Books by Dara Nix-Stevenson
Understanding Water as Social, Political, and Natural, 2021
This book chapter offers a glimpse into an interwoven lesson incorporating incorporating language... more This book chapter offers a glimpse into an interwoven lesson incorporating incorporating language arts, environmental science, social studies and art in a middle school classroom. The authors view classrooms as rich tapestries, interwoven with people of diverse cultures and ethnic groups. In response to this, the authors advocate for integrated PK-12 curricula that foreground cultural and amplify cultural knowledge.
Multicultural Curriculum Transformation in Literacy and Language Arts, 2021
PK-12 Professionals’ Narratives of Working as Advocates Impacting Today’s Schools, 2023
The PK-12 education system in the United States is plagued by anti-democratic and authoritarian i... more The PK-12 education system in the United States is plagued by anti-democratic and authoritarian ideologies, policies, and power structures, resulting in limited access to quality education and oppressive disciplinary practices for marginalized communities.
PK-12 Professionals’ Narratives of Working as Advocates Impacting Today’s Schools offers a powerful solution to the challenges faced in PK-12 education. Through a collection of counter-narratives, this book empowers educators, counselors, and stakeholders to challenge and disrupt the anti-democratic and authoritarian forces within schools.
By sharing personal experiences, strategies, and recommendations, the book inspires academic scholars to reflect, (re)learn, and take action to support students, communities, and personal growth. It serves as a critical teaching tool, encouraging professionals to reimagine their practice and collaborate with others to create inclusive, equitable, and transformative educational environments. This book presents a path toward dismantling oppressive structures and championing an education system that prioritizes the needs and voices of all learners, making it the perfect tool for educating educators on steps for advocacy.
The Critical Black Studies Reader is a ground-breaking volume whose aim is to criticalize and ree... more The Critical Black Studies Reader is a ground-breaking volume whose aim is to criticalize and reenvision Black Studies through a critical lens. The book not only stretches the boundaries of knowledge and understanding of issues critical to the Black experience, it creates a theoretical grounding that is intersectional in its approach. Our notion of Black Studies is neither singularly grounded in African American Studies nor on traditional notions of the Black experience. Though situated work in this field has historically
grappled with the question of "where are we?" in Black Studies, this volume offers the reader a type of criticalization that has not occurred to this point. While the volume includes seminal works by authors in the field, as a critical endeavor, the editors have also included pieces that address the political issues that intersect with—among others—
power, race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, place, and economics.
PUBLICATIONS by Dara Nix-Stevenson
A quick scan of any major news outlet will show America's unending fascination with crisis. We a... more A quick scan of any major news outlet will show America's unending fascination with crisis. We are engulfed in information about these events, yet we continue with our lives as usual. If the problem is a patriarchal system, as Johnson (2004) suggests, that is interested in maintaining a status quo of existing understandings of social and power relationships, then the solution we suggest is one of radical love to love all and serve all. The love we speak of is more than an individual or even familial feeling. This idea of radical love is love over force, fear, and apathy. This love should not be conflated with altruistic generosity since the intention behind this action is motivated by sincerity. Radical love has the potential to happen individual-to-individual, individual to group, as well as between groups and institutions. It looks like simple acts of kindness, balanced policy making, and honest concern for all of those around us. This radical love is the power for change.
Written by environmental educators in the U.S., this book advances our understanding of settings,... more Written by environmental educators in the U.S., this book advances our understanding of settings, audiences, teaching approaches and goals of urban environmental education. This book can be a useful reading for in-service and in-training educators who are interested in urban environmental education. The authors of this book hope that it will help educators in the U.S. and elsewhere to reflect on their own work, and inspire new ideas to improve their educational programs.
This study elaborates on the connection between socioeconomic status, education, and the ability ... more This study elaborates on the connection between socioeconomic status, education, and the ability to respond to natural disasters. Using the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and other natural disasters as teachable moments, I foreground how uneven access to resources and capital leave some people more vulnerable than others to natural disasters and how marginal communities inevitably bear the accompanying repercussions of who gets what, when, and how much in the postdisaster emergency relief and reconstruction phase. This occurs not necessarily and merely through a "natural" disaster, as the Boxer Day Tsunami or Hurricane Katrina, but through processes of social, political, and economic disempowerment associated with prior racialized histories and inequitable access to cultural capital.
The current socio-cultural political climate in the United States, the renewing of the Patriot Ac... more The current socio-cultural political climate in the United States, the renewing of the Patriot Act, disaster relief or the lack thereof, the ongoing threat of terrorism and the corroding of essential civil liberties, the rise in materialism and environmental destruction, the demonization of those in poverty, and the privatization of a free public education force us to ask the following question: What is the promise and purpose of a democratic education?
