Publications
Maria writes on issues such as school culture and climate, project-based assessment, peace and human rights education, migration and education, critical ethnic studies, and social studies curricula.
Books
Educating for Peace and Human Rights: An Introduction
Co-authored with Monisha Bajaj; the book untangles the core concepts that define both peace and human rights to help consider their intersections, convergences, and divergences.
Restoring Dignity in Public Schools: Human Rights Education in Action
The book demonstrates how urban public schools can create create an environment in which a culture of dignity, respect, tolerance, and democracy flourishes.
Peace Education: International Perspectives
Co-edited with Monisha Bajaj; The volume of essays and qualitative studies analyzes the limits and possibilities of peace education in diverse contexts of conflict and post-conflict societies.
Critical Small Schools: Beyond Privatization in New York City Urban Educational Reform
Co-authored with Alia R. Tyner-Mullings; The book features the most current empirical research about the small schools movement and the implications of such for urban public educational policy.
Select Journal Articles
Reframing School Culture
through Performance Based Assessment Tasks
The article examines how teachers and students make meaning of their experiences transitioning away from high-stakes standardized tests to project-based assessment tasks (PBATs)
The Challenges and Possibilities of Critical Democratic Education in an Urban Public School in New York City
The article considers the possibilities of critical democratic education through the lived experiences
of students at an urban U.S. public school.
Securing the State through the Production of ‘Global’ Citizens
The article interrogates how the sociopolitical work of schooling is articulated in Jordanian and American education policy texts.
Institutionalizing Critical Peace Education in Public Schools: A Case for Comprehensive Implementation
The article examines the role that public schools can play as conduits for critical peace education, particularly for young people who have been historically marginalized from school.
Select Journal Articles & Chapters in Books and Volumes
Mapping our Dreams and Rooting our Futures
This article explores a pedagogical and conceptual tool refined and developed for the fields of peace, social justice, and human rights education: “the possibility tree.”
Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory
Co-written with Hakim Mohandas Amani Williams; “Peace Education as a Field”
Peace Education: International Perspectives
Co-written with Monisha Bajaj; “Beyond American Exceptionalism: Centering Critical Peace Education in US Public School Reform”
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theory in Comparative and International Education
Co-written with Zeena Zakharia, and Brooke Harris Garad; “Situating Peace Education Theories, Scholarship, and Practice in Comparative and International Education”
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