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The Abandoned Generation: Democracy Beyond The Culture Of Fear
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nry Giroux argues that the US is at war with young people. No longer seen as the future of a democratic society, youth are now derided by politicians looking for quick-fix solutions to crime and demonized by the popular media. This perception of fear and disdain is being translated into social policy. Instead of providing a decent education to young people, we offer them the increasing potential of being inc...
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Work, Language and Education in the Industrial State
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Michael Duane |
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Another classic in the Freedom Press Anarchist Discussion Series. Articulates the important connections between the nature of work in industrial society, the exercise of linguistic skills and the importance of an educational understanding and experience of making decisions over matters that affect them.
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The Modern School of Stelton: A Sketch
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Joseph J. Cohen, Alexis C. Ferm, Harry Kelly (Contributor), and Leonard Abbott (Contributor) |
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This Southpaw Culture edition of The Modern School of Stelton reproduces the original text, including essays by Joseph Cohen, Alexis Ferm, Harry Kelly and Leonard Abbott. These writings, plus twenty photographs by Oscar Steckbardt, provide a compelling portrait of the special community and its flagship school.
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Freedom In Education
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Elizabeth Byrne Ferm |
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In 1920, after years of running the Neighborhood Playhouse and Workshop kindergarten, Elizabeth Byrne Ferm and her husband Alexis became co-principals at the Modern School of Stelton, New Jersey, the pioneer libertarian school. Assembled from Ferm's contributions to Stelton's The Modern School magazine, Freedom in Education is a classic text in child development and anarchist theory.
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My Mother Wears Combat Boots: A Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us
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Jessica Mills |
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Jessica Mills is a touring musician, artist, activist, writer, teacher, and mother of two. Disappointed by run-of-the-mill parenting books that didn't speak to her experience, she set out to write a book tackling the issues faced by a new generation of moms and dads. The result is a parenting guide like no other. Written with humor, extensive research, and much trial and error, My Mother Wears Combat Boot...
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The Long Journey of Mister Poop
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Marie Lafrance (Illustrator) and Angèle Delaunois |
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A smart wolf in a lab coat leads kids on a journey through their digestive system. A little girl eats an apple for a snack (crunch, crunch), and the apple drops into the esophagus (glug, glug) before a stop in the stomach. At each stop along the way the wolf explains in simple scientific terms what the body is doing. After the pit stop in the stomach, what remains of the apple must enter the small intestine ...
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The No-Nonsense Guide To World Poverty
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Jeremy Seabrook |
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Why are so many people poor in a world that's richer than ever before? Seabrook summarizes his celebrated work on the meaning of poverty, drawing on the experience of poor people themselves in both rich and poor societies. He concludes that the opposite of poverty is not wealth but 'sufficiency'. The relatively poor majority of the world's people do not aim to be rich, but to be safe. Economic growth will ne...
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Race, Poverty & The Environment: A Journal For Social And Environmental Justice - Educating for Equity
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Ben Clarke (Editor), Maya Harris (Contributor), Michelle Rodriguez (Contributor), Kathy Emery (Contributor), Preeti Shekar (Contributor), and Diana Pei Wu (Contributor) |
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This summer's United States Social Forum was singularly successful in its use of popular education, holding over a thousand workshops in three days. This issue of Race, Poverty and the Environment opens with a quick look at the forum and then delves into the many complex ways people are using education to strengthen the movements for social justice.
We start by acknowledging that the strugg...
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All Alone In The World: Childern Of The Incarcerated
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Nell Bernstein |
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n this "moving condemnation of the U.S. penal system and its effect on families" (Parents' Press), award-winning journalist Nell Bernstein takes an intimate look at parents and children — over two million of them — torn apart by our current incarceration policy. Described as "meticulously reported and sensitively written" by Salon, the book is "brimming with compelling case studies ...
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Tearing Down The Gates: Confronting The Class Divide In American Education
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Peter Sacks |
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We often hear about the growing divide between rich and poor in America. This compelling exposé, backed by up-to-date research, locates the source of this trend where we might least expect to find it - in our schools. Written for a wide audience, Tearing Down the Gates is a powerful indictment of American education that shows how schools, colleges, and universities exacerbate inequality by prov...
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