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Last Updated: 6-May-2015

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Background information

Handbook of social justice in education / edited by William Ayers, Therese Quinn, David Stovall.
New York : Routledge, 2009.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC71 .H364 2009

New books

Because of our success : the changing racial and ethnic ancestry of Blacks on affirmative action / Kevin D. Brown.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC213.52 .B76 2014
Interrogating critical pedagogy : the voices of educators of color in the movement / edited by Pierre Wilbert Orelus and Rochelle Brock.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC196 .I68 2015
The theory and practice of development education : a pedagogy for global social justice / Douglas Bourn.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC196 .B68 2015
Collaborative imagination : earning activism through literacy education / Paul Feigenbaum.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC151 .F45 2015
Longing for justice : higher education and democracy's agenda / Jennifer S. Simpson.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC71 .S54 2014
The activist learner : inquiry, literacy, and service to make learning matter / Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Whitney Douglas, Sara W. Fry ; foreword by Mary Beth Tinker ; afterword by Bruce Novak.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC220.5 .W555 2014
Practice-oriented.
Knowledge and the future school : curriculum and social justice / Michael Young and David Lambert with Carolyn Roberts and Martin Roberts.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1564 .G7 Y68 2014
Leadership for social justice in higher education : the legacy of the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program / edited by Terance W. Bigalke and Mary S. Zurbuchen.
First edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2338 .L37 2014
Contemporary issues of equity in education / edited by Susanne Gannon and Wayne Sawyer.
Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC213.3 .A97 C66 2014
Conflict, reconciliation and peace education : moving Burundi toward a sustainable future / by William M. Timpson, Elavie Ndura and Apollinaire Bangayimbaga.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » JZ5584 .B94 T56 2014
Deschooling the imagination : critical thought as social practice / Eric J. Weiner.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC196.5 .U6 W446 2014
The importance of teaching social issues : our pedagogical creeds / edited by Samuel Totten.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC192.2 .I47 2015
First Freire : early writings in social justice education / Carlos Alberto Torres ; foreword by Moacir Gadotti.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB880 .F732 T673 2014
Standing up for something every day : ethics and justice in early childhood classrooms / Beatrice S. Fennimore ; foreword by Celia Genishi.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1139.23 .F46 2014
Practice-oriented.
Internationalizing teacher education for social justice : theory, research, and practice / edited by Suniti Sharma (Saint Joseph's University), JoAnn Phillion, Jubin Rahatzad, Hannah L. Sasser (Purdue University).
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1707 .I67 2014
Education, justice and the human good : fairness and equality in the education system / edited by Kirsten Meyer.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC213.2 .E393 2014
Pedagogy of solidarity / Paulo Freire (Patron of Brazilian Education), Ana Maria Araújo Freire, Walter de Oliveira.
Expanded and revised English language edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC196 .F738 2014
Reading between the lines : activities for developing social awareness literacy / edited by Joanne Kilgour Dowdy and Kenneth Cushner.
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, c2014.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC192 .R43 2014
Practice-oriented.
Social justice and the University : globalization, human rights, and the future of democracy / edited by Jon Shefner, Harry F. Dahms, Robert Emmet Jones, and Asafa Jalata (University of Tennessee, USA).
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC191.9 .S62 2014
Education-based incarceration and recidivism : the ultimate social justice crime-fighting tool / edited by Brian D. Fitch (Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Inmate Services Bureau), and Anthony H. Normore (California State University Dominguez Hills).
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » HV6049 .E38 2012
Community education for social justice / edited by Cameron White (University of Houston, Texas, USA).
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC1036 .C66 2014
Education, privatisation and social justice : case studies from Africa, South Asia and South East Asia / edited by Ian Macpherson, Susan Robertson & Geoffrey Walford.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2806.36 .E38 2014
Developing and assessing personal and social responsibility in college / Robert D. Reason, editor.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2300 .N5 NO.164
Case studies on diversity and social justice education / Paul C. Gorski and Seema G. Pothini.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC1099 .G67 2014
Education and social justice in a digital age / Rosamund Sutherland.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC192.2 .S88 2014
Educational leadership for ethics and social justice : views from the social sciences / edited by Anthony H. Normore, California State University Dominguez Hills, Jeffrey S. Brooks, University of Idaho.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2806 .E4225 2014
Social class, language and power : "Letter to a teacher" : Lorenzo Milani and the school of Barbiana / Carmel Borg, Mario Cardona and Sandro Caruana.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC191.8 .I8 B67 2013
Transformation now! : toward a post-oppositional politics of change / AnaLouise Keating.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » HQ1190 .K4 2013
Professional development schools and social justice : schools and universities partnering to make a difference / editors, Kristien Zenkov, Diane Corrigan, Ronald S. Beebe, Corey R. Sell.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2154 .A3 P725 2013

Journals

Education, citizenship and social justice [electronic resource].
[Thousand Oaks, CA ; London] : SAGE Publications, 2006-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
"Education, Citizenship and Social Justice provides a strategic forum for international and multi-disciplinary dialogue for all academic educators and educational policy-makers concerned with the meanings and form of citizenship and social justice as these are realised throughout the time spent in educational institutions."

Databases

Education databases

ERIC [electronic resource] : the educational resources information center.
[Washington, DC : National Library of Education?, 199?-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Bibliographic database of educational resources including articles, reports, and curriculum.
Education full text [electronic resource].
[Bronx, N.Y.] : H.W. Wilson Co.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Indexes and abstracts articles of English-language periodicals and books on education from 1983 on. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996 and is available for over half the 600 journals indexed.
Education week American education news site of record [electronic resource].
Bethesda, MD : Editorial Projects in Education, Inc.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Teachers College record book reviews [electronic resource].
Birmingham, AL : Teachers College Record
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
"Teachers College Record Book Reviews provides comprehensive reviews of the leading books in education and educational research by major scholars in these fields. "

Related Databases

PAIS international in print.
New York, N.Y. : Public Affairs Information Service, Inc., 1991-
Green Library » InfoCenter (non-circulating) » Z7163 .P3 V.24 PT.2 2015
Indexes selected books, government documents, and periodical articles on contemporary public issues and the making of public policy.
Sociological abstracts.
[San Diego, etc., Sociological Abstracts, inc.]
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » HM1 .S67 V.52:NO.6 2004
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

Websites

Center for Educational Leadership & Social Justice

"The UCEA Center for Educational Leadership and Social Justice is a community of academics and practitioners working to bridge the gap between educational leadership and social justice. Our work involves bringing together stakeholders from schools, the academy and communities to work on the behalf of young people."

Doerr Center for Social Justice Education & Research

"The Emmet J. and Mary Martha Doerr Center for Social Justice Education and Research is an independently funded center within the School of Social Work [Saint Louis University] that promotes long range solutions to social problems through education and research."

Rethinking Schools

"Founded in 1986 by activist teachers, Rethinking Schools is a nonprofit, independent publisher of educational materials. We advocate the reform of elementary and secondary education, with a strong emphasis on issues of equity and social justice."