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No Dignity for Joshua : More Vital Insight into Deaf Children, Deaf Education and Deaf Culture
Tom Bertling / Paperback / Published 1997
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Newly released in 1997, this book is receiving rave reviews from educators and researchers for its important contribution to the field of deafness.

Novel Frames: Literature as Guide to Race, Sex, and History in American Culture
Joseph R. Urgo / Hardcover / Published 1991, 227 pages
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Occupied Reading : Critical Foundations for Ecological Theory (Garland Reference Library of Social Science, Vol 860)
Alan A. Block / Paperback / Published 1995, 247 pages
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Examines the crucial role of reading in the education of future generations of children, including the history of reading and readers in America, and surveying the attendant literacy debates. Block also examines the historical progress of American reading instruction, demonstrating that how one is taught to read not only determines what one will read, but also what is permissible to read, and how pedagogies of reading define reading publics.

Off With Their Heads! : Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood
Maria Tatar / Paperback / Published 1993
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Hardcover / Published 1992
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From Kirkus Reviews, 02/29/92:
Tatar examines the transformation of often ribald adult folk-tale prototypes into sometimes horrifyingly violent children's stories rooted in the assumptions and realities of a particular social context. At the time when such well-known collectors as the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen were combining folk legends with the children's literary conventions of ``cautionary'' and ``exemplary'' stories, Tatar says, infant death, abandonment by parents, and starvation were not uncommon. Today, Tatar advises, these ``cruel'' and ``sadistic'' tales, anachronistic at best, with heroines earning redemption through ``a servile attitude'' and obedience, should yield to ``a creative folklore...reinvented by each generation of storytellers and reinvested with creative social energy.''

The One Minute Teacher : How to Teach Others to Teach Themselves
Spencer Johnson, Constance Johnson / Paperback / Published 1988
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Part of the bestselling One Minute series, this invaluable book shows how teachers can make an important contribution to their students' lives and educations, despite the many difficulties they face in today's school systems.

One Speaker, Two Languages : Cross Disciplinary Perspectives on Code-Switching
Lesley Milroy, Pieter Muysken (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1995
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The Opening of the American Mind : Canons, Culture and History
Lawrence W. Levine / Paperback / Published 1997, 240 pages
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Hardcover / Published 1996
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In 1987 The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom's famously ferocious critique of the corrosive effects of political correctness in American universities, exploded like a bomb in the halls of the academy; even today, its conservative analysis is constantly enlarged upon by academics and political pundits alike, from Dinesh D'Souza to William J. Bennett. In The Opening of the American Mind, Lawrence W. Levine has produced a direct rebuttal. The conservative complainers are, he says, discomfited by perfectly healthy developments in education. Levine argues that opening the academic canon to cultures beyond Western civilization is a natural and laudable outgrowth of the increasing diversity of America. The universities are changing, says Levine, to keep in touch with the real world, and are "doing a more thorough and cosmopolitan job ... than ever before."

Out of the Garden : Toys, Tv, and Children's Culture in the Age of Marketing
Stephen Kline / Paperback / Published 1995
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Hardcover / Published 1993, 406 pages
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From Kirkus Reviews, 10/14/93:
Kline (Communication/Simon Fraser University) doesn't disagree with Ellen Seiter that TV is an instrument of socialization for children. But he questions whether what's shown on TV is a true reflection of society or, rather, a version shaped by marketing executives. Just as children once used fairy tales, Kline says, today's kids use TV to ``negotiate'' with the real world--but the purpose of TV, he emphasizes, isn't to impart cultural values but to sell products, leading to poor production values to keep costs down, formulaic scripts that replay gender stereotypes, and the limiting of children's fantasies to the replaying of past episodes.

