The Foundations of Urban Education
This volume explores key 21st-century issues impacting urban schools. It prepares teachers by focusing on theoretical and historical foundations, discussing topics like the achievement gap, charter schools, teacher pay, culturally relevant pedagogy, and teacher motivation.
Gender, along with race and class, has long been a vital part of public discourse about social reform. These essays address the overt and subtle ways gender influenced Victorian social movements, from suffrage and marriage law to beauty and religion.
Dalit Women and Dropout Rates in Collegiate Education
Caste remains a hurdle in Indian education, particularly for Dalit women. This book throws light on the social stigma they face, leading to high dropout rates from college in the Warangal District of Andhra Pradesh.
This study deals with the Muslim situation in India and the state’s institutional response. It discusses the efficacy of redress mechanisms, like the National Commission for Minorities, and argues that such safeguards are not enough without a strong appreciation for pluralism.
This collection explores women’s struggle for education from the fourth to the twenty-first century in Europe and the Americas. It demonstrates not only the great strides women have made but also the challenges that have yet to be overcome.
The Next Buddha may be a Community
What does internationalization in education really look like? This book investigates what intercultural competence means to staff and students in a university case study, exploring how it can be achieved and where more support is needed.
This volume presents highlighted papers from the Ethnographic and Qualitative Research Conference (EQRE). The articles address methodological approaches, ESL, and action research, providing examples of both methodological rigor and important practical applications.
Based on large-scale research, this book challenges standard views to help create affirming spaces for trans*+ individuals in healthcare and education. It dives into controversies in media, medicine, and mental health, offering provocative questions and illuminating answers.
Embark on a journey into the future of nutrition. This book explores the remarkable potential of millets as the cornerstone of tomorrow’s diet. Discover their role as functional foods, ensuring nutritional security and shaping a healthier, more sustainable future for us all.
What are the main issues in intercultural education today? With theoretical foundations, research, and case studies from diverse authors, this book helps readers go beyond stereotypes and effectively face complex diversity issues in multicultural settings.
Guide to Early Childhood Education
This textbook represents a resource for educationalists working in the field of Early Childhood Education. Its three main parts offer insights, early learning ideas, classroom environmental changes and pertinent information and internet resources to help guide successful learning
This book presents classical management theory integrated with modern innovations like agile management, AI, and neuroscience. It covers key issues in sports management—from finance and quality to conflict and corruption—and includes new case studies from the field.
This book presents a rich international perspective on social justice from educators worldwide. It offers practical classroom strategies and theoretical wisdom, uniquely combining local and global insights for teachers, researchers, and those in higher education.
Whiteness in Academia
How do white academics contribute to racial oppression, even in fields designed to resist it? This book uses fictional tropes—from science fiction to detective fiction—in a series of ‘counter stories’ that critique whiteness in academia and explore power.
The Coherence of the Inchoate
This book compares children’s in-school and out-of-school internet use. At home, learning is self-motivated and purposeful, often assisted by peers. As home and school practices diverge, school use may become increasingly irrelevant to children’s lives.
Life Stories and Sociological Imagination
This book examines music artists Faudel (France) and Adam Tensta (Sweden), revealing how they connect personal struggles to public issues. Their work offers a unique window into how national identity is changing in France, Sweden, and beyond.
From Authority Religion to Spirit Religion
George Burman Foster was a key figure in the “Chicago School.” This volume explores his religious thought through his major writings and diverse shorter works, discovering that Foster was laying the foundation for the emergence of American humanism.
Transgender Children and Young People
This collection approaches the current theory and practice of transgendering children. Essays are written against the grain of the popularised medical definition of ‘the transgender child’ as a young person whose ‘true’ gender lies in the brain, or pre-social ‘identity’.
Intercultural Horizons
This volume features papers from the Intercultural Horizons conference on “Best Practices in Intercultural Competence Development.” Authors include leaders in the field, researchers, and teachers, providing diverse perspectives on intercultural communication.
Battleground States
This volume collects work from emerging scholars examining cultural scholarship in a global world. Bringing together diverse thoughts on politics, film, history, and literature, these voices explore the threads that bind us and the forces that seek to separate us.