Educational strategies and policy Books

Book SynopsisDrawing on a lifetimeâs experience and research in education, Frank Coffield brings together some of his previously published papers to assess the impact of a wide range of national educational policies and to examine the role of the state in public education.He concludes that damage has been done to education by political parties of both right and left and that damage will not be reversed until: further, vocational and adult education receive the same levels of commitment and resource as other sectors; serious steps are taken to tackle Britainâs unacceptable levels of poverty; and the powers of the state are reduced.Among the unresolved challenges highlighted are the plight of young people from deprived estates; their tactics in dealing with unemployment; the task of improving learning, schools, inspection, and system governance; the failure to increase productivity being blamed solely on education; and the dysfunctional and undemocratic political framework on which e

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Book SynopsisIt''s time for a whole new way of doing school People are born systems-thinkers. Education has the power to encourage our innate connection with the complex world, yet instead our schools focus on creating a workforce educated just enough to feed the capitalist workforce pipeline. Reminiscent of and building further on John Taylor Gatto's education critiques, The End of Education as We Know It is for people who want to create schools that teach how to live in harmony with each other, with Earth, and all Earth holds.Readers will understand when and how to engage in disruptive actions, manage system tensions, support child and adult learning, and use these skills to design whole new approaches to schooling. Far more than a call to education-reform-as-usual, Ida Rose Florez's inspiring critique: Provides tools to explore patterns in education and influence patterns that lead to change Gives readers specific skills for working in complex systems, whether with a group of children, a contentious school board, or state or provincial governments Helps readers reimagine schools as places where communities learn together in a whole new way. This clarion call to action rings a bell for teachers, parents, grandparents, educators, and policymakers to challenge the outdated paradigm of coercion and exploitation that shapes our current schools. It's time to build a new educational model based on a resilient and regenerative future.

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Book SynopsisSentence Ninja will do for sentence teaching what Vocabulary Ninja did for vocabulary teaching: supercharge it!In this easily digestible and practical book, Andrew Jennings, author of the bestselling Write Like a Ninja, provides a comprehensive overview of sentence teaching. The book equips teachers with essential subject knowledge on how to effectively teach sentences and how this can help support writing standards in the primary classroom and across the whole school. Sentence Ninja offers a mixture of advice on best practice and a range of helpful photocopiable activities to be used to boost pupils' confidence and progress.For more must-have Ninja books, check out the Vocabulary Ninja, Arithmetic Ninja, Comprehension Ninja and Like A Ninja classroom and home learning resources.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a ‘Traveller’s Guide’ to Deaf Culture, starting from the premise that Deaf cultures have an important contribution to make to other academic disciplines, and human lives in general. Within and outside Deaf communities, there is a need for an account of the new concept of Deaf culture, which enables readers to assess its place alongside work on other minority cultures and multilingual discourses. The book aims to assess the concepts of culture, on their own terms and in their many guises and to apply these to Deaf communities. The author illustrates the pitfalls which have been created for those communities by the medical concept of ‘deafness’ and contrasts this with his new concept of “Deafhood”, a process by which every Deaf child, family and adult implicitly explains their existence in the world to themselves and each other.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations Introduction 1 Deaf Communities 2 Deafness and Deafhood in Western Civilisation – Towards the Development of a New Conceptual Framework 3 Twentieth Century Discourses 4 Culture – Definitions and Theories 5 Deaf Culture: Discourses and Definitions 6 Researching Deaf Communities – Subaltern Researcher Methodologies 7 The Roots of Deaf Culture: Residential Schools 8 The Roots of Deaf Culture: Deaf Clubs and Deaf Subalterns 9 Subaltern Rebels and Deafhood – National Dimensions 10 Conclusions and Implications 11 Afterword Further Reading Appendices Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCombining insights from multicultural education theory with real-life classroom stories, this book demonstrates that all students will perform better on multiple measures of achievement when teaching is filtered through students' own cultural experiences. This perennial bestseller continues to be the go-to resource for teacher professional learning and preservice courses.

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Book SynopsisThe ability to give an effective verbal presentation is an important skill that you can teach your students. To be able to give strong, organized oral presentations increases a person''s chances of being regarded as knowledgeable, capable, and in command. This complete, developmental program prepares young people to become confident public speakers. It introduces techniques for writing and delivering interesting, animated speeches. General topics include making introductions, quick-pick speeches, writing a speech, and speaking techniques.Fashioned after Toastmasters, the program includes complete lesson plans, worksheets and information sheets, and evaluation forms. The culminating activity is a program that allows each participant to make an oral presentation. In each lesson, practical ideas introduce and reinforce the need for preparation and attention to detail. The series of lessons begins with fun, low-anxiety activities and ends with a presentation for parents.Once students become skillful and confident in public speaking, you will find many opportunities for them to use these skills. There are opportunities for oral presentations in all areas of the curriculum. Some activities that would reinforce public speaking skills are oral book reports, reader''s theater, discussion groups, oral reports in content areas, poster talks, interviews, demonstrations or explanations of how to do something, brainstorming, debates, plays, teaching a lesson, dramatic or expressive reading, or role-playing.For more guidance on verbal presentation, see Public Speaking: A Student Guide to Writing and Delivering a Great Speech.Grades 4-8

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Book SynopsisTeacher research is an extension of good teaching, observing students closely, analyzing their needs, and adjusting the curriculum to fit the needs of all. In this completely updated second edition of their definitive work, Ruth Shagoury and Brenda Miller Power present a framework for teacher research along with an extensive collection of narratives from teachers engaged in the process of designing and carrying out research projects to inform their instruction. This edition includes a greater variety of short contributions from a wide range of teacher-researchers -- novices and veterans from all backgrounds and parts of the country -- who speak to the growing diversity in today' s classrooms. Threaded throughout the chapters and narratives is a discussion of the emergence of digital tools and their effect on both teaching and the research process, along with an expanded number of research designs. The book has three primary components: 1.Chapters written by the authors explaining key elements of the research process: finding questions, designing projects, data collection and analysis, and more 2.Research activities that enable readers to try out the featured strategies and techniques 3.Teacher-researcher essays in which teachers share details of completed projects and discuss the impact they have had in their classrooms. Living the Questions, Second Edition: A Guide for Teacher-Researchers will take you step-by-step through the process of designing, implementing, and publishing your research. Along the way, it will introduce you to dozens of kindred spirits who are finding new passion for teaching by living the questions every day in their classrooms. You will be reminded of why you became a teacher yourself.Table of Contents1: Why Teacher Research?; 2: Questions Evolving; 3: Research Designs; 4: Harvesting Data; 5: What Likes What? Data Analysis; 6: Citing a Tea Bag: When Researchers Read; 7: Honest Labor: Writing Up Research; Sustaining Research: Building and Extending Research Communities; Epilogue Why Not Teacher Research?

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Book SynopsisThe School-Ready Governor is a practical and insightful guide to the fundamentals of school governance for new and aspiring governors, and includes the history, frameworks, theory and practice.Healthy governance is fundamental to effective school leadership, but how deeply is governance really understood? This book digs into what governance actually is and will help aspiring school leaders, new governors and new trustees for all schools and phases to grapple with their strategic role and gain confidence in how best to support their school. The School-Ready Governor contains clear and insightful explanations relating to key aspects of governance, with case studies, reflective questions and takeaway summaries throughout. The book is broken down into five sections, each exploring a key aspect of governance:- A history of governance and governance theory- Setting a vision and ways of working, exploring more diverse governance and inclusiv

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Book SynopsisNonfiction writing is important in a student's school life and it is important a skill that they will use throughout their lives. The majority of our daily reading and writing experience is made up of nonfiction, and students are writing nonfiction long before they are taught how to do it in the classroom. They need to recognize that writing nonfiction is far more than the traditional descriptive reports about animals. The principles of nonfiction writing apply to all student writing, even the tweets, texts, and blogs they compose.The writer's intent is the underlying foundation of Nonfiction Writing Power. Building on Adrienne Gear's Reading Power books, this valuable addition to her highly successful books addresses the close link between reader and writer. This remarkable book shows teachers how to help students recognize that they write because they have something to say. It argues that writing nonfiction well means considering the writer's intent and purpose, and choosing the most appropriate form among the various nonfiction genres.Nonfiction Writing Power is designed to help teachers develop a writing program that focuses on the different forms of nonfiction. This practical book helps teachers work with students to explore the Power to Describe the Power to Instruct the Power to Compare the Power to Persuade the Power to Explain the Power to Report Ideal support for teaching writing in the content areas, the book includes ways that a particular form can link to science, social studies, and other subject areas.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers research, case studies and examples of best practice that address cutting-edge higher education issues. It explores transformative learning practices in hospitality and tourism education and the focus on digital technology and innovative pedagogy provides a practical, engaging and essential toolkit for teachers and learners.

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Book SynopsisThis action-oriented guide details how school leaders can take an active role in transforming school systems so they are truly inclusive, supporting exceptional learners and promoting equity across all student subgroups. Centered around the key idea that neurodiversity is the norm rather than the exception, the book takes readers on a learning journey through student stories, self-reflection questions, goal-setting activities, practical tips, and community-based calls to action. It details six research-based core principles that provoke deep thinking and prompt actionable change, asking each reader to understand their role in disrupting the current status quo for exceptional learners. Six Principles for Building a Truly Inclusive School is key reading for school leaders, educators and educational professionals learning how to be advocates and change makers for inclusivity in their schools and communities.

