Description: Counterpoints publishes the most compelling and imaginative books being written in education today. Grounded on the theoretical advances in criticalism, feminism and postmodernism in the last two decades of the twentieth century, Counterpoints engages the meaning of these innovations in various forms of educational expression. Committed to the proposition that theoretical literature should be accessible to a variety of audiences, the series insists that its authors avoid esoteric and jargonistic languages that transform educational scholarship into an elite discourse for the initiated.
Review Quotes: «At this point in the history of education, it's easy to be cynical about social justice. Too often it seems like talk without action, the wishful thinking of theorists and academics who fail to follow their ideas into real classrooms and see what happens when things get messy. The essays in this book are different. They tell stories that become bridges between ideas and actions. Such stories, by being true to the complexities of teaching for social justice, make it possible to be hopeful again.» (Don Zancanella, Professor of English Education, University of New Mexico)