Critical Race Theory (CRT) is an international movement of scholars working across multiple disciplines; some of the most dynamic and challenging CRT takes place in Education. This collection brings together some of the most exciting and influential CRT in Education. CRT scholars examine the race-specific patterns of privilege and exclusion that go largely unremarked in mainstream debates. The contributions in this book cover the roots of the movement, the early battles that shaped CRT, and key ideas and controversies, such as: the problem of color-blindness, racial microaggressions, the necessity for activism, how particular cultures are rejected in the mainstream, and how racism shapes the day-to-day routines of schooling and politics. Of interest to academics, students and policymakers, this collection shows how racism operates in numerous hidden ways and demonstrates how CRT challenges the taken-for-granted assumptions that shape educational policy and practice. The chapters in this book were originally published in the following journals: International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education; Race Ethnicity and Education; Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education; Critical Studies in Education.

Contents: Sylvia R. Lazos Vargas: Introduction: Critical Race Theory in Education: Theory, Praxis, and Recommendations -- Cynthia Tyson: Research, Race, and an Epistemology of Emancipation -- Melanie Carter: Telling Tales Out of School: "What's the Fate of a Black Story in a White World of White Stories?" -- Edward Buendia: Fashioning Research Stories: The Metaphoric and Narrative Structure of Writing Research About Race -- Gerardo R. Lopez: Parent Involvement as Racialized Performance -- Jennifer Ng: Multicultural Education in Teacher Training Programs and Its Implications on Preparedness for Effective Work in Urban Settings -- Arisve Esquivel: On Whose Terms? The (In)visibility of the Latina/o Community at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -- Laurence Parker: Critical Race Theory and Its Implications for Methodology and Policy Analysis in Higher Education Desegregation -- Wanda Pillow: Race-Based Methodologies: Multicultural Methods or Epistemological Shifts? -- Gerardo R. Lopez/Laurence Parker: Conclusion.

The field of critical race theory has gotten increasingly more attention as an emerging perspective on race, the law, and policy. Critical race theory examines the social construction of the law, administrative policy, electoral politics, and political discourse in the U.S. "Race Is ... Race Isn't" presents a group of qualitative research studies, literature reviews, and commentaries that collectively articulate critical race theory in secondary and post-secondary educational settings. The editors explore links and conflicts with other areas of difference, including language, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation, with the goal of opening a dialogue about how critical race theory can be incorporated into education research methodologies.

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Critical Race Theory (CRT) offers an account of society based on systemic, deep-rooted racist oppression that saturates our commonsensical judgements to such an extent that all but the most extreme racism appears normal and unexceptional, simply 'business as usual'. CRT is one of the fastest growing and most controversial fields of contemporary social theory, and education is the discipline where its most dynamic and challenging work is taking place. Now, answering the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of this sometimes shocking and often contentious body of thought, Routledge announces a new title in its Major Themes in Education series. In four volumes, Critical Race Theory in Education provides a unique 'mini library' that encompasses the very best CRT scholarship in education. As with other titles in the series, the collection's hallmark is its combination of the canonical and the cutting edge: every selection is either an established 'classic' or significantly challenges and advances thinking on current issues. The first volume ('Tenets of Critical Race Theory in Education') sets out the core themes that distinguish the CRT approach. Volume II ('Whiteness and White Supremacy'), meanwhile, explores the construction and maintenance of assumptions and practices that take for granted the elevated status of white people's interests and perspectives. The third volume ('Global and Specific: CRT Off-shoot Movements') focuses on the development of CRT as an approach with an international reach, while simultaneously retaining space for distinctive developments that prioritize individual social groups within their particular historic, cultural, and economic contexts. The collection's final volume ('Doing CRT in Education') is dedicated to questions of method, ethics, and praxis in the everyday struggle to advance research and effect genuine anti-racist change amid systems that normalize racism and deny the legitimacy of race-conscious scholarship. The collection has been assembled by an editorial team featuring some of the leading US and UK-based scholars in educational critical race theory.

Turning the question of "what works" in education on its head, Difference, Diversity, and Distinctiveness in Education and Learning, a volume of "Review of Research in Education, " digs into recent salient research that examines learning contexts within critical literacy, scientific literacy, and teacher education. Highlighting the importance of leveraging current research to explore ways in which education institutions (both K 12 and higher education) can structure positive learning environments for diverse students, this volume addresses elements in research that explore how diverse students learn in different and distinctive environments. Research topics include: Connection between social justice and subject-matter instruction Science education through growing pressure of the "No Child Left Behind Act"General trends and shifts that have taken place in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LBGT) youth in education researchResearch and perspectives related to Asian Americans in educationIssues of inclusion and exclusion within the context of sub-Saharan AfricaSchooling experience for students of color in the United StatesExploration of the term "social justice" and its controversies in recent education policy circles"