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Book SynopsisCollins International Maths Foundation and Foundation Plus provide inspirational, fun and age-appropriate learning for children in early years and kindergarten classes.The materials have been developed in consultation with expert practitioners to be easy to use in the classroom and to support children following a range of early years curricula and who are preparing for their first year of primary education in an international school, including schools following the Cambridge Assessment International Education primary framework.The course introduces young children to maths concepts in an age-appropriate way through topic-based discovery and activity-based learning, with plenty of opportunities to explore maths through games and hands-on exploration. Careful progression ensures children develop the skills they need to be ready for maths in their first year of primary and beyond.Each level comprises Activity Books A, B and C one for each term supported by a carefully selected collection

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Book SynopsisGlobally, private universities enrol one in three of all higher education students. In Japan, which has the second largest higher education system in the world in terms of overall expenditure, almost 80% of all university students attend private institutions. According to some estimates up to 40% of these institutions are family businesses in the sense that members of a single family have substantive ownership or control over their operation. This updated edition of Family-Run Universities in Japan offers a detailed historical, sociological, and ethnographic analysis of this important, but largely under-studied, category of private universities as family business. It examines how such universities in Japan have negotiated a period of major demographic decline since the 1990s: their experiments in restructuring and reform, the diverse experiences of those who worked and studied within them and, above all, their unexpected resilience. It argues that this resilience derives from a number of ''inbuilt'' strengths of family business which are often overlooked in conventional descriptions of higher education systems and in predictions regarding the capacity of universities to cope with dramatic changes in their operating environment. This book offers a new perspective on recent changes in the Japanese higher education sector and contributes to an emerging literature on private higher education and family business across the world.Trade ReviewThe authors give a thorough historical overview of Japanese private university management and use statistical data to get to the heart of the problem. * Hirochika Nakamaki, National Museum of Ethnology, Japan, Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute *This book is much more than its rather prosaic title. It is a comprehensive and illuminating analysis of private higher education in Japan and worldwide, a focus on the understudied phenomenon of family-owned universities in Japan, a case study of Japanese family-owned university, and a discussion of the likely future of Japanese private higher education. All of this is cogently argued, engagingly written, and packaged into a 223 page volume. * Philip Altbach, Boston College, USA, Japanese Studies *The authors' main argument that the resilience of family-run universities plays a significant role especially in the face of the many challenges may meet the demand of family-run universities in Asia-Pacific region because the authors have successfully integrated comparative perspectives of family business both in Japan and other regions, and thus made generalization of the core concept of the strength of family-run universities, stemmed from the inbuilt resilience... Even though the book is about family-run universities in Japan, their findings and conclusion give courage, confidence, and hope to those who are involved in governance, management, and administration of those in Asia-Pacific region. * Kazuhito Obara, Asia Pacific Journal of Education *Overall, Family-Run Universities in Japan is well-written, exceptionally researched, and provides much food for thought. It offers a wealth of data, insights, and micro-level theorizations that will provide numerous jumping off points for further study in a range of different fields. * Christopher D. Hammond, Higher Education *An enormously profound picture of the Japanese higher education system ... An enormous wealth of information on higher education and society in a single country -- discussed as well as being not just typical for a single country -- is well collected and convincingly presented with a lesson: a specific social phenomenon can be understood well, if one is ready for the adventure of getting to know in detail the enormous complexity of conditions. * Ulrich Teichler, Contemporary Japan *It provides perhaps the most succinct depiction of contemporary Japanese higher education available in English, and it illuminates the little-known phenomenon of family-run educational enterprises. The unique dynamics described by the authors illuminate facets of higher education in Japan and in private sectors worldwide. * Roger L. Geiger, Higher Education Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The 'Puzzle' of Japan's Resilient Private Universities 1: The Predicted Implosion of Japan's Private Higher Education System 2: Japanese Private Universities in Comparative Perspective 3: A University under Fire: A Short Ethnography of MGU 1992-2007 4: MGU 2008-2018: The Law School and Other Reforms 5: The Resilience of Japan's Private Universities 6: Private Universities as Family Business

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Book SynopsisThis book critiques models of intercultural competence, whilst suggesting examples of specific alternative approaches that will successfully foster intercultural competence in teacher education.Bringing together diverse perspectives from teacher educators and student teachers, this volume discusses the need to move beyond essentialism, culturalism and assumptions about an us versus them perspective and recognises that multiple identities of an individual are negotiated in interaction with others. Intercultural Competence in the Work of Teachers is divided into four sections: critiquing intercultural competence in teacher education; exploring critical intercultural competences in teacher education; reflexivity and intercultural competence in teacher education; and indigeneity and intercultural competence in teacher education, providing a methodological approach through which to explore this critical framework further. This book is ideal for teacher educators or aTable of ContentsPART I. CRITIQUING INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE IN TEACHER EDUCATIONChapter 1: Going forward with Intercultural Competence (IC) in teacher education and training: Beyond the ‘walls built by ghosts’?Fred Dervin, Robyn Moloney and Ashley SimpsonChapter 2: Looking for Intercultural Competences language teacher education in Australia and FinlandRobyn Moloney, Maria Lobytsyna and Josephine MoateChapter 3: ‘I with an[other]’, otherness and discourse: Reconstructing ‘democracy’ through intercultural educationAshley SimpsonChapter 4: Creating and combining models of intercultural competence for teacher education/training: On the need to rethink IC frequentlyFred DervinPART II. EXPLORING CRITICAL INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCES IN TEACHER EDUCATIONChapter 5: From cultural visits to intercultural learning: Experiences of North–South–South collaborationHanna Posti-Ahokas, Hille Janhonen-Abruquah and Christine Adu-YeboahChapter 6: Constructing critical Intercultural Competence and appreciation of diversity: the case of exchange student teachers in FinlandMartina Paatela-NieminenChapter 7: Intercultural ethics in educationTuija ItkonenChapter 8: Building Cultural Competence in initial teacher education through international service-learningSean Kearney and Julie MaakrrunPART III. REFLEXIVITY AND INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE IN TEACHER EDUCATIONChapter 9: Two teacher educators 're-thinking' practice: intercultural compentences in teacher education pedagogyRobyn Maloney and Tuija TurunenChapter 10: Leading international teaching experiences: Negotiating tensions, contradictions and discontinuitiesJae Major, Jennifer Munday and Matthew WinsladeChapter 11: International student teachers as intercultural experts?Kaisa Hahl and Pia-Maria NiemiChapter 12: Understanding diversity through collaboration and dialogue: teacher education students learning from their peersNeil HarrisonPART IV. INDIGENEITY AND INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE IN TEACHER EDUCATIONChapter 13: Ways of getting to know: International mobility and Indigenous educationJohn Buchanan and Meeri HellstenChapter 14: Fostering Indigenous intercultural ability during and beyond initial teacher education Susan Page, Leanne Holt and Katrina ThorpeChapter 15: Exploring the limits of transformative potential: Teacher intercultural competences in an Indigenous language education projectMercurius GoldsteinChapter 16: AfterwordLesley Harbon

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Book SynopsisThis new edition of A Studentâs Guide to Education Studies is an essential resource for any undergraduate making their first explorations into the fascinating world of education. It explores a wide range of alternative visions of education encouraging students to challenge the perceived notions about learning and knowledge. Offering new perspectives and powerful ideas for discussion on a variety of long-standing topics such as class, race and gender, the book is organised around five enduring themes: Policy and Politics, Global and Environmental Education, Knowledge and Learning, Childhood and Youth, Professionalism and Employment. With a distinctive international and global focus, this new edition has been extensively updated to reflect the latest research and thinking in the field and features new chapters on: The sociology of education and the philosophy of education Inclusion Childhood and youth Professionalism and work-based learning Populism in politics Including summary points, questions for discussion and annotated suggestions for further reading, this book provides the theoretical background needed to carry out a critical analysis of education policy and practice and is an essential resource for all students of Education Studies. Table of ContentsIntroduction: The study of education; Section 1 – Policy and Politics; 1 Education Policy and Marketisation; 2 Education and Social Justice; 3 Race, Ethnicity and Education in England; 4 Gender and Work; 5 Education and Social Mobility; 6 Educational Achievement: An intersectional approach; 7 The Inclusion Agenda in Mainstream Primary Schools?; Section 2 – Global and Environmental Education; 8 International and Comparative Education; 9 Globalisation and Populism: Why intercultural education failed; 10 Religion and Worldviews in Education; 11 Education and Climate Change; 12 Education for Sustainability; Section 3 – Knowledge and Learning; 13 The Sociology of Knowledge; 14 Social Psychology and Learning; 15 Philosophy and Education; 16 Creative Pedagogy for Empowerment through Expressive Arts; 17 Information Technology and Learning; Section 4 – Childhood and Youth; 18 Early Years Education; 19 The ‘Resilient’ Child: Defining and supporting children’s resilience; 20 Health and Education; Section 5 – Professionalism and Employment; 21 Work-based Learning; 22 Professionalism; Notes on contributors; Index

