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1. Everybody Belongs

   Changing Negative Attitudes Toward Classmates with Disabilities

   By Arthur Shapiro

   Edited by Joe Kincheloe, Shirley R. Steinberg

   Series: Critical Education Practice

   The evil prosthesis of Captain Hook, the comical speech of Porky Pig, and the bumbling antics of Mr. Magoo are all examples of images in our culture which can become the basis of negative attitudes and subliminal prejudice towards persons with disabilities. These attitudes influence and underlie...

   Published June 15th 2000 by Routledge
2. Democratic Social Education

   Social Studies for Social Change

   Edited by David W. Hursh, E. Wayne Ross

   Series: Critical Education Practice

   In 1932 George Counts, in his speech "Dare the School Build a New Social Order?" explicitly challenged teachers to develop a democratic, socialistic society. In Democratic Social Education: Social Studies for Social Change Drs. Hursh and Ross take seriously the question of what social studies...

   Published April 26th 2000 by Routledge
3. The Dramatic Arts and Cultural Studies

   Educating against the Grain

   By Kathleen S. Berry

   Series: Critical Education Practice

   This book presents a wide range of contemporary theories borrowed from Cultural Studies augmented with practical implications that support dramatic artists in their struggle to create possible multiple realities for a postmodern future. Teachers, directors, writers, students, and many others...

   Published December 31st 1999 by Routledge
4. Freireian Pedagogy, Praxis, and Possibilities

   Projects for the New Millennium

   By Stanley S. Steiner, H. Mark Krank, Robert E. Bahruth, Peter McLaren

   Edited by Stanley F. Steiner, H. Mark Krank, Peter McLaren, Robert E. Bahruth

   Series: Critical Education Practice

   Scholar, activist, and educator Paulo Freire was one of the first thinkers to fully appreciate the relationships between education, politics, imperialism, and liberation. This volume is a testament to the works of Paulo Freire in the field of Education as well as the life of the man: a "story of...

   Published November 30th 1999 by Routledge
5. Becoming Multicultural

   Personal and Social Construction Through Critical Teaching

   By Terry Ford

   Edited by Joe Kincheloe, Shirley R. Steinberg

   Series: Critical Education Practice

   Published May 31st 1999 by Routledge
6. Examining Science Teaching in Elementary School from the Perspective of a Teacher and Learner

   By Margery Osborne

   Series: Critical Education Practice

   Published March 31st 1999 by Routledge
7. The Post-Formal Reader

   Cognition and Education

   Edited by Joe L. Kincheloe, Shirley R. Steinberg, Patricia Hinchey

   Series: Critical Education Practice

   This volume argues that while twentieth century educational psychology has made important advances, a time for reassessment has arrived. Recent years have seen the rise of neo-Vygotskian analysis and situated cognition within the discipline of cognitive psychology. The authors of Post-Formal Reade...

   Published March 31st 1999 by Routledge
8. Pedagogy and the Politics of the Body

   A Critical Praxis

   By Sherry Shapiro

   Series: Critical Education Practice

   Working within the relatively new perspective on the body as a zone of critical praxis, Shapiro lays the foundation for the theory and practice of a somatically oriented critical pedagogy."...

   Published November 30th 1998 by Routledge
9. Critical Art Pedagogy

   Foundations for Postmodern Art Education

   By Richard Cary

   Series: Critical Education Practice

   Published September 30th 1998 by Routledge
10. Teaching from Understanding

    Teacher As Interpretive Inquirer

    Edited by Julia Ellis

    Series: Critical Education Practice

    Published August 31st 1998 by Routledge