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Black Minds Matter: A Book Review, Johnnie L. Campbell Jr., M.Ed

Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education and Student Affairs

The experiences of Black boys and men in education have sustained increased attention from various communities and throughout education. This increased attention is birthed from systemic issues that have remained pervasive throughout society. As a direct call to action of these issues, Black Minds Matter introduces us to pivotal and thought-provoking ways in which educators can best support and care for this population. This review expounds upon ways in which education might reimagine how we advocate and care for Black boys and men in the classroom. This review highlights the ways in which education has employed deficit-informed practices, harming Black …

Isaac Gottesman's The Critical Turn In Education: From Marxist Critique To Poststructuralist Feminism To Critical Theories Of Race, Aaron A. Baker

Intersections: Critical Issues in Education

Isaac Gottesman's historiography, The Critical Turn in Education: From Marxist Critique to Poststructuralist Feminism to Critical Theories of Race, aspires to Illuminate the historical context in which critical educational theory evolved. To his credit, he seems to achieve that goal, and more: he establishes that the relationship between the history of critical educational theory and society’s reliance on education is a key to social justice. This book review, describes and evaluates each chapter of Gottesman's text, focusing on his successes and challenges.

Giving Students A Chance To Learn: Hitting Pause And Engaging Students, Michelle Arnold

Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence

A book review of Gail Rice's book, Hitting pause: 65 lecture breaks to refresh and reinforce learning.

Digital Urban Ethnography: A Book Review Of The Digital Street, Katherine L. Walters, Enid Truong

The Qualitative Report

Jeffery Lane explores the social worlds of youth in Harlem during the digital era through his unique approach, digital urban ethnography. Researchers use this ethnographic method to understand how social lives and meanings are co-constructed within digital and physical spaces. The digital and physical do not neatly represent each other but each provides specific ways to engage that both shape and are shaped by youth’s social lives. As novice researchers, we read this work with an eye towards methodological choices and techniques. In particular, we hoped this work would provide us with an understanding of how to conduct research with …

Book Review: The Media Education Manifesto, Esteban Morales

Journal of Media Literacy Education

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A “Highdeeply” Review Of Johnny Saldaña’S Thinking Qualitatively: Methods Of Mind, Alexandra Ch Nowakowski

The Qualitative Report

More than a book about conducting qualitative research, Johnny Saldaña in Thinking Qualitatively: Methods of Mind asks readers to think “highdeeply,” so they organize their thinking about how to live their best lives through the process of qualitative inquiry. To do so, Saldaña transforms the concept of person-centered qualitative inquiry into a concrete entity with structured exercises and practical examples. Saldaña contributions with this work all center on the process of conscious qualitative reflection as a tool for synthetic understanding of the world around us.

Introducing Communication Theory: Analysis And Application, Quisto Settle

Journal of Applied Communications

Review of Introducing Communication Theory: Analysis and Application (6th ed.)

Separate But (Un)Equal: A Review Of Resegregation As Curriculum: The Meaning Of The New Racial Segregation In U.S. Public Schools, Katherine H. Burr

The Qualitative Report

Resegregation as Curriculum: The Meaning of the New Racial Segregation in U.S. Public Schools (2016) by Rosiek and Kinslow exposes the reality of systemic racial resegregation occurring in U.S. public schools. The authors center the stories of students, educators, and community members affected by the resegregation in a powerful narrative that blends critical race theory and agential realism as theoretical frameworks. This book review offers a review of the authors' findings, commentary on their methodology, and recommended audiences.

Translingual Practices And Neoliberal Policies: Attitudes And Strategies Of African Skilled Migrants In Anglophone Workplaces, Sara Vogel

Publications and Research

At what point do scholarship and pedagogy in sociolinguistics and language education become complicit in neoliberalism? What can researchers learn from their multilingual informants about how to resist neoliberalism? Those are central questions readers ponder as they dive into Suresh Canagarajah's logically organized and well-argued volume, Translingual Practices and Neoliberal Policies: Attitudes and Strategies of African Skilled Migrants in Anglophone Workplaces. A book that uses empirical data to support theory construction, it is written for scholars who have followed recent debates in the sociolinguistics and language education fields.

