Abstracts
Indigenous Knowledges and the Story of the Bean
Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy and Emma Maughn
Latino Students’ Transitions to College:
A Social and Intercultural Capital Perspective
Anne-Marie Nuñez
Identity Development and Mentoring in Doctoral Education
Leigh A. Hall and Leslie D. Burns
Symposium: Education and Violent Political Conflict:
Introduction
Symposium: Identity versus Peace:
Identity Wins
Zvi Bekerman
Symposium: Citizenship Competencies in the Midst of a Violent Political Conflict:
The Colombian Educational Response
Enrique Chaux
Symposium: War News Radio:
Conflict Education through Student Journalism
Emily Hager
Symposium: The Other Side of the Story:
Israeli and Palestinian Teachers Write a History Textbook Together
Shoshana Steinberg and Dan Bar-On
Symposium: Curriculum and Civil Society in Afghanistan
Adele Jones
Symposium: The Social (and Economic) Implications of Being an Educated Woman in Iran
Mitra Shavarini
Symposium: Interview with Jacques Bwira Hope Primary School Kampala, Uganda
The Editors
Book Notes
So Much Reform, So Little Change
by Charles M. Payne
Corridor Cultures
by Maryann Dickar
In a Reading State of Mind
by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Diane Lapp
Symposium: The Social (and Economic) Implications of Being an Educated Woman in Iran
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Mitra K. Shavarini is a lecturer in peace, conflict, and coexistence studies and women’s and gender studies at Brandeis University. Her research focuses on women’s education in Muslim societies. In her most recent article, “Western Procedures, Eastern Protocols: Conducting Research in Western-Wary Iran,” in Innovations in Education (2008), she explores the methodological dilemmas she has confronted in studying this topic. Her work has also appeared in Teacher’s College Record, International Journal of Middle East Studies, and Women’s Studies International Forum. Shavarini is also the coauthor of Women and Education in Iran and Afghanistan: An Annotated Bibliography (with W. R. Robison, 2005) and the author of Educating Immigrants: Experiences of Second Generation Iranians (2004).