Social justice and education: Recent print books
This guide is for those interested in social justice and education, both research and practice, including service-learning.
Recent print books
- Dividing the public: school finance and the creation of structural inequit by Matthew Gardner KellyPublication Date: 2023In Dividing the Public, Matthew Gardner Kelly takes aim at the racial and economic disparities that characterize public education funding in the United States. With California as his focus, Kelly illustrates that the use of local taxes to fund public education was never an inadvertent or de facto product of past practices, but an intentional decision adopted in place of well-known alternatives during the Progressive Era, against past precedent and principle in several states. From efforts to convert expropriated Indigenous and Mexican land into common school funding in the 1850s, to reforms that directed state aid to expanding white suburbs during the years surrounding World War II, Dividing the Public traces, in intricate detail, how a host of policies connected to school funding have divided California by race and class over time.
- Facilitating transformational dialogues: creating socially just communities by Stephanie D. Hicks (Ed.); Donna Rich Kaplowitz (Ed.); Beverly Daniel Tatum (Foreword)Publication Date: 2024This much-needed guide provides the specific skills and materials necessary to facilitate effective dialogues across identity differences. This book responds to the urgent need to address complicated, intense, and oftentimes personal differences in a productive way. Written for both novice and experienced facilitators, it offers concrete materials to use in classrooms and other settings, along with anecdotes, vignettes, and hard-earned lessons based on the authors' own experiences.
- Teaching social justice using postcolonial texts: encountering pedagogies of discomfort in practice by Geraldine Balzer (Ed.); Teresa Strong-Wilson (Ed.); Anne Burke (Ed.)Publication Date: 2023This book explores how teachers can re-examine their emotional investments in enacting dominant settler values through changing their text selection and teaching practices. Based on a longitudinal qualitative research study conducted by a national team of literacy scholars in collaboration with practicing literacy teachers at eight sites across Canada, the book investigates how groups of teachers, working collaboratively in inquiry groups, develop and implement curriculum to promote their own and their students' understandings of social justice in postcolonial and settler spaces. In particular, the book highlights the rich and dynamic landscape of postcolonial authors, illustrators and texts, the development of culturally- sensitive curricula, and critical pedagogies possible in addressing contemporary and historical issues, both local and global.
2022
- Advocacy for social and linguistic justice in TESOL : nurturing inclusivity, equity, and social responsibility in English language teaching by Christine E. Poteau; Carter A. WinklePublication Date: 2022"Recognizing the need for increased social justice in the fields of TESOL and English Language Teaching (ELT) globally, this volume presents a range of international case studies and empirical research to demonstrate how English language instruction can promote social and linguistic justice through advocacy-oriented pedagogies and curricula."
- Antiracist teacher education. Volume 1: theory and practice by Gilda Martínez-Alba (Ed.); Luis Javier Penton Herrera (Ed.); Afra Ahmed Hersi (Ed.)Publication Date: 2022In this edited book sponsored by the ATE Diversity Committee, we invited teacher educators to engage in critical dialogue and reflection around theories, issues, complexities, and challenges of antiracist teacher education and to exchange critical ideas and theory/research-informed practices for preparing antiracist teachers.
- Civil rights and federal higher education by Nicholas Hillman (Ed,); Gary Orfield (Ed.)Publication Date: 2022Civil Rights and Federal Higher Education offers a renewed vision for higher education policy making, presenting an incisive analysis of the connections between educational politics and educational inequality.
- Communicating social justice in teacher education: insights from a critical classroom ethnography by Aubrey HuberPublication Date: 2022Using a social justice framework, the book examines the ways in which new teachers contend with their identities as educators, and demonstrates how these communicative performances influence pre-service teachers perceptions of their role, as well as their responsibility to engage with social justice and critical approaches in the classroom.
- Critical praxis in student affairs: social justice in action by Susan B. Marine (Ed.); Chelsea Gilbert (Ed.)Publication Date: 2022Student affairs work--like higher education--is fundamentally about change. Principally, the change work performed by student affairs practitioners is about supporting the growth and development of individual students and student groups. Increasingly, that work has called for practitioners to become more active in working to change higher education so that it lives up to its radically democratic, inclusive ideals.
- Educational justice: challenges for ideas, institutions, and practices in Chilean education by Camila Moyano DávilaPublication Date: 2022"This book presents a novel perspective on education as a social right. Literature on this topic has focused on inclusion as the universal concept whereby access to education is examined. As a moral principle, this concept opens new challenges in different ways if we take a deeper view into diverse contexts."
