College of Education: Faculty Bookshelf

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  Promoting Social Justice Through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

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

  10-3-2017
  

  Georgia Southern University faculty members Robert L. Lake and Kent Rittschof co-authored "Using Attitude Measures and Student Narratives about Diversity to Enhance Multicultural Teaching Effectiveness " in Promoting Social Justice Through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

  Book Summary: How can education become a transformative experience for all learners and teachers? The contributors to this volume contend that the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) can provide a strong foundation for the role of education in promoting social justice. The collection features contributions by an array of educators and scholars, highlighting the various ways that learners and teachers can prepare ... Read more

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  Evolution Education in the American South: Culture, Politics, and Resources in and around Alabama

  Christopher D. Lynn, University of Alabama; Amanda L. Glaze, Georgia Southern University; William A. Evans, University of Alabama; and Laura K. Reed, University of Alabama

  3-1-2017
  

  Book Summary: This volume reaches beyond the controversy surrounding the teaching and learning of evolution in the United States, specifically in regard to the culture, politics, and beliefs found in the Southeast. The editors argue that despite a deep history of conflict in the region surrounding evolution, there is a wealth of evolution research taking place—from biodiversity in species to cultural evolution and human development. In fact, scientists, educators, and researchers from around the United States have found their niche in the South, where biodiversity is high, culture runs deep, and the pace is just a little bit slower.

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  HIV/AIDS in Rural Communities: Research, Education, and Advocacy

  Fayth M. Parks, Georgia Southern University; Gregory S. Felzien MD AAHIVS, Georgia Department of Public Health; and Sally Jue, Chin Toy Consulting

  2017
  

  This wide-ranging volume reviews the experience and treatment of HIV/AIDS in rural America at the clinical, care system, community, and individual levels. Rural HIV-related phenomena are explored within healthcare contexts (physician shortages, treatment disparities) and the social environment (stigma, the opioid epidemic), and contrasted with urban frames of reference. Contributors present latest findings on HIV medications, best practices, and innovative opportunities for improving care and care settings, plus invaluable first-person perspective on the intersectionality of patient subpopulations. These chapters offer both seasoned and training practitioners a thorough grounding in the unique challenges of providing appropriate and effective services in the ... Read more

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  Forgotten Places: Critical Studies in Rural Education

  William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern University

  2017
  

  Georgia Southern faculty member William M. Reynolds edited Forgotten Places: Critical Studies in Rural Education.

  Part of Counterpoints Series, Volume 494.

  Forgotten Places: Critical Studies in Rural Education critically investigates and informs the construction of the rural, rural identity and the understanding of the rural internationally. This book promotes and expands the notion of critical understandings of rural education, particularly in the areas of race, class, gender, and LGBTQ, with conceptualizations of social justice. While there have been many volumes written on critical issues in urban education, only a small number have been produced on rural education, and the majority ... Read more

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  Emerging Research, Practice, and Policy on Computational Thinking

  Peter J. Rich, Brigham Young University - Provo and Charles B. Hodges, Georgia Southern University

  2017
  

  Book Summary: This book reports on research and practice on computational thinking and the effect it is having on education worldwide, both inside and outside of formal schooling. With coding becoming a required skill in an increasing number of national curricula (e.g., the United Kingdom, Israel, Estonia, Finland), the ability to think computationally is quickly becoming a primary 21st century "basic" domain of knowledge. The authors of this book investigate how this skill can be taught and its resultant effects on learning throughout a student's education, from elementary school to adult learning.

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  Practicing Critical Pedagogy: The Influences of Joe L. Kincheloe

  Mary Francis Agnello, Akita International University and William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern University

  2016
  

  Georgia Southern faculty member William M. Reynolds co-edited Practicing Critical Pedagogy The Influences of Joe L. Kincheloe.

  
  Part of Critical Studies of Education Series.

