthwhile return on investment. Specific, definable activities, such as research experience, first-year experience, and experiential learning, are marketed as delivering precise skill sets in the form of an individ...

Creating a New Public University and Reviving Democracy

No other book combines a conceptual analysis of academic freedom and integrity, critique of organizational design. A critique of the pseudo-corporate model used by universities now to justify their behavior and structures. A multi-stakeholder action research process to recreate unive...

Transforming Study Abroad

An accessible introduction of current theoretical debates on common study abroad concepts (“culture,” “global citizen,” “immersion,” “host family,” etc.) for study abroad practitioners. A myth-buster of common study abroad discourses. Concrete suggestions for how to incorporate theoretic...