- Engage and empower: expanding the curriculum for justice and activism by Mary Amanda Stewart (Ed.); Christina Salazar (Ed.); Victor Antonio Lozada (Ed.); Christina Thomas (Ed.)Publication Date: 2022This edited book provides ready-to-use engaging curriculum units for an integrated approach to teaching English language arts and U.S. history in grades 4-12. The purpose is to promote social justice and activism while building critical literacies students need in the 21st Century.
- Equality or equity: toward a model of community-responsive education by Jeffrey M. R. Duncan-Andrade; H. Richard Milner (Series ed.)Publication Date: 2022A leading scholar-practitioner and ardent proponent of culturally responsive forms of education, Jeffrey M. R. Duncan-Andrade aims to settle the debates over whether we should work toward a public education system built on the goal of equality, in which identical resources are provided for all students, or equity, in which different resources are offered in response to differences in student interests and needs. Duncan-Andrade centers his argument on the importance of creating meaningful education experiences for all students, particularly for low-income students of color and immigrant students, who have gained relatively fewer benefits from decades of equality-focused education reform.
- Liberation pedagogy: Elijah Muhammad and the art of soul crafting by Abul PitrePublication Date: 2022Liberation Pedagogy: Elijah Muhammad and the Art of Soul Crafting places the work of Elijah Muhammad in an educational context. Drawing from concepts in critical educational theory and Black liberation theology, it introduces to readers the contributions that Elijah Muhammad made to the education of oppressed people. It includes a comparative analysis of Paulo Freire's work and its similarities to Elijah Muhammad's teachings.
- Mindful activism : autoethnographies of social justice communication for campus and community transformation by Lisa M. Tillmann; Steven Schoen; Kathryn Louise NorsworthyPublication Date: 2022Through autoethnographic essays, Mindful Activism chronicles the authors' experiences as activist academics challenging and seeking to remedy injustices on campus and in local and global communities. Those experiences range from engaging in a single activist act to collaborating over many years with oppressed communities and social change groups. Building upon communication activism research and following a liberation-based transformative learning model, the book shows both activism in action and deep reflection on that activism.
- Oral history and qualitative methodologies: educational research for social justice by Thalia M. Mulvihill; Raji SwaminathanPublication Date: 2022Oral History and Qualitative Methodologies: Educational Research for Social Justice examines oral history methodological processes involved in the doing of oral history as well as the theoretical, historical, and knowledge implications of using oral history for social justice projects. Oral history in qualitative research is an umbrella term that integrates history, life history, and testimony accounts. Oral history draws from various social science disciplines, including educational studies, history, indigenous studies, sociology, anthropology, ethnic studies, women's studies, and youth studies. The book argues for the further development of a pedagogical culture related to oral history for educational research as part of the effort to diversify the range of human experiences educators, community members, and policy makers incorporate into knowledge-making and knowledge-using processes.
- Strengthening anti-racist educational leaders: advocating for racial equity in turbulent times by Anjalé D. Welton (Ed.); Jeffrey Brooks (Series ed.); Sarah Diem (Ed.); Lauri Johnson (Series ed.); Paul Miller (Series ed.)Publication Date: 2022This edited volume expands on the existent research on anti-racist educational leadership by identifying what type of capacity building is needed for school administrators to facilitate anti-racist change in their schools. Racial inequities in education persist in part because the solutions that districts and schools choose to employ largely ignore why and how institutional and structural racism is the root cause of inequities in education.
- Teaching and learning for social justice and equity in higher education: virtual settings by Laura Parson (Ed.); C. Casey Ozaki (Ed.)Publication Date: 2022This book focuses on research-based teaching and learning practices that promote social justice and equity in higher education. The fourth volume in a four-volume series, this book critically addresses virtual and remote classroom settings. Chapters explore contexts within and outside the classroom, including a history of online learning; research on student engagement and perceptions; specific, actionable pedagogical or curriculum recommendations; and the application of traditional learning theories in virtual settings.
- Teaching and learning for social justice and equity in higher education: virtual settings by Laura Parson (Ed.); C. Casey Ozaki (Ed.)Publication Date: 2022This book focuses on research-based teaching and learning practices that promote social justice and equity in higher education. The fourth volume in a four-volume series, this book critically addresses virtual and remote classroom settings. Chapters explore contexts within and outside the classroom, including a history of online learning; research on student engagement and perceptions; specific, actionable pedagogical or curriculum recommendations; and the application of traditional learning theories in virtual settings.
