New Books in Education

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951
Brittany Lehman, "Teaching Migrant Children in ...
Using West Germany as a case study to explore European trends, the book analyzes how the Council of Europe and European Community’s ideological goals were implemented for specific national groups...
66 min
952
Candy Gunther Brown, "Debating Yoga and Mindful...
An expert witness in four legal challenges, Brown scrutinized unpublished trial records, informant interviews, and legal precedents, as well as insider documents, some revealing promoters of “Vedic victory” or “stealth Buddhism” for public-school children...
30 min
953
Milton Gaither, "Homeschool: An American Histor...
With around two million children currently enrolled in home schools in the USA, no-one can doubt that the subject of Milton Gaither’s new book is timely...
27 min
954
Holly Rogers, "The Mindful Twenty-Something" (N...
Rogers presents a unique, evidence based approach to help you make important life decisions with clarity and confidence.
53 min
955
Cecilia Caballero et al. "The Chicana M(other)w...
The editors bring together a diverse collective of Women of Color Mother-Scholars to end the silence experienced by Mothers of Color in academia....
63 min
956
David Resnick, "Representing Education In Film:...
Using many examples of Hollywood movies, Resnick analyzes the way movies perform in a variety of formal and informal educational settings...
50 min
957
Sarah Anne Carter, "Object Lessons: How Ninetee...
Carter reveals that object lessons were a classroom exercise, in wide use during the nineteenth century...
59 min
958
Eric Blanc, "Red State Revolt: The Teachers’ St...
Red State Revolt explains the emergence and development of the historic wave of teacher strikes in Arizona, West Virginia, and Oklahoma.
20 min
959
Sarah Eppler Janda, "Prairie Power: Student Act...
Borrowing from the language of the activists themselves, Janda dubs midwestern student protest to be “Prairie Power"...
48 min
960
Morgan Marietta, "One Nation, Two Realities: Du...
They introduce the concept of ‘dueling fact perceptions’ based on years of research, and for our interview, Morgan Marietta explains how they arrived at such conclusions and their implications for our country’s future...
44 min
961
Brenda Elsey and Joshua Nadel, "Futbolera: A Hi...
Elsey and Nadel uncover the hidden history of the arrival of physical education for girls in the late-nineteenth century,
59 min
962
Annalee Good, "Teachers at the Table: Voice, Ag...
Annalee’s book is a systematic inquiry into the institutional forces that make it hard for teachers to engage in policymaking, and she contrasts these barriers with the ways they are do have a voice and agency...
49 min
963
Ali Michael, "Raising Race Questions: Whiteness...
In Raising Race Questions, Ali Michael worked with a group of white teachers to inquire about race and schooling...
69 min
964
E. M. Levintova and A. K. Staudinger, "Gender i...
Ekaterina M. Levintova and Alison K. Staudinger have brought together, into this volume, a variety of fascinating and important perspectives on political science as a discipline and how it is taught, studied, pursued and understood...
48 min
965
Patricia Leavy, "Spark" (The Guilford Press, 2019)
The book is a highly original novel about an unexpected yet extremely fruitful journey of a sociologist professor, Peyton Wilde. Peyton...
71 min
966
Emily Dawson, "Equity, Exclusion and Everyday S...
Who is excluded from science?
47 min
967
Jamila Lee-Johnson, and Ashley Gaskew, "Critica...
Jamila and Ashley talk to us about the importance of centering voices and perspectives that have been traditionally marginalized in the academy...
49 min
968
Sally Nuamah, "How Girls Achieve" (Harvard UP, ...
What does it take for all girls to achieve?
24 min
969
Sarah Reckhow, "Outside Money in School Board E...
Who funds local school board elections?
24 min
970
Ralph James Savarese, "Classic Novels, Autistic...
Ralph James Savarese challenges the notion that autistic readers are unable to immerse themselves in figurative language or get lost in imaginative worlds...
49 min
971
Dave Dillon, "Blueprint for Success in College ...
Lee and Dave discuss how the project came into being, the urgent need to teach “doing college” for the next generation of learners, and how publishing with a University Press compares and contrasts with OER publishing...
57 min
972
Linda K. Wertheimer, "Faith Ed: Teaching About ...
Teaching about religion in a public school in the United States is rewarding, but very difficult...
57 min
973
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Op...
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...
29 min
974
Elizabeth Todd-Breland, "A Political Education:...
By highlighting the activism of local Black women and Black teachers, Todd-Breland uncovers hidden histories of how Black women have been at the forefront of this fight from the 1960s to the present...
64 min
975
S. A. Duncan and A. McClellan, "The Art of Cura...
McClellan and Duncan’s book offers a behind-the-scenes exploration of the career of Paul J. Sachs (1878-1965) and the graduate program he developed at Harvard University and the Fogg Museum...
61 min