Faculty kudos (books edition): New issues by Dotts, Harman, Daigle
Dotts co-edits book challenging Jefferson myths
The Elusive Thomas Jefferson: Essays on the Man Behidn the Myth (McFarland)
Edited by associate professor Brian W. Dotts and Mark Holochak of the University of Colorado, this collection of eleven essays offers evidence-based research focusing on a variety of myths about Thomas Jefferson. The book, available in both print and e-book formats, is scheduled for release in October. Chapters focus on:
- Jefferson’s navigation of rationalism and moral sense philosophy
- How Jefferson was informed by the ancient works of Tacitus in his plans for Virginia and schooling
- Misinterpretations of Jefferson’s thinking in Supreme Court jurisprudence related to student rights, public education, and school vouchers
- Jefferson’s multiple philosophical conceptions of liberty
- Jefferson’s thoughts on slavery
- Myths related to Jefferson’s deism
- Jefferson’s influence on the educator James Bryant Conant
- Comparisons between Jefferson and John Dewey’s ideas on citizenship
- Jefferson’s interpretation of the second amendment
- Jefferson’s architectural influences
- Myths related to our collective memory of Jefferson including his representation in state education standards.
Harman’s new e-book focuses on bilingual learners
Bilingual Learners and Social Equity (Springer)
Now available as an e-book, Bilingual Learners and Social Equity, edited by Ruth Harman, explores how educators conceptualized and implemented critical approaches to systemic functional linguistics that support bilingual students in appropriating and challenging dominant knowledge domains in K-16 contexts. The researchers featured in the book have a shared commitment to enacting a sustainable systemic functional linguistics practice that validates multilingual meaning making, pushes against social inequity, and fosters creative re-mixing of available semiotic resources. Tjhis volume will be a valuable resource for students, teachers, and researchers interested in applied linguistics, education and critical theory.
Daigle’s new book helps prepare future counselors
Counseling Children and Adolescents (Routledge)
Released earlier this year, Counseling Children and Adolescents gives students the information they need to prepare to work in both school and mental health settings. The book features content related to developmental and counseling theories as well as information on evidence-based practices across the continuum of care, diagnosis and treatment of youth, and trends such as integrated care, mindfulness, and neuroscience. This book is unique in that it contains sections on both instructional and behavioral response to intervention model and PBIS, examples of evidence-based practices used across settings such as Student Success Skills, Check & Connect, and trauma-focused CBT, and a review of common mental health-related disorders most often seen in youth and treatment recommendations.