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Book SynopsisThis text illustrates the crucial role of the mother tongue literacy in second language acquisition by presenting findings from a comparative study conducted in primary schools in Senegal. In addition, the volume provides an in-depth look at the linguistic history of Senegal before, during, and after French colonialism.The Impact of Mother Tongue Illiteracy on Second Language Acquisition discusses the socio-linguistic landscape and ethnolinguistic composition of Senegal and its effect on the second language acquisition. An in-depth analysis of childrenâs phonological awareness, decoding, and reading comprehension in French reveals significant disparities in the literacy skills of Wolof children who have been exposed to Arabic and Qurâanic texts prior to schooling, and those who have not. In doing so, the text explores the impacts of post-colonial language policies in Africa, highlights the pedagogical consequences of mother tongue illiteracy, and questions the use of French as the only language of instruction in Senegalese schools.This detailed research text will of great interest and use to graduate and postgraduate students, researchers, academics, professionals and policy makers in the field of Second Language Acquisition, Multicultural Education, Applied Linguistics, French language education and, Language Policy and Planning.Table of ContentsLists of figuresList of tablesAcknowledgements List of abbreviationsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Demographic and Socio-linguistic Profiles of SenegalChapter 3: France’s Language Policy and Planning in Senegal during ColonialismChapter 4: Children’s Literacy Experiences in AfricaChapter 5: Researching with Arabic and Non-Arabic PopulationsChapter 6: Mother Tongue Literacy and Second Language LearningChapter 7: Phonological Awareness, Decoding Skills, and Reading ComprehensionChapter 8: Conculsion and Pedagogical ImplicationsBibliography

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Book SynopsisChanging schools at 11 or 12+ is a critical, often traumatic event in a pupil's career. Earlier studies had looked at this transitional stage from the schools' point of view, in the light of institutional aims and objectives. Originally published in 1984, this richly detailed and readable study looks at it from the pupils' point of view: it illustrates their perceptions of the transfer, their anxieties and their experiences.The book is the result of a research project, in which children transferring from a typical middle school to a typical comprehensive in a Midlands town were observed over a period of eighteen months. The authors reveal various ways in which children adjust to a large, more complex school organisation, to new forms of discipline and authority, and new demands in school work. They emphasise the significance of teenage culture during this period, and identify an important area of interplay between school culture and sub-culture. They pay special attention to Table of ContentsAuthors’ Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part 1: Last Term at Middle School 1. Identities at Risk 2. Being Eased In Part 2: First Term at ‘High Town’: Provisional Adaptations 3. Initial Fronts 4. Making Friends Part 3: Second Term: Renegotiations 5. An Attempted Coup 6. Growing Pains Part 4: Third Term: Consolidated Adaptations 7. Making Space 8. Deviance, Conformity and Knife-Edging Part 5: Conclusion 9. Theoretical and Policy Implications. Appendix: The Origin of Current Transfer Points. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisEducational Choices, Transitions and Aspirations in Europe analyses educational choices and transitions in eight different European countries/regions and provides an engaging means of considering issues of inequality through international comparisons. The book is underpinned by explorations of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches, which share the common goal of highlighting and challenging educational inequalities in relation to political imaginings and discursive constructions of notions of aspirations and choice.Beginning with an overview of the theoretical landscape, the book posits ways of understanding transitional experiences through both a social and a political lens. Comprising of chapters that explore these issues within the context of specific countries and at different stages of young peopleâs transitions, the collection examines the features of different European education systems and how they frame transitions and choices, before providTrade Review"This books provides excellent insight into young people's educational choices being neither individual nor structural but relational."Andreas Walther, Goethe-University of Frankfurt.Table of ContentsPart I. Introduction1. Setting the scene for the analysis. Aina Tarabini (Autonomous University of Barcelona) and Nicola Ingram (University of Lancaster)Part II. Theoretical and conceptual perspective2. Working class educational failure: theoretical perspectives, discursive concerns, and methodological approaches. Diane Reay (University of Cambridge). 3. Student aspiration and transition as capabilities for navigating education systems. Trevor Gale and Stephen Parker (Glasgow University).Part III. Primary School Transitions4. Transition from primary to secondary education in a rigidly tracked system: the case of Flanders. Simon Boone, Marie Seghers and Mieke Van Houtte (University of Ghent).5. Working-class boys and educational success in a socially divisive secondary education system: lessons from Belfast (Northern Ireland). Nicola Ingram (University of Lancaster).Part IV. Secondary School Transitions6. Framing youth educational choices at the end of compulsory schooling: the Catalan case. Aina Tarabini, Marta Curran, Alba Castejón, Alejandro Montes (Autonomous University of Barcelona).7. Choosing the right track. Educational decisions and inequalities within the Italian educational system. Marco Romito (University of Milan).8. Social class, institutional habitus and high school choices in Turkey. Çetin Celik (Koç University),Part V. Higher Education Transitions9. National framing and local reframing of students’ transition to higher education in France: limitations and pitfalls. Agnès van Zanten, Alice Olivier, Anne-Claudine Oller, Katrina Ulhy (Science Po, Paris).10. Preparatory course market and access to higher education in Finland: pocketful or pockets-full-of money needed? Sonja Kosunen, Hanna Ahtiainen and Marju Töyrylä (University of Helsinki)11. Higher education students as consumers? Evidence from England. Rachel Brooks and Jessica Abrahams (University of Surrey).Part VI. Conclusions12. Social Inequalities in Educational Choices Transitions and Aspirations in Europe. Nicola Ingram (University of Lancaster) and Aina Tarabini (Autonomous University of Barcelona)

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Book SynopsisClimate change is complex and there is a need to educate our future generations so that they are able to deal with the plethora of information and views that they come into contact with in their lives. This book inquires into what it means to teach and learn about climate change.Now in its second edition, Chang further explores what education for climate change entails, discussing the concept of climate change education (CCE) itself, how it is taught in schools and how public education is being carried out. Featuring updated literature in a quickly advancing field, the book defines CCE for the global citizen and looks at pedagogies supporting CCE. It also identifies teachers as key stakeholders in climate change discourse, how to improve teacher readiness on the topic and how teacher professional development can support successful implementation of CCE.This book will be invaluable to climate change educators and can act as a reference resource for teachers, education pTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Defining climate change education for the global citizen 3. Climate change education in the formal curriculum 4. What do students know about climate change? 5. Pedagogies for successful implementation of CCE 6. Preparing teachers for CCE 7. Assessment in CCE 8. Lessons from CCE for public education 9. CCE, environmental education and sustainability education through geographical education. 10. Is CCE relevant for the global citizen in these critical times?

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Book SynopsisThis volume problematizes the historic dominance of Western classical music education and posits culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP) as a framework through which music curricula can better serve increasingly diverse student populations. By detailing a qualitative study conducted in an urban high school in the United States, the volume illustrates how traditional approaches to music education can inhibit student engagement and learning. Moving beyond culturally responsive teaching, the volume goes on to demonstrate how enhancing teachersâ understanding of alternative musical epistemologies can support them in embracing CSP in the music classroom. This new theoretical and pedagogical framework reconceptualizes current practices to better sustain the musical cultures of the minoritized.This text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in music education, multicultural education, and urban education more broadly. Those specifically interested iTable of ContentsPart I: Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy, 1: The Importance of Theory, 2: Why Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy for Music Education? Part II: Historical Overview of Today’s Music Classroom 3: Music and the ‘Civilizing’ Mission, 4: Music and the ‘Civilizing’ Mission in the United States, 5: Character Improvement and Music Education in the United States, 6: Music Education Standardization and Codification Part III: Today’s Music Classroom 7: How do our Normalized Practices Impact Children Today? 8: Two Music Teaching Approaches 9: How do Students describe a Meaningful Music Classroom? Part IV: Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy in Music Education 10: Musical Epistemology and Music Education Part V: Moving Forward Toward Culturally Sustaining Music Pedagogy 11: Practical Implications for the Music Classroom 12: Towards a Framework for Culturally Sustaining Music Pedagogy

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Book SynopsisThis book introduces an emerging area of research exploring the influence of extreme weather events on school systems. Chapters explore a range of extreme weather events such as snowstorms, bushfires, extreme winds, heavy rainfall and prolonged heat waves, and their potentially widespread impacts. It also covers key challenges faced by schools, including how to protect students, levels of teacher preparation to counter extreme weather conditions and how students' learning is impacted by extreme weather patterns. Drawing on a broad range of research in this field, this book will appeal to environmental and educational researchers, as well as those currently studying or practising in education.

