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Knowing the Past, Facing the Future

Indigenous Education in Canada

By Sheila Carr-Stewart

In 1867, Canada’s federal government became responsible for the education of Indigenous peoples: Status Indians and some Métis would attend schools on reserves; non-Status Indians and some Métis would attend provincial schools. The chapters in...

A World without Martha

A Memoir of Sisters, Disability, and Difference

By Victoria Freeman

Victoria Freeman was only four when her parents followed medical advice and sent her sister away to a distant, overcrowded institution. Martha was not yet two, but in the 1960s there was little community acceptance...

Native Students at Work

American Indian Labor and Sherman Institute's Outing Program, 1900-1945

By Kevin Whalen. Foreword by Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert

Native Students at Work tells the stories of Native people from around the American Southwest who participated in labor programs at Sherman Institute, a federal Indian boarding school in Riverside, California. The school placed young...

Postsecondary Education in British Columbia

Public Policy and Structural Development, 1960–2015

By Robert Cowin

The literature about postsecondary education in British Columbia has largely focused on public colleges and universities, while paying less attention to vocational colleges, apprenticeship, continuing education, and private institutions. Robert Cowin addresses that gap. He...

American Indian Business

Principles and Practices

By Deanna M. Kennedy, Charles F. Harrington, Amy Klemm Verbos, Daniel Stewart, Joseph Scott Gladstone, Gavin Clarkson

American Indian business is booming. The number of American Indian– and Alaska Native–owned businesses increased by 15.3 percent from 2007 to 2012—a time when the total number of US businesses increased by just 2 percent—and...

Practising Community-Based Participatory Research

Stories of Engagement, Empowerment, and Mobilization

By Shauna MacKinnon

There is increasing pressure on university scholars to reach beyond the “ivory tower” and engage in collaborative research with communities. But what exactly is community-based participatory research (CBPR) and what does engagement look like? This...

Education at the Edge of Empire

Negotiating Pueblo Identity in New Mexico's Indian Boarding Schools

By John R. Gram. Foreword by Ted Jojola

For the vast majority of Native American students in federal Indian boarding schools at the turn of the twentieth century, the experience was nothing short of tragic. Dislocated from family and community, they were forced...

Educating the Chinese Individual

Life in a Rural Boarding School

By Mette Halskov Hansen

In twenty-first-century China, socialist educational traditions have given way to practices that increasingly emphasize the individual. This volume investigates that trend, drawing on Hansen's fieldwork in a rural high school in Zhejiang where students, teachers,...

Sharing Breath

Embodied Learning and Decolonization

By Sheila Batacharya, Yuk-Lin Renita Wong

Treating bodies as more than discursive in social research can feel out of place in academia. As a result, embodiment studies remain on the outside of academic knowledge construction and critical scholarship. However, embodiment scholars...

Assessment Strategies for Online Learning

Engagement and Authenticity

By Dianne Conrad and Jason Openo

Assessment has provided educational institutions with information about student learning outcomes and the quality of education for many decades. But has it informed practice and been fully incorporated into the learning cycle? Conrad and Openo...

An Online Doctorate for Researching Professionals

Progam Design, Implementation, and Evaluation

By Swapna Kumar and Kara Dawson

The interest in and demand for online terminal degrees across disciplines by professionals wishing to conduct research and fulfill doctoral degree requirements at a distance is only increasing. This book presents a model for a...

The Audio Dictionary

By Glenn D. White and Gary J. Louie

The Audio Dictionary is a comprehensive resource, including historical, obsolete, and obscure as well as contemporary terms relating to diverse aspects of audio such as film and TV sound, recording, Hi-Fi, and acoustics.

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Chinese Students Encounter America

By Qian Ning. Translated by T. K. Chu

An instant bestseller upon its publication in China in 1996, Chinese Students Encounter America (Liuxue Meiguo) appealed to those who had studied abroad, those who dreamed of doing so, and those who wanted a glimpse...

The Chicana/o Education Pipeline

History, Institutional Critique, and Resistance

By Michaela J. L. Mares-Tamayo, Daniel G. Solorzano

This anthology explores the relationships between Chicana/o students, families, and communities and the various school settings that comprise the education pipeline, from Kindergarten classrooms through postsecondary programs and postgraduate experiences. The essays, which appeared in...

Color-Line to Borderlands

The Matrix of American Ethnic Studies

By Johnnella E. Butler

"Ethnic Studies . . . has drawn higher education, usually kicking and screaming, into the borderlands of scholarship, pedagogy, faculty collegiality, and institutional development," Johnnella E. Butler writes in her Introduction to this collection of...

Make Yourself a Teacher

Rabbinic Tales of Mentors and Disciples

By Susan Handelman

Make Yourself a Teacher is a teaching book and a book about teaching. It discusses three dramatic, well-known stories about the student and teacher Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus from the Oral Torah. The stories of...

Winning the Math Wars

No Teacher Left Behind

By Martin L. Abbott, Duane Baker, and Karen Smith

Washington State is about to enter a new phase of the "math wars." Since the late 1980s, the debate over how best to teach mathematics to schoolchildren has raged worldwide among educators, politicians, and parents....

Toward a Global PhD?

Forces and Forms in Doctoral Education Worldwide

By Maresi Nerad, Mimi Heggelund

Universities and nations have long recognized the direct contribution of graduate education to the welfare of the economy by meeting a range of research and employment needs. With the burgeoning of a global economy in...

Washington State

By Charles Pierce LeWarne

This revised, updated, and improved edition of the leading high school textbook on Washington State history brings the reader from the earliest known accounts of the region up to the present. Incorporating the newest data...

Outline of Cat Anatomy with Reference to the Human

By Stephen G. Gilbert. With Cheralea Gilbert

The cat has been used as a subject for dissection in the study of mammalian anatomy for almost two centuries. The very popular Pictorial Anatomy of the Cat by Stephen G. Gilbert, originally published in...