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  Multimodal Funds of Knowledge in Literacy: Countering Deficit Narratives of Diverse Families

  Sally Brown, Georgia Southern University and Rong Zhang, Appalachian State University

  2025
  

  Applying an asset-based approach, Multimodal Funds of Knowledge in Literacy prepares educators to teach and support diverse students and their families as they negotiate multimodal aspects of literacy learning. Framed by sociocultural theory, multiliteracies, multimodality, and posthumanism, the text combats deficit narratives by providing concrete alternatives that push educators to rethink their practices and support students’ and families’ cultural and linguistic strengths.

  Chapters include case studies, vignettes, prompts, and learning samples that will leave readers with valuable insights and new understandings of multimodal funds of knowledge. Comprehensive and instructive, this book is a key text in literacy education, family literacy, ... Read more

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  Promoting Equitable Math Instruction: Exploring Elementary Teachers’ Stories

  Monica L. Gonzalez, East Carolina University and Alesia M. Moldavan, Georgia Southern University

  9-25-2025
  

  Step into K–5 classrooms and examine equitable math instruction. Through authentic cases from current and former math teachers, this book explores the complexities of teaching math in ways that empower every learner. Whether engaging in personal reflection or collaborative professional development, each chapter challenges you to examine your own practice by confronting assumptions, uncovering bias, and reimagining your role as a math teacher or leader. This book features a collection of 20 cases organized around themes of classroom policies and procedures, communication, instructional pedagogies and tasks, and family and community engagement. Designed for K–5 teachers, instructional coaches, and school leaders, ... Read more

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  Love Letters to bell hooks: Narratives Celebrating the Influence of a Transgressive Educator

  Tricia M. Kress, Molloy University; Robert L. Lake, Georgia Southern University; Nadia Khan-Roopnarine, Saint Josephs University; Perpetual Anastasia Hayfron; and Nicolle Session

  9-4-2025
  

  bell hooks was one of the most influential voices in critical and culturally-responsive education. In recognition of the magnificence of bell’s contributions to the field of education, this book is the first of its kind to bring together scholars, educators, and young people to honor her broad and deep legacy. Written in letter form, each chapter reflects how bell hooks’ many influential books have shaped the lives and livelihoods of the people who have read them. Narrative in style and accessible to a wide audience of readers, this collection serves as a bridge between the philosophical and the practical components ... Read more

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  Enhancing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Online Learning Environments

  Regina Rahimi, Georgia Southern University and Lina Soares, Georgia Southern University

  2-2025
  

  The exploration of teaching and learning in online environments is increasingly relevant as education continues to shift toward digital spaces. Understanding how instructors and learners engage with and enhance these virtual experiences is vital for improving educational outcomes and fostering more effective learning communities. This focus on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in online contexts provides valuable insights that can influence pedagogical practices across disciplines. As the demand for quality online education grows, the impact of such research can lead to more equitable, accessible, and engaging educational opportunities for diverse learners worldwide.

  Enhancing the Scholarship of Teaching and ... Read more

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  The 46th Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers Yearbook: Breaking Down Barriers to Mobilize our Literate Selves

  Leslie D. Roberts-Chala; Peggy Lisenbee; and Nedra Cossa, Georgia Southern University

  2025
  
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  Student Affairs: Voices From the Profession

  Steven Tolman, Georgia Southern Univeristy and Daniel Calhoun, Georgia Southern University

  9-24-2025
  

  We have identified 10 timely topics that are important to the profession of student affairs. Each of these topics will be a chapter within the book and will include: (1) an academic/scholarly introduction to that topic (i.e., an abridged introduction/literature review that will provide the context for that topic/chapter), (2) perspectives on that topic from seasoned and new student affairs professionals, and (3) perspective from a HE/SA faculty member.

