From Hip-Hop to Hyperlinks
This text invigorates composition classrooms with strategies for teaching American culture. Contributors share approaches on topics like food, music, and technology, tracing course structures with student samples. Ideal for instructors at any career stage.
Decolonising the University
De Sousa Santos considers the nature of the transformation that the university is undergoing today, arguing that some of the current reforms are so radical that the question of the future of the university may well become the question of whether the university has a future.
A Case for Radical Pragmatic Leaders and Personalised Learning Schools
Thousands of disadvantaged youth are leaving Australian schools due to public policy that works against inclusion. This book highlights the damage done and examines schools that succeed ‘against the grain’, presenting them as examples for refreshed policy and radical leadership.
Alice Walker’s Womanist Fiction
This book explores Alice Walker’s theory of womanism, focusing on its concerns with African American women’s rights, identities, and self-actualisation. It traces the development of this concept across her canon of novels, showing how it was coined and complexly wrought.
How do various nations view honors education? Whether known as “honors” or “talent-development,” it is associated with a student-centric ethos and creative approaches to learning. This exploration considers how honors education can empower educators and students worldwide.
Honors Education and the Foundation of Fairness
How can we support high academic achievement while allowing equitable access to higher learning? By focusing on equity, contributors shine light on conditions of inequity in honors education and advocate for supporting a wide range of identities. This book is a call to action.
Dyslexia and Creativity
This book explores dyslexia from a cognitive and neurological view, outlining a theory that links this learning difference to the creative process. It shows how artists and writers faced the struggles of dyslexia, harnessing its positive traits to fuel their creative success.
Communication and Interculturality in Higher Education
This book is an academic adventure addressing communication and interculturality in higher education. It unpacks the barriers to intercultural encounters and shows how institutions of higher learning can be a vehicle for building intercultural awareness and competence.
Change Agents at Work
This book investigates the change agent role, examining the skills they bring and how they develop over time. It provides crucial insights for agencies responsible for hiring and supporting change agents, helping them craft job postings and design effective support structures.
This book offers ideas for developing creative and critical thinking, strategic writing, and effective interpersonal skills. It presents strategies to foster cultural diversity and collaboration, cultivating the transformation of a student into a 21st century leader.
What does it mean for education to be ‘advanced’? In depth, focus, or application? Honors education has long reflected on what ‘advanced’ higher education might entail. Here, contributors consider the significant interests in the present and future of advanced learning.
This book examines the complex relationship between learning, education, and community. Using Slovenian studies with global relevance, it offers a unique perspective shaped by the historical European experience of attempting collective unity in former Yugoslavia.
Leadership and Policy in Urban Education
The Urban Education Sourcebook explores 21st century controversies in K-12 education. Topics include trauma pedagogy, principal support, school boards, and segregation policies. This text also includes activities, key vocabulary, and suggested readings.
Higher Education and Research in the Post-Knowledge Society
How will higher education evolve to underpin sustainable societies? This book explores future scenarios against a background of transformation, including digital advances, globalization, socio-economic inequality, and climate change.
This book tells the ‘USC story’: the challenges faced and pedagogical enhancements made in embracing new technology to teach social work online. It details how faculty converted traditional courses for a virtual program that grew to over 2,200 students.
The Importance of Listening to Children and Adolescents
This publication highlights the importance of teaching adults to listen to children and adolescents, illustrating the principles and contexts that define young people’s tangible and intangible rights and ideals.
A vital collection on intercultural practices in European health and education. Featuring cutting-edge research with diverse clients, it examines diversity, sources of tension, and paths to resilience and wellbeing.
This book explores how racism and cognitive bias in public schooling breed student achievement gaps. It shows how educators transmit social and racial inequities and offers a set of interventions to build healthy school climates where every student is welcomed and honored.
English Studies in the 21st Century presents recent academic research on literary, cultural, and language studies. This collection challenges dominant perspectives on tradition while exploring contemporary topics like Neo-Victorianism, the Anthropocene, and posthumanism.
Authored by leading scholars, this collection of essays explores the complex relations between education and poverty. Using the Chilean system as a case study for issues of international concern, it presents research on social equality, schooling, and teacher education.