CATALYSTICS: Classroom Analytics for Teaching about Social Justice in Higher Learning can serve as the genesis for moving the usual mission statements promulgated by so many universities and colleges from the maintained pontification to the movement of proof. 
We use the word, CATALYSTICS to create a confluence between the terms catalytical and analytics, resulting in our subtitle about classroom instruction with action research for catalytical change. 
 Action research literacy empowers us to do this and it should be used for teaching about social justice. As our new global society continues to struggle with finding answers to complex questions concerning economic decline, racial and religious conflict, health disparities, corporate ethics, global warming, national and global security, technological reliance, educational failure and many other compelling challenges impacting the human condition, the demand to conduct actionable research to resolve real life problems becomes more amplified and the revelations of the research findings become more pronounced to society and the social justice within society. 
Time is of the essence, the greater good is at stake, the bigger picture is losing focus, the larger context is losing meaning, and change must come sooner than later as the world continues to terribly troubled, broadly broken and widely wounded. Integrating action research for social justice in reflective teaching can empower those to lead.

Catalytics

Education & Teaching

Joseph Martin Stevenson

Richard A. Schmuck

Karen C. Wilson

Higher & Continuing Education

Academica Press

The authors have not considered a traditional executive summary for this book so that readers will read and absorb the entire the book to capture the essence, content and scope of this timely publication. Their experience has been that, too often, college students limit their reading of material about race to synopses versus synergies of information. The primary purpose of this holistic handbook is to provide guiding prescriptive principles toward institutionalization of policies and practices that foster global diversity and local inclusion in institutions of higher learning in the aftermath of the unsettling and disturbing racial incidents in the Deep South following the re-election President Barack H. Obama.
 Ironically, President Obama was criticized in 2013 for the lack of leadership diversity (especially women) among his cabinet and senior staff. In any event, this handbook has been conceptualized based on the individual, collective and culminating Southern ''cotton to'' experiences of the five authors from both predominantly/historically White institutions of higher learning (PWIs) and predominately/historically Black institutions of higher learning (HBCUs). Both institutional communities can use this book to create campus climate and culture for global diversity and local inclusion. The handbook encompasses seven chapters, seven conceptual frameworks in a logic model, and seven steps for campus-community collaboration. The book also highlights three dimensional circular themes and threads from spirituality in the preface and the initial chapter from several faiths and religions to introduce and symbolize spiritually different yet commonly denominating doctrines from around the world. We believe these themes and threads represent the Commonwealth of intellectual intersections in modern academe, driven by diverse intellectual capital and inclusive cerebral currency. This book was written to encourage systemic, holistic and systematic inputs, operations, outputs, outcomes and impacts that yield returns on investment (ROI) from campus-wide implementation of global diversity and local inclusion efforts.
 Academica Press is an independent scholarly press specializing in publishing monographs and reference material in the humanities and social sciences. We are particularly interested in producing works of scholarly interest English language studies, literary history and criticism ,drama, sociology, education and Irish studies. (Our dedicated imprint, Maunsel &amp; Co., specializes in scholarly research in Irish studies.) We have recently developed projects in African and Afro-American research areas as well as Theology and Legal Studies. 
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 -American 19th- and 20th-Century Language and Literature -British 19th- and 20th-Century Language and Literature -Irish Studies -African Studies and African-American Studies -Law, including Sports Law -Higher Education -English Church History

FOR THE GREATER GOOD OF OUR PLACE: Living, Learning and Leading with Global Diversity and Local Inclusion From Holistic Higher Learning

Politics & Social Sciences

Carrine H. Bishop

Jacquelyn C. Franklin

Jerry Watson

Sociology

Academica Press,LLC

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