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.
Conceptualizations of Childhood, Pedagogy and Educational Research in the Postmodern
This monograph investigates the new sociology of childhood and new directions in pedagogy and research that have been conceptualised as a result of the recent debate between modernism and postmodernism within the social sciences.
Peace and Social Justice Education on Campus
This volume provides important reflections by peace and social justice educators working on college campuses. Contributions offer critical assessments of institutions, pedagogies, and practices, making visible the spaces in which education and learning occur.
Learning and Personality
How does an introverted student succeed in a classroom built for extroverts? This book documents how socially active methods can harm students who learn best through reflection, revealing a glaring conflict within education and a mass misunderstanding of introversion.
Intercultural Horizons Volume III
This volume presents papers from international academics and practitioners offering analyses and case studies on intercultural studies and civic engagement. A key theme is second language acquisition amid the increasing dominance of English as a lingua franca.
Improving Learning in Secondary Schools
The mere presence of feedback is not enough to support learning. This book argues feedback is a social process where context is critical. It presents a critical analysis of feedback in teacher talk and writing to generate a new, globally-applicable theory of classroom feedback.
iPads in Higher Education
This book will be useful to academics in any discipline interested in using iPads in teaching and learning, irrespective of the scale of implementation. The contributions cover a wide range of academic areas, from Urban Planning and Biology to Art and Design.
Education is unlikely to become inclusive without deliberate efforts to dismantle exclusion. This book explores what these efforts entail, from developing teachers to be responsive to learner diversity to reconstituting systems for meaningful inclusion.
This collection of state-of-the-art research papers discusses innovations in technology enhanced learning in adult education. Sourced from ten countries, it provides a truly international perspective on how developments like MOOCs are revolutionising higher education.
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.
Zulfikar Ghose
Zulfikar Ghose was ranked with writers like Conrad and Nabokov, yet remains a marginal presence because his work resists categorization. This book investigates the structural patterns in his novels, focusing on his fastidious style and aesthetic design.
Creative Dialogues
This collection of essays is a groundbreaking contribution to Narrative Medicine and the Health Humanities. Featuring prestigious scholars like Rita Charon, it is highly beneficial for healthcare professionals, medical students, and Humanities researchers.
This volume brings together the best papers from the International Conference on Education, Reflection and Development. Scholars discuss topics relevant for teacher training and didactic research in the context of globalization, of interest to anyone in 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This book explores the under-researched topic of Social, Emotional and Behaviour Difficulties (SEBD) in the Cypriot education system. Based on original research, it documents educators’ views on good practice to help professionals accommodate pupils’ needs.
The discourse of education for sustainability is a self-centred discourse, refusing to acknowledge insights from other fields. It needs a radical paradigm shift to become communal learning in a real place, facing tough questions about its prevailing insularity.