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Book SynopsisWhat do we actually do when we research education policy and governance? Why do we tame the messy hinterland of research into smooth accounts and what do we lose in the process?In this volume, distinguished scholars in education policy and governance research discuss how the practice of methods is messy, subjective, and provisional. They approach methodology as riddled with tensions, doubts, troubles, and mundane decisions. Scholarship in this book shifts from recording the methodological hinterland to putting it to productive use as resources for thinking about the researched world and about research itself. This methodological openness helps to examine how research reproduces scholars' metaphysics, how research is a deeply embodied process encompassing all senses, how scholars' concerns interfere in the worlds they study, but also how these equally interfere with researchers. By challenging smooth methodological accounts which conceal the complex and provisional natuTable of ContentsForeword: From After Method to care-ful researchJohn Law What a mess: intimacies, metaphysics, multiple senses and matters of concern in education policy research (an introduction) Camilla Addey and Nelli Piattoeva Researching education elites twenty years on: Sex, Lies and… Skype Sotiria Grek Following European experts as an embedded researcher. Multiple commitments, contingencies, and asymmetries shaping the academic self Romuald Normand Positionality, power and the postcolonial context: Meditations on identity, access and relations in education policy research Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar Opening the black box of peer review Radhika Gorur Dressed for success? Making an appearance at an educational technology event. Anna Jobér Anecdotalization: From individual to collective learning through intimate accounts Marcella Milana A balancing act: the untold practice of network ethnography Marina Avelar, Anna Hogan, Carolina Junemann and Dimitra Pavlina Nikita Researching unsafe global education policy spaces in Mexico Rosanne Elisabeth Tromp Unboxing and unraveling in the archive of gender equity policy Susanne Gannon and Kerry Robinson Research encounters on the move: Reflecting on policy mobilities and researcher positionality in policy sociology in education Steven Lewis Disentangling fast school policy at a slow pace Samira Alirezabeigi, Jan Masschelein and Mathias Decuypere Encountering sociological theory in the field - a post-reflexive approach Helene RatnerNot the last word (an afterword)Jenny Ozga

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Book SynopsisThis handbook offers a contemporary and comprehensive review of critical research theory and methodology. Showcasing the work of contemporary critical researchers who are harnessing and building on a variety of methodological tools, this volume extends beyond qualitative methodology to also include critical quantitative and mixed-methods approaches to research. The critical scholars contributing to this volume are influenced by a diverse range of education disciplines, and represent multiple countries and methodological backgrounds, making the handbook an essential resource for anyone doing critical scholarship. The book moves from the theoretical to the specific, examining various paradigms for engaging in critical scholarship, various methodologies for doing critical research, and the political, ethical, and practical issues that arise when working as a critical scholar. In addition to mapping the field, contributions synthesize literature, offer concrete examples, and explore relTrade Review"This is the handbook we've been waiting for! The chapters in this crucial volume not only refuse the dehumanizing paradigm of research that has done so much harm in minoritized communities, they offer the deep, nuanced guidance for undertaking more liberatory inquiries we have so urgently needed in the field. Reckoning with anti-Blackness, settler colonialism, and multiple forms of oppression, rooted in histories of invisibilized expertise, resilience and joy, the authors provide profound ontological and epistemological insights as well as tangible methodological approaches that help light the way forward for scholars, students, and researchers at all stages!"--Ann Ishimaru, Associate Professor, Educational Foundations, Leadership, & Policy, University of Washington"How do two leading scholars and thinkers in the field of education policy and leadership—Michelle D. Young and Sarah Diem—follow up on their highly influential book, Critical Approaches to Education Policy Analysis: Moving Beyond Tradition? Simply, they push us to understand further, by comprehensively reviewing, complicating, and interrogating the very critical research methodologies that they and others of us in the field employ. In the Handbook of Critical Education Research: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Emerging Approaches, Diem and Young situate the significant expansion of education research methodological tools and approaches within histopolitical and contemporary sociocultural realities, to offer us a brave, engaging, and well-researched volume that brings together exciting and smart critical scholars from across the globe. It is not only a must read, but a must use for all education researchers."--Jill Koyama, Vice Dean and Professor, Educational Leadership & Innovation, Arizona State University"Given the continued weight of historical positivisms, this book marks how critical work is gaining parity across the paradigms in educational research. Neo-liberalism might remain hegemonic, but "remembering with" many of the authors in terms of origins, my hope is that the push of the book toward not so much ideology critique as against methodological conservatism engenders a "living into" more nuanced approaches alive to the "afters" of the many inequities so very much with us."--Patti Lather, Emeritus Professor, Cultural Foundations, Technology, & Qualitative Inquiry, The Ohio State UniversityTable of ContentsSection 1: Introduction: Why Critical Research? Why Now? 1. Critical Education Research: Emerging Perspectives on Methods and Methodologies 2. The Paradigm Wars Reconsidered: Looking for a Legacy 3. Critical Approaches to Quantitative Research: Review, Critique, and Applications 4. Black in Time: Critical Research Practices for Studying Anti-Blackness in Schools Section 2: Epistemology, Theory, and Paradigms 5. Education and Colonialism: Three Frameworks 6. The White Supremacist Core Ontological Architecture of Western Modernity 7. Queering Critical Educational Research: Methodological Activism Within a Cultural Location of the ‘Not Yet’ 8. Reflexivity 10.6: The Matter of Reflexivity or What Matter Matters in Postqualitative Inquiry 9. The Spatial Logic of Epistemic Imaginaries: Guided by Édouard Glissant 10. Where Are the Black Folx? A Queer Critical Race Theory Intersectional Analysis Section 3: Introduction: Critical Qualitative Research Design 11. Toward Critical Approaches to Case Study Research 12. Critical Ethnography in Education Research: More Than a Method 13. Critical Auto (-/) Ethnography in Everyday and Educational Research for Social Justice 14. Critical Narrative Inquiry: Reaching Toward Understanding, Moving to Resistance, and Acting in Solidarity 15. A "Good" University: Community-based Critical Participatory Action Research, University-Community Relations, and Affordable Housing 16. Using Critical Discourse Analysis to Challenge and Change Educational Practice and Policy 17. Toward a Critical History of Education: The Uses of the Past and its Possibilities for the Present Section 4: Introduction: Critical Quantitative Research Design 18. (Un)Learning White Supremacy Ideologies to Advance Critical Approaches to Quantitative Inquiry 19. Applied Quantitative Inquiry through a Critical Disability Studies Lens 20. Critical Quantitative Intersectionality: Maximizing Integrity in Expanding Tools and Applications 21. What is the Point?: Reimagining the Critical Quantitative Research of Big and Large-Scale Data Sets to Advance Racial Equity: Section 5: Introduction: Critical Emerging Approaches 22. Disrupting the Binary: Critical Mixed-Methods as Academic Resistance 23. Critical Networks in Critical Times 24. Critical Space Analysis: Integrating Geographic Information Systems into Critical Educational Research 25. Multimodal Inquiries Inspired by Post-Philosophies: More-than-Human Relationalities that Produce (Critical) Inquiry(ies) Section 6: Introduction: Data Collection in Critical Research 26. Listening and Learning Through Critical Interviewing Approaches in Qualitative Inquiry 27. Oral History as Critique: Memories Disrupting the Dominant Narrative 28. Critical and Feminist Cartographies of Observation: Procedural, Personal, and Political Considerations in the Documentation and Analysis of Life Worlds 29. Critical Survey Research Section 7: Introduction: Critical Data Analysis 30. Using Qualitative Data Analysis Software to Help Explore Critical Research Questions: A Tool, Not a Replacement 31. Shifting Policy Meanings: Argumentative Discourse Analysis and Historical Policy Research 32. The Ethics and Bureaucratization of Data Management 33. Advancing QuantCrit in Critical Race Spatial Research: Exploring Methodological Possibilities by Mapping Chicanx Baccalaureate Attainment 34. Beyond Representation: Decoloniality Content Analysis as a Methodology to De/Reconstruct the Sociology of Expectations in Curriculum Section 8: Introduction: Politics and Ethics of Doing Critical Educational Research 35. Critical Educational Research and Social Movements 36. "To Whom Are We Accountable?": Exploring the Tensions Inherent within Critical Scholarship 37. Families and Educators Co-Designing: Critical Education Research as Participatory Public Scholarship 38. Validity as Democratic Deliberation: The Pragmatist Imperative for Critical Inquiry 39. Topographies of Research as Relational: Exploring the Politics and Ethics of Positionality and Relationality in Research Processes 40. Institutional Review Boards: Processes and Critiques

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Book SynopsisMoving beyond Western philosophical and political frameworks, this text engages with and centers Arab-Islamic ontologies, pupil voice, and gender to explore citizen identity formation and belonging among domestic students and Syrian refugees in Jordan.Focusing on the role of double-shift schools, educational policy, and provision, the volume interrogates how citizenship and youth identity is rooted, upheld, and altered over time. With an eye to complex historical, local, and national contexts of migration and (in)security in the Middle East, the book strives for a reconceptualization of citizen identity and education to better reflect the development of socio-civic identities amidst poverty, forced migration, and unrest. Based on direct access to 10 public schools in Jordan and using qualitative data, it applies an innovative combination of different methods to ascertain student voice to theorize education for citizenship based on real and challenging experiences of Syrian refugees as well as domestic Jordanian students. Moving beyond the traditional Western philosophies that largely frame citizenship discourses, it applies process philosophy to a field dominated by political considerations while also paying attention to social contexts. As such, it goes beyond the context of Jordan to inform regional and international discourses, policies, and initiatives surrounding refugees and education in emergencies.The book will appeal to scholars, professionals, and students in the fields of comparative and international education, citizenship youth studies, social studies, and social foundations of education, as well as those working in the formal and non-formal educational development sectors.