Parents' Cultural Belief Systems : Their Origins, Expressions, and Consequences (Culture and Human Development)
Sara Harkness, Charles M. Super (Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1996
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Discusses the origins of parents' belief systems in many different cultures, their expressions in parental practices, and their consequences for children's well-being and growth, presenting perspectives from fields such as development psychology, social anthropology, education, and pediatrics. Of interest to those who work with ethnically diverse populations of children and parents, as well as those interested in cultural theory. Can also be used as a primary text for courses in cognitive anthropology and cultural psychology.

Peak Learning : A Master Course in Learning How to Learn
Ronald Gross / Paperback / Published 1991, 280 pages
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Learning is the basis of any significant life improvement--whether it's a more rewarding job, greater enjoyment of leisure, or making one's own unique contribution. This book by one of America's foremost learning experts shows how to learn quickly, effectively, and painlessly. Illustrations throughout.

Pedagogy : The Question of Impersonation (Theories of Contemporary Culture) Vol 17
Jane Gallop (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1995, 170 pages
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A collection of 14 essays on contemporary interpretations of pedagogy resulting from a 1993 conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on the topic of personal engagement in teaching. Themes include teaching as a performance, the "good student," and theatrical devices in teaching and learning.

Pedagogy and the Politics of Hope : Theory, Culture, and Schooling : A Critical Reader (The Edge, Critical Studies in Educational Theory)
Henry A. Giroux / Paperback / Published 1997, 300 pages
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Hardcover / Published 1997
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A renowned education scholar, leftist social critic and astute observer of popular culture in the modern world, Henry A. Giroux has a large and dedicated following both within the academic community and outside it. This first-ever collection of his classic writings is augmented by a fully new essay and takes on major considerations central to pedagogy and schooling.

Playing on the Mother-Ground : Cultural Routines for Children's Development (Culture and Human Development)
David F. Lancy / Hardcover / Published 1996, 240 pages
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Playing the Future : How Kids' Culture Can Teach Us to Thrive in an Age of Chaos
Douglas Rushkoff / Hardcover / Published 1996
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An emergent guru of mass culture who has been called "the brilliant heir to Marshall McLuhan" by New Perspectives Quarterly delivers an exuberant myth-shattering look at how our children's culture reveals the sighposts of the future. For any parent who wonders what their kids are up to and why, this book is essential reading.

Popular Culture, Professional Discourse, and Mathematics (Suny Series, Education and Culture : Critical Factors in the Formation of Character and Com)
Peter M. Appelbaum / Paperback / Published 1995, 309 pages
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Poststructuralism, Politics and Education (Critical Studies in Education and Culture)
Michael Peters / Hardcover / Published 1996
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In 10 chapters revised from essays prepared for particular audiences over several years, Peters, (education, U. of Auckland, New Zealand) introduces the new French thinking called poststructuralism through a number of interrelated themes rather than by a thematic or chronological treatment that he says could not represent the cluster of ideas and approaches the field embraces. Among those themes are the philosophy of the subject, the architecture of resistance, education policy after Auschwitz, the dream of a universal language, and monoculturalism.

The Powers of Literacy : A Genre Approach to Teaching Writing (Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture)
Bill Cope, Mary Kalantzis (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1993
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Preschool Education in America : The Culture of Young Children from the Colonial Era to the Present
Barbara Beatty / Hardcover / Published 1995
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A Question of Discipline : Pedagogy, Power, and the Teaching of Cultural Studies
Joyce E. Canaan, Debbie Epstein (Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1997
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Race in the Making : Cognition, Culture, and the Child's Construction of Human Kinds (Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change)
Lawrence A. Hirschfeld / Hardcover / Published 1996, 225 pages
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Provides a new understanding of how people conceptualize social categories and shows why this knowledge is so readily recruited to create and maintain systems of unequal power. Hirschfeld argues that knowledge of race is not derived from observations of physical difference, nor does it develop in the same way as knowledge of other social categories. Instead, his central claim is that racial thinking is the product of a special-purpose cognitive competence for understanding and representing human kinds. By demonstrating that a common set of abstract principles underlies all systems of racial thinking, whatever other historical and cultural specificities may be associated with them, he challenges the conventional notion that race is purely a social construction. After surveying the literature on the development of a cultural psychology of race. Hirschfeld presents original studies that examine children's (and occasionally adults') representations of race. He sketches how a jointly cultural and psychological approach to race might proceed, showing how this approach yields new insights into the emergence and the elaboration of racial thinking.

