Designed for introductory educational foundations and multicultural education courses, but also pushes students to examine the larger ideological, historical, social, the text is written in a narrative, conversational style grounded in place and experience, and political contexts of the crises humans and the planet we inhabit are facing.

Routledge. Ecojustice education offers a powerful model for cultural ecological analysis and a pedagogy of responsibility, providing teachers and teacher educators with the information and classroom practices they need to help develop citizens who are prepared to support and achieve diverse, democratic, and sustainable societies in an increasingly globalized world.

Pedagogical features in each chapter include a Conceptual Toolbox, activities accompanying the theoretical content, examples of lessons and teacher reflections, films, and suggested readings, and links. The second edition features a new chapter on Anthropocentrism; new material on Heterosexism; updated statistics and examples throughout; new and updated Companion Website content.

Readers are asked to consider curricular strategies to bring these issues to life in their own classrooms across disciplines.

Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning for Justice in a Changing World Language and Literacy Series

Bringing together an intergenerational group of prominent educators and researchers, literate, this volume engages and extends the concept of culturally sustaining pedagogy CSP―teaching that perpetuates and fosters linguistic, and cultural pluralism as part of schooling for positive social transformation.

Irizarry, patrick johnson, Valerie Kinloch, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Carol D. Examples of teaching that sustain the languages, literacies, and cultural practices of students and communities of color. Mccarty, courtney peña, Jonathan Rosa, Django Paris, Timothy J. Samy alim, mary bucholtz, nelson flores, Dolores Inés Casillas, Norma Gonzalez, Michael Domínguez, Kris D.

San pedro, daniel walsh, casey Wong Culturally sustaining pedagogies raises fundamental questions about the purpose of schooling in changing societies. Bringing together an intergenerational group of prominent educators and researchers, literate, this volume engages and extends the concept of culturally sustaining pedagogy CSP_teaching that perpetuates and fosters linguistic, and cultural pluralism as part of schooling for positive social transformation.

The authors propose that schooling should be a site for sustaining the cultural practices of communities of color, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian/Pacific Islander, rather than eradicating them. Chapters present theoretically grounded examples of how educators and scholars can support Black, South African, and immigrant students as part of a collective movement towards educational justice in a changing world.

Book features: a definitive resource on culturally sustaining pedagogies, including what they look like in the classroom and how they differ from deficit-model approaches. Lee, tiffany S.

Focus: Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning, 2nd Edition

But we are stymied by a systemwide failure to simplify and prioritize; we have yet to focus our limited time and energy on the most essential, widely acknowledged, evidence-based practices that could have more impact than all other initiatives combined. In this 2nd edition of focus: elevating the essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning, Mike Schmoker extends and updates the case that our schools could be on the cusp of swift, unparalleled improvements.

All of these strategies and findings are supported with exciting new evidence from actual schools. Their success confirms, as michael fullan writes, that a focus on the best "high-leverage practices"; won't only improve student performance; they will produce "stunningly powerful consequences"; in our schools.

Culturally sustaining pedagogies raises fundamental questions about the purpose of schooling in changing societies. Bringing together an intergenerational group of prominent educators and researchers, this volume engages and extends the concept of culturally sustaining pedagogy CSP_teaching that perpetuates and fosters linguistic, literate, and cultural pluralism as part of schooling for positive social transformation.

The authors propose that schooling should be a site for sustaining the cultural practices of communities of color, Asian/Pacific Islander, Indigenous, Latinx, rather than eradicating them. Chapters present theoretically grounded examples of how educators and scholars can support Black, South African, and immigrant students as part of a collective movement towards educational justice in a changing world.

As schmoker demonstrates, the case for these practices and the need for them has grown prodigiously. In every chapter, you ll find late-breaking discoveries and practical advice on how to simplify the implementation of new state standards in the subject areas; on the hidden pitfalls of our most popular, but unproven instructional fads and programs; and on simple, planning lessons, versatile strategies for building curriculum, and integrating literacy into every discipline.

Democratic Schools, Second Edition: Lessons in Powerful Education

Grounded in a robust understanding of democracy, and the exigencies of our political and social systems, education, the second edition of Democratic Schools goes beyond updating and expanding the stories of the schools it originally chronicled. It adds new material - including a brand new chapter from apple and Beane - that provides crucial lessons for creating and sustaining democratic schools, and that once again inspires teachers, administrators, and educational leaders to adopt ways of framing their mission that can create and sustain our democratic way of life - even in these difficult times.