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume brings together the perspectives of a diverse group of international scholars to explore the intersections of study abroad and social mobility. In doing so, it challenges universalist assumptions and power imbalances implicit in study abroad across the Global North and South, and explores the implications of COVID-19 for equity within study abroad programs, policy, and practice going forward.Offering empirical, theoretical, and conceptual contributions, Critical Perspectives on Equity and Social Mobility in Study Abroad foregrounds critical reflection on the stratification of access to study abroad and examines the varied outcomes of international study in relation to graduates' entry into domestic and international labor markets. Focusing on the experiences and outcomes of students from varied backgrounds, chapters identify a number of power imbalances relating to student race, ethnicity, religion, local and international policies and politicTrade ReviewWithout reservation, I applaud this multi-faceted and in-depth examination laying bare the stratification and inequities of study abroad. This book challenges the vestiges of privilege and provides ways that equity can be infused within study abroad.--Linda Serra Hagedorn, Professor Emeritus, Iowa State University, USAThis volume on Social Mobility in Study Abroad addresses important aspects of both access and outcome of global student mobility, by a diverse team of scholars from a rich variety of perspectives. Further research of this topic will have particularly important impact in the context of developing countries, where the intersection of social justice and student mobility is yet to be in the center of concern and discussion.--Yenbo Wu, Associate Vice President, Division of International Education, San Francisco State University, USACritical Perspectives on Equity and Social Mobility in Study Abroad: Interrogating Issues of Unequal Access and Outcomes brings together a truly international array of perspectives on education abroad and its economic implications. It is hard to imagine a more important topic during the current period of transition and uncertainty. --Gerardo L. Blanco, Academic Director, Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, USACritical Perspectives on Equity and Social Mobility in Study Abroad: Interrogating Issues of Unequal Access and Outcomes sheds light on a critically-important issue that has been far too often ignored, namely, social inequality in study abroad. Utilizing a comparative cross-national approach, this edited volume offers a highly-welcomed examination of a gnawing concern for all of us engaged in international education.--William I. Brustein, Special Assistant to the President for Global Affairs, Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of History, West Virginia University, USAThis book is a very interesting and much needed book. It highlights aspects too often neglected when discussing the link between student mobility, labor market access and social mobility. It provides a comprehensive global overview of the topic with contributions by authors from different backgrounds and it does not limit itself to underline the problem of inequality, but also explores possible solutions to it.-- Giorgio Marinoni, Manager, HE and Internationalization, International Association of Universities, UNESCO House, France This timely book speaks directly to how to rebuild study abroad to make it more accessible, equitable, and aligned with inclusive social and economic mobility outcomes. Informed by the diverse perspectives of authors who have worked in a variety of national, cultural and institutional contexts, this book points to a way forward for a field that needs bold thinking and fresh ideas to guide it into the future. This is a must read for all involved with developing, managing and assessing study abroad programming.-- Brian Whalen, Executive Director, American International Recruitment Council; International Education Leadership Fellow, University at Albany, USATable of Contents Introduction: Study Abroad and Social Mobility: Access and Labor Market Inequality in a Post-COVID-19 WorldChris R. Glass and Peggy GesingPART 1: Access to Study Abroad within and across Countries Power Imbalances: Inequality in International Exchange in the UK and Thailand Jayme Scally, Abigail Parrish, and Piyachat Dhephasadin Na Ayudhya Mobility of Muslim Students Seeking Higher Education: A Dream Fraught with Challenges Enakshi Sengupta, Fahrettin Sumer, and Andrew Ssemwanga Increasing Access to Student Mobility: Sustainable Study Abroad Programs at Rural Community Colleges Michelle R. Lieberman, Dean Roughton, and Mitchell R. Williams PART 2: Study Abroad and Labor Market Inequality Employer Perceptions of Study Abroad: Subverting or Supporting Labor Market Inequality? Peter G. Ghazarian Global Policy Impacts on Career Outcomes: An International Student Mobility Case Study Peggy Gesing, Natalie Cruz, and Jason Lynch What Does it Take to Find a Job Today? International Chinese Doctoral Student Perspectives on Domestic and International Employment Xin Zhao and Michael Kung The Effects of Studying Abroad on Graduate Careers: The Case of Graduates from a Japanese University Maki Kato PART 3: Expanding Opportunity in Study Abroad The Linguistics of English Colonialism in Study Abroad: Translating the Study Abroad Experience for Language Minority Students Z. W. Taylor and Daniel Becton The Study Abroad Diamond: Examining the Facets of Supporting Student Mobility Erik Jon Byker, S. Mike Putman, and Adriana L. Medina Alternatives to Study Abroad: Internationalization at Home as a Key Strategy to Providing Opportunities for Cultural and International Exposure Weronika A. Kusek

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an uncompromising and rigorous analysis of education and human rights by examining issues related to gender, race, sexuality, disability, and social class. Written as a companion to the very successful U.K. version, this volume reflects the economic, political, social, and cultural changes in educational and political policy and practice in the United States. Offering a comprehensive look at these areas, this book is an essential resource across a wide range of disciplines and for all those interested in education, social policy, and equality.Trade ReviewIt is appropriate that Peter McLaren introduces this volume in his inimitably plaintive and frenetic fashion. Mike Cole’s new collection does not slow down from there. The chapters provide hard-hitting presentations of a given social injustice, each combining historical depth with conceptual heft. This volume is a necessary reminder of not just where we have been but also of where we are headed. Despite the assault on schools from myriad ideological sources -- neoliberalism, neoconservativism, neofascism, neonazism, white supremacy -- and the growing number of policy makers who embrace them, it is here that the authors in this volume, as critical pedagogues and resistance theorists, continue to seek hope.– John E Petrovic, The University of Alabama, author of Unschooling Critical Pedagogy, Unfixing Schools. Finding ourselves at a critical historical juncture with respect to questions of equality and human rights in education, this timely volume offers readers a powerful compilation of thought-provoking essays that speak to the very root of inequalities and offers valuable alternatives for genuinely enacting educational political projects that are in sync with our revolutionary dreams. – Antonia Darder, Professor Emerita, Loyola Marymount University, USAMike Cole has edited an outstanding collection of essays from internationally known scholars who analyze the current political threats to democracy particularly from the right-wing. The issues of gender, disabilities, sexuality, ecology, class and others are clearly articulated within a political context. The essays boldly confront the significant dilemmas and conflicts that all of us face. The book is an indispensable and excellent read for all scholars and educators committed to social justice and equity in these nightmarish times. It is a must read.– William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern University, USAThis is an astonishing book! So strong yet subtle, so well written in easy-to-understand language clarifying sometimes complex concepts and analysis- and, overtly written by various chapter writers from the heart, from feeling, from cool outrage at the tragic inequalities within the USA and its education systems.This is a brilliant and moving and clearly Marxist critique that goes beyond critique, into resistance and `what we can do’. I am so full of admiration for this book- I wish all USA teachers in schools, community colleges and universities would read it. That would set the Marxist cat among the Capitalist pigeons!– Dave Hill, Emeritus Research Professor of Education, Anglia Ruskin University, UKTable of ContentsForeword: Democracy Under Siege and the Rise of the Unthinkable; Introduction: Equality and Human Rights in the United States today1. Feminism and Socialism: Looking Back, Looking Ahead; 2. Gender and Education: The Revolutionary ‘Force and Reason’ of Women; 3. U. S. History Breathes and Bleeds Racism; 4. Racism and Education: Failure to Achieve Democratic Aims Inclusively in Public Schooling; 5. The Making of Sexuality in the United States: Normativity, Heteropatriarchy, and Resisting the ‘Euphoria’ of Androcentric Logic; 6. Toward a Marxian Understanding of Sex Education Policy and Curriculum in the United States; 7. Disability Matters: A Materialist History of Disability Under U.S. Settler-Capitalism; 8. Disabling Learning Conditions: Ability-Segregated Education and the Creation of Disability; 9. Marx and the Marxist alternative to neoliberal capitalism: the case for a fully inclusive ecosocialism for today; 10. The Hidden Cost of Class Disavowal and the Case for a New Education System: Social Class and Education in the U.S.

