Educational strategies and policy: inclusion

Even as kindness toward individuals with intellectual disabilities has increased, encountering an individual and his or her family whose lives revolve around the daily challenges that come with them is atypical, or is experienced and narrated as such, particularly by the media.

A call to action for school and community leaders to reframe educational institutions as open systems that are adaptable and responsive to the needs of students, families, and communities.

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How can teachers facilitate meaningful classroom conversations in which students engage in shared inquiry, building on what others have written or said (even to disagree)?

A vital inquiry into trans issues in education, this compelling work argues for the design of education research, policies, and environments that honor all gender experiences and identities.

How do we begin to understand diversity in early childhood in order to combat biases?

In our extroverted school cultures of today, there is an emphasis on quantity of speech and constant social interaction, often leading introverted students to feel misjudged and overlooked.

Demonstrates the use of the Paleobiology Database in undergraduate courses.

Previous editions of the bestselling Deconstructing Special Education set a landmark for the understanding of inclusion.

Offering aspiring leaders a chance to learn from the experience of deans, vice presidents, and presidents who have served at different types of institutions around the country, Leadership Talks: Candid Conversations with Academic Leaders, presents a half dozen extended interviews with current and former administrators that cover their paths to leadership, how they navigate evolving challenges in higher education, and how they have learned from failure.

This Handbook will give aspiring and practising SENCOs, teachers, Headteachers and Governors an in-depth knowledge and understanding of effective policy, provision and practice to meet the diverse needs of children with special educational needs and disabilities.

This book is an essential resource for exploring and deconstructing the gender binary in the early years sector.

Good mental health is essential for students to manage the challenges that university life presents.

Social change and cultural division in America have accelerated in this century and further intensified with the Covid-19 pandemic, the George Floyd incident, and the two recent presidential elections.

Against John Ogbu's oppositional culture theory and Claude Steele's disidentification hypothesis, Jesus and the Streets offers a more appropriate structural Marxian hermeneutical framework for contextualizing, conceptualizing, and evaluating the locus of causality for the black male/female intra-racial gender academic achievement gap in the United States of America and the United Kingdom.

Drawing together diverse research perspectives and theoretical underpinnings, this handbook explores gender as a social category and examines cultural and social differences.

This book focuses on the lived experiences of underserved student and faculty populations at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and the implications these experiences have for higher education policy.

This book offers a critical discussion on the necessity for 'difficult conversations' to take place in education, drawing on studies from across the UK.

This book provides the first evidence-based reference about inclusive education in Kazakhstan, one of the post-Soviet Union countries.

Community colleges serve as a critical gateway to English-language instruction, higher education, workforce training, and civic engagement for many immigrants and refugees looking to gain an economic foothold in the labor market and integrate into the social fabric of their communities.

Offering aspiring leaders a chance to learn from the experience of deans, vice presidents, and presidents who have served at different types of institutions around the country, Leadership Talks: Candid Conversations with Academic Leaders, presents a half dozen extended interviews with current and former administrators that cover their paths to leadership, how they navigate evolving challenges in higher education, and how they have learned from failure.

Learning to Connect explores how teachers learn to form meaningful relationships with students, especially across racial and cultural differences.

This book addresses the current issues of inclusive education during the time of the global pandemic of COVID-19.

This book examines the consequences of educational segregation from the perspective of social cohesion.

Youth librarians and early literacy educators will find this book a helpful tool for making storytimes more inclusive and better representative of their community and the world at large.

Actionable, road-tested approaches to understanding and tackling poverty in schoolsThe stark reality of poverty and disadvantage in our communities is one of the biggest challenges faced by schools today.

This collection offers a unique exploration of critical racial literacy and anti-racist praxis in Australia's educational landscape.

This book combines student writing, personal reflection, and academic analysis to urge, document, and enact more transfer-conducive writing ecologies.

This essential guide to building and using an inclusive STEM classroom library combines theory and lesson plans for educators of students in grades 6-8.

Das Buch präsentiert Überblickswissen zu motorischen und kognitiven Beeinträchtigungen.

A visionary overview of the political role of publicly elected school boards and a proactive take on the work they can accomplish toward social justice

This edited book explores the complex and multifaceted connections between education and migration in an Asian context from multiple perspectives.

This edited volume brings together researchers and educators who present a balanced blend of theoretical and practice-based considerations about different pedagogies in the field of Progressive Education (including Philosophy with Children, Reggio Children, Philosophy with Children Hawaii, Dialogic Education etc.

This is an essential contemporary resource for pre-service and in-service teachers in local and international education environments.

What for decades could only be dreamt of is now almost within reach: the widespread provision of free online education, regardless of a geographic location, financial status, or ability to access conventional institutions of learning.

Today's Chief Diversity Officers face tremendous challenges.

Many teachers feel overwhelmed and lack confidence when it comes to dealing with mental health and emotional well-being of children these issues in their classrooms.

Misconceptions and misunderstandings about Islam and fear of causing offence can be barriers to being an effective teacher in a diverse school.

This edited volume explores diverse translanguaging practices in multilingual science classrooms in Hong Kong, Lebanon, Luxembourg, South Africa, Sweden and the United States.

An astute assessment of the educational leadership skills and leadership development practices that align with deeper learning in K12 schools.

This book addresses the priorities and possibilities towards developing transformative pedagogies in post-apartheid South Africa.

With evocative storytelling and incisive research, Katie Rose Guest Pryal brings a new eye to the mental health crisis that higher education has faced for decades.

This book provides an in-depth, multi-faceted look into capacity building for service-learning, using the case of the higher education landscape in Hong Kong.

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This book examines the impact that parents and schools have on disadvantaged children who perform against the odds.

This book presents the life stories and lived experiences of 12 individuals who transitioned from the sixth form of a further education college in a traditionally working-class area of the UK, to higher education.