Chapter 1 – Introduction -- Chapter 2 – Understanding Rural Communities and Education -- Chapter 3 – Rural Teaching and Learning in Neoliberal Times -- Chapter 4 – The Idea of Social Justice -- Chapter 5 – Social Justice in Rural Schooling -- Chapter 6 – The Metamorphosis of Social Justice in the Present and the Future -- Chapter 7 – Discourses and Practices that Pluralize Social …
Fictional Narratives in DLLs -- Collection, Analysis, and State of Research -- The Developmental Continuum of Narrative Skills -- The Role of Peers in Language Acquisition and a Conceptualization of Peer-Assisted Learning.The current work follows the premise that fictional oral narratives represent socio-emotionally and academically relevant communicative practices. Two studies are presented, a…
Is the current industrial model of schooling capable of preparing young people for modern working life? This book provides an unsettling picture of the challenges young people face following the uncertainty of the Global Financial Crisis. It asks whether teachers and schooling are able to provide the skills needed in a contemporary global economy.
Introduction -- Part 1: The significance of care records -- 1. Making sense of a childhood in care -- 2. Making sense of care records -- 3. The impact on care-leavers of information in their records -- Part 2: Accessing records -- 4. Helping care-leavers to find their records -- 5. Supporting care-leavers to receive their records -- 6. Facilitating care-leavers’ access to other sources of inf…
Foreword; Lola Adedokun -- Chapter 1. Introduction; David Kaawa-Mafigiri and Eddy J. Walakira -- Part I. Research and Theory -- Chapter 2. Building Research Evidence and Collaborative Partnerships in Uganda to Prevent and Protect Children Against Violence: Concerns and Priorities for Action; Eddy J. Walakira, Daniel Kikulwe, Ronald Luwangula, David Kaawa-Mafigiri and Badru Bukenya -- Chapter 3.…
Part I: Positioning youth as social innovators on the global stage.- 1. The Sustainable Development Goals and the role of youth-driven innovation for social change; Sheri Bastien and Halla Holmarsdottir -- 2. Global perspectives on youth and school-to-work transitions in the 21st century: New challenges and opportunities in skills training programs; Halla Holmarsdottir and Kendra Dupuy -- 3. C…
This volume brings together a range of contributions exploring the diverse ways in which children and young people experience movements, im/mobilities and journeys at different geographical scales and in different socio-spatial contexts. It provides a snapshot of recent work within the geographies of children and young people which has engaged with emerging conceptualisations of mobility and im…
Part 1: Development With a Disability -- 1. Beyond a bio-medical and social model of disability: A cultural-historical approach -- 2. Early development (infant) -- 3. Toddler – preschool -- 4. School-age -- Part 2: Developmental and Educational Themes during Early Childhood -- 5. Impairments in sensation and perception -- 6. Emotional development and mental and behavioural difficulties -- 7. …
1. ‘It would be Better to talk about Death’ -- 2. Improper or Proper conversations? ‘Chatting death stuff’ -- 3. Death: 'It's sexy and stuff' -- 4. Letting Death out of the Box -- 5.‘All Angels are Massive Pissheads’ -- 6. Conclusion. ‘We’re OK with Death’.This book challenges adult assumptions that young-people do not, cannot and should not think about death. The author uses …
This book broadens debates on violence, conflict and peace by examining the crucial role played by children and youth. Recent social, political and geographical research has demonstrated that children and youth are deeply impacted by war and violence and that, despite strong cultural assumptions about children’s needs for protection, their wellbeing continues to be an afterthought rather than…