  This edited text recaptures many of Joe L. Kincheloe’s national and international influences. An advocate and a scholar in the social, historical, and philosophical foundations of education, he dedicated his professional life to his vision of critical pedagogy. The authors in this volume found mentorship, as well as kinship, in Joe and express the many ways in which he and his work made profound differences in their work and lives. Joe’s research always pushed the limits ... Read more

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  Teaching with Disney

  Julie C. Garlen, Georgia Southern Unversity and Jennifer A. Sandlin, Arizona State University

  4-27-2016
  

  Teaching with Disney, the first comprehensive volume on Disney as cultural pedagogy and classroom praxis, explores what it means to teach, learn, and live in a world where many familiar discourses are dominated by The Walt Disney Company. The book analyzes the ways in which the powerful messages of Disney shape the way we teach and learn. Featuring scholars from a wide range of educational contexts, including educational foundations, art education, higher education, K-12 contexts, adult education, media literacy, critical pedagogy, and curriculum studies, this book is accessible and interesting to a global audience of educational researchers and practitioners as ... Read more

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  Beyond Retention: Cultivating Spaces of Equity, Justice, and Fairness for Women of Color in U.S. Higher Education

  Brenda Marina, Georgia Southern University and Sabrina N. Ross, Georgia Southern University

  4-1-2016
  

  This book addresses the continued underrepresentation of women faculty of color at predominantly White colleges and universities. This text will be of interest to scholars interested in curriculum topics of race, gender, sexuality, and place.

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  Curriculum Studies Guidebooks: Concepts and Theoretical Frameworks

  Marla Morris, Georgia Southern University

  2016
  

  Book Summary: Curriculum Studies Guidebooks treat the (Post)reconceptualization of curriculum studies. The literature reviewed in this volume reflects current issues and discussions taking place in education. This volume is about the intersections among curriculum studies and aesthetics; spirituality; cosmopolitanism; ecology; cultural studies; postcolonialism; poststructuralism; and psychoanalytic theory. These theoretical frameworks will provide students in the field of education with the tools that they need to theorize around the concept of curriculum. This is an interdisciplinary book that will be of interest to students outside the field of education who are studying aesthetics, spirituality, cosmopolitanism, ecology, cultural studies, postcolonialism, poststructuralism, and ... Read more

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  Curriculum Studies Guidebooks: Concepts and Theoretical Frameworks

  Marla Morris, Georgia Southern University

  2016
  

  Book Summary: Curriculum Studies Guidebooks treat the (Post)reconceptualization of curriculum studies. The huge corpus of literature reviewed in this volume reflect current issues and discussions dealing with education. This volume is about the intersections among curriculum studies, history, politics, multiculturalism, gender studies and literary studies. These theoretical frameworks will provide students in the field of education with the tools that they need to theorize around the concept of curriculum. This is an interdisciplinary book and might be of interest to students outside the field of education as well who are studying history, politics, multiculturalism, gender and literary studies. It could ... Read more

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  Expanding Curriculum Theory: Dis/positions and Lines of Flight

  William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern University and Julie Webber, Illinois State University

  5-12-2016
  

  Georgia Southern faculty member William M. Reynolds co-edited Expanding Curriculum Theory Dis/positions and Lines of Flight.

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  Disney, Culture, and Curriculum

  Jennifer A. Sandlin, Arizona State University and Julie C. Garlen, Georgia Southern Unversity

  3-21-2016
  

  A presence for decades in individuals’ everyday life practices and identity formation, the Walt Disney Company has more recently also become an influential element within the "big" curriculum of public and private spaces outside of yet in proximity to formal educational institutions. Disney, Culture, and Curriculum explores the myriad ways that Disney’s curricula and pedagogies manifest in public consciousness, cultural discourses, and the education system. Examining Disney’s historical development and contemporary manifestations, this book critiques and deconstructs its products and perspectives while providing insight into Disney’s operations within popular culture and everyday life in the United States and beyond.

  The ... Read more

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  Examining the Evolution of Gaming and Its Impact on Social, Cultural, and Political Perspectives

  Keri Duncan Valentine, West Virginia University and Lucas J. Jensen, Georgia Southern University

  6-2016
  

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  With complex stories and stunning visuals eliciting intense emotional responses, coupled with opportunities for self-expression and problem solving, video games are a powerful medium to foster empathy, critical thinking, and creativity in players. As these games grow in popularity, ambition, and technological prowess, they become a legitimate art form, shedding old attitudes and misconceptions along the way.

