Mainstream narratives suggest Black and African Caribbean children, white working class children, and boys, are 'failing' to learn to read. This book investigates intersections between race, class and gender in the picture of the 'poor reader', starting with young children's voices. What is the place of home learning in the story of children learning- or failing to learn to read? What do we lea…
Childhood and Nation explores the historical and manifold current relations between nation and childhood. Millei and Imre bring together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to address many pressing questions of today. The analytical incisions created by nation and childhood bring answers to the following questions: How do national agendas related to economic, social and pol…
Chapter 1 Introduction: Why it is important to answer back -- Chapter 2 Daring to disagree about school 'discipline': An Australian case study of a media-led backlash -- Chapter 3 Understanding and challenging dominant discourses about student behaviour at school -- Chapter 4 Promoting pedagogies of engagement in secondary schools: Possibilities for pedagogical reform -- Chapter 5 Goodbye Mr. C…
Black Participatory Research explores research partnerships that disrupt inequality, create change, and empower racially marginalized communities. Through presenting a series of co-reflections from professional and community researchers in different locations, this book explores the conflicts and tensions that emerge when professional interests, class and socio-economic statuses, age, geography…
Using an anti-deficit approach, Black Men in the Academy explores narratives of resiliency, success, and achievement for black men in the academy. This book is an important text for scholars interested in promoting success in education for underrepresented minorities.
Preface -- Chapter 1. Universities and Ranking in Globalized Higher Education -- Chapter 2. Tools to Capture and Measure the Rise and Fall of Universities -- Chapter 3. Winners and Losers According to Rankings -- Chapter 4. A Closer Look at the Ranked: Ten Case Studies in Asia, Europe and North America -- Chapter 5. Why Universities Rise and Fall? The Crucial Factors -- Chapter 6. Going Back to…
This book presents a history of queer erasure in the US public school system, from the 1920s up until today. By focusing on specific events as well as the context in which they occurred, Lugg presents a way forward in improving school policies for both queer youth and queer adults.
PART I: MODELLING EDUCATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS AT TEACHING, SCHOOL AND SYSTEM LEVEL -- Preface -- 1. An Overarching Conceptual Framework -- 2. Modelling Teaching and Learning -- 3. Defining the Key Factors in Instructional Effectiveness -- 4. Modelling School Effectiveness -- 5. School Effectiveness Research and the Meaning of the Most Important Effectiveness Enhancing Conditions -- 6. System Leve…
'Globalization' and 'the Nation' provide significant contexts for examining past educational thinking and practice and to identify how education has been influenced today. This book, written collaboratively, explores country case studies - Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the UK and USA as well as discussing the transnational European Union.
Chapter 1: Conceptualizing Innovation in Higher Education: William G. Tierney, Ph.D., Michael Lanford -- Chapter 2: English Learners and Their Transition to Postsecondary Education: Dr. Anne-Marie Núñez, Dr. Cecilia Rios-Aguilar, Dr. Yasuko Kanno, Dr. Stella M. Flores -- Chapter 3: Students with disabilities in higher education: A review of the literature and an agenda for future research: Ez…