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Higher Education and Society by Joseph L. DeVitis 9781433128714
RRP: $240.73Booksplease Price: $214.83Higher education and society are becoming increasingly intertwined. Both act as a transmitter of culture, yet many colleges and universities also ideally seek to create a more perfectible society and... -
Higher Education and Society by Joseph L. DeVitis 9781433128707
RRP: $61.72Booksplease Price: $57.08Higher education and society are becoming increasingly intertwined. Both act as a transmitter of culture, yet many colleges and universities also ideally seek to create a more perfectible society and... -
Adolescent Education: A Reader by Joseph L. DeVitis 9781433105050
RRP: $223.08Booksplease Price: $201.06Written by a prominent array of scholars and practitioners, this book elucidates the complexities, contradictions, and confusion surrounding adolescence in American culture and education. For too... -
Human Flourishing and Higher Education by Joseph L DeVitis 9798887307480
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $131.82This book provides a more overarching, inclusive, appraisal of "human flourishing," especially as it applies to the larger society and higher education. In an increasingly fractured world, it is... -
Contemporary Colleges and Universities: A Reader by Joseph L. DeVitis 9781433116018
RRP: $85.61Booksplease Price: $78.21Today's colleges and universities face countless uncharted challenges and possibilities. They are often prized as national treasures, yet, in tough economic times, they are becoming a major focus of... -
Popular Educational Classics: A Reader by Joseph L. DeVitis 9781433128332
RRP: $85.61Booksplease Price: $78.21The last half century has created deep tensions in how we analyze educational and social change. Educators, policymakers, and concerned citizens have had to cope with competing belief systems in... -
Human Flourishing and Higher Education by Joseph L DeVitis 9798887307473
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $75.80This book provides a more overarching, inclusive, appraisal of "human flourishing," especially as it applies to the larger society and higher education. In an increasingly fractured world, it is... -
Character and Moral Education: A Reader by Joseph L. DeVitis 9781433111006
RRP: $198.51Booksplease Price: $164.19This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2012. Against a formidable national discourse that emphasizes academic standardization, accountability,... -
School Reform Critics: The Struggle for Democratic Schooling by Joseph L. DeVitis 9781433120404
RRP: $206.70Booksplease Price: $183.46Much of school reform during the past decade has been influenced by neoliberal and neoconservative economic and social policies and Rightist politics. Although the authors of School Reform Critics do... -
Colleges at the Crossroads: Taking Sides on Contested Issues by Joseph L. DeVitis 9781433134227
RRP: $176.48Booksplease Price: $156.45Focusing on crucial issues in higher education, this book challenges readers to go beyond taken-for-granted assumptions about America's colleges and universities and instead critically examine... -
Critically Engaged Learning: Connecting to Young Lives by Joseph L. DeVitis 9781433101564
Booksplease Price: $164.79This book – the finale in a trilogy by the authors – traces the way in which a number of disadvantaged schools and communities were able to move beyond deficit, victim-blaming and pathologizing... -
Making College Better: Views from the Top by Joseph L. DeVitis 9781433134791
RRP: $85.90Booksplease Price: $77.90Today's colleges and universities are facing mounting criticism from both internal and external interest groups and constituencies. While strident calls for reform accelerate, resources for higher... -
Post-Truth’s Assault on America’s Schools and Colleges Joseph L. DeVitis 9781805927068
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $84.53Post-Truth's Assault on America's Schools and Colleges presents a wide-ranging analysis of the psychological, historical, philosophical, and socio-political perspectives on how the post-truth age has... -
Post-Truth’s Assault on America’s Schools and Colleges Joseph L. DeVitis 9781805927044
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $139.76Post-Truth's Assault on America's Schools and Colleges presents a wide-ranging analysis of the psychological, historical, philosophical, and socio-political perspectives on how the post-truth age has... -
Student Activism in the Academy: Its Struggles and Promise by Joseph L. DeVitis 9781975500368
Booksplease Price: $95.76Student Activism in the Academy: Its Struggles and Promise is a wide-ranging, provocative survey of student activism in America's colleges and universities that critically analyzes the contentious... -
Colleges at the Crossroads: Taking Sides on Contested Issues by Joseph L. DeVitis 9781433134210
RRP: $104.91Booksplease Price: $94.83Focusing on crucial issues in higher education, this book challenges readers to go beyond taken-for-granted assumptions about America's colleges and universities and instead critically examine... -
Making College Better: Views from the Top by Joseph L. DeVitis 9781433134807
RRP: $152.59Booksplease Price: $135.31Today's colleges and universities are facing mounting criticism from both internal and external interest groups and constituencies. While strident calls for reform accelerate, resources for higher... -
The Future of American Higher Education: How Today's Public Intellectuals Frame the Debate by Joseph L. DeVitis
RRP: $68.23Booksplease Price: $62.48Just as our society is polarized, higher education is no less divided as to its mission and purpose, whether it should be preparing students for employment or for engagement as citizens, whether it... -
Critical Pedagogy, Sexuality Education and Young People: Issues about Democracy and Active Citizenry by Fida Sanjakdar 9781433134630
RRP: $89.21Booksplease Price: $80.75Critical Pedagogy, Sexuality Education and Young People presents cutting-edge empirical and theoretical research on the role of critical pedagogy in transforming sexuality education. Featuring the... -
Today's College Students: A Reader by Pietro A. Sasso
RRP: $85.61Booksplease Price: $78.21America's undergraduates truly represent a mind-boggling diversity. Today's College Students: A Reader looks at a wide variety of student groups and identities, which sets it apart from other texts... -
Living on the Edge: Rethinking Poverty, Class and Schooling, Second Edition by John Smyth 9781433135101
RRP: $85.90Booksplease Price: $77.90Living on the Edge: Rethinking Poverty, Class and Schooling, Second Edition confronts one of the most enduring and controversial issues in education-the nexus between poverty and underachievement... -
Critically Engaged Learning: Connecting to Young Lives by John Smyth 9781433101557
RRP: $48.95Booksplease Price: $46.06This book - the finale in a trilogy by the authors - traces the way in which a number of disadvantaged schools and communities were able to move beyond deficit, victim-blaming and pathologizing...