Review Of Rti In The Common Core Classroom: A Framework For Instruction And Assessment, Doreen Mazzye

The Language and Literacy Spectrum

This book review supports “The Power of Literacy” through a second look at Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and how CCSS can be implemented through the framework of Response to Intervention (RTI). The authors address the important question of how does a teacher follow the rigorous standards of CCSS and meet the learning needs of students with learning difficulties? The book provides teachers with clear models of how to meet the expectations of the Common Core Standards in the multi-tiered framework of RTI. The authors provide practical solutions with vivid examples of implementation to assist teachers in fostering a RTI …

Book Review: The Rhetoric Of Remediation: Negotiating Entitlement And Access To Higher Education, Chad T. Patton

Journal of College Access

For the past 140 years, remedial students have existed in one way or another. In her book The Rhetoric of Remediation: Negotiating Entitlement and Access to Higher Education, Stanley contends that the remedial student has been an important character in U. C. Berkeley's importance in the eyes of the state of California as well as other universities across the nation. Amid many recent political decision affecting higher education and access, Stanley's work is rooted in the history of the remedial student and what that student means to higher education and politics as a whole.

Knowledge Mapping Tools: Visualizing Research, Crystal L. Renfro, Elisabeth Shields

Crystal L Renfro

Book Review: American Higher Education In Crisis? What Everyone Needs To Know, Ben Miller

Journal of Student Financial Aid

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Antiracist Education: From Theory To Practice By Julie Kailin., Laura Stivers

Laura Stivers

Although I help students to see the complexity of racism and how their actions or inactions can further individual and institutional racism, this book pushed me to think more deeply about the racism in my own university and classes and how I can more intentionally pursue antiracist education. The book is written for primary and secondary education, but it is useful for college and seminary professors in religion as well.

Reviews And Responses: Brown And Spitzer’S Public Folklore, Kristin G. Congdon

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Book review for Public Folklore, Robert Baron and N. R. Spitzer (Editors), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1992.

Finding Your Unique Strengths: Book Review Of Strengthsfinder 2.0, Saundra Shillingstad

Teacher Education Faculty Publications

StrengthsFinder 2.0 is a book based on more than 40 years of research by Tom Rath and a team of scientists at Gallup, the renowned research-based, performance-management consulting company. In 1998 the researchers at Gallup created the 6rst online Strengths Finder assessment. In 200lGallup included the first edition of Strengths Finder with the bestseller Now, Discover Your Strengths (Buckingham & Clifton). Building on the initial online assessment and language from StrengthsFinder 2.0, Rath and the Gallup organization released a new edition in 2007 of the assessment, program, and Web site that they titled StrengthsFinder 2.0, The intent of the …

Seeing With Feeling, Michael W. Higgins

Office of Mission Integration, Ministry & Multi-Cultural Affairs

Book review by Michael W. Higgins.

Haughey, John C. In Search of the Whole: Twelve Essays on Faith and Academic Life. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2011.

A Review Of Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs The Humanities, Laura A. Desisto

Democracy and Education

A review of the book Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities, by Martha Nussbaum (Princeton University Press, 2010).

Book Review: Academically Adrift: Limited Learning On College Campuses, Larry D. Long

Larry D. Long

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Two Popular Books For Quantitative Literacy: What The Numbers Say, And The Numbers Game, Robert G. Root

Numeracy

Niederman, Derrick, and Boyum, David. What the Numbers Say: A Field Guide to Mastering Our Numerical World. (New York: Broadway Books/Random House, 2003). 288 pp. Hardcover, ISBN 978-0-7679-0998-3. Paperback, 978-0-7679-0999-0. Available as an eBook.

Blastland, Michael, and Dilnot, Andrew. The Numbers Game: The Commonsense Guide to Understanding Numbers in the News, in Politics and in Life. (New York: Gotham Books/Penguin, 2009). 192 pp. Hardcover, ISBN 978-1-5924-0423-0. Paperback, ISBN 978-1-5924-0485-8. Available as an eBook.

