Product Description: A book of "real world" cases, this text introduces "flashpoint" issues related to gender equity in the schools. It immerses readers in the human dilemmas teachers face when they set out to provide equal opportunities for -- and to develop the abilities of -- all of their students...read more

Product Description: Using stories from her own life as a girl in a working - poor family and illuminating narratives from students living in a high - poverty neighborhood, Stephanie introduces readers to critical literacy and equips them with the tools to begin tearing apart stereotypes and creating new understandings about students, families, ourselves, and one another...read more

Product Description: In this book, the authors explore the position that systemic reform requires addressing the culture of individual schools, and that various reform efforts address school culture in different ways. The chapters promote that the key to success is the match between the strategy in use and the setting...read more

Product Description: In this text, the author shows how racially mixed teaching facilities can model democratic ideals and how white teachers and administrators of colour can effectively deal with their differences. The text provides a framework for educators, parents and community activists. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Centering around a controversial educational program called 'Facing History and Ourselves' that uses the Holocaust to teach students about racism, intolerance, and prejudice, classroom portraits show children grappling with these historic problems and resolving classroom conflicts over difference. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book transcends recent debates about political correctness to address the underlying problems of teaching controversial subjects in the college and university history classroom. The author criticizes both sides of the debate, rejecting, on the one hand, calls for a uniform, chronological history curriculum and, on the other hand, claims that only ethnic or racial "insiders" are qualified to teach about their communities...read more