Education research in the public interest: social justice, action, and policy

Abstract

Introduction, Gloria Ladson-Billings Chapter 1: What Should Count as Educational Research: Notes Toward a New Paradigm, Jean Anyon Chapter 2: Interrupting the Right: On Doing Critical Educational Work in Conservative Times, Michael Apple Chapter 3: Carry It On: Fighting for Progressive Education in Neoliberal Times, David Hursh Chapter 4: Public Intellectuals and the University, Alex Molnar Chapter 5: Trudge Toward Freedom: Educational Research in the Public Interest, William Ayers Chapter 6: This Is America 2005: The Political Economy of Education Reform Against the Public Interest, Pauline Lipman Chapter 7: Hopes of Progress and Fears of the Dangerous: Research, Cultural Theses, and Planning Different Human Kinds, Thomas Popkewitz Chapter 8: Democracy, Diversity, and Social Justice: Educating Citizens for the Public Interest in a Global Age, James A. Banks Chapter 9: Multiculturalism, Race and the Public Interest: Hanging on to Great-Great Granddaddy's Legacy, Carl A. Grant Chapter 10: Public Interest and the Interests of White People Are Not the Same: Assessment, Education Policy and Racism, David Gillborn Chapter 11: Curriculum and Students: Diverting the Public Interest, Catherine Cornbleth Chapter 12: Making Educational History: How Arts-Based Research Can Change Minds, Tom Barone Chapter 13: Renewing Curriculum Research/Curriculum Creation and Decision Making in the Public Interest Through Hermeneutics and Art Making, Donald Blumenfeld-Jones Afterword, William F. Tate.