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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Challenges in Global Learning
This volume offers a wide range of approaches for framing and addressing global education issues. It is constructed around four research themes which reflect current strategic research priorities in Australian education, forming a framework for evaluating educational changes.
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.
This collection of articles utilises thematic orientations, methodological approaches and data materials to give an insight into the opportunities and challenges that exist for education in society, in relation to the growing cultural and linguistic complexity prevalent today.
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.
Intercultural Education and Competences
This volume explains why it is necessary to invest in education. It analyses the current situation in intercultural education and intercultural competences, and addresses the challenges to, and possible ways of dealing with, different perspectives in intercultural education.
My intercultural may not be your intercultural. This volume makes sense of the contested notion of the ‘intercultural’ in education, proposing critical and reflexive approaches from contexts worldwide. For students, teachers, and researchers.
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.
This collection of essays discusses how formal, non-formal and informal education contributed to the creation and perpetuation of the Cyprus conflict, as well as to prejudices, inter-ethnic stereotypes, and misperceptions.
The Decay of Truth in Education
Krahenbuhl compellingly documents how educational institutions and political institutions alike have abandoned truth as a primary virtue. The targets of this critique range across political, religious, and social groups as an outcome of the educational malaise towards truth.
Human Rights and Citizenship Education
This volume examines different conceptualizations of human rights, citizenship and interculturalism, as well as their inter-relationships in various national contexts. It also explores the theoretical and practical bases on which teaching of these concepts should be grounded.
Putting Theory into Practice in the Contemporary Classroom
This work emerges from interest in how postmodern theory illuminates the products and ideas of high culture, as well as the ins and outs of everyday life. It helps us to understand troublesome classroom dynamics and specifies pedagogical strategies for dealing with them.