Beyond the notes

Beyond the Notes: Teaching and Learning Music at Historically Black Colleges and Universities critically explores the historical, cultural, and pedagogical dimensions of music education at HBCUs.

Journal of character education vol 17 issue 1

The Journal of Character Education is dedicated to character education, featuring research, best practices, editorials, book reviews, and strategies.

The bera guide to practitioner research

The BERA Guide to Practitioner Research is a companion guide for those who see themselves as practitioner researchers or those who are interested in becoming practitioner researchers within educational settings.

It takes an ecosystem

"It Takes an Ecosystem" explores the potential of Allied Youth Fields, emphasizing the importance of connections across systems where adults engage with young people. It highlights how interactions with adults shape youth development and offers ideas, tools, and visions for a more connected, equi...

Artful leadership

Leaders facing today's volatility are invited to discover inner sources of creativity and inspiration through philosophy, humanities, arts, and ecology. Using reflection and practical exercises, they'll develop strategies to tap into creative expression and renew their sense of possibility and pu...

Desert imaginations

Desert Imaginations traces the cultural and intellectual histories that have informed the prevalent ideas of deserts across the globe. The book argues that Saharanism—a globalizing imaginary that perceives desert spaces as empty, exploitable, and dangerous—has been at the center of all desert-foc...

Identifying, preventing and combating bullying in gifted education

This book addresses the neglected issue of bullying among gifted individuals, highlighting their vulnerability and the impact on their emotional well-being. It offers strategies for identifying, preventing, and combating bullying in gifted education, providing a comprehensive resource for educato...

Contesting inequalities

After four decades of market reform, China has developed a fast-growing, prosperous economy—the second largest in the world. Despite this prosperity, social inequality has persisted and expanded, particularly among rural migrant workers, and oppressive labor conditions have given rise to an incre...

Old english biblical prose

Provides the first in-depth study of the earliest attempts to make the sacred words of the Bible available to English readers, clerical and lay, in prose writing."This is a hugely valuable study - deeply informative about an important tradition of biblical translation from the early medieval peri...

Humorous actions, play and rules

This book explores new methodological approaches to studying humor through Vygotsky's proposal, focusing on developmental psychology and higher psychological processes. It highlights humor as a developmental mechanism and a source of creativity, linking it to Cultural Psychology and Semiotic cult...

The research-informed educator

The Research-Informed Educator supports teachers in developing their professional identity and practice through engagement with research and evidence.

Narrative inquiries into being and becoming educators

Narrative Inquiries Into Being and Becoming Educators: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives provides stories and narratives of the struggle and strengths of the teachers within the educational landscape.

Future tourism in a robonomic world

This book envisions the future of tourism in an economy that is largely automated. An economic system that relies on robots, AI and automation technologies for the production of goods and delivery of services instead of human labour is known as ‘robonomics’. The volume explores the challenges of ...

Engaging in critical language studies

The Readings in Language Studies series offers international perspectives on critical themes in language studies, including pedagogy, power, identity, and second language acquisition. Developed with the International Society for Language Studies, each volume features global authors and the latest...

A handbook of integration with refugees

This book brings together the voices of academics, practitioners, and people seeking sanctuary to explore the processes of refugee integration. Situated in learnings from Scotland, the book offers theoretical, creative and practical responses for a wide international audience.

Emerging international issues in student affairs research and practice

Emerging International Issues in Student Affairs Research and Practice explores student affairs through research, methodologies, and practices. It encourages intercultural perspectives and evidence-based research, divided into theoretical considerations and emergent international issues, highligh...

Entanglements

This book explores the ways in which language is understood, and how linguistic theories – and the idea of language as an object – fail to represent a reality that is inherently multi- and trans-. It offers a glimpse of a decolonial linguistics that centres entanglement – between the North and So...

Dismantling spaces of silence in social science education

This volume explores how historical silences shape our understanding of the past and present, emphasizing the impact of racist structures. It defines spaces of silence in minds, emotions, systems, and places, highlighting settler colonialism's role in silencing Indigenous rights.

Digital technologies and early childhood in china

This book explores the integration of digital technologies in early childhood education in China, analyzing the influence of traditional values, curricular approaches, and socio-political changes. It reviews technology's impact on policies and practices, highlighting challenges and insights for e...

Digital developments

This book offers insights for psychology students and professionals on integrating technology into clinical and educational practices. It covers behavioural and psychological implications of technology, with chapters from the 2021 European Conference on Digital Psychology.

Developing trauma-informed teachers

This text prepares teachers to address students' needs and create safe classrooms using trauma-informed practices. It highlights tools and strategies for teacher preparation and professional development, focusing on resiliency skills and addressing childhood trauma.

Crafting engineering strategy

Unchained russia

Charles Edward Russell was a major intellectual and political figure of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century United States. As a very well-known American radical, he published many books on the US economy, the condition of workers, social issues, and other subjects.

Indigenous language education in critical times

This book builds a space in which a diversity of voices – Indigenous teachers, activists and committed academics – are foregrounded in the processes of Indigenous education and language reclamation. It decenters state systems of education, thereby emphasizing diverse processes of language reclama...

