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Publications

BOOKS (click on images above for more information)

Petrovic, J. E. & Yazan, B. (Eds;) (2021). The commodification of language: Conceptual concerns and empirical manifestations. New York: Routledge. 
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Petrovic, J. E. (2019). Unschooling critical pedagogy, unfixing schools. New York: Peter Lang. 
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Petrovic, J. E. and Mitchell, R. (Eds.)(2018). Indigenous philosophies of education around the world. New York: Routledge. 

Petrovic, J. E. (2015). A post-liberal approach to language policy in education. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters.   
 
Petrovic, J. E. and Kuntz, A. M. (Eds.)(2014). Citizenship education around the world: Local contexts and global possibilities. New York: Routledge. 


Petrovic, J. E. (Ed.)(2010). International perspectives on bilingual education: Policy, practice, and controversy. Charlotte: Information Age Press.

EDITORSHIPS

Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education (Journal) 
Studies in the Philosophy of Education (Book Series)



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ARTICLES and BOOK CHAPTERS

Many of the journal articles can be found online through the journal itself. Both articles and book chapters may be available through academia.edu. If you cannot find them, feel free to contact me directly to request a copy. 
            Language and Language Policy Issues

Petrovic, J. E. and Yazan, B. (2021). Language as instrument, resource, and maybe capital, but not commodity: A Marxian clarification. In J. E. Petrovic & B. Yazan (Eds.), The Commodification of Language Conceptual Concerns and Empirical Manifestations, 24-40. New York: Routledge.

Petrovic, J. E. (2019). Alienation, language work, and the so-called commodification of language. In T. Ricento (Ed.), Language Policy in Canada and the United States, 60-77. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press​.

Petrovic, J. E. and Kuntz, A. M. (2013). Strategies of reframing language policy in the liberal state: A recursive model. Journal of language and politics, 12(1).

Petrovic, J. E. (2012). (Post)Structural analyses of deficit notions of academic language: Discourse and dialect. In G. Brown, B. J. Irby, & R. Lara-Alecio (Eds.), Handbook of educational theories, 417-426. Charlotte: Information Age Press.

Petrovic, J. E. (2011). The Civics of Language Diversity: Human Rights, Citizenship, and English-Only. In J. Devitis (Ed.), Critical civic literacy: A reader, 393-404. New York: Peter Lang.

Petrovic, J. E. (2010). Language Minority Education in the United States: Power and Policy. In J. E. Petrovic (Ed.), International perspectives on bilingual education: Policy, practice, and controversy, 3-19. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Petrovic, J. E. and Majumdar, S. (2010). Language Planning for Equal Educational Opportunity in Multilingual States: The Case of India. International Multilingual Research Journal, 4(1), 1-19.

Petrovic, J. E. and Rankin, A. (2007). Children's uses of Spanish in an English Immersion Classroom as (Counter)liminal spaces. Journal of Borderland Education, 2(1), 42-57. 

Petrovic, J. E. (2005). The conservative restoration and neoliberal defenses of bilingual education. Language Policy, 4(4), 395-416.

Petrovic, J. E. (2003). Promoting a primary good in schools: An Aristotelian defense of bilingual education. Philosophy of Education 2002. 

Petrovic, J. E. and Olmstead, S. (2001). [Essay Review of Language, power, and pedagogy: Bilingual children in the cross fire]. Bilingual Research Journal, 25(3&4). 

Petrovic, J. E. (1997/1999). Balkanization, bilingualism, and comparisons of language situations at home and abroad.Bilingual Research Journal, 21(2 & 3), pp. 233-254.       


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LGBTQ Issues

​Petrovic, J. E. (2013). Reason, liberalism, and democratic education: A Deweyan approach to teaching about homosexuality. Educational Theory, 63(5), 525-541.

Petrovic, J. E. and Rosiek, J. (2007). From Teacher Knowledge to Queered Teacher Knowledge Research: Escaping the Epistemic Straight Jacket. In N. Rodriguez and B. Pinar (Eds.), Queering Straight Teachers, pp. 201-231. New York: Peter Lang.

Petrovic, J. E. and Ballard, R. (2005). Unstraightening the ideal girl: lesbians, high school, and spaces to be. In P. Bettis and N. Adams (Eds.), Geographies of Girlhood: Identity In Between, pp. 195-209. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Petrovic, J. E. and Rosiek, J. (2003). Disrupting the Heteronormative Subjectivities of Christian Pre-Service Teachers: A Deweyan Prolegomenon. Journal of Equity and Excellence in Education, 36(2), 161-169. 

Petrovic, J. E. (2003). Can we forget to censor silence? A rejoinder to Applebaum. Journal of Moral Education, 32(2), 163-166. 

Petrovic. J. E. (2002). Promoting democracy and overcoming heterosexism in schools: And never the twain shall meet?.Sex Education, 2(2), 147-156. 

Petrovic, J. E. (2000). Caring Without Justice: How We Deaden The Spirits of Gay and Lesbian Youth in Schools. The International Journal of Children's Spirtuality, 5(1). pp. 49-59.

