Call for Chapter Proposals: Volume Title: The School to Prison Pipeline. The Role of Culture & Discipline in School

Call for Chapter Proposals

Series Title: Advances in Race and Ethnicity in Education

Volume Title: The School to Prison Pipeline. The Role of Culture
& Discipline in School

Volume Editors Affiliations:

* Nathern Okilwa, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and
Policy Studies, The University of Texas at San Antonio

* Muhammad Khalifa, Assistant Professor of Educational Administration,
Michigan State University.

* Felecia Briscoe, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and
Policy Studies, The University of Texas at San Antonio

Brief synopsis of the proposed volume:

This edited volume will focus on the role that school climate and
disciplinary practices have on the educational and social experiences
of students of colour. Drawing from quantitative, qualitative, and
theoretical studies, this edited volume will bring to bear a number of
topics, such as racialized school experiences of students of colour;
criminology, discursive deviance, and punishment and carceral studies;
urban studies; school administration and leadership, and a number of
critical theorist frameworks.

We hope to have a mix of empirical and theoretical chapters, and to
have chapters that address both school-based and community-based
praxis. The provisional organization of the chapters will as follows:

Section 1:
§ Carceral Schools? School discipline, climate, and the
school-to-prison pipeline

Section 2:
§ (Re-)Structuring schools for inclusionary practice: school
leadership; classroom practice

Section 3:
§ Theoretical and Research Based Explorations of School Discipline:
Resisting Oppression

This edited volume will offer scholarly understanding of this
school-to-prison phenomenon as well as provide practical insights to
administrators, teachers, school counsellors, and other school and
non-school based professionals on how they might address
not only disparities in school discipline but also create and promote
an inclusionary, affirming positive school culture and climate. Based
on the collective chapters, it is expected that the edited volume will
advance new theoretical concepts that can be used in disciplinary
studies and criminology, leadership studies, Critical Race Theory, and
other critical frameworks.

Submission

Procedure: Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit
empirical or theoretical chapter proposal, on or before May 1, 2015, 2
pages (double spaced), clearly explaining the relevant aspects of
their proposed chapter. Proposals should be submitted through email to
editedbook2015@gmail.com.

Authors of submitted proposals will be notified by June1, 2015 about
the status of their proposals. Full chapters are expected to be
submitted by September 30, 2012.

Contact Person:
Nathern Okilwa: nathern.okilwa@utsa.edu; 210-458-7394