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Book SynopsisThis book draws on the stories of female educators and young Muslim women to explore issues of identity, justice and education. Situated against a backdrop of unprecedented Islamophobia and new articulations of âWhite-lashâ, this book draws on case study research conducted over a ten-year period and provides insight into the diverse worlds of young Muslim women from education and community contexts in Australia and England. Keddie discusses the ways in which these young women find spaces of agency and empowerment within these contexts and how their passionate and committed educators support them in this endeavour. Useful for researchers and educators who are concerned about Islamophobia and its devastating impacts on Muslim women and girls, this book positions responsibility for changing the oppressions of Islamophobia and gendered Islamophobia with all of us. Such change begins with education. The stories in this book hope to contribute to the change process.Table of Contents1. Islamophobia, gender and education 2. Young Muslim women: matters of diversity and agency 3. Supporting Muslim girls at the Clementine Academy: the contentious space of Religious Studies 4. Supporting Muslim girls at Peppermint Grove: religious discourses, gender identity and issues of empowerment 5. Challenging gendered Islamophobia: young Muslim women’s faith-based agency 6. Muslim women supporting Muslim girls: issues of racial and ethnic positioning 7. Supporting and educating young Muslim women

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Book SynopsisThis essential and ground-breaking resource for all practising and aspiring teaching assistants brings together all the crucial information necessary to support the full diversity of learners, from Early Years to Key Stage 4 in one comprehensive volume. Based on the revised National Occupational Standards for teaching assistants, this book effectively supports the personalised learning and Every Child Matters (ECM) well being of children and young people in schools. Coverage includes: an overview of the Every Child Matters change for children programme and how this informs the role of the teaching assistant working in multi-disciplinary school personalised learning and well being teams applying existing practical strategies to develop children and young peopleâs skills as confident, collaborative and independent learners who experience positive ECM outcomes monitoring and evaluating the impact of teaching assistant support in improving the ECM outcomes how teaching assistants can meet the requirements of the OFSTED inspection process. This accessible, user-friendly book provides a wealth of practical resources, including photocopiable materials, templates, and positive solution-focused advice to support busy teaching assistants.Every Child Matters: A Practical Guide for Teaching Assistants provides a clear description of what the ECM agenda means for TAs and how it will impact on their role. It is also a valuable resource for all those line managing and supporting the continuing professional development of teaching assistants, from local authorities, FE and HE organisations.Trade Review"Rita writes with clarity and brevity about what practitioners need to understand and be able to do. She is an established authority on Every Child Matters and well placed to provide guidance on how its principles should permeate every aspect of the teaching assistant role. If you are a TA, or if you work with TAs, you need this book." - Dr. Linda Evans (Educational Consultant)Anne Watkinson My areas of teaching, pupil support and responsibility. Ex primary teacher, headteacher and Local Authority senior adviser. Free lance educational adviser specialising in teaching assistants (TAs) Research and experience in the field of managing and training TAs. Ex consultant to DfES, and TDA regarding TAs. Author 6 books for and about TAs and Higher Level TAs (HLTAs) David Fulton Publishers and Routledge The proposed title This is clear. My first reaction (without reading the proposal) was why do TAs need a book about this? My current understanding is that schools and areas will vary enormously as to how this affects them. The principles of Every Child Matters(ECM) are clearly explained in government literature both in detailed legislative form and simple summary form. The proposed Children Centres and multi agency working will be so different from place to place urban to rural, existing arrangements, LA to LA etc. The new inspections will focus on this field but these are likely to be very superficial regarding actual observations of people working in the school or interviews that TAs are less likely than before to be affected. Although clear, it does however limit the reader to expect a book underpinning a Government initiative, rather than addressing fundamental issues. Then I read the proposal. Need for the book See answer to item 2. Yes, all TAs will need to know that this major initiative will eventually affect the ways in which schools are organised, although the actual practical details that are likely to affect TAs will have to worked out locally. It would be good to think that TAs would be sufficiently concerned about legislation and national initiatives to be interested. It would be really good to think that management were sufficiently communicating with their TAs to tell them about this, but I fear still too many TAs do not meet together to get regular updates on things like this. ECM affects primary and secondary, all young people under 18. HLTAs and those TAs undertaking foundation degrees should understand the implications and seriousness of the issues which led to the initiative and the potential outcomes. However, the principles that underpin ECM are valid and important, often neglected in favour of more obvious things like subject matter, and that is what this book is aiming to address. My immediate reaction My reaction to the title was 2 above. Reading the proposal, though I warmed to the theme and I feel this has a lot to recommend it. The book takes the principles of Every Child Matters rather than the practical outcomes of the legislation and initiatives and spells out how these principles should affect the TAs’ practice. While these principles should be embedded anyway in the practice of TAs and all those involved in the learning in a school, the ECM themes are a useful vehicle to use. I am concerned that the slant of the book is essentially about ‘appropriate support and intervention’ to promote inclusion. It is for those children and young people who have ‘additional needs’. This is a book for those TAs who are sometimes referred to as LSAs, learning support assistants, whose main concern is with enabling children with special educational needs (SEN) to succeed in mainstream education. This may not be so helpful for those TAs who are generalist, classroom assistants or HLTAs taking whole classes possibly with specialist subjects. All TAs do need to know about the strategies to be described. The book concentrates on the affective side of a TAs’ work. While this kind of support – for well being, enjoyment, self esteem etc is vital to the learning process, and underpins working with children and young people, it must be as a support to the learning process and the curriculum. It is must be made clear that while an unhappy or uncomfortable child will not learn, the main purpose of a school is to educate – to lead in learning. It is not a children’s home. While the author refers to learning there is no indication of how developing wellbeing etc. impinges on the learning process itself, usually referred to as psychology. It is all very well to emphasise this underpinning need of us all in a learning process but the book needs to show how it works. All the TA will usually see as a model, is a teacher in action ‘delivering’ – instructing. With luck they will work with a teacher who has good relationships and empathy with the need to develop the affective side of children. Yes, TAs usually work with smaller groups and individuals with whom they can ensure that these attitudes and strategies are in place and effective. I would like to see a little more link between the ideas promoted by the author and the psychological aspects of learning (how the brain works) and both these to the visible techniques and expected outcomes (dare I say results?) for the pupils.5. The strengths of this proposed book. It emphasises the importance of the affective side of education which underpins development and learning. It offers practical strategies and activities for TAs. It is using a current thrust of Government policy to be the framework for some fundamental ideas. It emphasises the positive aspects of learning. The author is clearly well known to DFP (Routledge) and speaks authoritatively about this area. The weaknesses of this book It is rather long for the ‘ordinary’ TA – 110 pages, 135000 words. My PhD was only 82000 words! It will be more suited, in the depth indicated by this length, for those studying for TA foundation degree or tutors and advisers. A much shorter succinct book would of more use to those studying at NVQ 2 and 3 level. One of DFP A4 books would fit the bill better than a long textbook which this length would indicate. It appears to make little reference to the curriculum and teaching and learning strategies. It would thus be one of a number of books that a TA studying their role would need. It concentrates on the support role of TAs in helping pupils with additional needs. The author is obviously an expert in the area of SEN and inclusion hence the audience is LSA rather than the generalist TA. This should be made clear. While it is true that good practice for those with SEN is good practice for all children, there are affective issues regarding the middle ground and able achievers that need to be considered, such as: high expectations, how to deal with coasting learners, how to avoid the ‘velcro’ approach with SEN learners. Too much support can undermine the learners’ own strengths. It may become dated, leaning so heavily on the ECM agenda. While this agenda is important, it is a political initiative which may be superseded. It is ‘to empower TAs to meet the ECM agenda’ but it does not make clear that schools have many agendas, of which this is one, or how this agenda relates to the other agendas – e.g freeing the curriculum for primary schools, ensuring high standards for all, behaviour management, etc. What is missing in the contents The areas mentioned in the above paragraphs. The importance of relationships between TA and pupil, TA and TA and TA and teaching staff. What to do if the teacher with whom the TA is working, or the school ethos or climate does not support such an agenda. The relationship of support to the formal, informal and hidden curriculum of a school. Possible competition I do not know of a book that tackles the ECM agenda for TAs in this way. There are books that help LSAs support pupils in the affective domain, for example Glenys Fox’s book on Learning Support Assistance. She has a more holistic approach to the whole subject of supporting pupils and her book is short enough and basic enough to be of use to the beginning and ‘ordinary’ TA as well as LSAs. Other DFP books tackle individual SEN matters – Asberger’s or Down’s – but not just this affective area I think. Purchase of this book I would purchase this book as a useful addition to my library of TA books. However I would advise any TA to look carefully before purchase, this should not be the only book they use to support their own learning and practice. Other comments I found the author’s style in describing her own book a bit OTT, ‘outstanding success’ ‘unique, ground breaking resource’ ‘guaranteed bestseller’ etc., but this may be because I would never have the confidence to describe my own books in such terms, particularly before they are published! I wish her well.Marcelo StaricoffPlease identify your areas of teaching, pupil support and responsibility.I am currently the Deputy Headteacher at St. Bartholomew’s CE Primary School in Brighton. I also teach a Year 5 class and I am responsible for leading Numeracy, Assessment, Behaviour, Thinking Skills and G&T in our school. I am directly responsible for the performance management of the Midday Lunchtime Supervisors and I work alongside a teaching assistant in my Year 5 class (75% of curriculum time). I have a particular interest in Thinking Skills, Philosophy for Children and G&T Provision and I have written several articles on how these approaches to teaching and learning can be incorporated into the daily routine of a primary classroom. I have recently published a book, entitled Start Thinking, Imaginative Minds, 2005 [ISBN 1904806023] which is a collection of open ended ‘thinking skills starters’ that children engage with when they first enter the classroom in the morning. I am a member of NAGTY’s Think Tank and Primary Expert Advisory Group, of SAPERE’s National Committee and of Brighton’s Creativity Steering Group. I regularly speak at National Conferences and run CPD and INSET days for schools.Please comment on the proposed title – is it clear/appropriate/appealing? Can you suggest an alternative title?The title is very appropriate I would say, especially as it is another one in the series of ‘Every Child Matters’ by the same author. Having Every Child Matters as part of the title is an immediate draw for anyone currently working in Education. My only doubt is that in the Background section it states that the book will support the learning and well being of children with additional needs. As the title stands this is not clear and if this is the case it may need an explanatory sub-title. The rest of the proposal seems to deal with TAs supporting all children in helping the school to meet the ECM agenda, in which case the title would be alright.Do you agree that a book of this type is needed? Who would be the main audience for it? Would it appeal to both primary and secondary sectors?I definitely agree that there is a need for a book that addresses the Every Child Matters from a Teacher’s Assistant point of view. A fantastic and original idea which will represent an invaluable resource for all educational establishments, especially in Primary Schools where TAs play such an important role in nurturing children and contributing to their personalised learning.What was your immediate reaction to the proposal? Did you like it or dislike it? Did you find it straightforward or confusing?I really liked it as soon as I started reading it- the more I read it and the more times I read it I became increasingly convinced of its value- especially if it doesn’t restrict itself to TAs supporting children with additional needs. Although many schools view TAs as solely helping children with additional needs, I feel that they can if deployed creatively and respectfully contribute enormously to the success of all in the classroom. It all seems to be very clearly thought out and the Chapters are very well designed in terms of content and continuity.What are the strengths of this proposed book?I feel the book has a number of strengths. The author is obviously an expert in the field and a very successful writer of books on similar topics. It feels me with confidence that this book will be of equal quality. To bring the ECM agenda to the fore is invaluable at the moment and to provide schools with guidance as to how have TAs at the heart of school success is a great commodity. The deployment of TAs has always being an ‘issue’ with all schools I have been involved with and after every inspection/observation that I have been involved in. raising the profile of TAs is what this book will do so well. Including information on personalised learning and assessment for learning will also place TAs at the cutting edge of educational initiatives. Examples of practical support and strategies for all five areas of the ECM agenda would be fabulous. The Monitoring and Evaluating chapter is what schools are now judged by and this chapter would be invaluable for all heads. What are the weaknesses of this book?From a weakness point of view, the only slight concern is the author’s assertion that ‘it will be a guaranteed best seller’. In combining theory and practical support strategies it may attract forward looking heads, but from personal experience TAs do not generally buy books themselves for their own CPD and very often are not used to dealing and assimilating educational literature. I feel that the book would be bought more as a single copy by heads rather than as a working document which teachers and TAs would want to acquire. If that is the case, heads would have to be very good at sharing the ‘practical chapters’ with the TA workforce. Having said that, I would definitely buy a copy to promote the role of TAs in our school.What is missing (if anything) in the contents?Only greater clarity as to whether it is intended to support TAs dealing with children with additional needs or for all TAs regardless of their child remit in and out of class.Are you aware of any other books now on the market that compete with this book (that are on the same topic and have the same approach)?I don’t know of any other books focusing on the TA role as part of the ECM agenda and as such it is unique as the author suggests.Would you buy this book?I would definitely buy this book. I feel that TAs are the ‘make or break’ of successful schools and not enough guidance is given to teachers and TAs as to how to best promote learning in the classroom. I think that this book would allow schools to approach the TA issue from a ‘third party’ point of view- i.e. if it is what the ECM agenda demands then both parties are much more likely to feel that they are working towards a common goal rather than feel that things are being imposed on them without any thought behind the proposals. Any other comments you wish to make about this book proposal?I feel that I would have liked to have seen a chapter in greater detail, especially the chapters dealing with practical support strategies. Overall it does seem apt for publication at this time. Would the author feel it necessary to mention something about the Renewed Frameworks for Literacy and Numeracy which are going to have such a big impact in all classrooms in the next year or so?'This book is up to date and relevant to the work of a teaching assistant. It provides the background to current legislation as well as lots of practical information. It is clearly laid out and easy to read or to use as a reference book. It provides information on how children learn and how teaching assistants can support learning and promote well being.' - Customer Review on Amazon'Some schools cannot afford the time to induct TAs fully in all aspects of legislation so this book is an excellent guide. It also demonstrates how the national occupational standards of the Supporting Teaching and Learning NVQ sits within the principles of Every Child Matters. A very useful and easy book to have as a staff resource.' - Customer Review on AmazonTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Every Child Matters: opportunities and challenges for teaching assistants 2. Teaching Assistants Removing Barriers to Learning and Well Being 3. Every Child Matters and the Role of the Teaching Assistant 4. Teaching Assistants Supporting Pupils to be Healthy and Stay Safe 5. Teaching Assistants Supporting Pupils to Enjoy and Achieve 6. Teaching Assistants Supporting Pupils to Make a Positive Contribution and to Achieve Economic and Social Well Being 7. Monitoring and Evaluating the Impact of Teaching Assistant Support and Interventions on Pupils Every Child Matters Outcomes