- Teaching as protest : emancipating classrooms through racial consciousness by Robert S. HarveyPublication Date: 2022Teaching as Protest explores how K-12 teachers can expand the boundaries of their profession with anti-oppressive, community-building pedagogies.
- Teaching on days after: educating for equity in the wake of injustice by Alyssa Hadley DunnPublication Date: 2022What should teachers do on the days after major events, tragedies, and traumas, especially when injustice is involved? This beautifully written book features teacher narratives and youth-authored student spotlights that reveal what classrooms do and can look like in the wake of these critical moments.
- Transformative approaches to social justice education: equity and access in the college classroom by Nana Osei-Kofi; Bradley Boovy; Kali FurmanPublication Date: 2022Premised on the notion that continuous learning and growth is critical to educators with deep commitments to fostering critical consciousness through their teaching, this volume offers interdisciplinary and innovative collaborative approaches to curriculum transformation that build on and extend existing scholarship on social justice education.
- Transformative visions for qualitative inquiry by Norman K. Denzin; Michael D. GiardinaPublication Date: 2022In these uncertain times, leading international scholars from the United States, Canada, and Australia look ahead with a renewed sense of hope, but remain grounded in the reality that much work lies ahead--that our inquiry must meet the demands of our hopeful but evolving future. More specifically, contributors focus on such topics as: academic healing; environmental justice; the hegemony of higher education and challenges to critical education; arts-based research such as songwriting, participatory workshops, and autopoetics; disruptions to conventional humanist and Western modes of thought; and questions of empathy and spirit-writing.
- Transforming world language teaching and teacher education for equity and justice: pushing boundaries in US contexts by Beth Wassell (Ed.); Cassandra Glynn (Ed.)Publication Date: 2022This edited book expands the current scholarship on teaching world languages for social justice and equity in K-12 and postsecondary contexts in the US. Over the past decade, demand has been growing for a more critical approach to teaching languages and cultures in response, this volume brings together a group of scholars whose work bridges the fields of world language education and critical approaches to education.
- What we value: public health, social justice, and educating for democracy by Lynn Pasquerella; David A. Davis (Series edited by); David J. Skorton (Afterword by)Publication Date: 2022In We Value, acclaimed bioethicist and educator Lynn Pasquerella examines urgent issues--the trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic, the student debt crisis, and racially motivated violence--with which Americans wrestle daily, arguing that liberal education is the best preparation for work, citizenship, and life in a future none of us can predict.
2021
- Anti-oppressive education in "elite" schools: promising practices and cautionary tales from the field by Katy Swalwell (Ed.); Daniel Spikes (Ed.); Paul C. GorskiPublication Date: 2021This collection of groundbreaking essays brings together a diverse group of experts who are researching, theorizing, and enacting anti-oppressive education in "elite" schooling environments-that is, schools imbued with wealth and whiteness. This volume explores how those who are in a position of power can be educated to take active steps that reduce and disrupt oppression.
- Education and the future of Latin America by Alejandro Manrique Toledo ManriquePublication Date: 2021"Addresses the question: What will it take to overcome the many challenges that Latin America faces in developing quality, inclusive education for its diverse population?"
- Education in Black and White: Myles Horton and the Highlander Center's vision for social justice by Stephen PreskillPublication Date: 2021The first biography of Myles Horton in twenty-five years, Education in Black and White focuses on the educational theories and strategies he first developed at Highlander to serve the interests of the poor, the marginalized, and the oppressed. His personal vision keenly influenced everyone from Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., to Eleanor Roosevelt and Congressman John Lewis.
- Mathematics for social justice: focusing on quantitative reasoning and statistics by Gizem Karaali (Ed.); Lily S. Khadjavi (Ed.)Publication Date: 2021Mathematics for Social Justice: Focusing on Quantitative Reasoning and Statistics offers a collection of resources for mathematics faculty interested in incorporating questions of social justice into their classrooms. The book comprises seventeen classroom-tested modules featuring ready-to-use activities and investigations for college mathematics and statistics courses.
- Preparing and sustaining social justice educators by Annamarie Francois; Karen Hunter QuartzPublication Date: 2021Preparing and Sustaining Social Justice Educators spotlights the challenging and necessary work of fostering social justice in schools. Integral to this work are the teachers and school leaders who enact the principles of social justice-racial equity, cultural inclusivity, and identity acceptance-daily in their classrooms.