  This book will be geared toward graduate students in HIED Programs and new(er) professionals in student affairs. This book will be used within HE/SA graduate programs, departments/divisions to use as a ... Read more

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  Science, Democracy, and the University

  John Weaver, Georgia Southern University

  11-21-2025
  

  Science, Democracy, and the University is a significant contribution to the field of curriculum studies, linking to the work of philosophers such as Max Planck, Donna Haraway, Max Weber, and Jacques Derrida to make the case for rethinking the reason of the university. John A. Weaver outlines what a Diogenes, or real, university might look like and what values it might promote over that which the current university system peddles. He also uses Bernard Stiegler's work to focus on how we can educate the young to become adults rather than consumers. Touching on subjects such as ecology, algorithms and data, ... Read more

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  The 45th Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers Yearbook: Viewing Literacy Through Innovative Lenses

  Nedra Cossa, Georgia Southern University; Leslie D. Roberts-Chala, Georgia Southern University; Juan Araujo; and Alexandra Babino

  2024
  
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  Embodied Learning in the Schools: Designs That Link Brain, Body, and Technology in K-12 Classrooms

  TJ Kopcha, University of Georgia and Ceren Ocak, Georgia Southern University

  2024
  

  Embodied Learning in the Schools explores the relevance of embodied perspectives to instructional designers and education scholars seeking to improve the design, development, and analysis of technology-enhanced learning environments in K-12 settings. Given recent technological advances in touch-based, geolocational, and body integrative devices, there is considerable opportunity to leverage embodied perspectives of cognition to enrich learning in schools today. Grounded in research and theory, this book provides a holistic understanding of embodied cognition’s powerful multidisciplinary applications. Using vivid examples from authentic classrooms, each chapter connects varied theoretical insights to their practical implications for linking brain, body, and technology in learning. ... Read more

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  Discovering Black Existentialism

  E. Anthony Muhammad, Georgia Southern University

  2024
  

  In the post-Trump era, the Black lived experience continues to come under assault. Emerging from the suffering imposed on Black bodies comes Black Existential Philosophy, an umbrella term encompassing the multiple depictions of Black life under White subjugation. Whether taking the form of first hand narratives of the lives of enslaved Blacks, the racialized theological discourse of the Nation of Islam, or the writings of W.E.B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon, the works comprising Black Existentialism offer a look into both the world of the racialized Black “Other” as well as the never-ending quest to recapture and reassert Black humanity.

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  Critical Analysis of Parental Involvement in School: Working with Families Across Sociocultural Contexts

  Meca Williams-Johnson, Georgia Southern University and Nicolette P. Rickert, Georgia Southern University

  12-30-2024
  

  Critical Analysis of Parental Involvement in School presents in-depth explorations of parental involvement within culturally distinct contexts. As teachers and leaders sense the impact of today’s social and political tensions in their schools, new guidance is needed to help them make decisions, solve problems, clarify interventions, and resolve conflict with their students’ families as they mutually pursue the well-being of diverse students. This edited volume examines parents’ culturally situated goals and values, communication and rearing styles, academic involvement, and other social-psychological factors across identities at the intersection of race, gender, class, and beyond. Each chapter addresses the complexities of a ... Read more

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  Exploring Social Emotional Learning in Diverse Academic Settings

  Regina Rahimi, Georgia Southern University and Delores D. Liston, Georgia Southern University

  4-2023
  

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  The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic has heightened awareness of the need for social emotional learning throughout all educational contexts. Given this, schools, most often P-12 settings, have begun to embrace practices for addressing social emotional learning. While there is a growing body of research and literature on common practices of social emotional learning, there is no standard for its implementation.

  Exploring Social Emotional Learning in Diverse Academic Settings highlights unique and varied approaches to addressing social emotional learning and wellbeing in educational settings. It features a broad perspective on the topic, presenting approaches from a range of educational ... Read more

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  Teaching Challenged and Challenging Topics in Diverse and Inclusive Literature: Addressing the Taboo in the English Classroom

  Rachelle S. Savitz, East Carolina University; Leslie Roberts, Georgia Southern University; and Jason DeHart

  1-31-2023
  

  This groundbreaking text provides practical, contextualized methods for teaching and discussing topics that are considered "taboo" in the classroom in ways that support students' lived experiences. In times when teachers are scapegoated for adopting culturally sustaining teaching practices and are pressured to "whitewash" the curriculum, it becomes more challenging to create an environment where students and teachers can have conversations about complex, uncomfortable topics in the classroom. With contributions from scholars and K-12 teachers who have used young adult literature to engage with their students, chapters confront this issue and focus on themes such as multilingualism, culturally responsive teaching, dis/ability, ... Read more

