Recent resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement across the world is a reminder for HE institutions that we have a key role to play in enabling that our graduates are competent in creating and delivering effective social change. This needs for us to move on from creating awareness of social issues to equipping our students to create and deliver social action. Education and measurement are key in helping us achieve this.
Influence of journalism and broadcasting on such social and political issues as welfare, the environment, homosexuality, relations with Cuba, development, and the status of women in developing countries; international perspective; 20 articles.
Presents critiques of, and alternatives to, the market-economy model of education; US, chiefly; 15 articles. Contents: State curriculum standards & the shaping of student consciousness, by Christine E. Sleeter; Can education challenge neoliberalism? the citizen school and the struggle for democracy in Porto Alegre, Brazil, by Luís Armando Gandin and Michael Apple; Desegregating multiculturalism: problems in the theory and pedagogy of diversity education, by Tony Platt; Access and participation of Latinos in the University of California: a current macro and micro perspective, by Eugene E. García and Julie Figueroa; Toward a critical teacher education: high school student sociologists as teacher educators, by Ernest Morrell and Anthony M. Collatos; From gangs to the academy: scholars emerge by reaching back through critical ethnography, by June Gordon; New terrain in youth development: the promise of a social justice approach, by Shawn Ginwright and Julio Cammarota; Narrating cultural citizenship: oral histories of first-generation college students of Mexican origin, by Rina Benmayor; Making multiple literacies visible in the writing classroom: from Cupareo, Guanajuato, to Cal State, Monterey Bay, by Diana Garcia; Activism in academia: a social action writing program, by Frances Payne Adler; You gotta be ready for some serious truth to be spoken, by Debra Busman; Digital technologies and pedagogies, by Tracey Weis, Rina Benmayor, Cecilia O'Leary, and Bret Eynon; Positionality, epistemology, and social justice in the classroom, by David Takacs; A reciprocal university; a model for the arts, justice, and community, by Richard Bains and Amalia Mesa-Bains; the fire this time: a review of "Taking it personally: racism in the classroom from kindergarten to college," with commentaries by the authors, Ann Berlak and Sekani Moyenda, by Herbert Kohl.
An innovative and forward-looking volume which challenges conventional thinking regarding the inevitability of globalisation. Essential reading for those interested in the development of and the potential alternatives to globalisation.