Mistakes We Have Made: Implications for Social Justice Educators, second edition, continues the conversation started in the first edition. Dr. Bre Evans-Santiago has once again collected a variety of voices from authors with a wealth of experience teaching in K-12 schools and utilizing culturally relevant practices. This new edition is current ......
The Critical Role of Ethnic Studies in Educational Leadership addresses the urgency of having equity-minded and globally-oriented transformative leaders who seek to empower students and teachers alike through their commitment to integrate ethnically and culturally rich curriculum and instruction in today's schools. The ethnic studies revival ......
How do we create lasting systemic change in institutions designed to reproduce the status quo? Some might answer this question with responses related to mission, vision, resource allocation and investment, and talent. However, the path to creating sustainable changes in educational institutions is often obstructed by policy, institutional inertia, ......
The Critical Importance of Teacher Advocacy: Empowered Educators on the Front Lines is a powerful and timely anthology that amplifies the voices of education activists from across the United States who are committed to reimagining what it means to be an educator in today's challenging climate. At its heart, this book is a testament to the ......
The Role of Educational Scholars in Movement Building for Justice
In today's troubling times, we frequently find ourselves in conversations with educational scholars, educators, and university students about feeling overwhelmed with the attacks on and challenges facing education, and unsure of how to act in this moment. What does it mean to leverage scholarship for public impact? What impact on public debate, ......
From Getting Started to Graduation: A Student Guide to the EdD, a volume in The Coming of Age of the Education Doctorate Series book series, pulls back the curtain on the hidden curriculum of the EdD experience for students, fully supporting their journeys by making what is too often anxious and abstract more clear and concrete. Drawing from years ......
Viewing Curriculum, Pedagogy, Learning, and Educational Research Through the Sense of Taste
Why is the sense of taste so conspicuously absent from contemporary educational research and so severely rationed in the ways it is lived in universities and schools? After all, in the world, taste is a perceptual and epistemological powerhouse in the complicated process of staying alive as well as living a life. Taste is also a process of world ......
An Introduction to Critical Autoethnography and Education: The Vulnerable Researcher examines the practice of critical autoethnography, which combines critical pedagogy, autoethnography, and often, critical ethnography, as a research methodology for conducting research in vulnerable communities without establishing hierarchical systems. ......
Curriculum and pedagogy are the heartbeat of our schools. They encompass what we do and do not teach-what content and approaches we either choose or are mandated to choose, or leave out or are mandated to leave out. Curriculum entails the overall educational experience of schooling, while pedagogy is the art and craft of teaching-or the ......