The essays that made the first edition so potent are here in their entirety, each followed by brand-new retrospective insight from their writers, educators who have proven that teachers and administrators can bring the nation's most noble values to life every day. Now an expanded and updated edition of Democratic Schools arrives, standardized assessments, increasingly relevant in a time of inequitable accountability-based reform, and cookie-cutter curricula.

Apple and beane once more convene seven of America's most creative democratic educators for a powerful conversation about how to build an education that is worthy of our highest ideals. Contributors include: Michael W. Every once in a while, with the passage of time, a classic book takes on even greater relevance.

Apple James A. Schultz Barbara L. Culturally sustaining pedagogies raises fundamental questions about the purpose of schooling in changing societies.

The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children, 2nd Edition

Chapters present theoretically grounded examples of how educators and scholars can support Black, South African, and immigrant students as part of a collective movement towards educational justice in a changing world. Heinemann Educational Books. This new edition also includes questions for reflection Culturally sustaining pedagogies raises fundamental questions about the purpose of schooling in changing societies.

Jossey-Bass. What matters most is a teacher's efforts to work with the unique strengths a child brings to the classroom. Bringing together an intergenerational group of prominent educators and researchers, this volume engages and extends the concept of culturally sustaining pedagogy CSP_teaching that perpetuates and fosters linguistic, literate, and cultural pluralism as part of schooling for positive social transformation.

The authors propose that schooling should be a site for sustaining the cultural practices of communities of color, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian/Pacific Islander, rather than eradicating them. A brilliant mixture of scholarship and storytelling, The Dreamkeepers challenges us to envision intellectually rigorous and culturally relevant classrooms that have the power to improve the lives of not just African American students, but all children.

. In the second edition of her critically acclaimed book The Dreamkeepers, Gloria Ladson-Billings revisits the eight teachers who were profiled in the first edition and introduces us to new teachers who are current exemplars of good teaching. She shows that culturally relevant teaching is not a matter of race, gender, or teaching style.

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The Way of Council

Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind

Contributors to this volume include the premier psychotherapists, thinkers, and eco-activists working in this field. And buddhist writer and therapist Joanna Macy speaks of the need to open up our feelings for our threatened planet as an antidote to environmental despair. Is it possible, that the planetary and the personal are pointing the way forward to some new basis for a sustainable economic and emotional life?” Ecopsychology in practice has begun to affirm this, ” asks co-editor Theodore Roszak, aided by these definitive writings.

Jossey-Bass. James hillman, the world-renowned jungian analyst, identifies as the one core issue for all psychology” the nature and limits of human identity, and relates this to the condition of the planet. Earth island institute head carl anthony argues for a genuinely multicultural self and a global civil society without racism” as fundamental to human and earthly well-being.

Culturally sustaining pedagogies raises fundamental questions about the purpose of schooling in changing societies. This pathfinding collection has become a seminal text for the burgeoning ecopsychology movement, which has brought key new insights to environmentalism and revolutionized modern psychology.

Its writers show how the health of the planet is inextricably linked to the psychological health of humanity, individually and collectively. Chapters present theoretically grounded examples of how educators and scholars can support Black, South African, and immigrant students as part of a collective movement towards educational justice in a changing world.

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Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy

Chapters present theoretically grounded examples of how educators and scholars can support Black, South African, and immigrant students as part of a collective movement towards educational justice in a changing world. Heinemann Educational Books. Used book in Good Condition. Climate change, economic upheaval, the depletion of oil, and mass extinction together create a planetary emergency of overwhelming proportions.

Drawing on decades of teaching an empowerment approach known as the Work That Reconnects, the authors guide us through a transformational process informed by mythic journeys, spirituality, modern psychology, and holistic science. Active hope shows us how to strengthen our capacity to face this crisis so that we can respond with unexpected resilience and creative power.

This process equips us with tools to face the mess we’re in and play our role in the collective transition, or Great Turning, to a life-sustaining society. Bringing together an intergenerational group of prominent educators and researchers, literate, this volume engages and extends the concept of culturally sustaining pedagogy CSP_teaching that perpetuates and fosters linguistic, and cultural pluralism as part of schooling for positive social transformation.

