George J. Sefa Dei
Reconstructing 'dropout': A critical ethnography of the dynamics of black students' disengagement from school
As many as one million untrained youths will enter the Canadian labour market by the year 2000. And yet, 60 per cent of jobs being created in Canada require at least a high school education. The drop-out rate is one of the most crucial issues that Canadian educators face. Traditionally, we have pinned dropping out […]
Fanon Revisited (Race, Indigeneity and Anti-Colonial Studies)
This book is a continuing conversation on Frantz Fanon and the relevance of his theory and politics for contemporary education. The book raises some pertinent questions regarding the current "Fanon Renaissance" in academia. It maintains that Fanon's intellectual contributions not only help us understand colonialism, on-going colonial relations, imperial power and social movements but also, […]
Anti-racism education: Theory and practice
Studying anti-racism as a proactive, process-oriented approach to addressing the racial and ethnocultural differences that students bring to schools, this book captures the relational aspects of social difference and argues for the analyzation of the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexual oppression.