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  • The Brother Code

    Manhood and Masculinity Among African American Males in College

    by T. Elon Dancy ...
    Series series Contemporary Perspectives in Race and Ethnic Relations
    The Brother Code: What is the role of manhood and masculinity in the lives of African American males in college? How do manhood norms influence decisions within and beyond college? How might mothers and fathers differentially affect manhood and masculinity in their sons? What are African American’s men unique ways of knowing themselves and their surroundings? The Brother Code: Manhood and ... Read more

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  • African American Males and Education

    Researching the Convergence of Race and Identity

    Series series Contemporary Perspectives in Race and Ethnic Relations
    African American Males in Education: Researching the Convergence of Race and Identity addresses a number of research gaps. This book emerges at a time when new social dynamics of race and other identities are shaping, but also shaped by, education. Educational settings consistently perpetuate racial and other forms of privilege among students, personnel, and other participants in education. For ... Read more

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  • Black Freedom Struggle in Urban Appalachia

    Series series Appalachian Futures: Black, Native, and Queer Voices
    The largest urban center in Appalachia, Pittsburgh has long been a hub of Black freedom work. It has also been an enduring center of carcerality in the United States. Local experiences reflect a strong tradition of resisting systemic antiblackness, state and corporate divestment, repression, and broader carceral forces and highlight Pittsburgh's record of labor radicalism, environmental activism, ... Read more

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  • ORIGIN OF CULTISM IN NIGERIA

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  • Funds of Knowledge

    Theorizing Practices in Households, Communities, and Classrooms

    The concept of "funds of knowledge" is based on a simple premise: people are competent and have knowledge, and their life experiences have given them that knowledge. The claim in this book is that first-hand research experiences with families allow one to document this competence and knowledge, and that such engagement provides many possibilities for positive pedagogical actions.Drawing from both ... Read more

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  • Tooning In

    Essays on Popular Culture and Education

    A collection of eloquent essays, Tooning In critically examines and interprets the concept of "popular culture." Many interesting works have addressed this subject, but few have provided a critical perspective regarding the possibilities of popular culture as a tool for teaching and learning. White and Walker suggest that popular culture is a vital aspect of contemporary life and can be wielded as ... Read more

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  • Minority Status, Oppositional Culture, & Schooling

    Edited by John U. Ogbu ...
    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    This book is the definitive and final presentation of John Ogbu’s cultural ecological model and the many debates that his work has sparked during the past decade. The theory and empirical foundation of Ogbu’s scholarship, which some have mistakenly reduced to the "acting white hypothesis," is fully presented and re-visited in this posthumous collection of his new writings plus the works of over 20 ... Read more

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  • The Research Compendium

    Review and Abstracts of Graduate Research, 1942-1962

    Series series Heritage
    This book represents an important contribution by the School of Social Work at the University of Toronto. It is a record of a carefully designed plan to include a worthwhile research experience in the educational programme of every student engaged in graduate education for the profession. In the introductory essay Dr. Albert Rose explains the methods by which this educational objective has been ... Read more

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  • Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education

    From Theory to Practice- Selected papers from the 2013 ICLHE Conference

    Higher education has seen dramatic changes in the past quarter of a century, notably in the language used for instruction. Universities worldwide are increasingly switching to English enabling them to attract a wide student population. This book presents a new collection of original papers showing how universities apply content and language integrated learning to their instructional contexts. The ... Read more

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  • Spatialisation of Higher Education: Poland and Slovenia

    Series Book 6 - Studies on Culture, Technology and Education
    The book focuses on European Integration in the Field of Higher Education and Research, as well as the Implementation of the Bologna Process in Slovenia. The common policy of higher education and research belongs to the most important fields in the process of European integration and to the constitutive elements of the European Union. The authors analyse the process constituting the framework of ... Read more

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  • Young People and Everyday Multiculturalism

    by Anita Harris ...
    Series series Critical Youth Studies
    Unlike as with previous generations, diversity and multiculturalism are engrained in the lives of today’s urban youth. Within their culturally diverse urban environments, young people from different backgrounds now routinely encounter one another in their everyday lives and negotiate and contest ways of living together and sharing civic space. What are their strategies for producing, disrupting ... Read more

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