Product Description: This text for educational students and preservice teachers examines how changes in the larger society pressure schools to change their own structures and practices, and explores the degree to which schools change society. Early chapters explore the ways in which race, ethnicity, social class, and gender relate to educational inequality and examine multicultural education as a movement...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: touching eternity explores how teachers can make a long-term impact on the lives of their students. Written in an accessible narrative style, this case study of one high school art teacher and his former students invites readers to engage in fundamental and essential issues in teaching as well as in educational research...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of essays explores the possibilities of studying educational matters with the tools of narrative and literature. Written over the course of the 1980s and 1990s, these essays trace the literary turn in educational research toward forms of literary journalism, critical storytelling, and postmodern narrative...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)