Karen Jones

Senior Lecturer in Philosophy Karen Jones

Around the World from A to Z is an exciting adventure book. The reader will be guided by children to 26 different amazing countries. The children in the book will travel on animals, by plane, train, and boat to reach these countries and meet new friends in all 26 countries. The children will also learn about different types of land and bodies of water, big and small. This will be an interesting, fun, and educational way for children to learn about and see how big the world actually is, outside of their own environment. As they visit each country they will be exposed to 26 different and unique ways of everyday living, all adding to expanding their knowledge of the planet they live on. As the children continue on with their travels they will be able to observe how people in other lands dress differently, live differently, and look differently, by seeing that people come in all shades of skin colors, distinctive facial features, and different hair textures. The book, Around the World from A to Z, is a fun way to use the alphabet as a tool, to guide all children from all around the world to learn about these differences. Beginning with the first stop in Argentina, all the way to the last stop inZimbabwee, the children will witness many different animals, taste yummy treats, and be captivated by the wonders of other countries. Around the World from A to Z is a book for the whole family to enjoy.

Around the World from a to Z

Susan Victor

Janice Jipson

Karen Froude Jones

Gretchen Freed-Rowland

Petra Munro

This book presents testimony of feminisms in process. The accounts are filled with tensions, not least an uneasiness with feminism itself, and the question of what exactly it means to be a feminist in education in the contemporary world. It is their respect for their own differences and the honesty with which they write that makes this such a rich text. From the Foreword by Kathleen Weiler Educators committed to social change face the common dilemma of how to take up the work of transformation without reinscribing systems of domination. The struggle with the concept of imposition is central to the emergence of many educators' identities and provides a site for exploring the complex relationship between power, knowledge, and teacher identity. This book chronicles the collaborative efforts of five diverse women educators (Native American, European, Jewish American, rural, midwestern, working class) to grapple with the tensions of taking up a political position while honoring the cultural, social, and historical context of others. Their dialogue across feminist, critical, and postmodern theories and practices explores the process of fusing theory with political work in the world. What emerges is the continual repositioning and disruption of taken for granted meanings as central to enhancing emancipatory education.

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Repositioning Feminism and Education

Senior Lecturer in Philosophy Karen Jones

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