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How real is race? How real is race? Carol Chapnick Mukhopadhyay How real is race? What is biological fact, what is fiction, and where does culture enter? What do we mean by a “colorblind” or “postracial” society, or when we say that race is a “social construction… OL12088969W
Sitting in Darkness Sitting in Darkness Peter Schmidt Sitting in Darkness explores how fiction of the Reconstruction and the New South intervenes in debates over black schools, citizen-building, Jim Crow discrimination, and U.S. foreign policy towards i… OL1452983W
Gestatten Gestatten Julia Friedrichs "Es gibt Menschen, sagte er, die sind oben; das sind Gewinner. Und Menschen, die sind unten; die Verlierer." Und wenn man sich weigert, das zu akzeptieren? "Dann", sagte der Coach, "hei©t es ganz sch… OL16978288W
Black education Black education Joyce Elaine King "This volume presents the findings and recommendations of the American Educational Research Association's (AERA) Commission on Research in Black Education (CORIBE) and offers new directions for resea… OL18452007W
The public school advantage The public school advantage Christopher Lubienski Nearly the whole of America's partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we… OL19667872W
Adoleszenz - Migration - Bildung Adoleszenz - Migration - Bildung Vera King Adoleszenz als Möglichkeitsraum für Bildungsprozesse unter Migrationsbedingungen - Ungleiche Karrieren: Bildungsaufstieg als Migrationsprojekt - Adoleszenz zwischen sozialem Aufstieg und sozialem Aus… OL19823846W
The making of literate societies The making of literate societies Nancy Torrance,David R. Olson This volume, a result of a policy forum of educational psychologists, sociologists, policy makers and field workers, aims to highlight the role of literacy in social development and the directions th… OL20616339W
Investigating gender Investigating gender Becky Francis,Christine Skelton Investigating Gender maps the contemporary and developing theoretical debates in the field of gender and education and provides an overview of the diverse areas of research within gender and educatio… OL20621071W
Carver, a Life in Poems Carver, a Life in Poems Marilyn Nelson George Washington Carver was born a slave in Missouri about 1864 and was raised by the childless white couple who had owned his mother. In 1877 he left home in search of an education, eventually earn… OL2641346W
Four-dimensional education Four-dimensional education Charles Fadel The foundational reason for why we find it so difficult to rebuild school curricula around the needs of the modern world is that we lack an organizing framework that can help prioritise educational c… OL26445957W
Éduquer et former Éduquer et former Jean-Claude Ruano-Borbalan Les courants et les méthodes pédagogiques, les mécanismes de l'apprentissage, les savoirs et compétences, l'usage des nouvelles technologies, les analyses sociologiqes de l'expérience scolaire, les s… OL27060352W
Brown v. Board of Education Brown v. Board of Education James T. Patterson,William W. Freehling Many people were elated when Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in May 1954, the ruling that struck down state-sponsored racial segregation in Ame… OL64769W