Teacher Identity Research and Theory

This book is a brief, yet comprehensive, overview of research and scholarship of teacher professional identity development beginning in the early 1990s and ending in the present.

The Alumni Way (second edition)

Was your degree truly worth it? How can you build your network to maximise the value of your time at university? Does the alumni strategy in your organisation need an inspired boost? This second edition of The Alumni Way reimagines your alumni status as a lifelong gateway to opportunity. Drawi...

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.

Lessons from the Chair

Lessons from the Chair: Behind the Scenes of Student Affairs offers a candid and deeply reflective exploration of one of higher education’s most demanding and least understood professions.

Promising Family-School Community Partnerships in Early Childhood Settings

Promising Family-School Community Partnerships in Early Childhood Settings emphasizes that early childhood is the foundational developmental period for all children and their families.

Youth, University, and Canadian Society

Paul Axelrod and John Reid take the reader through one hundred years of the complex and turbulent history of youth, university, and society. Contributors explore the question of how students have been affected by war and social change and discuss who was able to attend university and who was not,...

From Theory to Practice

This book introduces Theory-Guided Communicative Instruction (TGCI), an approach that integrates pragmatics and discourse analysis into communicative language teaching. Combining theory and classroom research, it shows how learners develop strategic, reflective communicative competence across int...

Le Précis de leadership militaire

Ce livre est un sommaire compréhensif qui a comme point de mire plusieurs sujets dont la cohésion, le commandement, l'intelligence culturelle, la discipline, la peur et la confiance. Ce précis offre une assistance a qui veut mieux comprendre la théorie et l'application du leadership militaire.

The Public Professor

The work of academics can matter and be influential on a public level, but the path to becoming a public intellectual, influential policy advisor, valued community resource or go-to person on an issue is not one that most scholars are trained for. The Public Professor offers scholars ways to use ...

The Metacognition Handbook: A Practical Guide for Teachers and School Leaders

Metacognition is one of the most highly effective but under-used teaching strategies in all of education. Over-complicated by some, over-simplified by others and misunderstood by many, this area of theory and practice is in need of a fresh look. The Metacognition Handbook provides a clear, practi...

The Learning Rainforest: Great Teaching in Real Classrooms

The Learning Rainforest is an attempt to capture various different elements of our understanding and experience of teaching. It is a celebration of great teaching - the joy of it and the intellectual and personal rewards that teaching brings. It is aimed at teachers of all kinds; busy people work...

The Human Cost of Artificial Education

American education has been quietly rebuilt for a new mission. Digital platforms promise personalized learning and career readiness, but they also collect behavioral and emotional data to build psychometric profiles from the earliest years of school. Common Core, Social Emotional Learning, Portra...

Beyond the Academic Gateway

What are the experiences of academics around the time they earn tenure? Beyond the Academic Gateway explores the experiences of scholars from universities across Canada. Their experiences are, doubtlessly, representative of the academy, and bring a wealth of insight for graduate students (and pro...

The Academic Gateway

This collection written by professors experiencing the journey to tenure in education puts the reader in the writer’s shoes to provide insight for those who are considering this path, as well as for policy makers.

Trinity University

150-year journey of one of Texas's finest liberal arts and sciences institutions

The Ooey Gooey® Handbook

Over 65 hands-on art, science, and outside play activity ideas for creating engaging environments

Caring for Self

A workbook to relieve stress and burnout Caring for Self: A Workbook for Early Childhood Educator Wellbeing supports early childhood educators in addressing the intricacies of their health—emotional, physical, cognitive, and social—in the increasingly complex and changing landscape of early child...

The End of Education as We Know It

Schools play a critical role in defining our relationship to people and planet, but modern education reinforces a paradigm based on coercion, extraction, and exploitation. The End of Education as We Know It is a guidebook for transforming society through complex systems-thinking and regenerative ...

Everyone Wins - 3rd Edition

This 3rd edition of the best-selling, Parent Choice Award-winning book Everyone Wins is an easy to use, quick reference guide featuring over 170 well-designed cooperative games and activities for and about children, education, and the actualization of social well-being in a diverse range of envir...