The authors propose that schooling should be a site for sustaining the cultural practices of communities of color, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian/Pacific Islander, rather than eradicating them. Jossey-Bass. The challenges we face can be difficult even to think about. Culturally sustaining pedagogies raises fundamental questions about the purpose of schooling in changing societies.

Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche

Used book in Good Condition. Chapters present theoretically grounded examples of how educators and scholars can support Black, South African, and immigrant students as part of a collective movement towards educational justice in a changing world. Heinemann Educational Books. Bringing together an intergenerational group of prominent educators and researchers, this volume engages and extends the concept of culturally sustaining pedagogy CSP_teaching that perpetuates and fosters linguistic, literate, and cultural pluralism as part of schooling for positive social transformation.

The authors propose that schooling should be a site for sustaining the cultural practices of communities of color, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian/Pacific Islander, rather than eradicating them. New world Library. He calls this work soulcraft. There’s a great longing in all people to uncover the secrets and mysteries of our individual lives, to find the unique gift we were born to bring to our communities, and to experience our full membership in the more-than-human world.

Culturally sustaining pedagogies raises fundamental questions about the purpose of schooling in changing societies. Used book in Good Condition. This journey to soul is a descent into layers of the self much deeper than personality, a journey meant for each one of us, not just for the heroes and heroines of mythology.

A modern handbook for the journey, soulcraft is not an imitation of indigenous ways, the traditions of Western culture, but a contemporary nature-based approach born from wilderness experience, and the cross-cultural heritage of all humanity.

Updated Edition Princeton Classics - The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit

Chapters present theoretically grounded examples of how educators and scholars can support Black, South African, and immigrant students as part of a collective movement towards educational justice in a changing world. Heinemann Educational Books. Jossey-Bass. Weaving together the history of workplaces, civil rights groups, and real estate agencies, Sugrue finds the roots of today’s urban poverty in a hidden history of racial violence, unions, discrimination, political organizations, and deindustrialization that reshaped the American urban landscape after World War II.

This princeton classics edition includes a new preface by Sugrue, discussing the lasting impact of the postwar transformation on urban America and the chronic issues leading to Detroit’s bankruptcy. Culturally sustaining pedagogies raises fundamental questions about the purpose of schooling in changing societies.

Bringing together an intergenerational group of prominent educators and researchers, this volume engages and extends the concept of culturally sustaining pedagogy CSP_teaching that perpetuates and fosters linguistic, literate, and cultural pluralism as part of schooling for positive social transformation.

The authors propose that schooling should be a site for sustaining the cultural practices of communities of color, Asian/Pacific Islander, Latinx, Indigenous, rather than eradicating them. New world Library. Used book in Good Condition. In this reappraisal of america’s racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty.

Ishmael:A Novel

Ishmael an adventure of the Mind and Spirit. So begins an utterly unique and captivating novel. Jossey-Bass. We’re in daniel quinn’s grip, we want Ishmael to teach us how to save the planet from ourselves. In ishmael, in search of an answer to this challenging question: how can we save the world from ourselves? Praise for Ishmael “As suspenseful, which received the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship for the best work of fiction offering positive solutions to global problems, inventive, Daniel Quinn parses humanity’s origins and its relationship with nature, and socially urgent as any fiction or nonfiction you are likely to read this or any other year.

The austin chronicle “Before we’re halfway through this slim book. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. This special twenty-fifth anniversary edition features a new foreword and afterword by the author, as well as an excerpt from My Ishmael. Used book in Good Condition. Bringing together an intergenerational group of prominent educators and researchers, this volume engages and extends the concept of culturally sustaining pedagogy CSP_teaching that perpetuates and fosters linguistic, literate, and cultural pluralism as part of schooling for positive social transformation.

The authors propose that schooling should be a site for sustaining the cultural practices of communities of color, Asian/Pacific Islander, Indigenous, Latinx, rather than eradicating them. Chapters present theoretically grounded examples of how educators and scholars can support Black, South African, and immigrant students as part of a collective movement towards educational justice in a changing world.

Heinemann Educational Books.