New Books in Education
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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...
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Sarah Anne Carter, "Object Lessons: How Ninetee...
Carter reveals that object lessons were a classroom exercise, in wide use during the nineteenth century...
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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.
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Sarah Eppler Janda, "Prairie Power: Student Act...
Borrowing from the language of the activists themselves, Janda dubs midwestern student protest to be “Prairie Power"...
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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...
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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,
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Emily Dawson, "Equity, Exclusion and Everyday S...
Who is excluded from science?
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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...
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Sally Nuamah, "How Girls Achieve" (Harvard UP, ...
What does it take for all girls to achieve?
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Sarah Reckhow, "Outside Money in School Board E...
Who funds local school board elections?
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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
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Joy Lisi Rankin, "A People’s History of Computi...
Rankin makes a compelling case for a social history of computing...
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Ahmad Atif Ahmad, "Pitfalls of Scholarship: Les...
Ahmad Atif Ahmad’s new book is a unique reflection on the field of Islamic studies...
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Farina King, "The Earth Memory Compass: Diné La...
Farina King argues that education and the creation of “thick” cultural knowledge played, and continues to play, a central role in the survival of Diné culture...
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Jamal Elias, "Alef is for Allah: Childhood, Emo...
Jamal Elias takes his readers on a riveting intellectual tour thematically centered on the interaction of childhood, visual culture, and affect in contemporary Muslim majority societies, and in Muslim intellectual thought more broadly...
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Ellen Moore, "Grateful Nation: Student Veterans...
I don’t know about the colleges and universities you’re familiar with, but the U.S. military has a pretty visible presence on my campus....
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