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Vygotsky on Education Primer
Robert L. Lake, Georgia Southern University
3-31-2012
Book Summary: The Vygotsky on Education Primer serves as an introduction to the life and work of the Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky. Even though he died almost eighty years ago, his life’s work remains both relevant and significant to the field of education today. This book examines Vygotsky’s emphasis on the role of cultural and historical context in learning, while challenging theories that emphasize a universalistic view of learning through fixed, biologically determined stages of development. Given our current preoccupation with standardized outcomes and the corporatization of schooling, Vygotsky’s most important ideas about education need to be reconsidered. The primer ... Read more
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Pervasive Vulnerabilities: Sexual Harassment in School
Regina Rahimi, Armstrong State University and Delores D. Liston, Georgia Southern University
2012
Book Summary: Pervasive Vulnerabilities explores the beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors of adolescent girls and boys and female teachers in order to expose the continuing persistence of sexual harassment in the United States. The book addresses the sexual double standard that continues to hold girls and women accountable for male sexual aggression, and demonstrates that this double standard still dismisses males who harass young women with a cavalier "boys will be boys" attitude, while castigating young women if they express an interest in sexual expression. It discusses issues of sexual harassment through four domains: its impact on women’s lives, sometimes long ... Read more
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Dear Maxine: Letters from the Unfinished Conversation
Robert L. Lake, Georgia Southern University
9-30-2010
Book Summary: This collection brings together a prestigious group of individuals who have wondered, looked at, revised, acted on, questioned, and changed their world because of their connection to American philosopher Maxine Greene. Over 75 teachers, students, colleagues, artists, and others, such as Gloria Ladson-Billings, Herb Kohl, Mike Rose, Deborah Meier, and William Ayers have written edgy, thoughtful letters addressed to Maxine about her work, their own, and the spaces in between. Rather than just thanking this master philosopher/teacher, each sets out to discover some of what they have learned from Maxine Greene and to discuss the continued relevance of ... 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
2010
Georgia Southern faculty member William M. Reynolds co-authored Understanding Curriculum: An Introduction to Historical and Contemporary Discourses.
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Educating the Posthuman: Biosciences, Fiction, and Curriculum Studies
John A. Weaver, Georgia Southern University
2-5-2010
Book Summary: Educating the Posthuman is an exciting and refreshing book. Bravo! This book is unique and unusual. Weaver explores the intersections between literature, biosciences and curriculum theory. Understanding the posthuman best happens when scholars explore these three interrelated areas of study. From Frankenstein to Einstein, Weaver creates a fascinating text that all educators, literary scholars and scientists should read. From the problematics of pharmaceuticals to the promise of scholarly debate, this text dazzles. Weaver argues that the scientific issues of our day are best understood through the study of fiction. What does fiction teach that science does not? Are ... Read more
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On Not Being Able to Play: Scholars, Musicians and the Crisis of the Psyche
Marla Morris, Georgia Southern University
3-5-2009
Book Summary: Scholars and musicians from many different backgrounds will find this book helpful as it deals with psychic problems in both professions. This book might help scholars and musicians to find a way out of their psychic dilemmas. From classical musicians to rock stars, from curriculum theorists to music teachers, from anthropologists to philosophers, this book takes the reader through a rocky intellectual terrain to explore what happens when one can no longer play or work. The driving question of the book is this: What do you do when you cannot do what you were called to do? This ... Read more
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The Civic Gospel: A Political Cartography of Christianity
William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern University and Julie Webber, Illinois State University
2009
Georgia Southern faculty member William M. Reynolds co-authored The Civic Gospel: A Political Cartography of Christianity.
Part of Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education Series, Volume: 29
This book is a result of the times in which we are living. These times demand a response. When the authors began to write this book, it was not popular to dissent against the Bush administration. In fact, dissent was and still is equated with terrorism. Now, it might seem that the tide is turning and maybe after the 2008 election some of this nightmare we have been experiencing will change. At least that ... Read more
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Popular Culture
John A. Weaver, Goergia Southern University
5-19-2009
This revised edition of the Popular Culture Primer is an introductory text that traces the history of popular culture and cultural studies. Besides covering the traditional subjects such as the influence of the Frankfurt School and the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, this book covers the cultural studies of science and technology, the biosciences, drugs, and sports as well as other often-ignored topics such as science fiction, fan cultures, and childhood studies. It looks at the impact these topics have on our understanding of education and popular culture. The Popular Culture Primer is an essential text for any class devoted ... Read more
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Teaching Through the Ill Body: A Spiritual and Aesthetic Approach to Pedagogy and Illness
Marla Morris, Georgia Southern University
6-30-2008
Book Summary: This book raises questions around pedagogy and illness. Morris explores two large issues that run through the text. What does the ill body teach? What does the teacher do through the ill body? The body has something to teach while teaching through the ill body. This book is theoretically framed by connections between spirituality and aesthetics. As the great spiritual traditions teach, our responsibility as teachers is to help others, especially those who are marginalized. What is lacking in our educational discourse is a discussion of the responsibility we all have to help those who get sick and ... 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
2008
Georgia Southern faculty member William M. Reynolds co-authored Understanding Curriculum: An Introduction to Historical and Contemporary Discourses.