ENCYCLOPEDIA CONTRIBUTIONS by Dara Nix-Stevenson
Mitsui Mariko (born c. 1949) was elected a member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly in April 198... more Mitsui Mariko (born c. 1949) was elected a member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly in April 1987 and quickly gained a reputation as an avowed feminist. She has strived to examine the Japanese political landscape from an equal rights perspective and to demand that the Tokyo government mandate measures to correct discriminatory practices against women. Mariko served a second term in the assembly after being reelected to office in 1989, taking up issues such as gender inequalities in education, the depiction of women as sex objects in the mass media, sexual, harassment, problems faced by working women, and welfare programs for the elderly. The following passages document some of the first occasions on which such explicitly feminist statements were made before the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly.
The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World, 2013
The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World, 2013
Bullying is a widespread problem. The federal government estimates that 2 out of 10 high school s... more Bullying is a widespread problem. The federal government estimates that 2 out of 10 high school students experience bullying each year, and the problem is typically worse for middle school students. For lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students, this rate is 9 out of 10. Particularly disconcerting is that gay, lesbian, and transgender students are four times more likely to commit suicide and twice as likely to face school bullying or cyberbullying, the repeated use of technology to harass, humiliate, or threaten, then their heterosexual peers. A 2010 study by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation found that technology access among youth has skyrocketed since 1999. Other estimates suggest that anywhere from one-third to one-half of youths have been targeted by cyberbullies. Cyberbullying is not just pervasive in the United States. According to research by Anglia Ruskin University that questioned 500 young people between age 11 and 19 to find that nearly one in five UK youngsters have been the victim of cyberbullying, with girls affected more than boy. Of the 273 girls questioned, 60 (22%) said they had been subjected to cyberbullying. In fact, a prominent media-worthy case of a female victim of cyberbullying is that of Phoebe Prince. Experiences produce damaging consequences for victims ranging from a decline in academic performance, thoughts about suicide, to bullycidesuicide by bullying. Though it is Phoebe Prince that the media has focused attention on to bring attention to cyberbulling and bullycide, in a nearby town eight months prior to anyone hearing of Prince, Carl Walker-Hoover, age 11, hanged himself after enduring daily torment at his Springfield middle school for being gay, despite the fact that he did not identify as such. As a result, Walker-Hoover's mother, Sirdeaner Walker, was instrumental in pushing for tough bullying legislation in Massachusetts that was signed into law on May 3, 2010. Sirdeaner Walker is also advocating for federal bullying legislation. From the example of Carl Walker-Hoover to that of Phoebe Prince, one outcome is prevalent -bullies leave lingering pain for victims and their families. When 15-year-old Phoebe Prince committed suicide in January 2010 after being targeted by school bullies, it created a media firestorm that many outlets called a bullying epidemic. Since then, it's become clear that Prince's reasons for taking her own life were complicated. She struggled with depression and attempted suicide once before. But the face-to-face bullying and cyberbullying she endured definitely impacted her.
The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World, 2013
Founded in 1999 by Nicole Muller César, the Institute for Human and Community Development (IHCD) ... more Founded in 1999 by Nicole Muller César, the Institute for Human and Community Development (IHCD) is a Haitian nonprofit organization that seeks to provide for and educate children who have faced geographic displacement, live in servitude, and/or face acute poverty. Since its founding, the IHCD has served over 800 children. The IHCD, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, has as its mission to integrate extremely at-risk youth, including child victims of slavery, social marginalized youth, and geographically displaced youth, into Haiti's formal educational system by providing educational, nutritional, health, and psychological services. To overcome the traumas of violence and exploitation, children receive one-on-one and group counseling. Some children learn basic reading, writing, and math. Other children are taught social skills, fed a hot meal—for many, this is their only meal of the day—and receive medical and dental care.
Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World, 2011
Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World, 2011
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Being Nepantleras While Resisting “Everything, Every Where, All at Once”
Advances in early childhood and K-12 education, Nov 19, 2023
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Books by Dara Nix-Stevenson
PK-12 Professionals’ Narratives of Working as Advocates Impacting Today’s Schools offers a powerful solution to the challenges faced in PK-12 education. Through a collection of counter-narratives, this book empowers educators, counselors, and stakeholders to challenge and disrupt the anti-democratic and authoritarian forces within schools.
By sharing personal experiences, strategies, and recommendations, the book inspires academic scholars to reflect, (re)learn, and take action to support students, communities, and personal growth. It serves as a critical teaching tool, encouraging professionals to reimagine their practice and collaborate with others to create inclusive, equitable, and transformative educational environments. This book presents a path toward dismantling oppressive structures and championing an education system that prioritizes the needs and voices of all learners, making it the perfect tool for educating educators on steps for advocacy.
grappled with the question of "where are we?" in Black Studies, this volume offers the reader a type of criticalization that has not occurred to this point. While the volume includes seminal works by authors in the field, as a critical endeavor, the editors have also included pieces that address the political issues that intersect with—among others—
power, race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, place, and economics.
PUBLICATIONS by Dara Nix-Stevenson
ENCYCLOPEDIA CONTRIBUTIONS by Dara Nix-Stevenson
Papers by Dara Nix-Stevenson