His books include: Breaking Free: The Transformative Power of Critical Pedagogy; Presence of Mind: Education and the Politics of Deception; Defining and Designing Multiculturalism; Corpus Analysis: Language Structure and Language Use, and Cultural Studies: From Theory to Action. His recent documentary film is called Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class for which he is the 2007 recipient of the Studs Terkel Award for Media and Journalism. He is a research fellow for the Education Policy Research Unit and a board member of the Working-Class Studies Association and the Association for Cultural Studies.