- Shifting the mindset: socially just leadership education by Kathy L. Guthrie; Vivechkanand S. ChunooPublication Date: 2021In a world plagued by multiple and overlapping pandemics and other crises, the cost of leadership failures is constantly rising. Leadership education is responding to these challenges by centering cultural relevance, critical pedagogies, and important issues of identity, capacity, and efficacy in the preparation of emerging learners. Meeting the global demand for social justice requires thoughtful, innovative, and engaged praxes by all leadership educators.
- Teaching and learning for social justice and equity in higher education: co-curricular environments by Laura Parson (Ed.); C. Casey Ozaki (Ed.)Publication Date: 2021"This book is the third in a four volume series that focuses on research-based teaching and learning practices that promote social justice and equity in higher education. In this volume, we focus on the application of the scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education outside of the classroom to maximize the effectiveness of student affairs programming."
- Teaching writing through the immigrant story by Heather Ostman (Ed.); Howard Tinberg (Ed.); Danizete Martínez (Ed.)Publication Date: 2021Teaching Writing through the Immigrant Story explores the intersection between immigration and pedagogy via the narrative form. Embedded in the contexts of both student writing and student reading of literature chapters by scholars from four-year and two-year colleges and universities across the country, this book engages the topic of immigration within writing and literature courses as the site for extending, critiquing, and challenging assumptions about justice and equity while deepening students' sense of ethics and humanity.
- Textured teaching: a framework for culturally sustaining practices by Lorena Escoto GermanPublication Date: 2021"Textured Teaching is a framework for teaching and learning about texts, centered in love and social justice. The term social justice refers to a redistribution of resources, opportunities, wealth, and power that promotes equity. A teaching approach that strives for social justice, then, is one that openly addresses social injustices and functions in a way that leads students to reimagine an equitable redistribution."
- Where is the justice?: engaged pedagogies in schools and communities by Valerie Kinloch; Emily A. Nemeth; Tamara T. Butler; Grace D. Player; William Ayers (Series ed.); Therese Quinn (Series ed.)Publication Date: 2021This book is about engaged pedagogies, an approach to teaching and learning that centers dialogue, listening, equity, and connection among stakeholders who understand the human and ecological cost of inequality. The authors share their story of working with students, teachers, teacher educators, families, community members, and union leaders to create transformative practices within and beyond public school classrooms.
2020
- Social justice talk: strategies for teaching critical awareness by Chris HassPublication Date: 2020In Social Justice Talk, Chris Hass, along with his colleagues Nozsa Tinsley, and Tiffany Palmatier, detail how to facilitate rich discussions that disrupt the harmful social beliefs and practices we and our students are immersed in every day.
- The civically engaged classroom: reading, writing, and speaking for change by Mary Ehrenworth; Pablo Wolfe; Marc ToddPublication Date: 2020The Civically Engaged Classroomis packed with practical guidance designed to support teachers in giving students the skills, knowledge, and tools to be active participants in society. Each chapter describes classroom structures, curricular possibilities, and specific lessons for teaching crucial civic virtues, including: acknowledging identity, bias, and privilege building background knowledge close and critical reading and ethical research skills composing nuanced stances in writing building coalitions and engaging in activism.
- Social justice and international education: research, practice, and perspectives by LaNitra Berger (Ed.)Publication Date: 2020Social Justice and International Education: Research, Practice, and Perspectives brings together a group of educators, scholars, and practitioners in the field of international education who are doing important and innovative work promoting social justice, confronting inequality, and fostering social responsibility in a global context.
- Transforming the Ivory Tower : models for gender equality and social justice by Deborah Gabriel (Ed.)Publication Date: 2020Drawing on critical race theory and Black feminism, the authors navigate challenging spaces to create meaningful roles in addressing race and gender disparities that range from invisibility in the academy to tackling female genital mutilation. Their research and practice, so often unacknowledged, is shown to be transforming teaching, research, professional and community practice within and beyond the academy.
- In the pursuit of justice: students' rights to read and write in elementary school by Mariana Souto-Manning (Editor)Publication Date: 2020Provides vivid examples of how elementary school teachers make NCTE's position statements on students' rights to read, write, and use their own languages come alive in their diverse classroom settings.
- Cultivating genius: an equity framework for culturally and historically responsive literacy by Gholdy MuhammadPublication Date: 2020In Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy E. Muhammad presents a four-layered equity framework--one that is grounded in history and restores excellence in literacy education. This framework, which she names, Historically Responsive Literacy, was derived from the study of literacy development within 19th-century Black literacy societies. The framework is essential and universal for all students, especially youth of color, who traditionally have been marginalized in learning standards, school policies, and classroom practices.
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