Curriculum, Foundations & Reading: Faculty Bookshelf

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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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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