UNDERSTANDING EDUCATION AND POLICY
Editors: William T. Pink and George W. Noblit
This series employs a variety of perspectives to better understand the aims, practices, substance, and contexts of schooling, and to explore the meaning of this analysis for a reconceptualization of educational policy. The primary intent is to redirect the language used, the voices included in the conversation, and the range of issues addressed in the current debate concerning educational policy. In doing this, the series also explores the different conceptions and experiences that surface from analysis across racial, class, gender, and ethnic differences.
Books addressed in the series are grounded in the contextual lives of the major actors in schools--students, teachers, administrators, parents and policymakers. They focus on and integrate where appropriate, education and policy across the range of formal educational institutions (preschool through postsecondary) as well as other key areas that cross-cut school and youth development--home, community, peer groups, work, and juvenile justice. The challenge is to fully explore life in schools through the multiple lenses of these various perspectives and within the context in which actors and schools are situated. Such a range of empirically sound and theoretically challenging work provides a basis for a fundamental but urgently needed rethinking of the content, process and context for school reform.
To submit a book proposal contact either:
William T. Pink Marquette University Schroeder Health Complex 176 POB 1881 Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881 414.288.7251 (office) 414.288.3945 (fax) email: william.pink@marquette.edu |
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George W. Noblit School of Education CB# 3500 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599 919.962.2513 (office) email: gwn@email.unc.edu |