  Examining the Evolution of Gaming and Its Impact on Social, Cultural, and Political Perspectives asks whether videogames have the power to transform a player and his or her beliefs from a sociopolitical perspective. Unlike traditional forms of storytelling, videogames allow users to ... Read more

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  Understanding Curriculum as Phenomenological and Deconstructed Text (Critical Issues in Curriculum)

  William F. Pinar, Louisiana State University and William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern University

  10-1-2015
  

  Georgia Southern faculty member William M. Reynolds co-edited Understanding Curriculum as Phenomenological and Deconstructed Text (Critical Issues in Curriculum) .

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  Posthumanism and Educational Research

  Nathan Snaza, University of Richmond and John A. Weaver, Georgia Southern University

  2015
  

  Focusing on the interdependence between human, animal, and machine, posthumanism redefines the meaning of the human being previously assumed in knowledge production. This movement challenges some of the most foundational concepts in educational theory and has implications within educational research, curriculum design and pedagogical interactions. In this volume, a group of international contributors use posthumanist theory to present new modes of institutional collaboration and pedagogical practice. They position posthumanism as a comprehensive theoretical project with connections to philosophy, animal studies, environmentalism, feminism, biology, queer theory and cognition. Researchers and scholars in curriculum studies and philosophy of education will benefit from ... Read more

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  New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education Series, Vol. 143

  C. Amelia Davis, Georgia Southern University and Joann S. Olson

  10-8-2014
  
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  Quantitative Reasoning in the Context of Energy and Environment: Modeling Problems in the Real World

  Robert L. Mayes, Georgia Southern University and James Myers, University of Wyoming

  11-14-2014
  

  This book incorporates elements of problem-based learning to engage students around grand challenges in energy and environment, place-based leaning to motivate students by relating the problem to their community, and Understanding by Design to ensure that understanding key concepts in STEM is the outcome. The framework has as a basic tenet interdisciplinary STEM approaches to studying real-world problems. Professional learning communities of science and mathematics teachers were consulted to bring multiple lenses to the study of these problems, including the sciences of biology, chemistry, earth systems and physics, technology through data collection tools and computational science modeling approaches, engineering design ... Read more

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  Reclaiming the Sane Society: Essays on Erich Fromm’s Thought

  Seyed Javad Miri, Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies; Robert L. Lake, Georgia Southern University; and Tricia M. Kress, University of Massachusetts Boston

  2014
  

  Lake also co-authored "Fromm’s Dialectic of Freedom and the Praxis of Being" alongside non-faculty member Vicki Dagostino in Reclaiming the Sane Society: Essays on Erich Fromm's Thought.

  Book Summary: Erich Fromm’s body of work, written more than 50 years ago, was prophetic of the contemporary moment: Increasingly, global society is threatened by the many-headed monster of corporate greed, neo-liberalism, nihilism, extreme fundamentalist beliefs, and their resulting effects on the natural world and the lived lives of people. Fromm clearly warned us of the peril of the misuse of technology and the destructive nature of man’s perverse desire to possess, control ... Read more

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  Teaching towards Democracy with Postmodern and Popular Culture Texts

  Patricia Paugh, University of Massachusetts Boston; Tricia M. Kress, University of Massachusetts Boston; and Robert L. Lake, Georgia Southern University

  2014
  

  Georgia Southern University faculty member Katie L. Brkich co-authored “Shadows of the Past: Historical Interpretation, Propaganda Awareness, and the Story of Ender Wiggin” alongside non-faculty members Christopher Andrew Brkich and Tim Barko in Teaching towards Democracy with Postmodern and Popular Culture Texts.

  Lake also co-authored "Exploring the Tensions Between Narrative Imagination and Official Knowledge through the Life of Pi" alongside non-faculty member Laura Rychly in Teaching towards Democracy with Postmodern and Popular Culture Texts.