Cybersecurity and Society

A detailed study of how cybersecurity shapes the ways we live, work, and interact in a heavily digitalised present.

The Health of Us All

Tracing the transformation of the McMaster School of Nursing into a global leader in nursing education, this work examines how the school’s success was propelled by key strengths, humanitarian values, and leadership intent on globally advancing the profession.

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...

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...

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.

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...

Designing Training That Sticks

Don't just design training. Design behavior change that lasts. Your training program got good evaluations, and learners left feeling satisfied. But within weeks you discover that none of their behavior changed, and managers are asking why. Your training seemed to work in the moment, but performa...

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...

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...

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...

Anthropologies of Education

Only source of state-of-the art analyses on ethnography of education in different world regions, covering 5 continents Most chapters authored by senior scholars, leaders in their fields Compares perspectives from sociology of education (e.g., in France & West Africa) with anthrop...

Figuration Work

In drawing on the anthropology of policy and the work on ‘figures/figuration’ by feminist thinkers, the book offers a new way of conceptualizing large-scale processes of transformation. Offers perhaps the only ethnography of university reform addressing students’ shifting room for partic...

Dreams Made Small

Dreams Made Small offers an in-depth, ethnographic look at journeys of education among young Papuans under Indonesian rule, ultimately revealing how dreams of transformation, equality, and belonging are shaped and reshaped in the face of multiple constraints.

Educational Studies in Europe

Hindi Is Our Ground, English Is Our Sky

A critical, ethnographically rich study of education, language, and social class in India. A theoretically grounded study of language use, language ideology, and globalization. Demonstrates the necessity of sustained fieldwork in studies of social change and globalization. Shows ...

Sensitive Pasts

Combination of heritage studies and history education Application of critical historical thinking to the use of heritage in educational settings Pedagogical dealings with sensitive topics of the past (transatlantic slave trade; Holocaust)

Roads to the Palace

Is Jewish education simply an ancient and archaic type of socialization into "customs and ceremonies" or a sophisticated practice, based on rich cultural conceptions of the educated individual, the decent society and the relationship of knowledge and virtue? This author, rather than offering a ...

Cultural Diversity and the Empowerment of Minorities

Conflicts between different racial, ethnic, national and other social groups are becoming more and more salient. One of the main sources of these internal conflicts is social and economic inequality, in particular the increasing disparities between majority and minority groups. Even societies t...

Playing with Languages

Playing with Languages is the first book-length exploration of everyday social interaction, language shift and revitalization, and children's play in Dominica The book offers much needed insight into Caribbean children's agency and their roles in cultural and linguistic transmission and ...

The Politics of Education Reform in the Middle East

Education systems and textbooks in selected countries of the Middle East are increasingly the subject of debate. This volume presents and analyzes the major trends as well as the scope and the limits of education reform initiatives undertaken in recent years. In curricula and teaching materials...

Honouring Our Past, Embracing Our Future

In 2011, the University of Regina began celebrating an important milestone--the centennial of Regina College, the Methodist high school that was the foundation for the creation of the University itself more than 60 years later.The University of Regina is a very different place than Regina College...

Sound and Noise

A timely evaluation of the noise that surrounds us, how we hear it, and what we can do about it, Marcia Jenneth Epstein gives us the impetus and the tools to understand the sounds and noise that define our daily lives. This is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study of how auditory stimuli impac...

Home Feelings

A history of the Canadian reading camp movement and the meanings of literacy, literature, and citizenship in the early twentieth century.

A Catholic Philosophy of Education

Exploring a Catholic philosophy of education in the modern world.

Whose Canada?

Questions and concerns regarding the scope and depth of Canada’s relationship with the United States loom larger than ever since 9/11. In Whose Canada?, contributors provide a comprehensive analysis of the legacy of free trade and examine the challenges that deepening bilateral integration – incl...

The State of the System

A provocative and revealing analysis of K-12 public education that will serve as catalyst for public policy debate and discussion.

International Education as Public Policy in Canada

Unravelling the story of international education and its emergence as public policy in Canada.

The Future of Action Research in Education

A provocative analysis of the legacy and direction of action research in Canada and beyond.

Small Matters

An innovative study of the struggle for healthy children in early twentieth-century Canada.