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Politics, Education, and Social Problems

Complicated Classroom Conversations

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • Combines on-the-ground teaching experience with academic specialty
  • Includes case studies situated within the current political climate, as well as the era of standardized testingand career-readiness education
  • Offers recommendations that will have a broad appeal to educators, policymakers, parents, scholars, and those interested in how to construct a more civil society

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Education as Politics

    • Jennifer Rich
    Pages 1-9
  3. “We Exist”: Gender and Education

    • Jennifer Rich
    Pages 49-61
  4. Classroom Conversations About Gun Violence

    • Jennifer Rich
    Pages 73-80
  5. How Do We Get There?

    • Jennifer Rich
    Pages 81-89
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 91-105

About this book

This book offers an innovative perspective on the intersection of politics, education, and social problems.  It considers how we can create social change by talking about politics and social problems in more open, direct, and inclusive ways in educational spaces. Drawing on data from a range of settings, this book closely examines how and when complicated conversations take place in classrooms, schools, and communities. The book tackles a series of hot-button, timely issues, including race, religion, politics, and gender, and turns a critical eye to schools and the communities in which they are situated; the conversations adults have—and pointedly ignore—with one another; and, perhaps most critically, the politics that shape our society.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Sociology and Anthropology, Rowan University, Glassboro, USA

    Jennifer Rich

About the author

Jennifer Rich is the Executive Director of the Rowan Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Rowan University, USA. Her work appears in Hechinger ReportThe ConversationThe Philadelphia InquirerEdWeek, and The Washington Post.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Politics, Education, and Social Problems

  • Book Subtitle: Complicated Classroom Conversations

  • Authors: Jennifer Rich

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76085-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-76084-7Published: 18 June 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-76085-4Published: 17 June 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 105

  • Topics: Education, general, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education

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eBook USD 54.99
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  • Read on any device
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  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 69.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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