This handbook guides educators and caregivers in closing the Achievement Gap. It generates support for teaching diverse learners by constructing a learning environment that ensures equity in the classroom for every child.
To address diverse student needs, education must move to an inclusive, student-centric approach. This volume highlights diversity and inclusion practices, helping educators understand and address the challenges students face.
Signs of Hope
Three deafhearing families challenge the view of deafness as loss, celebrating deaf culture and sign language as vital for family life. Winner of the 2013 Outstanding Qualitative Book Award by the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.
Experiences of Academics from a Working-Class Heritage
While higher education welcomes diverse students, it predominantly employs middle-class academics. Based on candid interviews, this book explores the experiences of academics from working-class backgrounds, as both students and staff, from their early careers to the present day.
Aspects of Social Justice in an Arab Israeli Teachers’ College
These essays shed a social justice-focused light on teacher education. Based on real-life experiences, contributors share practical strategies for supporting Arabic-speaking students in a multicultural setting. A vital resource for educators working in diverse environments.
This collection offers cutting-edge perspectives on childhood, focusing on the Irish context while exploring universal themes. Balancing theoretical and practical knowledge, it identifies best practices for educators, psychologists, parents, and policymakers.
Explore new trends in Internationalisation at Home (IaH) and the internationalised curriculum. This volume features insights from academics and practitioners across diverse fields, including curriculum development, language teaching, and academic support.
Children, Childhood, and the Future
The science of a “good childhood” is based on Western children, ignoring the global majority. This volume bridges that gap by exploring childhood in African countries, offering ways to develop joint ideas about childhood instead of imposing one-sided standards.
This volume explores how practitioners respond to current social realities with creative and innovative social work practice. It examines how they can contribute to policy development through their work on dementia, substance use, juvenile reintegration, and more.
This book offers a view of the science behind crime scene investigations, demonstrating the connection between forensic science and physics. It details the basic physics needed to understand crime scene findings and will appeal to students and any reader interested in forensics.
Feminist Cyberspaces
This collection of essays explores how new media technologies are used in the feminist classroom. Using practical experience as a basis for feminist theorizing, it seeks new ways to foster provocative, creative, and non-hierarchical learning.
Key Issues Confronting the Black Community in Denver, CO
This volume highlights critical issues in Colorado’s Black and Brown communities—from policing and equity to prisoner reintegration—and offers solutions. It contains essential tools for educators and leaders, providing a model for urban communities nationwide.
The Multi(Inter)cultural School in Inclusive Societies
As schools become more culturally diverse, language and cultural challenges arise. This collection of essays explores multicultural education, analyzing new research and data to suggest revised educational methods that ensure high-quality education and training for all children.
Organ Transplantation and Society
Transplant medicine has progressed massively, but due to insufficient donations, patient waiting lists grow. This book analyzes the medical, ethical-legal, psychosocial, and religious problems of transplantation to provide a clear understanding of this serious health crisis.
Critical Interculturality
Dervin offers new critical insights into intercultural communication and education, assembling previously unpublished lectures delivered in different countries (namely, Canada, China, Finland, Russia and the USA), as well as notes on intercultural events and encounters.
The Reflexive Diversity Research Programme
This book introduces key theories in diversity research. Using a case study of UC Berkeley’s diversity strategy, it illustrates intersectional, multi-level, and reflexive research approaches, reflecting on the practice of research itself.
University PR and Efforts to Prevent Research Misconduct
University PR departments and research integrity offices evolved at the same time, but are they interrelated? Is there a risk that universities, to protect their reputations, might develop illiberal traits and distance themselves from classic academic virtues?
This book explores education and empowerment for Afghan women. It examines the significant improvements achieved since the fall of the Taliban, the challenges that still lie ahead, and the threat women will face in the event of the Taliban returning to power.
This book offers a new cultural perspective on Slovak immigration, going beyond economic analysis. It compares British and Slovak understandings of class, religion, and ethnicity to reveal how these factors shape the integration of children within UK education.
Leading international experts share multidisciplinary perspectives on evaluation, illustrating its potential to demonstrate the impact of social interventions. This guide offers practical examples of contrasting methods and helpful advice with a human-centred focus.