Eslanda

The first biography of the bold, principled, and fiercely independent woman who defied convention to make her own mark on the world.

The global city

In her classic book The Global City, Saskia Sassen tells how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers of the emerging global economy and, in the process, underwent massive and parallel changes. The book reorients the way we think about how cities shape and are shaped by globalization an...

What comes after lunch?

The book critiques reliance on FRPL to measure economic disadvantage in schools, advocating for refined measures of wealth and hardship. It examines CEP's impact on school finance research and proposes alternatives to FRPL. It serves scholars and students in education finance and policy.

Creating new possibilities for the future of hbcus

Creating New Possibilities for the Future of HBCUs gathers insights from over 20 scholars to examine the contributions and future of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The book addresses challenges like declining enrollments and public confidence, while highlighting successes a...

Creating and negotiating collaborative spaces for socially-just anti-bullying interventions for k-12 schools

This book addresses the widespread effects of bullying on youth. It offers practical, diversity-focused strategies for systemic and individual interventions, especially for marginalized groups. The book includes real-life examples and covers topics like teacher-to-student bullying, cyberbullying,...

Climate governance in international and comparative perspective

This book examines climate governance in the Global South—Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean—highlighting the challenges posed by climate change. It questions assumptions about governance patterns and promotes South-South dialogue, emphasizing the importance of learning from each other and n...

Walkout!

This book explores the state of modern teacher unions, their role in activism and school reform, and the complexities they face. It examines the origins and impact of teacher militancy, breaking away from simplistic views to understand their influence on education and social change.

How propaganda works

How propaganda undermines democracy and why we need to pay attentionOur democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propa...

The art of integrative counseling

Useful as a supplemental text in advanced theories and practicum courses, this fourth edition discusses the key concepts and techniques from many contemporary theories and how to develop an integrative approach to the counseling process to better meet individual client needs. Dr. Corey introduces...

Clandestine

Clandestine by Sweta Gupta is a collection of 32 poems exploring the connections between nature, power, science, and love. Gupta offers a hopeful perspective on environmental issues and scientific advancement. The poems invite readers to ponder the balance of power in nature, ethical consideratio...

The new cold war

A leading international relations expert uncovers the key stages that led from the end of the Cold War to the War in Ukraine. With the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, warnings of a new Cold War proliferated. In fact, argues Gilbert Achcar in this timely new account, the New Cold War has bee...

Children around the world

This book examines major trends and interventions affecting children. Topics include the UN Convention on Children, NGOs, pre and post-natal health, family systems, gender roles, puberty, and challenges like sex trafficking, child labor, and violence. It also addresses future challenges such as l...

The house of plain truth

A lush, evocative story about a fractured Jamaican family and a daughter determined to reclaim her home.When Pearline receives grave news about her ailing father, she abruptly leaves Brooklyn for her childhood home in Jamaica. But Pearline isn’t prepared for a tense reunion with her sisters or fo...

Fundamentals of software architecture

Walking away

This volume chronicles acts of refusal in education, where teachers and researchers walk away from curricular/pedagogic violence. It explores walking away from erasure, fundamentalist experiences, and carceral discipline policies, and walking toward new curricula and pedagogies of resistance.

Nowhere to be home

Nowhere to Be Home is an eye-opening collection of oral histories exposing the realities of life under military rule. In their own words, men and women from Burma describe their lives in the country that Human Rights Watch has called “the textbook example of a police state.”

Being and appearance

Being and Appearance: The Aporia of Husserlian Phenomenology sets out to take phenomenology at its word, with a phenomenological examination of Husserlian phenomenology.

Defund

A collection of illuminating interviews with leading abolitionist organizers and thinkers, reflecting on the uprisings of summer 2020, the rise of #defund, and the work ahead of bridging the divide between reform and abolition.  The 2020 uprisings against police violence launched a nation convers...

Pearce oysters

“The complex characters and the lovingly described Louisiana setting bring this eco-tragedy sympathetically to life. Recommended to readers of issue-oriented fiction such as Charlotte McConaghy’s Migrations and Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead.”—BooklistA fractured family, a devastated commu...

Unbuild walls

“Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I am going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I’m going to go unbuild walls.” —Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed Drawing from over twenty years of activism on local and national levels, this striking book offers an organizer...

Voices of social education

This book collects personal stories from academics, teachers, students, activists, and artists about their fight for social justice and equality. It emphasizes social education as a journey and a narrative, highlighting the importance of shared experiences, values, and culture in creating a just ...

The undercurrent

“A mystery of remarkable scope, bristling with intelligence, beauty, and humanity. It is, quite simply: stunning.” —Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl“A stunning, achingly beautiful and gripping mystery. Full of page-turning suspense, intrigue, and secrets…I loved it.” —Chris Whitaker, author of ...

Prince edward county, virginia school closing

The Prince Edward County, Virginia School Closing: A Compilation of Research Studies provides readers with a series of qualitative methodology approaches and topics surrounding the Prince Edward County School closing.

The allure of elsewhere

“A truly fascinating and heartwarming travelogue that beautifully points us in bold directions.”—Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of World of WondersOne woman’s cross-country journey to explore the hold family history has on our lives, and the power of new stories to shape what lies ahead.In her mid...