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Navigating the volatility of higher education
This book offers 3 anthropological perspectives to analyze changes in higher education: mindset, political and policy perspectives, and instruction and learning. It addresses research, health care, athletics, and more, providing policy implications and a vision for future research. It's useful fo...
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Neoliberalism and academic repression
A timely, necessary, and incisive look by a diverse array of scholars into the dire situation facing academia in the Trump era.
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Neoliberalism's war on higher education
Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education reveals how neoliberal policies, practices, and modes of material and symbolic violence have radically reshaped the mission and practice of higher education, short-changing a generation of young people.
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Not for profit
A passionate defense of the humanities from one of today's foremost public intellectualsIn this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education.Historically, the humanities have been centr...
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Not your cash cow, not your scapegoat
This book places the international student within the larger context of edugration, or student migration, to examine the everyday vulnerabilities arising from this immigration status.
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On equal terms
Since Brown v. Board of Education and the desegregation battles of the 1960s and 1970s, the legal pursuit of educational opportunity in the United States has been framed largely around race. But for nearly thirty years now, a less-noticed but controversial legal campaign has been afoot to equaliz...
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Operationalizing culturally relevant leadership learning
This book guides leadership educators in creating inclusive, socially just learning spaces. It offers a comprehensive approach to culturally relevant leadership pedagogy, with personal narratives and practical insights. It encourages educators to integrate new insights and actively engage with th...
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Opportunity and performance
This book chronicles historical turning points in achieving equity for children from poverty, offering policy recommendations and practical strategies for states, districts, schools, and teachers. It emphasizes a comprehensive approach to provide thriving education for impoverished students, invo...
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Our underachieving colleges
Drawing on a large body of empirical evidence, former Harvard President Derek Bok examines how much progress college students actually make toward widely accepted goals of undergraduate education. His conclusions are sobering. Although most students make gains in many important respects, they imp...
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Overcoming the gentrification of dual language, bilingual and immersion education
This book proposes solutions to the gentrification of dual language, bilingual and immersion education in diverse contexts. The research draws attention to how understanding and responding to gentrification of language programs is part of the broader fight for racial and educational justice for i...
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Perspectives on a new model of school leadership
In the rapidly evolving educational landscape of the UK the journey from head teacher to CEO of a multi-academy trust offers a unique lens into the complexities of school leadership, delving into the nature of leadership in schools, examining the interplay between policy, local leadership, and ex...
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Policy and practice for multilingual educational settings
Exploring multilingualism as a complex, context-related, societal and individual phenomenon, this book centres around perspectives on how multiple languages are made (in)visible within educational settings. The chapters compare findings across geographical contexts in the areas of language policy...
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Policy matters
Never have policy initiatives been so important than in today’s society. Neoliberal manifestations, climate change, civil rights movements, and governmental reactions to these issues have created a backdrop where greater education in policy analysis and development is vital.
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Post-truth’s assault on america’s schools and colleges
Post-Truth’s Assault on America’s Schools and Colleges presents a wide-ranging analysis of the psychological, historical, philosophical, and socio-political perspectives on how the post-truth age has become a serious peril to American life and polity in general, and to our schools and colleges in...
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Prelude to revolution
A riveting eye-witness account of the 1968 Paris student-worker revolt that shook France and threatened the very roots of capitalism.
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Professional learning networks
This book illustrates key attributes of professional learning networks that build educators’ ownership, practice, and expertise and highlights the potential of PLNs to address questions of equity, both for educators working in rural communities who have limited access to professional development ...
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Professional learning networks in design-based research interventions
Mei Kuin Lai and Stuart McNaughton provide a theoretical and practical account of how PLNs focused on collaborative analysis of data can be integrated into design-based research interventions to improve practice and student learning outcomes.
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Professional-scientific education
This volume intends to reflect and to enhance the discourse on the relation and integration of professional and scientific education. In a series of contributions by well-known educational scientists from Germany and other countries, the theoretical, conceptual and practical design questions for ...
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Professionalizing early childhood education as a field of practice
A guide to starting the conversation to professionalize early childhood education as a field of practice.
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Profiles of dual language education in the 21st century
In the last 20 years dual language education programs have increased in number and expanded in range, spanning pre-K through high school. This book examines the key attributes of successful dual language programs, as well as the challenges and opportunities involved in extending the dual language...
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Propping up the performative school
Drawing on an ethnography conducted in a state secondary school, this book provides a critical examination of the role and practice of educational paraprofessionals, focusing on the learning mentor. It explores the lived reality of their work and how these ‘new’ roles are framed within more estab...
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Redefining educational leadership in central asia
Redefining Educational Leadership in Central Asia brings together the voices, views, experiences, and reflections of educational leaders from both secondary schools and higher education institutions in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
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Redefining resistance
This transformative project highlights stories of resistance against oppressive educational systems and policies, celebrating the creativity, courage, and resilience of marginalized communities. By sharing these narratives, we aim to inspire systemic change and promote justice and equity in educa...
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Reimagining school discipline for the 21st century student
This book focuses on transforming school disciplinary practices by leveraging the strengths of marginalized students and professional knowledge of school personnel. It addresses discipline disproportionality affecting African American, Latinx, Native American, and LGBTQ+ students, offering soluti...
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Reimagining school leadership
Reimagining School Leadership critically analyzes the current conceptions of school leadership and school improvement, consider historical and contemporary problems confronting school leaders and presents new ways to reimagine school leadership with an emphasis on sustainability, learning, and in...
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Researching practices across and within diverse educational sites
The authors explore the role of educational research in uncertain, risky times. Theoretical arguments and empirical examples of the in-situ development of research practices in Australia, Canada, Finland and Norway are provided, arising from reflection upon and dialogue about researching practice...
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Resisting neoliberalism in education
Neoliberalism has been widely criticised because of its role in prioritising ‘free markets’ as the optimum way of solving problems and organising society. In the field of education, this leads to an emphasis on the knowledge economy that can reduce both persons and education to economic actors an...
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Rethinking hospitality and tourism education
This 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 an...
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Rethinking school-university partnerships
This book offers insights for creating partnerships between K-12 schools and colleges of education. It addresses challenges like recruitment and retention, emphasizing the need for stronger, more collaborative relationships beyond traditional student teaching placements. It features contributions...
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Rethinking the property tax–school funding dilemma
This report focuses on the roles of the local property tax and state aid in the funding of public education and analyzes their strengths and weaknesses.
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Retreat or resolution?
Although higher education in the UK has expanded opportunities for much of the population, in many ways it remains stubbornly elitist. In order to address this crisis in education, Peter Scott, a leading expert and unique voice, examines the development of mass higher education and proposes a ‘ra...
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Rural turnaround leadership development
The book details a three-year rural turnaround leadership project sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, focusing on developing aspiring school leaders in high poverty/low performing districts. It highlights partnerships between universities, school districts, and the Alabama State Depart...
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School discipline and administrator decision-making
Developed for leaders, practitioners and researchers to explore the theory and practice of decision-making, with specific reference to school administrators and their response to school discipline. This work delves into the experiences of Canadian and Mauritian principals faced with tensions―some...
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School leadership in a diverse society
The book prepares school leaders for increasing diversity in K-12 schools, emphasizing the principal's role in promoting cultural and social diversity. It provides tools for ensuring high academic achievement and a sense of belonging for all students, addressing recent diversity-related issues an...
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School lunch politics
Whether kids love or hate the food served there, the American school lunchroom is the stage for one of the most popular yet flawed social welfare programs in our nation's history. School Lunch Politics covers this complex and fascinating part of American culture, from its origins in early twentie...
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School-linked services
The evidence-based strategies in this volume close the achievement gap among students from all sociological backgrounds. Designed according to local needs assessments, they provide the services, programs, initiatives, and relationships that are crucial for children's success in school and life.Th...
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School-to-school collaboration
Taking a global perspective, the chapters within this book follow a common framework to explore how macro-level factors help to create the conditions in which school-to-school collaboration is likely to succeed or fail ‘on the ground’.
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Schoolchildren of the covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all schoolchildren across the world. In this book, we explore the impact that this has had on children, parents, teachers, and administrators. Some lessons learned from these experienced are revealed as are ideas for how we can proceed for the betterment of our ...
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Schoolhouses, courthouses, and statehouses
Improving public schools through performance-based fundingSpurred by court rulings requiring states to increase public-school funding, the United States now spends more per student on K-12 education than almost any other country. Yet American students still achieve less than their foreign counter...
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Schooling for social justice, equity and inclusion
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Presenting theoretical pieces and case studies from Malta and Australia alongside applied social theory, Denise Mifsud unravels the conceptual confusion around the terms social justice, equity, and inclusion in re...
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Schooling in capitalist america
A classic work of radical educational theory and a progressive economic vision of equity and equality in America's schools.
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Schools for conflict or for peace in afghanistan
Dana Burde shows how aid to education in Afghanistan bolstered conflict both deliberately in the 1980s through violence-infused, anti-Soviet curricula and inadvertently in the 2000s through misguided stabilization programs
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Selling our youth
Selling Our Youth explores the way the class origins of recent graduates continue to shape their labour market careers and thus to reproduce class privilege and class disadvantage, illustrating how class and gender come together to influence these young adults’ opportunities and choices.
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Sexual violence on campus
The first edition of this book received widespread praise for providing clear and accessible examples of problems with current practices, along with recommendations for improving practice. Those examples have been enhanced in the second edition of this text.
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Shifting the mindset
This book emphasizes the importance of socially just leadership education in addressing global crises. It focuses on cultural relevance, critical pedagogies, and identity in preparing leaders. The book offers practical guidance for educators to empower students to build a fairer, more equitable w...
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Social innovation and welfare state retrenchment
Navigating the context of welfare regimes undergoing transformation, Social Innovation and Welfare State Retrenchment examines the evidence and questions the capacity of Social Innovation initiatives to tackle social inequalities, especially when it comes to the domain of early childhood educatio...
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Special education transition services for students with disabilities
This book discusses the considerable challenges students with disabilities conquer in education, varying from relationships with teachers and academics, learning resources, and everyday social situations.
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Strategies for facilitating inclusive campuses in higher education
This volume provides educators with a global understanding of the successes and challenges associated with facilitating inclusive campuses in higher education amidst the growing diversity of students by providing evidence-based strategies and ideas for implementing equity and inclusion at higher ...
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Strategies for fostering inclusive classrooms in higher education
This volume will provide educators with an understanding of challenges associated with equity and inclusion at higher education institutions globally and with evidence-based strategies for addressing the challenges associated with implementing equity and inclusion.
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Struggling to find our way
This book examines rural educators' beliefs, attitudes, and practices in working with Latinx immigrant students. It highlights the need for culturally competent teaching and explores the educators' experiences, focusing on authentic caring and the challenges of inclusion in a rural Indiana commun...
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