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Learning to Teach: Critical Approaches to the Field Experience
Natalie Adams, University of Alabama - Huntsville; Christine Mary Shea, East Carolina University; Delores D. Liston, Georgia Southern University; and Bryan Deever, Georgia Southern University
2006
Book Summary: This text is designed to assist preservice and inservice teachers in creating a critical and reflective dialogue with themselves, their assigned classroom cultures, and the larger school environment. It engages readers in a series of classroom and school-based activities, observations, and exercises that can be used in any teacher education course with a field component. Different from other field experience guides, this text aims to disrupt traditional conceptions of teacher education and field experiences--by emphasizing the problematic nature and dynamics of public schooling, and encouraging readers to seek a greater awareness of their own attitudes toward and connections ... Read more
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Jewish Intellectuals and the University
Marla Morris, Georgia Southern University
2006
Book Summary: Marla Morris explores Jewish intellectuals in society and in the university using psychoanalytic theory. Morris examines Otherness as experienced by Jewish intellectuals who grapple with anti-Semitism within the halls of academia. She claims that academia breeds uncertainty and chaos.
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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
2006
Georgia Southern faculty member William M. Reynolds co-authored Understanding Curriculum: An Introduction to Historical and Contemporary Discourses.
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Popular Culture Primer
John A. Weaver, Goergia Southern University
1-31-2005
The Popular Culture Primer is an introductory text that traces the history of popular culture and cultural studies. Besides covering the traditional subjects such as the influence of the Frankfurt School and the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, this book will cover the cultural studies of science and technology and other subjects that are generally ignored in introductory texts, such as science fiction, fan cultures, and childhood studies. It looks at the impact that these topics have on our understanding of education and popular culture. The Popular Culture Primer is an essential assigned text for any classroom devoted to teaching ... 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
2004
Georgia Southern faculty member William M. Reynolds co-authored Understanding Curriculum: An Introduction to Historical and Contemporary Discourses.
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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
2004
Georgia Southern faculty member William M. Reynolds co-edited Expanding Curriculum Theory: Dis/positions and Lines of Flight.
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Understanding Curriculum (Chinese Translation)
William F. Pinar, Louisiana State University; William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern University; Patrick Slattery, Texas A&M University; and Peter M. Taubman
2003
Georgia Southern faculty member William M. Reynolds co-authored Understanding Curriculum.
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Curriculum: A River Runs Through It
William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern University
2003
Georgia Southern faculty member William M. Reynolds authored Curriculum: A River Runs Through It.
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Science Fiction Curriculum: Cyborg Teachers and Youth Cultures
John A. Weaver, Goergia Southern University; Karen Anijar; and Toby Daspit
11-18-2003
Science Fiction Curriculum, Cyborg Teachers, and Youth Culture(s) is a collection of essays sutured together by their use of science fiction as a departure from contemporary educational «realities». The authors, inspired by the visions, styles, and insights of various science fiction texts, films, and rap music, seek to transform the future of educational possibilities. Science Fiction Curriculum offers alternative paths to current regressive educational practices, policies, and reforms, and invites readers to venture into uncharted dimensions.
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Difficult Memories: Talk in a (Post) Holocaust Era
Marla Morris, Georgia Southern University and John A. Weaver, Georgia Southern University
5-22-2002
Book Summary: Difficult Memories: Talk in a (Post) Holocaust Era attempts a difficult cross-cultural discussion. These scholars agree that the Holocaust is not just in the past – it is with us in memory. Professors and students alike – whether European, American, or Canadian, or whether Holocaust survivors – second or third generation Jews «after» the event are affected/effected by this haunting memory. Here scholars attempt to grapple with trauma, horror, anti-Semitism, hatred, murder, guilt, mourning, and anger – all the unthinkable subject matters that are usually squashed out of our curricula. The authors explore Holocaust issues via fiction, philosophy, ... Read more
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Understanding Curriculum (Korean Translation)
William F. Pinar, Louisiana State University; William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern University; Patrick Slattery, Texas A&M University; and Peter M. Taubman
2002
Georgia Southern faculty member William M. Reynolds co-authored Understanding Curriculum.
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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
2002
Georgia Southern faculty member William M. Reynolds co-authored Understanding Curriculum: An Introduction to Historical and Contemporary Discourses.
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Joy as a Metaphor of Convergence: A Phenomenological and Aesthetic Investigation of Social and Educational Change
Delores D. Liston, Georgia Southern University
10-1-2001
Book Summary: Discusses a major purpose of education - the development of the capacity to interpret experience within a moral and spiritual framework. The metaphor of Joy enables the author to integrate themes of preciousness and meaning of life with processes that facilitate the quest for personal meaning.
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Curriculum and the Holocaust: Competing Sites of Memory and Representation
Marla Morris, Georgia Southern University
3-1-2001
Book Summary: In this book, Morris explores the intersection of curriculum studies, Holocaust studies, and psychoanalysis, using the Holocaust to raise issues of memory and representation. Arguing that memory is the larger category under which history is subsumed, she examines the ways in which the Holocaust is represented in texts written by historians and by novelists. For both, psychological transference, repression, denial, projection, and reversal contribute heavily to shaping personal memories, and may therefore determine the ways in which they construct the past. The way the Holocaust is represented in curricula is the way it is remembered. Interrogations of this ... Read more
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(Post) Modern Science (Education): Propositions and Alternative Paths
John A. Weaver, Georgia Southern University; Marla Morris, Georgia Southern University; and Peter M. Appelbaum, William Paterson University
10-1-2001
Book Summary: These original essays offer new perspectives for science educators, curriculum theorists, and cultural critics on science education, French post-structural thought, and the science debates. Included in this book are chapters on the work of Bruno Latour, Michel Serres, and Jean Baudrillard, plus chapters on postmodern approaches to science education and critiques of modern scientific assumptions in curriculum development.
