Judith L Slater

Higher Education and Human Capital: Re/Thinking the Doctorate in America

This book attempts to re-imagine the purpose of the doctorate, which has historically been used to prepare leaders who will work to improve the sciences (social and physical), humanities, and professions, while articulating curriculum as a living shape where students, faculty, and institution melded...

Collaboration in Education (Routledge Research in Education)

Collaboration in Educationestablishes a needed framework for school/university collaborations that will be critical for others wishing to reproduce and participate in these partnerships. The contributors explore the elements necessary for sustainable collaboration in order to provide a frame of refe...

Teen Life in Asia (Teen Life around the World)

Are teenagers in Tokyo more or less mature than teens in Brooklyn? What do Chinese teens do for weekend recreation? What do they value and care about? This volume shows that the lives of teens in prosperous and westernized Asian countries have much in common with those of American teens. Obtaining a...

Pedagogy of Place: Seeing Space as Cultural Education (Counterpoints)

Pedagogy of Place focuses on the embodiment of purposefully created space resulting from the creation and enactment of its participants’ cultural and social conditions. It is also about education, the purposeful creation of spaces that comprise learning environments, and the aesthetic dimensions of ...

The Freirean Legacy: Educating for Social Justice (Counterpoints)

In this collection of voices, one hears stories and discussions grounded in the ideas of one of the most influential teachers and thinkers of our time. The Freirean Legacy offers the reader an opportunity to consider the work of Paulo Freire in terms of three significant perspectives. Michael Apple,...

Building and Maintaining Collaborative Communities: Schools, University, and Community Organizations

Building and Maintaining Collaborative Communities: Schools, University, and Community Organizations is a new and noteworthy volume in the literature on collaboration among schools and universities. It expands the playing field to include both publically and privately funded community organizations ...

The Wind Turning Pages

Poetry. "Born of keen attention and memory, these poems have been honed to a fine edge by Judith Slater's ability to marry intimacy and detachment, producing work that is insightful, incisive, and often breath-taking."—Margaret Gibson"Poem after poem...brings the past to shimmering life.... The poem...

Asexual: The Story of Judith Slater

At twenty, society expects one to start thinking of emotional attachments to the opposite sex, especially with an aim of starting a family. That is not so in Judith Slater's case. At twenty, she is a young attractive educated woman who found out she is Asexual. She is comfortable of who she is. Howe...

Teen Life in Asia

Anatomy of a Collaboration: Study of a College of Education/Public School Partnership

Acts of Alignment: Of Women in Math and Science and All of Us Who Search for Balance

The Freirean Legacy: Educating for Social Justice

Pedagogy of Place: Seeing Space As Cultural Education