This fully updated second edition of The Culturally Proficient School-likely the most influential book yet on improving the learning experience by valuing diversity and cultural dignity- is more relevant, accessible and effective than ever.

Suitable for students in applied linguistics, second language acquisition and language assessment and education, this book makes the case for a clear and rigorous understanding of the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of language ...

Chapter authors in this book critically synthesize relevant research, illuminate interdisciplinary perspectives, and interrogate how current issues of power and oppression shape participatory democracy and higher education at large.

This book offers the first comprehensive engagement with visual global politics.

' This transdisciplinary collection of essays provides a snapshot of current philosophical debates about contemporary art: debates about ?vital' materialisms; the destabilizing effects of new technologies and social relations on formal ...

The 2011 print edition includes 49 indicators in five main areas: Participation in education; Learner outcomes; Student effort and educational progress; Contexts of elementary and secondary education; and Contexts of postsecondary education ...

This book probes the vitality, potentiality and ability of new communication and technological changes to drive online-based civil action across Africa.

In this, her first book, LaToya Ruby Frazier offers an incisive exploration of the legacy of racism and economic decline in America's small towns, as embodied by her hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania.

Part 3 reproduces a summary of the background report prepared for the review by the California Postsecondary Education Commission titled "Preparing for the Twenty-First Century: A Report on Higher Education in California." (GLR)