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  Designer Teacher Project: A Program Proposal and Sample Lesson Plans for the Professional Development of Teachers

  Nihal Yurtseven and Selcuk Dogan, Georgia Southern University

  6-12-2023
  

  “Designer Teacher Project” is a teacher professional development project that aims to inform teachers about new trends regarding the teaching profession and roles and to raise awareness of their “Designer Teacher” identity. Within the scope of the project, it is aimed for teachers to acquire the knowledge and skills required to develop designs that focus on permanent understanding, are connected to real life and increase student success, using national curriculum, through active learning experiences and online activities.

  “Tasarımcı Öğretmen Projesi” öğretmenleri, öğretmenlik mesleği ve rollerine ilişkin yeni eğilimler hakkında bilgilendirmeyi ve onlara “Tasarımcı Öğretmen” kimliği konusunda farkındalık kazandırmayı amaçlayan bir ... Read more

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  Multimodal Literacies in Young Emergent Bilinguals: Beyond Print-Centric Practices

  Sally Brown, Georgia Southern University and Ling Hao, University of South Carolina

  4-29-2022
  

  This book presents research focused on young emergent bilingual children’s multimodal meaning-making processes in diverse cultural and linguistic settings. Chapters draw on a range of theoretical frameworks and expand on traditional notions of literacy, especially for students who are working to learn English as a new language. The insights into original research studies will help readers understand the many avenues that one can take as a practitioner in order to ensure that student assets are built upon to promote positive literate identities and learning experiences and, ultimately, to promote literacy success for diverse learners. Each chapter includes practical pedagogical recommendations ... Read more

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  Child and Adolescent Psychopathology for School Psychology: A Practical Approach

  Andrew Diamanduros, Georgia Southern University; P. Dawn Tysinger, Georgia Southern University; Jeffrey Tysinger, Georgia Southern University; and Pamela A. Fenning, Loyola University Chicago

  2-2022
  
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  Early Childhood Special Education Programs and Practices

  Karin Fisher, Georgia Southern University and Kate Zimmer

  8-25-2022
  

  Early Childhood Special Education Programs and Practices is a special education textbook that prepares pre- and in-service teachers with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to deliver evidence-based instruction to promote positive academic and behavioral outcomes for young children (prekindergarten through second grade) with development delays and/or disabilities.

  Early Childhood Special Education Programs and Practices intertwines inclusive early childhood practices by using real-life anecdotes to illustrate evidence-based practices (EBPs) and procedures. The authors, experts in their fields, emphasize high-leverage practices, EBPs, and culturally sustaining pedagogy and align them with the practices, skills, and competencies recommended by the Council for Exceptional Children’s ... Read more

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  Digital Distractions in the College Classroom

  Abraham E. Flanigan Dr., Georgia Southern University and Jackie Hee-Young Kim, Georgia Southern University

  2-2022
  

  Student misuse of mobile technology for off-task purposes has become an international phenomenon in college classrooms. When a student’s self-regulation of learning breaks down in the classroom, or when their task motivation begins to wane, turning toward their digital devices for leisure purposes is often the result. Although numerous studies have independently examined student digital distraction in the context of the college classroom, there remains a need to organize the field’s collective understanding of the phenomenon.

  Digital Distractions in the College Classroom explores the challenges that arise from student digital distraction along with potential solutions, including how mobile technology can ... Read more

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  Social Media: Influences on Education

  Marlynn Griffin, Georgia Southern University and Cordelia Zinskie, Georgia Southern University

  8-31-2021
  

  Social media is a multi-faceted tool that has been used by educators and/or their students in ways both beneficial and detrimental. Despite the ubiquitous nature of this tool, there is much research still needed on the multitude of ways that social media impacts education. This book presents research on the influences of social media on education, broadly construed. Specifically, the research included in this book is categorized into four broad areas, examining the educational influence of social media on youth and college students, professional development in content areas, higher education learning, and social justice and activism. Chapter authors emphasize the ... Read more

