This volume discusses the assessment of Second Language Learners with Specific Language Learning Disorders and other disabilities. It explores theoretical models, evaluates accommodation practices, and fills a crucial gap for researchers and professionals.
Investigating the Role of Language in the Identity Construction of Scholars
This volume explores major hindrances to communication in the way we over-generalise, stereotype and undermine the people with whom we communicate. It investigates the consequent need for greater intercultural awareness on the part of educators and students.
This book elucidates what happens when people from different cultural backgrounds communicate. It highlights difficulties in conveying messages by examining discourse, power relations, and persuasion, providing a new viewpoint for linguists and students.
Game-Based Learning and the Power of Play
This edited volume explores the application, potential and challenges of game-based learning and gamification across multiple disciplines and sectors, and provides comprehensive insights into the potential of games for facilitating learning and engagement at every life stage.
Ní Chuileann investigates the ability of a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder to recognise voice. It questions the assumption that voice recognition is a simple task for the typically developing child, the child with developmental delays and the child with autism.
Children, Young People and Sport
This research-based study explores the motivations of children and young people in playing sport, what it means to them, and how it fits into their everyday lives, capturing the texture, nuances and meanings of participation in sport in Australia, France, Japan and New Zealand.
Education in a Society uncertain of its Values
This title investigates the ends to which education should be directed today to cope with the ever-changing values of society, and the ever-present threats of economic crisis and terrorism.
Hospitality and Translation
What is the experience of Muslim pupils in an Anglican Primary School? Not the conflict that might be imagined. This book demonstrates the positive relationships possible between Muslims and Christians in Anglican schools.
An Ethnography in an Irish Girls Secondary School
This ethnographic study explores the cultural experiences of a group of Irish 6th year girls, and provides a feminist perspective on the agency-structure debate. It highlights how hegemony is evident in visible and invisible ways in interactions among the cultural group.
Using Information and Communication Technology tools in the teaching and learning of history has become a common practice worldwide. This book gathers the experiences and reflections of researchers from three continents, based on their own activities and empirical studies.
Going Forward
This collection focuses on the need to address emerging and diverse issues in education. It offers insights into the ways in which higher education continuously evolves and how it has risen to face constant challenges.
Learning and Teaching with Geomedia is a practical introduction to the field for secondary education. It provides ready-to-use learning environments that foster spatial citizenship and are easily applied in any school with a web browser or mobile phone.
This book argues for placing equity and social justice at the centre of education. Leading researchers show how marketization harms students and offer strategies to reimagine schools for disadvantaged communities, ensuring all young people can effectively engage.
Enacting English across Borders
Emergent researchers challenge misconceptions about teaching English in a globalised world. Drawing on Asian contexts, these studies critique existing assumptions, highlight inconsistencies in the field of ELT, and provide suggestions to address these issues.
Diversities and Interculturality in Textbooks
Textbooks can create biased ideas about the ‘Other’. Using Finland’s top education system as an example, this volume reveals hidden ideologies and stereotyping, and offers concrete tools to develop teachers’ and students’ critical abilities.
This volume offers a comparative perspective on the challenges and opportunities of diversity in the classroom. Through reflections from international educators, it explores the frustrations, triumphs, and successes of connecting with students across differences.
Education as Jazz
The result of an international event celebrating the second UNESCO International Jazz Day in 2013, this title investigates the issue of improvisation, considered as a multi-faceted concept and practice, seen here as a mix of values and skills fundamental for human development.
Teacher Education in the 21st Century
Various teacher education questions are addressed in this volume, from different theoretical perspectives, with emphasis on actual practices in classrooms. The common denominator is the notion of convergence—the coexistence of people and practices in diverse contexts.
Studies in Linguistic Variation and Change
This collection of studies focuses on the rapid changes from Old to Middle English. With contributions from various fields and theoretical standpoints, it is essential for scholars and students of historical linguistics and the medieval history of English.
Citizenship, the Self and the Other
This book analyzes citizenship in diverse societies by talking to educators in multi-ethnic Britain. It uses unique interdisciplinary research to uncover the surprising common ground educators share on values, beliefs, and aims, offering key lessons for navigating difference.