Recently Published Works from CSUS Faculty
Artworks For Elementary Teachers
(9th ed., McGraw-Hill Higher Education Publishers, 2002, $50)
Donald and Barbara Herberholz, retired CSUS art professors
Recently published in its ninth edition by retired Sac State professors Donald and Barbara Herberholz, this book has come a long way since its first publication in 1964.
“When the book first came out, elementary art education had a very ‘do-what-you-want-kiddies’ approach,” says Donald. “This book takes a more comprehensive approach and includes national standards in arts education such as aesthetics, art production, art criticism and art history. It teaches about integrating art into the classroom.”
With more than 500,000 copies sold throughout the United States, Canada and Europe, the book has been in print longer than any book of its kind. It provides future teachers with practical applications in art education, supplemental lesson plans with activities, ideas for using technology in the classroom as well as current research and trends in art.
The ninth edition reflects a more diverse, multicultural group of artists including many Sacramento favorites such as Wayne Thiebaud, Frank Le Pena, Ruth Rippon, Jose Montoya, Roger Vail and Maria Winkler.
Physical
Geology
(9th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2003, $83)
Charles C. Plummer, David McGeary and Diane Carlson, professors of
geology
Twenty-three years ago, Sac State geology professors Charles ‘Carlos’
Plummer and David McGeary found themselves frustrated with the textbooks
available for their introductory geology students. So they set out to
write their own. Nine revisions later, it remains the number one selling
book of its kind in the country. “It’s unusual for a text to
hold up for 20 years,” Plummer says.
Continual improvements may be one reason for the book’s amazing longevity.
“We keep on top of it,” says Diane Carlson, another geology
professor who joined the team in 1995. In addition to new photos and maps,
this edition includes information on recent earthquakes in Seattle and
India, and images from the Mars Orbiter Camera.
The book was one of the first geology texts to include a companion CD-ROM.
Now it’s going one step further by featuring animated versions of
the diagrams in the book. Students can go to a website and watch a concept
such as a lava flow or plate tectonics unfold.
Preparing
for Crises in the Schools: A Manual for Building School Crisis Response
Teams
(2nd ed., John Wiley and Sons, 2001, $50)
Stephen Brock, professor of counselor education
Usually a school crisis doesn’t become a Columbine-level catastrophe.
But school psychology professor Stephen Brock says that regardless of
the cause or severity of a crisis, efforts to limit the impact should
start before an event occurs.
“Since Columbine, there has been a lot of attention devoted to crisis
response and intervention issues,” says Brock, a national expert
on school crisis response. “I view crisis response not just as responding
to the aftermath but crisis prevention—doing what you can to prevent
the crisis in the first place.”
His new book is designed to help schools put themselves in the best position
possible to respond to a crisis. “The essence of crisis preparation
is that the key players have to acknowledge that school crisis is not
just a possibility— it’s a reality,” he says. “Those
involved in the discussion must decide what procedures they will follow
in a crisis so that when it does happen, they’re not caught with
their ‘plans’ down.”
Developing
Multicultural Educators
(Allyn & Bacon, 2000, $44)
Jana Noel, professor of teacher education
Mostly white, with similar backgrounds and beliefs, Jana Noel’s Montana
State University students weren’t particularly inspired about teaching
from a multicultural perspective. They didn’t see the point.
So Noel, who now teaches at Sac State, threw out the typical approach
to the subject—the one that begins with a version of “Our country
is becoming more diverse and we have to learn how everyone is different.”
Instead, she held up a mirror to her students and asked them to explore
their own histories.
“The idea is, ‘Let’s look at how we are shaped, at our
background, before we try to learn about others,’” Noel says.
It worked. And the effort led to a practical new book on educating multicultural
teachers.
Noel herself was raised in a generally white, middle-class community.
But she has worked in poor urban schools in Los Angeles and on Indian
reservations in Montana. She’s sold on the need for multicultural
educators.
“As teachers, we need to understand why we’re teaching the way
we’re teaching, and the results of doing that,” Noel says. “If
we just use the same traditional approaches, we’re going to lose
a lot of kids and we’re going to severely limit ourselves.”
Domestic
Terrorism and Incident Management: Issues and Tactics
(Charles C. Thomas Publisher Ltd., 2001, $64.95)
Miki Vohryzek-Bolden, professor of criminal justice, with co-authors
Gayle Olson-Raymer and Jeffrey O. Whamond
Though ‘terrorism’ has only recently become a part of our daily
dialogue, the threat of terror attacks—as well as actual incidents—on
America soil have been around for much longer, says criminal justice professor
Miki Vohryzek-Bolden. The new book, written by Vohryzek-Bolden and her
colleagues, chronicles the roots of domestic terrorism. “We offer
a broad definition of hatred and intolerance, describing situations that
have propelled individuals to take actions against a people,” she
says.
Vohryzek-Bolden’s section focuses on contemporary domestic terrorism,
addressing special interest extremist and terrorist groups such as the
American hate movement, patriot-militia groups, ecological resistance
organizations, anti-environmentalists, animal rights advocates and anti-abortion
activists. She also looks at the evolution of terror tactics.
“Because of incidents that have occurred in the latter part of the
20th Century—like the Oklahoma City bombing—we anticipated coming
in contact with a changing face and character of weapons of mass destruction,”
Vohryzek-Bolden says. “We didn’t anticipate a terrorist group
using a plane as a weapon of mass destruction.”
Power
and Politics in California
(6th ed., Addison Wesley Longman, 1999, $49)
Ken DeBow and John Syer, professors of government
These two longtime Sac State government professors have something of a
hit on their hands. Their book, which will soon be printed in its seventh
edition, is a favorite in the Golden State’s college classrooms.
In addition to the usual descriptions of government processes, it features
criticisms and radical reform proposals. And lest readers begin to take
it all too seriously, there are also sidebars on goof-ups made by our
public servants.
“We talk quite a bit about the problems in the system and possible
reforms. Our goal is to get people to think politically about government,”
DeBow says. “We also have a sense of humor about it, which most textbooks
like this don’t have.”
The book has impressed more than college professors. It was once listed
as “essential reading” by the California Journal, the
only California government text to make the list. And, recalls Syer, “One
time we walked into the office of David Roberti, the former president
pro tem of the State Senate, and the book was sitting on his desk. That
was gratifying.”