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  Critical Pedagogy for Healing: Paths beyond “Wellness,” toward a Soul Revival of Teaching and Learning

  Tricia M. Kress; Christopher Emdin; and Robert L. Lake, Georgia Southern University

  11-26-2021
  

  This is the first book to explicitly link healing and wellness practices with critical pedagogy. Bringing together scholars from Brazil, Canada, Malta and the USA, the chapters combine critical pedagogy and social justice education to reorient the conversation around wellness in teaching and learning. Working against white Eurocentric narratives of wellness in schools which focus on the symptoms, not the causes, of society's sickness, the authors argues for a "soul revival" of education which tackles, head on, the causes of dis-ease in society, from institutional racism, colonialism, xenophobia and patriarchy. The contributors provide fresh perspectives that address short-term goals of ... Read more

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  The Oxford Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies

  William H. Schubert and Ming Fang He, Georgia Southern University

  1-1-2021
  

  The Oxford Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies addresses the central question of Curriculum Studies as: What is worthwhile? Writ large, Curriculum Studies pertains to what human beings should know, need, experience, do, be, become, overcome, contribute, share, wonder, imagine, invent, and improve. While the Encyclopedia treats curriculum as definitely central to schooling, it also shows how curriculum scholars work on myriad other institutionalized and non-institutionalized dimensions of life that shape the ways humans learn to perceive, conceptualize, and act in the world. Thus, while the Encyclopedia considers common "curriculum" categories (e.g., curriculum theory, history, purposes, development, design, enactment, evaluation), it does ... Read more

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  Learning, Teaching and Assessment in Higher Education: Global Perspectives

  Sally Brown, Georgia Southern University

  4-21-2020
  

  For both new and existing staff in HE, this book provides a handbook on learning to teach. Whilst considering the scholarship that has underpinned teaching and learning for the last half century, the book also takes into account the changing nature of the student body, HE institutions and potentially of learning itself. Features international perspectives on pedagogy.

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  Educating for Social Justice: Field Notes from Rural Communities

  Rebekah A. Cordova, University of Florida and William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern University

  8-17-2020
  

  Georgia Southern University faculty member William M. Reynolds co-edited Educating for Social Justice: Field Notes from Rural Communities.

  Part of Understanding Rural Education Series, Volume: 1.

  In Educating for Social Justice: Field Notes from Rural Communities, educators from across the United States offer their experiences engaging in rural, place-based social justice education. With education settings ranging from university campuses in Georgia to small villages in New Mexico, each chapter details the stories of teaching and learning within the often-overlooked rural areas of the United States.
  
  Attempting to highlight the experiences of rural educators, this text explores the triumphs, challenges, and hopes ... Read more

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  Self-Efficacy in Instructional Technology Contexts

  Charles B. Hodges, Georgia Southern University

  2018
  

  Book Summary: This edited volume contains reports of current research, and literature reviews of research, involving self-efficacy in various instructional technology contexts. Chapter represent international perspectives across the broad areas of K-12 education, higher education, teacher self-efficacy, and learner self-efficacy to capture a diverse cross section of research on these topics. The book includes reviews of existing literature and reports of new research, thus creating a comprehensive resource for researchers and designers interested in this general topic. A system of peer review was implemented to select the work that appears in the book from a collection of author-submitted chapter proposals. ... Read more

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  Science, Democracy and Curriculum Studies: Why (Not) Science Matters

  John A. Weaver, Goergia Southern University

  8-30-2018
  

  In this book John A. Weaver suggests curriculum studies scholars need to engage more in science matters. It offers a review of science studies writing from Ludwick Fleck and Thomas Kuhn to Philip Mirowski. The volume includes chapters on the rhetoric of science with a focus on the history of rhetoric and economics then on the rhetoric of models, statistics, and data, a critique of neoliberalism and its impact on science policy and the foundations of democracy, Harry Collin’s and Robert Evans’ theory of expertise followed by chapters on feminism with a focus on the work of Sharon Traweek, Karen ... Read more