Popular books on quantitative literacy need to be easy to read, reasonably comprehensive in scope, and include examples that are thought-provoking and memorable. In contrast …

Review Of The Book Distance Learning In Higher Education A Programmatic Approach To Planning, Design, Instruction, Evaluation, And Accreditation By Alfred P. Rovai, Michael K. Ponton, And Jason D. Baker, Scott L. Howell

Faculty Publications

The three professors from Regent University who authored Distance Learning in Higher Education: A Programmatic Approach to Planning, Design, Instruction, Evaluation, and Accreditation have prepared, in this reviewer's opinion, the first comprehensive, quality, introductory text on distance education in the field. Often while reading this book I thought, "I wish I had written this book" - It really says What it should say with no glaring omissions, does it in a simple and straightforward manner, and finally places under one cover the most relevant elements of the emerging distance education model of the twenty-first century. The book also presents advantages …

Review: Postmodern Art Education In Practice. Gude, O. (Ed.). (N.D.). Spiral Art Education, Karen Keifer-Boyd, Patricia M. Amburgy, Wanda B. Knight

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Book review of Spiral Art Education, Olivia Gude (Editor), University of Illinois, Chicago, 2003.

Because Writing Matters: Improving Student Writing In Our Schools, Timothy Lintner

Essays in Education

Because Writing Matters is a publication of the National Writing Project whose goal, for over 25 years, is to seek and promote ways in which schools can improve the art of writing. With over 175 affiliates in all 50 states, the NWP promotes the facilitation of proven methodologies in which student achievement, teacher innovation, and administrative support focus on the common objective of increasing student proficiency and confidence in writing.

Book Review: Fehr, D.E., Fehr, K. & Keifer-Boyd, K. (Eds.), (2000). Real-World Readings In Art Education: Things Your Professors Never Told You. Ny: Falmer Press., Dennis E. Fehr

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Book Review for Real-World Readings in Art Education: Things Your Professors Never Told You, D.E. Fehr, K. Fehr, and K. Keifer-Boyd (Editors), Falmer Press, New York, 2000.

Book Review: Susan L. Smith (1995), The Power Of Women: A Topos In Medieval Art And Literature, Karen Keifer-Boyd

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Book review for The Power of Women: A Topos in Medieval Art and Literature, Susan L. Smith, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1995.

Review Of The Evolution Of The American Academic Library Building By David Kaser, W. Bede Mitchell

Library Faculty Publications

This review was published in College and Research Libraries.

Book Reviews: Dennis Fehr, Kris King Fehr, & Karen Keifer-Boyd (Eds.) (2000) Real-World Readings In Art Education: Things Your Professors Never Told You, Yvonne Gaudelius

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Book review for Real-World Readings in Art Education: Things Your Professors Never Told You, Dennis Fehr, Kris King Fehr, Karen Keifer- Boyd (Editors), Falmer Press, New York, 2000.

Book Reviews: Gómez-Peña, Guillermo (1993). Warrior For Gringostroika: Essays, Performance Texts, And Poetry, Connie M. Landis

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Book review for Warrier for Gringostroika: Essays, Performance Texts, and Poetry, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Graywolf Press, Saint Paul, MN, 1993.

Book Reviews: Guadalupe Rivera And Marie-Pierre Colle (1994); Ignacio Urquiza, Photographer. Frida’S Fiestas: Recipes And Reminiscences Of Life With Frida Kahlo, Elizabeth Garber

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Book review for Frida's Fiestas: Recipe and Reminiscences of Life with Frida Kahlo, Guadalup Rivera and Marie-Pierre Colle, Clarkson Potter/Publishers, New York, 1994.

Book Reviews: Terry Barrett (1994) Criticizing Art: Understanding The Contemporary, John H. White Jr.

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Book review for Criticizing Art: Understanding the Contemporary, Terry Barrett, Mayfield Publication Company, Mountain View, 1994.