Teacher Education for High Poverty Schools
Teacher Education for High Poverty Schools

Author: Jo Lampert

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-10-15

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 3319220594

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This volume captures the innovative, theory-based, and grounded work being done by established scholars who are interrogating how teacher education can prepare teachers to work in challenging and diverse high-poverty settings. It offers articles from the US, Australia, Canada, the UK and Chile by some of the most significant scholars in the field. Internationally, research suggests that effective teachers for high poverty schools require deep theoretical understanding as well as the capacity to function across three well-substantiated areas: deep content knowledge, well-tuned pedagogical skills, and demonstrated attributes that prove their understanding and commitment to social justice. Schools in low socioeconomic communities need quality teachers most, however, they are often staffed by the least experienced and least prepared teachers. The chapters in this volume examine how pre-service teachers are taught to understand the social contexts of education. Drawing on the individual expertise of the authors, the topics covered include unpacking poverty for pre-service teachers, issues related to urban schooling as well as remote and regional area schooling.

Improving Schools, Developing Inclusion
Improving Schools, Developing Inclusion

Author: Mel Ainscow

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-09-27

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1134193459

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While many books explore the possibilities for developing inclusive practices in schools, and ‘inclusion’ is widely regarded as a desirable goal, much of the literature on the subject has been narrowly concerned with the inclusion of pupils with special educational needs. This book however, takes the view that marginalisation, exclusion and underachievement take many forms and affect many different kinds of child. As such, a definition of inclusion should also touch upon issues of equity, participation, community, entitlement, compassion, respect for diversity and sustainability. Here the highly regarded authors focus on: barriers to participation and learning experienced by pupils the practices that can overcome these barriers the extent to which such practices facilitate improved learning outcomes how such practices can be encouraged and sustained within schools and LEAs. The book is part of the Improving Learning series, published in partnership with the Teaching and Learning Research Project.

International Community Psychology
International Community Psychology

Author: Stephanie Reich

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-07-03

Total Pages: 461

ISBN-13: 0387495002

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This is the first in-depth guide to global community psychology research and practice, history and development, theories and innovations, presented in one field-defining volume. This book will serve to promote international collaboration, enhance theory utilization and development, identify biases and barriers in the field, accrue critical mass for a discipline that is often marginalized, and to minimize the pervasive US-centric view of the field.

Confronting Marginalisation in Education
Confronting Marginalisation in Education

Author: Kyriaki Messiou

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 0415603501

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By using this book, practitioners can explore the different ways in which marginalisation is experienced by pupils and, in so doing, create a classroom that is all the more inclusive.

Achievement and Inclusion in Schools
Achievement and Inclusion in Schools

Author: Lani Florian

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-08-07

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 1134165099

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**Winner of the nasen Special Educational Needs Academic Book award 2008** There is an enduring and widespread perception amongst policy makers and practitioners that certain groups of children, in particular those who find learning difficult, have a detrimental effect on the achievement of other children. Challenging this basic assumption, Achievement and Inclusion in Schools argues that high levels of inclusion can be entirely compatible with high levels of achievement and that combining the two is not only possible but essential if all children are to have the opportunity to participate fully in education. Packed with vivid case studies that explore the benefits and tensions for children and schools, this book sets out to answer the following questions: What is the nature of the relationship between the inclusion of some children and the achievement of all? Are there strategies which can raise the achievement of all children, whilst safeguarding the inclusion of others who are more vulnerable? What changes can a school make to ensure high levels of inclusion as well as high levels of achievement for all its children? Achievement and Inclusion in Schools offers an up-to-date analysis of current issues, provides practical guidance for practitioners and policy-makers, and will be of interest to anyone passionate about inclusive education.

Cross-Cultural Roots of Minority Child Development
Cross-Cultural Roots of Minority Child Development

Author: Patricia M. Greenfield

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2014-12-05

Total Pages: 453

ISBN-13: 1317598687

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Cross-Cultural Roots of Minority Child Development was the first volume to analyze minority child development by comparing minority children to children in their ancestral countries, rather than to children in the host culture. It was a ground-breaking volume that not only offered an historical reconstruction of the cross-cultural roots of minority child development, but a new cultural-historical approach to developmental psychology as well. It was also one of the best attempts to develop guidelines for building models of development that are multicultural in perspective, thus challenging scholars across the behavioral sciences to give more credence to the impact of culture on development and socialization in their respective fields of work. A true classic, