Immigrant and Refugee Students in Canada
Recent immigrants and refugees--both children and their families--often struggle to adapt to Canadian education systems. For their part, educators also face challenges when developing effective strategies to help these students make smooth transitions to their new country. In Immigrant and Refugee Students in Canada, researchers join educators and social workers to provide a thorough and wide-ranging analysis of the issues at the preschool, elementary, secondary and post-secondary levels. By und...
Theory and Best Practice Models in Educational Institutions in Spain and Italy
The current societal and social reality in Europe is undergoing far-reaching changes due to the phenomenon of migration. Educational policy and pedagogical practice play a key role in the academic support of immigrant children in schools. In this volume, the connections between societal change and educational issues in relation to two southern European nations, Spain and Italy, are analyzed. The stories of intercultural communication and integration of these two case studies focus on five themes...
Soldiers of Misfortune (Counterpoints Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education, #25)
by Valerie L Scatamburlo
Educating for Sustainability presents fundamental principles, theoretical foundations, and practical suggestions for integrating education for sustainability into existing schoolwide systems and programs, organized in three sections: Principles of Education for Sustainability; Fostering a Sustainability Worldview; Learning and Thinking for Sustainability. Designed for teachers and teachers-to-be at all grade levels and across the content areas, the focus is on professional practices and pedago...
Diversity in Schools (Debating Issues in American Education: A Sage Reference Set, #3)
by Frank D Brown
Education of America's school children always has been and always will be a hot-button issue. From what should be taught to how to pay for education to how to keep kids safe in schools, impassioned debates emerge and mushroom, both within the scholarly community and among the general public. This volume in the pointunterpoint Debating Issues in American Education reference series tackles the topic of diversity in schools. Fifteen to twenty chapters explore such varied issues as ability groupi...
Intersectionality in Education (Disability, Culture, and Equity)
This book presents a framework for addressing intersectionality within educational spaces to combat the cumulative effects of systemic marginalization due to race, gender, disability, class, sexual orientation, and other identity-based labels. Readers can use the framework to consider the impact of identities that individuals adopt or are assigned, move beyond discrete subgroup labels, and fully consider how such markers impact how education policy and research are developed, enacted, and experi...
The Role of the Church in the Education of African American Youth
by Larry Brown
Queer Ideas
A core text for multicultural education courses, this book provides a broad treatment of the various forms of student diversity found in today's schools: gender, racial, ethnic, class, language and handicapping condition. It also examines the various social and cultural changes that are sweeping across the world as countries convert from industrial economies to information based economies. Finally, it examines new ways of "doing school" in order to accommodate these human differences and socioec...
Latino Women of Science (Women of Science)
by Leonard Bernstein, Alan Winkler, and Linda Zierdt-Warshaw
Global Perspectives on Recruiting International Students
Although many countries have created effective strategies to recruit more international students due to proven economic and social benefits, recruiting international students as a field of research lacks coherence. Filling this gap, this book provides a holistic and comprehensive overview of this emerging research area. Exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of recruiting international students, this edited collection considers the financial, administrative, legislative, socio-cultur...
Journal of American Indian Education 57.2
Transformative Education in Contemporary Ireland
Contemporary Ireland is undergoing a radical shift in its sense of national identity, as the traditional narratives that shaped its past have come under intense scrutiny. The essays gathered here investigate the impact of different forms of education on Irish culture, society, politics, religion and economic success. While education for the knowledge economy has been prioritized across funding agendas, this book focuses on exploring education as a transformative enterprise that supports the pers...
Lower Secondary English Teacher's Guide: Stage 7 (Collins Cambridge Lower Secondary English)
by Lucy Birchenough, Clare Constant, Naomi Hursthouse, Ian Kirby, and Nikki Smith
Show students how to make progress towards Cambridge Lower Secondary and IGCSE success with these skills-focused resources. Series edited by Julia Burchell and Mike Gould, this book offers rich, engaging and comprehensive coverage of the Cambridge Secondary 1 curriculum at Stage 7, with expert teacher support. Focused on improving skills - full coverage of the Cambridge Secondary 1 curriculum with clear learning outcomes in each lesson planOrganised by writing type - lesson plans will...
Adult Learning and Education in International Contexts: Future Challenges for its Professionalization (Studien zur Paedagogik, Andragogik und Gerontagogik / Studies in Pedagogy, Andragogy, and Gerontagogy, #69) (Studien Zur Padagogik, Andragogik Und Gerontagogik / Studies In Pedagogy, Andragogy, And Gerontagogy, #69)
by Regina Egetenmeyer, Sabine Schmidt-Lauff, and Vanna Boffo
This volume analyses adult education and lifelong learning as international phenomena, which have a strong influence on professionals working in this field. Based on the 2016 Wurzburg Winter School, the book identifies influences on policy at local, national and international levels. It examines the internationalization of adult education and emphasizes the emergence of different dimensions of professionalism in adult education.
Though engineering design can tackle the world's most pressing challenges, engineering-related courses and experiences are often alienating, especially to people from minoritized groups. Literacies of Design: Studies of Equity and Imagination in Engineering and Making covers the latest pedagogical theories—as well as case studies and practical tips—to support diverse people in identifying problems and designing solutions through engineering and making. Engineers tackle a range of problems,...
Critical Race Theory in Education (Multicultural Education)
by Gloria Ladson-Billings and James A. Banks
This important volume brings together key writings from one of the most influential education scholars of our time. In this collection of her seminal essays on critical race theory (CRT), Gloria Ladson-Billings seeks to clear up some of the confusion and misconceptions that education researchers have around race and inequality. Beginning with her groundbreaking work with William Tate in the mid-1990s up to the present day, this book discloses both a personal and intellectual history of CRT in ed...
Soil Erosion and Carbon Dynamics (Advances in Soil Science)
The most complete, nonpartisan source of information on this hot agronomic topic available today, this book brings together a diverse group of papers and data to resolve the debate between sedimentologists and soil scientists and agronomists over whether the effects of soil erosion on carbon and atmospheric CO2 is beneficial or destructive. Divided into four sections, it offers data on how soil erosion affects soil, water, and air quality. Topics include mineralization rate, inundation, sediment...