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The concept for this book is inspired by the late Maxine Greene (2000), who described her enduring philosophical focus and legacy of social imagination as "the capacity to invent visions of what should be and what might be in our deficient society, on the streets where we live, in our schools" (p. 5). The purpose of this volume is to examine and illuminate the roles of community organizers and educators who are changing lives through public ar...

This book identifies and examine the changing roles of Nigerian women: in the family, educational attainment and society as experienced and expressed by a sample of educated, Nigerian women. Five of the participants were children caught in Biafran (Nigerian) war and their education was interrupted during the war. All struggle to gain education as girls and women growing up in Nigeria in families with sometimes limited resources. The book is ba...

Its the day after Thanksgiving. Eileen, the lonely Christmas tree, lives uphill on Chapmans farm in a village called Saxtons River in Vermont. Its the hope of all Christmas trees that they are chosen to go home with someone to make a holiday special. Year after year, Eileen watched as her fellow trees went to Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, and even New York. Eileen has stayed behind because no one picked her. But one special day, she ...

The contributors to Written in Her Own Voice illuminate how gender and gender roles affect women's advancement, educational success, and life aspirations. Chapters provide thick, rich descriptions of the authors' lives, using heuristic and phenomenological inquiry as guiding theoretical frameworks. These women write about how power relations within society continue to promote exclusion and marginalization along race, gender, class, and religio...

Professor Adeniji-Neill brings to light the oral culture of the Yoruba of Nigeria through the genre of "oriki" and folklore. Oriki are praise poems that are chanted and sung for special occasions. There are praise poems and folklore about the most revered God, Olodumare or Olorun, as well as seemingly mundane things such as trees and personal names. In these pages, Adeniji-Neill has gathered and translated samples of oriki and folklore through...

The fusion of two cultures has produced highachievers in American schools for the children ofNigerian immigrants. In this study, Nigeriansexpress the hopes and fears of immigrant parents andtheir utmost devotion to seeing to it that theirchildren succeed in American schools. Nigerian-bornDolapo Adeniji-Neill attributes the overwhelmingsuccess of Nigerian American children in U.S schoolsto their indigenous culture that stresses theimportance of...