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Mentoring While White provides a provocative and illuminating account of the mentoring experiences of Black college and university students based on their racialized and marginalized identities. The editors bring together a diverse group of scholars to present compelling argum...
This volume explores the integration of digital technology in education, featuring projects, works-in-progress, and theoretical approaches aligned with the NMC/CoSN Horizon Report: 2017 K-12 Edition. It includes sections on computational thinking in the arts, classroom instruction, student academic proficiency, and more.
Gender is a prominent and often-contested issue in educational settings across the globe. While understandings of gender and academic and professional potential, roles and expectations, and opportunities and abilities have greatly expanded over the past century in various contexts, schools remain sites of intense conflict around definitions of gender and gendered access and expression. For example, in the US there is growing public backlash against recognizing gender diversity in schools, with educators being called to make their teaching more inclusive, while schools debate what representations are permissible and parents bring legal action against school districts over recognizing students...
2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Research frequently neglects the important ways that race and gender intersect within the complex structural dynamics of STEM. Diversifying STEM fills this void, bringing together a wide array of perspectives and the voices of a number of multidisciplinary scholars. The essays cover three main areas: the widely-held ideology that science and mathematics are “value-free,” which promotes pedagogies of colorblindness in the classroom as well as an avoidance of discussions around using mathematics and science to promote social justice; how male and female students of color experience the intersection of racist and sexist structures that lead to gener...
Provides a comprehensive reference for scholars, educators, stakeholders, and the general public on matters influencing and directly affecting education in today’s schools across the globe This enlightening handbook offers current, international perspectives on the conditions in communities, contemporary practices in schooling, relevant research on teaching and learning, and implications for the future of education. It contains diverse conceptual frameworks for analyzing existing issues in education, including but not limited to characteristics of today’s students, assessment of student learning, evaluation of teachers, trends in teacher education programs, technological advances in cont...
This important, timely, and provocative book explores the recruitment and retention of Black female teachers in the United States. There are over 3 million public school teachers in the US, African American teachers only comprise approximately 8 percent of the workforce. Contributions consider the implicit nuances that these teachers experience.