  Book Summary: This edited volume supports implementation of a critical literacy of popular culture for new times. It explores popular and media texts that are meaningful ... Read more

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  Understanding Curriculum: An Introduction to Historical and Contemporary Discourses

  William F. Pinar, Louisiana State University; William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern University; Patrick Slattery, Texas A&M University; and Peter M. Taubman

  2014
  

  Georgia Southern faculty member William M. Reynolds co-authored Understanding Curriculum: An Introduction to Historical and Contemporary Discourses.

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  Growing up Migrant: Three stories / Creciendo Migrante: Tres Historias / K’enarhán Migrante: T’animu Uándantskua

  Alma D. Stevenson, Georgia Southern University and Scott A. Beck, Georgia Southern University

  2014
  

  An illustrated trilingual (English / Spanish / Tarascan Purhépecha) children’s picture storybook.

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  Collaborative Models for Librarian and Teacher Partnerships

  Kathryn Kennedy, International Association for K-12 Online Learning and Lucy Santos Green, Georgia Southern University

  2013
  

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  Once considered designated storytellers, modern library professionals are emerging as experts in technology integration, information literacy, and curriculum alignment. Though, their collaboration with technology specialists and administrators continues to be a struggle.

  Collaborative Models for Librarian and Teacher Partnerships brings together best practices and innovative technological approaches in establishing the media specialist-teacher partnership. Highlighting theoretical concepts of case based learning, knowledge repositories, and professional learning communities; this book is an essential practical guide for professional development specialists, administrators, library media specialists, as well as teacher educators interested in maintaining and developing collaborative instructional partnerships using emerging digital technologies.

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  A Curriculum of Imagination in an Era of Standardization: An Imaginative Dialogue With Maxine Greene and Paulo Freire

  Robert L. Lake, Georgia Southern University

  3-1-2013
  

  Book Summary: A Curriculum of Imagination in an Era of Standardization In A Curriculum of Imagination in an Era of Standardization: An Imaginative Dialogue with Maxine Greene and Paulo Freire, a volume in Landscapes of Education [Series Editors: William H. Schubert, University of Illinois at Chicago & Ming Fang He, Georgia Southern University], Robert Lake explores with the reader what is meant by imagination in the work of Maxine Greene and Paulo Freire and their relevance in an era of increasingly standardized and highly scripted practices in the field of education. The author explores how imagination permeates every aspect of ... Read more

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  Constructing a Community of Thought: Letters on the Scholarship, Teaching and Mentoring of Vera John-Steiner

  Robert L. Lake, Georgia Southern University and M. Cathrene Connery, Ithaca College

  6-20-2013
  

  Lake also co-authored "Constructing a Community of Thought: Access through Epistolary Understanding" alongside non-faculty member M. Catherene Connery and "Bridges are Made for Movement" in Constructing a Community of Thought: Letters on the Scholarship, Teaching, and Mentoring of Vera John-Steiner.

  Book Summary: This book validates the prolific contribution of Dr. Vera John-Steiner to the social sciences and extends her scholarship, teaching, and mentoring to a new generation of thinkers. Compiled as a companion volume to her Selected Works, the text highlights this scholar’s gifts to psychology, education, linguistics, and the arts through a collection of letters composed by students, colleagues, ... Read more

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  Paulo Freire’s Intellectual Roots: Toward Historicity in Praxis

  Robert L. Lake, Georgia Southern University and Tricia M. Kress, University of Massachusetts Boston

  4-11-2013
  

  Lake also co-authored "A Dialogue Between Marx and Freire" alongside non-faculty member Tricia M. Kress and "Converging Self/Other Awareness: Erich Fromm and Paulo Freire on Transcending the Fear of Freedom" alongside non-faculty member Vicki Dagostino in Paulo Freire’s Intellectual Roots: Toward Historicity in Praxis.

  Book Summary: Paulo Freire's critical pedagogy has had a profound influence on contemporary progressive educators around the globe as they endeavor to rethink education for liberation and the creation of more humane global society. For Freire, maintaining a sense of historicity, that is, the origins from which our thinking and practice emerges, is essential to understanding ... Read more