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This edited volume brings together work from leading scholars and new voices in the field of emotional intelligence. It examines emotional intelligence from the perspectives of educational psychology and positive psychology, with integrations across the two disciplines. Viewing emotional intelligence through these frameworks allows and illuminates the exploration of its positive potential and of emotional processing in contexts such as schools and workplaces. Readers will find leading empirical and theoretical views on emotional intelligence presented in this comprehensive collection, as well as inspiration for future research.

Drawing on critical race theory and empirical data from case studies involving fifty men of African descent, this book presents a perspective on black masculinity, maleness, sexism, and institutional racism.

Includes critical explorations into the key philosophical issues in qualitative research could throw light on distortions, power relations, hidden assumptions and possibilities within the field, and could provide the groundwork for needed change and new directions.

A collection of letters from leading educators and scholars to practicing and future teachers. It offers advice, encouragement, and inspiration in the form of innovative ideas to ignite teachers' passion for their work in the midst of a range of discouraging situations.

A collection of letters from leading educators and scholars to practicing and future teachers. It offers advice, encouragement, and inspiration in the form of innovative ideas to ignite teachers' passion for their work in the midst of a range of discouraging situations.

Ghosts of No Child Left Behind

Through the eyes of Muslim teachers, students, and members of Islamic communities, this title offers a comprehensive understanding of the problems, perspectives, and possibilities of sexuality education for Muslim youth living in the West. It explores how these youth negotiate between Muslim and popular cultural constructions of sexuality.

Critical Essays on Resistance in Education

Does Your Vote Count?

Einstein and Zen

This book recounts the life and thought of Paulo Freire, a man who appeared at a critical point in history, and whose courageous, prophetic voice of conscience remains extraordinarily relevant.

Presents portraits of a small group of teen mothers trying to finish high school, and describes ways in which reading, writing, and schooling shaped these young women's lives. This book suggests ways in which deeply held ideas about class, appropriate gender roles, and expression of emotion in school affect educators' relationships with students.

Integrating Multiculturalism into the Curriculum: From the Liberal Arts to the Sciences is a reader that introduces the Multicultural Curriculum Transformation and Research Institute, a successful multicultural curriculum transformation paradigm that is a model for colleges and universities across the country and abroad.

A compilation of personal essays by lesbian teachers and students who speak about sexual identity and its influence on the teaching and learning process. It provides twenty-six essays that give readers the opportunity to recognize, connect with, and critically think about the personal and political challenges.

Stimulates conversation among liberal arts and education professionals as well as inform public school teachers about the life and times of Frederick Douglass. This book facilitates conversation, addressing the liberal arts professor's concern with content and the education professor's concern with pedagogy.

Stimulates conversation among liberal arts and education professionals as well as inform public school teachers about the life and times of Frederick Douglass. This book facilitates conversation, addressing the liberal arts professor's concern with content and the education professor's concern with pedagogy.

Gives a voice to undocumented Americans of Mexican origin. This book is about their stories and how, against the odds, they offer resistance as they navigate across ideological, historical, socio-economic, institutional and educational borders, in an effort to carve out a life in US society.

Looks at the place of movement in young children's lives and addresses how movement as a form of expression can become dance, thus displacing a reliance on linguistic modes of expression and honoring the agency of the body.

Constructing Critical Consciousness unmasks the everyday colonizing operations of hegemonic power, often under the guise of progressive language. Through critical multicultural research and critical race, class, and gender narratives, the book exposes some of the barriers encountered in challenging hegemony and offers ideas for interrupting hegemony in teacher and K-12 education.

Come Closer

Edward Said has been acknowledged as one of the greatest critics and cultural theorists of our time. This book translates Said's complex theory into praxis for readers and educators by gleaning key concepts and methodologies, critical and conceptual frameworks, and uses and ramifications for academic critique.

Unmasks the neoliberal ideology that led modern civilization to withdraw from its previous accomplishments into what may be called the new Dark Ages. In this book, the international group of contributors aggressively rejects the siege of society by capitalism and the resulting deterioration.

Profiles teachers, students, and schools struggling to interrupt the reproduction of social inequalities from one generation to the next. This title illustrates how forces of globalization create greater inequalities, and carefully describes and evaluates efforts to democratize educational opportunities.

Profiles teachers, students, and schools struggling to interrupt the reproduction of social inequalities from one generation to the next. This title illustrates how forces of globalization create greater inequalities, and carefully describes and evaluates efforts to democratize educational opportunities.