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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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  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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  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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  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

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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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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

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  A Curriculum of Place: Understandings Emerging through the Southern Mist

  William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern University

  2013
  

  Georgia Southern faculty member William M. Reynolds edited A Curriculum of Place Understandings Emerging Through the Southern Mist.

  Part of Counterpoints Series, Volume 412.

  Since the United States has gone South in a number of respects, it is crucial to our understandings of ourselves and our current milieu to peer through the mist that covers the intricacies of the culture and history of the South. A Curriculum of Place: Understandings Emerging through the Southern Mist presents new and provocative insights into the study of curriculum and place focusing on the South. The essays emphasize understanding the importance of Southern place ... Read more

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  Critical Studies of Southern Place: A Reader

  William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern University

  9-2013
  

  Georgia Southern University faculty member William M. Reynolds co-authored Critical Studies of Southern Place: A Reader.

  Part of Counterpoints Series, Volume 434.

  Critical Studies of Southern Place: A Reader critically investigates and informs the construction of Southernness, Southern identity, and the South past and present. It promotes and expands the notion of a Southern epistemology. Authors from across the South write about such diverse topics as Southern working-class culture; LGBT issues in the South; Southern music; Southern reality television; race and ethnicity in the South; religion in the South; sports in the South; and Southernness. How do these multiple interpretations ... Read more

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  We Saved the Best for You: Letters of Hope, Imagination and Wisdom for 21st Century Educators

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

  12-7-2012
  

  Lake also authored "Reigniting Radical Hope and Social Imagination in 'Dark Times'" alongside non-faculty member Tricia M. Kress and "Imagination, Play and Becoming the Text" in We Saved the Best for You: Letters of Hope, Imagination and Wisdom for 21st Century Educators.

  Book Summary: As standardization and “accountability” have continued to increase in the 21st century, educators and scholars of education have become increasingly frustrated. Yet as frustrated as we are, it is essential that we not send to our our students, children, grandchildren the message that the past was better and they “should have been there.” Instead, we must ... Read more

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  Dear Nel: Opening the Circles of Care (Letters to Nel Noddings)

  Robert L. Lake, Georgia Southern University

  3-9-2012
  

  Book Summary: This collection is a moving tribute to Nel Noddings, a fascinating and influential scholar who has contributed greatly to numerous fields, including education, feminism, ethics, and the study of social justice and equity. Dear Nel: Opening the Circles of Care presents contributions from renowned teachers, educators, and activists, such as David Berliner, Jim Garrison, Madeline Grumet, Denis Phillips, William H. Schubert, Barbara Thayer-Bacon, Cristina Igoa, Eva Feder Kittay, Riane Eisler, and Sara Ruddick. Each provides a personal tribute to Noddings, highlighting stories of her lived experience and drawing on her writing and teaching. This unique volume includes an ... Read more