Product Description
by Shirley R. Steinberg (Other), Kevin K. Kumashiro (Editor), Bic Ngo (Editor)
This book spotlights six themes or lenses for understanding and analyzing education and its relation to oppression and anti-oppressive transformation. It brings together multiple perspectives on anti-oppressive education from various contexts, including K-12 schools, teacher education programs, postsecondary institutions, and community-based organizations.
Author Biography
Bic Ngo is an Associate Professor of Culture and Teaching in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota. She received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Unresolved Identities: Discourse, Ambivalence and Urban Immigrant Identities (SUNY) and the recent recipient of the Scholars Award from the William T. Grant Foundation and the Early Career Award from the Committee on Scholars of Color in Education, American Education Research Association.
Kevin Kumashiro is dean of the School of Education at the University of San Francisco. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was formerly professor of Asian American Studies and chair of the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he also served as primary investigator and director of a $4 million U.S. Department of Education grant-funded initiative to support Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, and English-language learners in higher education. He is the award-winning author or editor of nine books on education and social justice, including «Bad Teacher!: How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture.» He is the founding director of the Center for Anti-Oppressive Education, and the president of the National Association for Multicultural Education.