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Book SynopsisThis book explores major factors impacting on teacher education in recent times. It uses examples from a broad range of international contributors who compare larger countries such as the USA, England and Australia with their smaller partners: Canada, Scotland and New Zealand, demonstrating the substantial differences existent in all three cases. They also contrast the approaches of the countries that are members of the European Union with those that are not and discuss the special circumstances of developing countries, using Malawi as a case study. The international dimension of the book allows it to address the impact of globalisation on teacher education, with attention given to subjects such as the implications of rapid technological change, the movement of teachers and students on a global level and the drive to improve standards in various parts of the world. The book asks key questions, such as whether teaching is a craft or a profession and whether teacher educators vTable of Contents1. Teacher education: an international perspective Tony Townsend 2. Education of teachers: the English experience John MacBeath 3. Teacher education reform in Scotland: national and global influences Ian Menter and Moira Hulme 4. Teacher education in the United States of America, 2011 David Imig, Donna Wiseman and Scott Imig 5. Teacher education in Canada Shirley Van Nuland 6. Australian teacher education reforms: reinforcing the problem or providing a solution? James O’Meara 7. Teacher education in New Zealand Fiona Ell 8. Teacher education reform and challenges in Norway Elaine Munthe, Kari-Anne Svensen Malmo and Magne Rogne 9. Teacher training in France in the early 2010s Guy Lapostolle and Thierry Chevaillier 10. Curriculum of initial teacher education in Portugal: new contexts, old Problems Maria Assunção Flores 11. National and local sources of power: important considerations for teacher education reforms in rural Malawi Jacqueline Chazema and James O’Meara 12. Searching high and searching low, searching east and searching west: looking for trust in teacher education Tony Townsend

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Book SynopsisThe marketisation of higher education is a growing worldwide trend. Increasingly, market steering is replacing or supplementing government steering. Tuition fees are being introduced or increased, usually at the expense of state grants to institutions. Grants for student support are being replaced or supplemented by loans. Commercial rankings and league tables to guide student choice are proliferating with institutions devoting increasing resources to marketing, branding and customer service. The UK is a particularly good example of this, not only because it is a country where marketisation has arguably proceeded furthest, but also because of the variations that exist as Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland increasingly diverge from England. In Everything for Sale, Roger Brown argues that the competitive regime that is now applicable to our Higher Education system was the logical, and possibly inevitable, outcome of a process that began with the introduction of full cost fees for overseas students in 1980. Through chapters including: Markets and Non-Markets The Institutional Pattern of Provision The Funding of Research The Funding of Student Education Quality Assurance The Impact of Marketisation: Efficiency, diversity and equity; He shows how the evaluation and funding of research, the funding of student education, quality assurance, and the structure of the system have increasingly been organised on market or quasi-market lines. As well as helping to explain the evolution of British higher education over the past thirty years, the book contains some important messages about the consequences of introducing or extending market competition in universitiesâ core activities of teaching and research. This timely and comprehensive book is essential reading for all academics at University level and anyone involved in Higher Education policy.Trade Review"It is a valuable addition to the literature on higher education which is informative for the many countries that share characteristics of England’s higher education and its recent marketisation." - Gavin Moodie, RMIT University, Toronto, CanadaTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Markets and Non-Markets 3. The Institutional Pattern of Provision 4. The Funding of Research 5. The Funding of Student Education 6. Quality Assurance 7. The Impact of Marketisation: Efficiency, diversity and equity 8. The Impact of Marketisation: Quality 9. Lessons from Marketisation