Real Lives : Eleven Teenagers Who Don't Go to School
Grace Llewellyn (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1993
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Renegade Kids, Suburban Outlaws : From Youth Culture to Delinquency (The Wadsworth Contemporary Issues in Crime and Justice)
Wayne S. Wooden / Paperback / Published 1994, 256 pages
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This examination of youth culture studies teenage social groups in suburban Los Angeles who are on the fringes of the mainstream. Wooden uses qualitative research strategies to find out how basically "good" kids move from being "renegades" to "outlaws." Accordingly, the book investigates everything from the harmless life of "mall rat" to the volatile and dangerous world of tagger crews, skinheads, and culture in the California Youth Authority. The author quotes from the popular media to highlight his points and make conceptual material relevant for students.

Responsibility and Evidence in Oral Discourse (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language, Vol 15)
Jane H. Hill, Judith T. Irvine (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1993, 316 p.
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Rethinking Context : Language As an Interactive Phenomenon (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language, 11)
Alessandro Duranti, Charles Goodwin (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1992, 363 pages
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Rethinking Imagination : Culture and Creativity
Gillian Robinson, John Rundell (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1994
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Roots & Wings : Affirming Culture in Early Childhood Settings
Stacey York / Paperback / Published 1991, 208 pages
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Round My Way : Authority and Double-Consciousness in Three Urban High School Writers (Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture)
Eli C. Goldblatt / Paperback / Published 1995, 179 pages
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School Talk : Gender and Adolescent Culture
Donna Eder, et al / Paperback / Published 1995, 209 pages
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Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life : Critical Pedagogy in the Modern Age (American Culture Series) Vol 1
Henry A. Giroux / Paperback / Published 1988, 257 pages
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Science, Materialism, and the Study of Culture
Martin F. Murphy, Maxine L. Margolis (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1996
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Semantics, Culture, and Cognition : Universal Human Concepts in Culture-Specific Configurations
Anna Wierzbicka / Paperback / Published 1992, 487 pages
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Shaping the Culture of Schooling : The Rise of Outcome-Based Education (Suny Series, Education and Culture)
Cheryl Taylor Desmond / Paperback / Published 1996
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Focusing on the cultural history of the origins of outcome-based education, investigates the social and economic culture of schools in Johnson City, New York. Documents the messy business of changing the schools in light of proponents and opponents of the reform, and the shift of local values as the community transforms from working to middle class.

Situated Cognition Theory : Social, Semiotic and Neurological Perspectives
David Kirshner, James A. Whitson (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1997
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Hardcover / Published 1997
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Sociolinguistics and Language Teaching (Cambridge Applied Linguistics)
Sandra McKay, Nancy F. Hornberger (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1995
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Strategies for Active Learning
James E. Twining / Paperback / Published 1991, 381 pages
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The Success Ethic, Education and the American Dream (Suny Series, Education and Culture)
Joseph L. Devitis, John Martin Rich / Paperback / Published 1996, 227 p.
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Hardcover / Published 1996
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Analyzes, interprets, and critically evaluates various US success ethics from the 19th and early 20th centuries, including many neglected contributions, and their impact on American culture and education. Providing psychological, philosophical, and social perspectives, also formulates new models of the success ethic that take the role of education more into account than earlier versions

Systemic Violence in Education : Promise Broken (Suny Series, Education and Culture)
Juanita Ross Epp, Ailsa M. Watkinson (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1997, 220 pages
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Contributors identify and examines various aspects of systemic violence, particularly as it is embedded in administrative and pedagogical practices such as racism, harassment, and child abuse, as well as less obvious forms such as practices intended to improve student performance. They investigate school administration policies, labeling, classroom interaction, children's games, and teacher reactions to child abuse, in kindergarten through graduate classrooms.

