Book Series
Critical Social Thought
New & Published Titles:
Political Spectacle and the Fate of American Schools
The authors argue that the most influential and well-known educational policy programs in the past 30 years are not based on democratic consensus, but are… read more2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-93201-1 (Routledge)
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Tough Fronts
The Impact of Street Culture on Schooling
Tough Fronts takes the difficult issues in urban education head on by putting street-savvy students at the forefront of the discussion on how to best… read more2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-93300-1 (Routledge)
Act Your Age!
A Cultural Construction of Adolescence
Act Your Age examines and questions our tendency to label our youths as both endangered and dangerous creatures. Lesko analyzes both historical and present social… read more2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92834-2 (Routledge)
Contradictions of School Reform
Educational Costs of Standardized Testing
Parents and community activists around the country complain that the education system is failing our children. They point to students' failure to master basic skills,… read more2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92074-2 (Routledge)
The Uses of Culture
Education and the Limits of Ethnic Affiliation
The Uses of Culture, a collection of nine of Cameron McCarthy's most provocative essays, explores the issues of race, educational reform and cultural politics.… read more1997 | Paperback: 978-0-415-91300-3 (Routledge)
Education, Power, and Personal Biography
Dialogues With Critical Educators
In dialogues with eleven key thinkers in the area of critical education, Education, Power, and Personal Biography documents how a tradition of study grew in… read more1997 | Paperback: 978-0-415-91180-1 (Routledge)
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Critical Ethnography in Educational Research
A Theoretical and Practical Guide
Ethnographic methods are becoming increasingly prevalent in contemporary educational research. Critical Ethnography in Educational Research provides both a technical, theoretical guide to advanced ethnography--focusing on… read more1995 | Paperback: 978-0-415-90493-3 (Routledge)
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Power and Method
Political Activism and Educational Research
Power and Method demonstrates that political activism can and should be infused into the research process. Contesting the traditional assumptions that have dominated thinking about… read more1994 | Paperback: 978-0-415-90690-6 (Routledge)
Racial Formation in the United States
From the 1960s to the 1990s, 2nd Edition
First published in 1986, Racial Formation in the United States is now considered a classic in the literature on race and ethnicity. This second edition… read more1994 | Paperback: 978-0-415-90864-1 (Routledge)
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Public Schools That Work
Creating Community
Public Schools That Work addresses the efforts of teachers, administrators and parents to develop alternative educational models capable of overcoming the alienation and intellectual disengagement… read more1993 | Hardback: 978-0-415-90577-0 (Routledge)
Forthcoming Titles:
The New Political Economy of Urban Education: Neoliberal Urbanism, Race, and the Right to the City
By Pauline Lipman
To be published August 1st 2010