Heather Coffey
Biographic Data
| ID | 4044150 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather Coffey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather |
| FAMILY NAME | Coffey |
| SIGNATURE | COFFEY H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Does tolerance of diversity include political diversity
For democratic institutions to thrive, citizens must use their voice and vote, as well as demonstrate civic virtues, including respecting ideological differences and electoral outcomes. Recently, deepening political divisions in the United States strain civic virtues with rising partisan animus and conflict. As the ideological gap between major political parties widens, Americans’ civic empathy, or the ability to understand the feelings and exper…
Painting the Advance of Islam. Joachim of Fiore’s Liber figurarum in Medieval Southern Italy
The abbot and apocalyptic theorist Joachim of Fiore (c. 1135–1202) created many enigmatic medieval diagrams. His Liber figurarum, produced in Cosenza and based on now-lost prototypes, consists of painted figurae that concretized the central tenets of his many apocalyptic treatises, sermons, hymns, and letters. These diagrammatic images are attributed to his hand or to the first generation of followers, and, collectively, they constitute a subcate…
Chapter 8
Background American students represent diverse life experiences, languages, cultures, and community memberships. Given the relatively unchanged demographics of U.S. teachers (primarily middle-class, white females), it is important that teachers engage in culturally proactive pedagogy and design curriculum that both reflects their students’ culture and engages them in developing skills to be participants in a larger society. Purpose This chapter e…
Introduction
This is the introduction to the Yearbook on Critical Social Justice Across the Spectrum of Teaching and Learning: Theory and Practice in Communities and Classrooms
Justice-Oriented Teaching Dispositions in Urban Education
The effects of professional teacher dispositions on student development have been widely documented. Yet there is limited discussion of the impact of socially just dispositions. The present study critically examines the relationship between justice-oriented mind-sets in preservice teachers and their perceptions of teaching in urban schools. Using critical interpretive case study, we analyze a series of journal reflections from a diverse group of …
Navigating the journey to culturally responsive teaching
Constructing the Image of Muhammad in Europe
the volume represents a significant contribution to the complex history of the conceptualization and pictorialization of the Prophet Muhammad in the West. It gives a rapid and though deep overview of the history of the making of an image of the Prophet Muhammad in Europe and thus reflects the whole history of the making of the image of Islam in the Latin West, from the early medieval times till the 19th century. The book also provides the reader …
The Islamic Manuscript Tradition
They taught me”
They taught me”
Navigating the journey to culturally responsive teaching
Justice-Oriented Teaching Dispositions in Urban Education
The effects of professional teacher dispositions on student development have been widely documented. Yet there is limited discussion of the impact of socially just dispositions. The present study critically examines the relationship between justice-oriented mind-sets in preservice teachers and their perceptions of teaching in urban schools. Using critical interpretive case study, we analyze a series of journal reflections from a diverse group of …
The Islamic Manuscript Tradition
They taught me”
Constructing the Image of Muhammad in Europe
the volume represents a significant contribution to the complex history of the conceptualization and pictorialization of the Prophet Muhammad in the West. It gives a rapid and though deep overview of the history of the making of an image of the Prophet Muhammad in Europe and thus reflects the whole history of the making of the image of Islam in the Latin West, from the early medieval times till the 19th century. The book also provides the reader …
Navigating the journey to culturally responsive teaching
Chapter 8
Background American students represent diverse life experiences, languages, cultures, and community memberships. Given the relatively unchanged demographics of U.S. teachers (primarily middle-class, white females), it is important that teachers engage in culturally proactive pedagogy and design curriculum that both reflects their students’ culture and engages them in developing skills to be participants in a larger society. Purpose This chapter e…
Introduction
This is the introduction to the Yearbook on Critical Social Justice Across the Spectrum of Teaching and Learning: Theory and Practice in Communities and Classrooms
Justice-Oriented Teaching Dispositions in Urban Education
The effects of professional teacher dispositions on student development have been widely documented. Yet there is limited discussion of the impact of socially just dispositions. The present study critically examines the relationship between justice-oriented mind-sets in preservice teachers and their perceptions of teaching in urban schools. Using critical interpretive case study, we analyze a series of journal reflections from a diverse group of …
Painting the Advance of Islam. Joachim of Fiore’s Liber figurarum in Medieval Southern Italy
The abbot and apocalyptic theorist Joachim of Fiore (c. 1135–1202) created many enigmatic medieval diagrams. His Liber figurarum, produced in Cosenza and based on now-lost prototypes, consists of painted figurae that concretized the central tenets of his many apocalyptic treatises, sermons, hymns, and letters. These diagrammatic images are attributed to his hand or to the first generation of followers, and, collectively, they constitute a subcate…
Does tolerance of diversity include political diversity
For democratic institutions to thrive, citizens must use their voice and vote, as well as demonstrate civic virtues, including respecting ideological differences and electoral outcomes. Recently, deepening political divisions in the United States strain civic virtues with rising partisan animus and conflict. As the ideological gap between major political parties widens, Americans’ civic empathy, or the ability to understand the feelings and exper…
Pedagogy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (5 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (3 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (3 works) · Mathematics education (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Service-Learning and Community Engagement (3 works) · Teacher education (3 works)