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1. Social Studies and Diversity Education

   What We Do and Why We Do It

   Edited by Elizabeth E. Heilman, Ramona Fruja, Matthew Missias

   The preparation of social studies teachers is crucial not only to the project of good education, but, even more broadly, to the cultivation of a healthy democracy and the growth of a nation’s citizens. This one-of-a-kind resource features ideas from over 100 of the field's most thoughtful teacher...

   Published October 26th 2009 by Routledge
2. Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter

   2nd Edition

   Edited by Elizabeth E. Heilman

   This thoroughly revised edition includes updated essays on cultural themes and literary analysis, and its new essays analyze the full scope of the seven-book series as both pop cultural phenomenon and as a set of literary texts. Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter, Second Edition draws on a wider...

   Published August 4th 2008 by Routledge
3. Reclaiming Education for Democracy

   Thinking Beyond No Child Left Behind

   By Paul Shaker, Elizabeth E. Heilman

   Series: Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education

   Reclaiming Education for Democracy subjects the prophets and doctrines of educational neoliberalism to scrutiny in order to provide a rationale and vision for public education beyond the limits of No Child Left Behind. The authors combine a history of recent education policy with an in- depth...

   Published June 12th 2008 by Routledge