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Book SynopsisBrief Coaching with Children and Young People: A Solution Focused approach is the first book of its type to describe the thinking and practice of Solution Focused coaching with these age groups. The approach empowers young people to find their own solutions in the shortest possible time, focusing on where they want to get to rather than the details of the problem they are concerned about. The authors' emphasis on practical and straightforward techniques and materials will equip all those interested in working with and supporting young people and their families to help them achieve their hopes for the future. The book is illustrated with numerous examples from the coaching practice of the authors in different settings, with a particular emphasis on challenging cases. As a whole, it serves as a key resource for working with children and young people, but each chapter can also be read individually to enhance the reader's understanding of the topic. Downloadable resourceTrade Review"I have found this book to be both practical and inspiring." – Pat Havell, ACP North London Magazine"This is essential reading for anyone seeking either an introduction to or consolidation in usinf solution-focused (SF) approaches with children and young people." - Carolyn Mumby, coach therapist and founder director of the therapist2coach training company, in Coaching Today"I think the book will be of most value to those training or qualified in the SFA, as it contains useful resources and guidance as well as detailed case examples and offers a clear and comprehensive read of only 141 pages." - Pauline Cullinery, Children & Young People ‘For readers new to the Solution Focused way of working, this text offers an accessible, user-friendly, yet comprehensive guide to having solution-building conversations. For readers already familiar with the Solution Focused approach, this book offers REAL, practical advice on the HOW of having Solution Focused conversations with children and adolescents. Responding to the adolescent "Don’t know", dealing with children’s boredom with the coaching process, how to keep their attention for a whole interview, what to do when things don’t improve, dealing with the reality of risk and bullying … the book offers PRACTICAL suggestions for responding to the real stuff that happens with children and adolescents.’ - Michael Durrant, Faculty of Education & Social Work, University of Sydney, Australia and Editor, Journal of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy"As a systemic therapist who uses Solution Focused therapy with clients of all ages, I am thrilled to see a book that reaches all populations of clients with such elegance and efficiency. This book will provide a marvelous tool for practitioners working with children, adolescents, parents, teachers and groups in schools and agencies. Steve de Shazer's idea of "there is no such thing as resistance" is proven here in this book, which contains enough case studies and examples to free even the most reluctant client from resistance into cooperation and then success. What a terrific gift to the field of coaching, counseling and therapy." - Linda Metcalf, Director of Graduate Programs, Texas Wesleyan University, Fort Worth, Texas and author of Counseling Toward Solutions.‘Coaching is now being used successfully with a range of clients, children and young people being but one. Coaching not only helps deal with the issues presented but is also psychoeducative. This meaning that it helps individuals develop new ways of approaching life in general. Children and young people learn fast and the learnings gained at this age lead to more fulfilling lives. This is a book that anyone working with such an age group would benefit from.’ - Gladeana McMahon, FAC, FRSA, FBACP, FIMS, FISMA. Chair Emeritus, Association for Coaching UK and leading Transformational and Behavioural Change coach."A useful text for any beginning educational and developmental psychologist, however it also provides a solid refresher for those who currently practice solution-focused therapy or those that would like to extend their client reach to children and groups." - Aimee Maxwell, MPsych, psychologist in private practice‘For readers new to the Solution Focused way of working, this text offers an accessible, user-friendly, yet comprehensive guide to having solution-building conversations. For readers already familiar with the Solution Focused approach, this book offers REAL, practical advice on the HOW of having Solution Focused conversations with children and adolescents. Responding to the adolescent "Don’t know", dealing with children’s boredom with the coaching process, how to keep their attention for a whole interview, what to do when things don’t improve, dealing with the reality of risk and bullying … the book offers PRACTICAL suggestions for responding to the real stuff that happens with children and adolescents.’ - Michael Durrant, Faculty of Education & Social Work, University of Sydney, Australia and Editor, Journal of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy‘As a systemic therapist who uses Solution Focused therapy with clients of all ages, I am thrilled to see a book that reaches all populations of clients with such elegance and efficiency. This book will provide a marvelous tool for practitioners working with children, adolescents, parents, teachers and groups in schools and agencies. Steve de Shazer's idea of "there is no such thing as resistance" is proven here in this book, which contains enough case studies and examples to free even the most reluctant client from resistance into cooperation and then success. What a terrific gift to the field of coaching, counseling and therapy.’ - Linda Metcalf, Director of Graduate Programs, Texas Wesleyan University, Fort Worth, Texas and author of Counseling Toward Solutions.‘Coaching is now being used successfully with a range of clients, children and young people being but one. Coaching not only helps deal with the issues presented but is also psychoeducative. This meaning that it helps individuals develop new ways of approaching life in general. Children and young people learn fast and the learnings gained at this age lead to more fulfilling lives. This is a book that anyone working with such an age group would benefit from.’ - Gladeana McMahon, FAC, FRSA, FBACP, FIMS, FISMA. Chair Emeritus, Association for Coaching UK and leading Transformational and Behavioural Change coach.Table of ContentsPreface. Solution Focused Brief Coaching. Children. Adolescents. Parents. Groupwork. In the School. In Different Settings. Materials.

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Book SynopsisMany scholars have turned to the groundbreaking critical research methodology, Youth-Led Participatory Action Research (YPAR), as a way to address both the political challenges and inherent power imbalances of conducting research with young people. Revolutionizing Education makes an extraordinarily unique contribution to the literature on adolescents by offering a broad framework for understanding this research methodology. With an informative combination of theory and practice, this edited collection brings together student writings alongside those of major scholars in the field. While remaining sensitive to the methodological challenges of qualitative inquiry, Revolutionizing Education is the first definitive statement of YPAR as it relates to sites of education.Trade Review"In Revolutionizing Education: Youth Participatory Action Research in Motion, editors Julio Cammarota and Michelle Fine offer a compelling and complex vision of urban youth engaged in social justice research and action. In chapters that interweave theory, research, description, images, case study, narrative and reflection, readers are invited into the world of participatory action research (PAR), and specifically youth PAR (YPAR)." -- Paula Echeverri and Kathy Hytten, Educational Researcher, Vol. 37, No. 8, November 2008Table of Contents1. Intro: Participatory Action Research: A Pedagogy for Transformational Resistance Julio Cammarota and Michelle Fine 2. Collective Radical Imagination: Youth Participatory Action Research and the Art of Emancipatory Knowledge Shawn Ginwright 3. Participatory Action Research in the Contact Zone María Elena Torre and Michelle Fine with Natasha Alexander, Amir Bilal Billups, Yasmine Blanding, Emily Genao, Elinor Marboe, Tahani Salah, and Kendra Urdang. Response to Chapter 3 Maxine Greene 4. PAR Praxes for Now and Future Change: The Collective of Researchers on Educational Disappointment and Desire Eve Tuck, Jovanne Allen, Maria Bacha, Alexis Morales, Sarah Quinter, Jamila Thompson, Melody Tuck. Response to Chapter 4 Sandy Grande 5. Different Eyes/Open Eyes: Community-Based Participatory Action Research Caitlin Cahill, Indra Rios-Moore, and Tiffany Threatts. Response to Chapter 5 Pauline Lipman 6. 'The Opportunity if Not the Right to See': The Social Justice Education Project Augustine Romero, Julio Cammarota, Kim Dominguez, Luis Valdez, Grecia Ramirez, and Liz Hernandez. Response to Chapter 6 Luis C. Moll 7. Six Summers of YPAR: Learning, Action, and Change in Urban Education Ernest Morrell. Response to Chapter 7 John Rogers 8. Faith in Process, Faith in People: Confronting Policies of Social Disinvestment With PAR as Pedagogy for Expansion Chiara M. Cannella 9. An Epilogue, of Sorts Michelle Fine

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Book SynopsisWithin These Gates: Academic Work, Academic Leadership, University Life, and the Presidency examines the varied interactions between college and university presidents and their campus and local communities, alumni, governing bodies, external forces that impact higher education, federal and state government entities, and other stakeholders.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Author Information Preface Chapter 1 / The Personal Leadership Journey Chapter 2 / Academic Affairs and the University Presidency Chapter 3 / The Community and the University Presidency Chapter 4 / The University President’s Role in the Administration’s Organization Chapter 5 / Faculty Life and the University Chapter 6 / Student Affairs and the University Presidency Chapter 7 / Admissions and the Administration Chapter 8 / Intercollegiate Athletics and the University Presidency Chapter 9 / Religion, Diversity, and the University Presidency Chapter 10 / University Presidency, Leadership, and Legacy References Index

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Book SynopsisBringing together an inspirational group of educators, this book provides insights into what it means to implement social justice ideals with young children. Each chapter highlights a teacher's experience with an aspect of social justice and ethnic studies, including related research, projects, lesson plans, and implications for teacher education.Table of Contents Contents Foreword Patrick Camangian vii Preface xi Acknowledgments xv 1. Introduction 1 Ruchi Agarwal-Rangnath 2. Teaching to Heal, Healing to Teach: Ethnic Studies as a Healing Endeavor in and out of the Classroom 17 Farima Pour-Khorshid 3. Creating Something Beautiful 27 Amalia Medina-Glover 4. Little Children Have Big Hearts: Teaching for Equity and Justice in K–2 Classrooms 36 Cami Touloukian 5. Mindfulness and Yoga 44 Ruby Vyas 6. What It Means to Teach for Social Justice as a White Educator 51 Emily Starr Bean 7. Ethnic Studies in a Transitional Kindergarten Classroom: Learning About Race and Identity 68 Vilma Serrano 8. Exploring Gender 76 Dale Weiss 9. Teaching Your Community 83 Roxanne Cano 10. Changing the Narrative: Asian American Ethnic Studies in My 1st-Grade Classroom 90 Judy Yu 11. Creating a Democratic Classroom 96 Rosamund Looney About the Authors 105 Index 108

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