During the 1980s, religious conservativism gained momentum in Egypt after military defeats and major social and economic upheavals. A few months after Sadat’s assassination by religious extremists in 1981 a column appeared in Al-Ahram responding to letters of Egyptians caught in the problems of daily living. The columnist, Abdul Wahab al-Mutawa, a self-proclaimed humanist, published complaints about government services, and offered solutions to personal problems. He felt people suffered from straying too far from time-tested social traditions. He saw some good in religious conservativism when people sought happiness in family life, but criticized radicals with unrealistic dreams through messages embedded in his columns.
 Also appearing were advice columns written by religious sheikhs mostly affiliated with Al-Azhar University. These columns described Islam’s relevance to modern life and answered questions on religious practice. As competitors, it’s easier to see how these columns were shaped to counter the extremists. But these state-salaried writers showed a perplexing ambivalence by sometimes supporting the government and sometimes extremists. Only in retrospect can we see why this happened. 
 This book is the first to plumb the depths of personal experience in the volatile 1980s, showing people’s desire for moral certainty and laying the groundwork for the disruptions behind the Uprising of 2011. The book describes the columnists’ prescriptions for leading the good life, how they modeled “moderation” and the influences that discouraged their full candor.

Egyptian Advice Columnists: Envisioning the Good Life in an Era of Extremism (Critical Pedagogy)

Politics & Social Sciences

Rugh, Andrea B.

Social Sciences

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Double Dads One Teen: A Queer Family's Trailblazing Life in the USA and Taiwan (Critical Pedagogy)

Who knew that when two men met for a first date in Chicago, Illinois on a subzero January day in the middle of winter in 1995 that it would lead to a 25-year loving relationship. Meet Stuart and Lance Chen-Hayes and follow their journey in the USA and Taiwan as they buildtheir family and fight multiple legal barriers along the way from basic health care rights to domestic partnership, to civil union, to legal state and national marriage in the USA and fighting for marriage equalityin Taiwan and immigration rights as a mixed-race, dual-national, multilingual queer family. Learn about the extraordinary gift that led to their becoming parents of Kalani and the ongoing legal challenges to protect their family on two continents. Enjoy the multiple rituals the couple developed to celebrate and affirm their lovefrom a sacred commitment ceremony to a special coming out ceremony for their teen. Learn from their experiences as gay dads with schools that were affirming and problematic for a 2-generation queer family that includes Taiwan’s first out gay father and Taiwan’s first teen dual national with 2 dads’ names on both an international birth certificate and an international marriage license. Experience the power of fighting hate with love through being out, loud, and proud.

Chen-Hayes, Stuart F.

Biographies & Memoirs

Who knew that when two men met for a first date in Chicago, Illinois on a subzero January day in the middle of winter in 1995 that it would lead to a 25-year loving relationship. Meet Stuart and Lance Chen-Hayes and follow their journey in the USA and Taiwan as they build their family and fight multiple legal barriers along the way from basic health care rights to domestic partnership, to civil union, to legal state and national marriage in the USA and fighting for marriage equality in Taiwan and immigration rights as a mixed-race, dual-national, multilingual queer family. Learn about the extraordinary gift that led to their becoming parents of Kalani and the ongoing legal challenges to protect their family on two continents. Enjoy the multiple rituals the couple developed to celebrate and affirm their love from a sacred commitment ceremony to a special coming out ceremony for their teen. Learn from their experiences as gay dads with schools that were affirming and problematic for a 2-generation queer family that includes Taiwan’s first out gay father and Taiwan’s first teen dual national with 2 dads’ names on both an international birth certificate and an international marriage license. Experience the power of fighting hate with love through being out, loud, and proud.

Based on the premise that narratives hold power and affect how people view themselves and Others, Essays on Exclusionbrings together diverse disciplinary scholars, in education and beyond, to illuminate the promise of understanding how stories about one's Self, and their juxtaposition to those that are Othered, influence how inclusion/exclusion operate in and outside schools. From philosophers to pre-service teachers, readers of this volume will learn more complex and nuanced perspectives toward exclusion often relegated to the margins, but no less important when pursing equity in various social contexts such as schools. By the end of the book readers will be more familiar with an understanding of equity and exclusion through a holistic view by becoming more attentive to intersectional analyses in their approach toward equity. Coming from a standpoint that exclusion, oppression, and marginalization become instituted as a function of certain positionalities being valued more than others, Essays on Exclusion draws on diverse narratives that are important in understanding how to operationalize equity starting from recognizing people's positionalities being subjected to exclusion. This volume is appropriate for foundation courses in philosophy, education, or cultural studies, as well as higher level graduate courses focused on urban education and equity more broadly.

Essays on Exclusion: Our Critical, Collective Journey Toward Equity in Education (Critical Pedagogy)

This work seeks to trouble the notion of the teacher/professor binary-the conventional understanding that teachers teach and professors write theory. We've all had professors who were good teachers, though, right? And so why not teachers who are good theorists?The authors in this book have been chosen specifically because they are both talented theorists and talented teachers; they are doctors of curriculum studies who work in public schools, and who are familiar with both Foucault and hall duty. They have many of the interests and aptitudes of curriculum theorists, but live the day-to-day life of practitioners, and often find themselves existing somewhere between-at Homecoming, but not quite at home.Since our world needs all the deep and careful thinking it can get, we should not let specialization and workplace burden be an excuse to do half our jobs; we are, all, to think deeply and critically about our world, and also lead our students in learning how to do the same. It is our responsibility to ourselves and our communities and our countries to be the teacher-theorists our curriculum deserves.

Field Theory: Curriculum Studies at Work (Critical Pedagogy)

Education & Teaching

Owen, Jr. David

Schools & Teaching

Advancing Equity and Social Justice in Teacher: Transformative Practices and Pedagogies of Literacy (Literacies as Resistance)

Dharamshi, Pooja

Distraction: Girls, School, and Sexuality (Women in Education)

Movements such as the Women's March on Washington and #MeToo have created a national dialogue about the sexual harassment of women that is still prevalent in the 21st century in the United States. While there are many factors that play into how girls are socialized to conform to traditional gender roles, school plays a significant part in this process. For instance, every fall, there are news stories about dress code standards for girls and young women in schools throughout the country, with district spokespersons often citing that girls create a "distraction" to the boys in their classes. The problem, therefore, is framed in terms of a higher value placed on the learning of boys than the agency that girls have over their own bodies. This book, which takes an intersectionality approach to the topic, seeks to explore the ways in which girls are sexualized through school practices, beginning as early as pre-school and continuing through all levels of education into their adult lives. The book will examine how schools serve as gendered spaces and genderizing spaces that reinforce societal norms and expectations for girls and young women. Distraction: Girls, School, and Sexuality is suitable for undergraduate and graduate course in women's and gender studies.

Women's Studies

The Spaces in Between: A Poetic duo-ethnographical Exploration (Critical Pedagogy)

Literature & Fiction

Leggo, Carl

Holmes, Kimberley

Poetry

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