Justice and American Intercollegiate Athletics
This book is about an accomplishment of justice in intercollegiate athletics. Through acts of connection, departure, and reconnection, competitors with directly opposed interests joined to create enduring patterns of centered belonging.
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.
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.
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.
Multicultural Education
Multicultural education helps all students achieve by providing knowledge about the histories and cultures of diverse groups. This volume presents new research from academics across two continents on theory, classroom practices, and language education.
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.
Presenting a series of conversations conducted by the editor with internationally renowned educators, scholars and social critics, the primary focus here is on a set of important social and cultural issues and the global contemporary crises in higher education and economics.
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.
Psychology at Work in Asia
This book provides a valuable window into the development of psychology in Asia, especially in the workplace. Indigenous trends are provided by native authors, making it a must-read for academics, business professionals, and cross-cultural researchers.
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.
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.
Rethinking Social Issues in Education for the 21st Century
Key social issues and controversies in education are revisited in this volume. The text shows how common interests and collaboration help us understand social issues, the evaluation of governmental responses, and the promotion of ideas about the way forward into the 21st century.
Resulting from a teacher education conference, this collection will stimulate dialogue among such groups as teacher educators, researchers, students, teachers and NGOs. Its papers are written by European teacher educators, presenting their experiences and ideas.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.