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.
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.
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.
This book interlinks gender, alterity, and education, with a focus on refugee education. It uniquely examines gender and alterity through both theoretical debate and empirical research, and explores the potential of Distance Education to combat inequality and discrimination.
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.
Intercultural Horizons Volume II
This volume features a collection of papers on intercultural education. Authors provide faculty and student perspectives on developing intercultural competence in higher education, focusing on service-learning and the university’s engagement with the community.
Intercultural Horizons Volume IV
Originating from the 4th and 5th Intercultural Horizons conferences, this anthology reflects an array of research, case studies and reflections on intercultural studies. It also explores civic engagement and varied perspectives on migration issues in the Mediterranean region.
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.
Issues of Faith-Based Education in the United Kingdom
As state-supported Catholic schools face controversy, this book explains their origins, purpose, and contribution to society. It outlines the Church’s understanding of the primary role of parents in education and the limits of the state, making it a vital read for all involved.
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.
Multilingual Trends in a Globalized World
Explore evolving language education trends as globalization shifts the focus to multilingualism. This book presents the latest controversies and case studies from South East Asia and other diverse contexts around the world.
Norm-struggles
Norm-Struggles challenges normativity and heteronormativity. Focusing on contradictions and disruptions, the authors explore how norms are produced, subverted, and changed across diverse international settings, from schools to popular culture.
While most books on the Olympics focus on economics or management, this collection remains faithful to Coubertin’s original vision of youth, sport and education. Leading academics and young researchers analyse Olympism as a philosophical and educational idea.
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.
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.
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.
Realising Critical HRD
Critical Human Resource Development has stalled, focusing on theory over action. This book moves the project from problem recognition to meaningful change, offering practical interventions to challenge power structures through Reflecting, Voicing, and Enacting.
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.
Social Sciences Today
This collection of essays will appeal to teachers and researchers of social sciences. The essays deal with three main issues in Europe and Asia: educational theory, society in the context of globalisation, and identity, alterity and multiculturalism.
The Crisis of the Human Sciences
Centralization and over-professionalization disconnect the human sciences from the real world, creating a sterile atmosphere that prevents creativity. The authors offer a broad range of approaches to reconnect the humanities to our world.