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Direct linkLevinson, Meira, Ed.; Fay, Jacob, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2019
Teaching in a democracy is challenging and filled with dilemmas that have no easy answers. For example, how do educators meet their responsibilities of teaching civic norms and dispositions while remaining nonpartisan? "Democratic Discord in Schools" features eight normative cases of complex dilemmas drawn from real events designed to…
Descriptors: Democracy, Citizenship Education, Problem Solving, Cooperation
Hartman, Joan E., Ed.; Messer-Davidow, Ellen, Ed. – 1991
This book summarizes the major conceptual dilemmas facing feminist intellectuals in academia today. It shows how scholars in very different disciplines can draw on particularities of race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, and voice to enrich and contextualize the knowledge they produce. Examined are agency, perspectives, value judgments,…
Descriptors: Blacks, College Faculty, Epistemology, Essays
McAdoo, Harriette Pipes, Ed. – 1997
The chapters of this collection explore the experiences of black families in the United States and Africa, today and in the past. They are: (1) "African American Families: A Historical Note" (John Hope Franklin); (2) "African American Families and Family Values" (Niara Sudarkasa); (3) "Old-Time Religion: Benches Can't Say…
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black Family, Black History, Blacks
Download full textMielke, David N., Ed. – 1978
The collection of 31 articles about Appalachian history, culture, customs, and education by people from a variety of backgrounds is intended to facilitate understanding of the special needs of Appalachian students by teachers and school administrators. Designed to address the problems faced in 16 specific counties in Tennessee, Virginia, and North…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Area Studies, Attitudes, Blacks
Valencia, Richard R. – 1997
This book includes eight chapters that explore the history and current status of educational "deficit thinking" and its effects on educational policies and practices. Educational deficit thinking is a form of blaming the victim that views the alleged deficiencies of poor and minority group students and their families as predominantly…
Descriptors: American Indians, Blacks, Democratic Values, Educational Discrimination
Southampton Univ. (England). Centre for Language Education. – 1990
The purpose of these working papers is to reflect the current activities of members of the Centre for Language in Education at the University of Southampton, England. They include: (1) "Inaugural Lecture: Is Language Education or Is Education Language?" (Christopher Brumfit); (2) "Teachers' Views of Language Knowledge"…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Blacks, Classroom Techniques, English
PDF pending restorationBjornson, Richard, Ed.; Waldman, Marilyn R., Ed. – 1990
Most of the 15 papers presented here were originally presented at a May, 1987 colloquium held in Columbus, Ohio, on "The Educated Citizen and the University of the Future." Papers and their authors are as follows: "Thinking About the University of the Future" (Richard Bjornson and Marilyn R. Waldman); "The Old and the New: The University of Today…
Descriptors: Athletics, Blacks, Colleges, Computer Uses in Education
Hollins, Etta R., Ed. – 1996
This book is primarily designed for graduate courses in curriculum development and theory, and aims to assist practitioners in facilitating the shift in public school curriculum to accommodate large-scale trends toward a more culturally diverse society. In Part 1, the ideologies and values that form the basis of school practices are examined from…
Descriptors: American Indians, Blacks, Case Studies, Cultural Awareness
Booth, Alan, Ed.; Crouter, Ann C., Ed.; Shanahan, Michael J., Ed. – 1999
This book contains 17 papers devoted to the following four aspects of the transition to adulthood: effects of alterations in the structure of opportunity; effects of prior experiences in the family; effects of prior experience in the workplace; and career development and marriage formation during a period of rising inequality. The following papers…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Beliefs