Teaching Culture Strategies for Intercultural Communication
H. Ned Seelye / Paperback / Published 1993
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The Teenage Liberation Handbook : How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education
Grace Llewellyn / Paperback / Published 1991
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Midwest Book Review:
For everyone who has ever gone to school or is interested in the current national debate over educational reforms, but it is especially relevant for teenagers and the parents or caregivers of teens. The book presents some good reasons to think about quitting school, how to reclaim a natural ability to learn and become self-taught, how to get parental support and stay out of legal trouble, how to design a personalized education worth getting excited about, how to go to college without first going to highschool, how to find volunteer positions and/or apprenticeships and/or other work opportunities, and what other unschooled teens do with their time. As with most things in life, there's a right way and a wrong way -- The Teenage Liberation Handbook is a blueprint for the best way!

Teleliteracy
David C. Bianculli / Hardcover / Published 1992, 315 pages
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"It's time to realize TV must be doing something right to reach and affect so many people and that teleliteracy is something to be quantified and upgraded and utilized, not ignored," David Bianculli declares in his defense of teleliteracy--the widespread knowledge of television that ties Americans together in ways other media cannot. He acknowledges the faults of television -- sex and violence to a widespread audience -- but contends that TV has delivered positive role models, good storytelling and likable characters.

Television : Technology and Cultural Form
Raymond Williams / Paperback / Published 1993, 153 pages
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Television Times : A Reader
John Corner, Sylvia Harvey (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1996
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The Thinking Classroom : Learning and Teaching in a Culture of Thinking
Shari Tishman, et al / Paperback / Published 1994
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The Third Culture : Beyond the Scientific Revolution
John Brockman / Paperback / Published 1996, 413 pages
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Hardcover / Published 1995
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mmessall@uit.net, 09/30/96, rating=10:
Think. What do you believe about: man's origins, consciousness, the age and structure of the universe, the nature of life? Philosophers, physicists and biologists whose name are landmarks--Murry Gell-Mann, Steven J. Gould, Richard Dawkins, Paul Davies, Danniel C. Dennett, Roger Penrose--think they have the answers. But beware, you can't read this book without questioning your every assumption and rethinking you're whole philosphy. For by no means do they all agree. It's an intellectual dance of perspective and paradigm shifts, exhausting and exhillerating. This book is a rare opportunity to follow sparking minds through soaring ideas... The concepts are beautiful and awesome; the book as a whole promises nothing less than Enlightenment.

Understanding Today's Youth Culture
Walter Mueller / Paperback / Published 1994, 392 pages
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Watching Channel One : The Convergence of Students, Technology, and Private Business (Suny Series Education and Culture)
Ann DeVaney / Paperback / Published 1994, 244 pages
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Channel One, an electronic curriculum that was developed primarily to sell products in the marketplace, is cablecast daily to some 12,000 public high schools in the US. This translates to a captive audience for advertisements of eight- to nine-million teens. By employing various forms of discourse analysis, critical theory, rhetorical analysis, structural and post-structural readings, descriptive case studies, and traditional-effects studies, the authors provide a thorough investigation into Channel One.

Writing Students : Composition, Testimonials and Representations of Students (Suny Series, Literacy, Culture, and Learning)
Marguerite H. Helmers / Paperback / Published 1995
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Youth, Murder, Spectacle : The Cultural Politics of 'Youth in Crisis (Cultural Studies)
Charles R. Acland / Paperback / Published 1995
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Acland asks of the empiricist social critic, "How do we know that we are measuring what we say we are measuring, and how do we know what the numbers are saying? Arguments must be made to interpret findings, which suggests that conclusions are provisional and to various degrees are sites of contestation." He launches into this gratifying book to show that beyond the problematic category of "actual" crime, the United States has seen the construction of a new "spectacle of wasted youth" that will have specific consequences for the daily lives of the next generation.

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