Petrovic, J. E. (1999). Moral democratic education and homosexuality: Censoring morality. Journal of Moral Education,28(2), pp. 201-209. 

Petrovic, J. E. (1998). My reply to Collins: Nonviolence is a good step but insufficient for true democracy. Educational Foundations, 12(3), pp. 75-77. 

 Petrovic, J. E. (1998). The democratic sieve in teacher education: Confronting heterosexism. Educational Foundations,12(1), pp. 43-56.

            Various Issues in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education

Petrovic, J. E. and Caddell, A. (Nov. 2020). Multicultural Education through Critical Pedagogy, Anti-Racism, and the Need to Unschool. In K. Hytten (Ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Education. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ​

Kuntz, A. M. and Petrovic, J. E. (2017). (Un)fixing education. 
Studies in Philosophy and Education. doi:10.1007/s11217-016-9563-y

Petrovic, J. E., & Rolstad, K. (2017). Educating for autonomy: Reading Rousseau and Freire toward a philosophy of unschooling. Policy Futures in Education, 15(7–8), 817–833. 

Petrovic, J. E. and Kuntz, A.M. (2016). Invasion, Alienation, and Imperialist Nostalgia: Overcoming the Necrophilous Nature of Neoliberal Schools. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 50(10), 957-969. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2016.1198249

Petrovic, J. E. (2013). In search of equal educational opportunity for Harrison Bergeron. In J. Heybach & E. Sheffield (Eds.), Dystopia and education: Insights into theory, praxis, and policy, 169-184. Charlotte: Information Age Press.
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Petrovic, J. E. and Kuntz, A. M. (2011). (Re)placing foundations in education: Politics of survival in neo-liberal times. In J. L. Kincheloe & R. Hewitt (Eds.), Regenerating the Philosophy of Education: What happened to soul? (pp. 69-86). New York: Peter Lang.

Kuntz, A. M., Petrovic, J. E., and Ginocchio, L. (2012). A changing sense of place: A case study of academic culture and the built environment. Higher education policy. advance online publication, May 29 2012; doi: 10.1057/hep.2011.26

Kuntz, A. M. and Petrovic, J. E. (2011). The Politics of Survival in Foundations of Education: Borderlands, Frames, and Strategies. Educational Studies, 47(2), 174-197.

Cassity, A. and Petrovic, J. E. (2010). "Meaningful educational opportunity" may not be equality of educational opportunity [Essay Review of the book Moving every child ahead: From NCLB hype to meaningful educational opportunity]. Educational Studies, 46(1), 116-128.

Petrovic, J. E. (2001). Educational policy and nationalism: Dewey on balancing cultural and political communities. Insights,34(2), 4-10. 

Petrovic, J. E. (1998). Dewey is a philistine and other grave misreadings. Oxford Review of Education, 24(4), pp. 513-520.

BOOK-LENGTH MONOGRAPHS

Petrovic, J. E., Orozco, G., Gonzalez, E., Diaz de Cossio, R. (1999). Mexican normalista teachers as a resource for bilingual education in the United States: Connecting two models of teacher preparation. San Antonio/Tempe: Intercultural Development Research Association & Arizona State University.. [Read Executive Summary or Purchase from IDRA]

Petrovic, J. E. (2000). Elementary curricula in Mexico and the United States: A comparative analysis of content and objectives. San Antonio/Tempe: Intercultural Development Research Association & Arizona State University. [Read Executive Summary or Purchase from IDRA]

Petrovic, J. E. & Collier, C. (1994). Cognitive learning styles and strategies. In L. Baca & R. Hill (Eds.) Multicultural and exceptional student education. Boulder: BUENO Center for Multicultural Education.

REPORTS

Petrovic, J. E., Goering, S., Figueroa, R. (1997). Democracy and ethics in teacher education: Collaboration between Arts and Sciences and Education Faculties. Research project carried out under the direction of Kenneth Howe for the Colorado Partnership in Education.

Marion, S. & Petrovic, J. (1994) Evaluation of the Orono Summer Academy for In- service Teachers. Report includes statistical analyses of effectiveness, instructor ratings, and participant attitudes.

ENCYCLOPEDIC ENTRIES


Petrovic, J. E. (2008). Critical Period Hypothesis. In J. Gonzalez (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education, 194-197. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.
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Petrovic, J. E. (2007). Language Policy. In L. D. Soto (Ed.), The Praeger Handbook of Latino Education in the U.S. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group.

Petrovic, J. E. (2005). Heterosexism. In J. T. Sears (Ed.), [Homo]Sexualities, Education and Youth: An Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group

Petrovic, J. E. and Rosiek, J. (2005). Identity Politics. In J. T. Sears (Ed.), [Homo]Sexualities, Education and Youth: An Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group.

Rosiek, J. and Petrovic, J. E. (2005). Pink Triangle. In J. T. Sears (Ed.), [Homo]Sexualities, Education and Youth: An Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group.

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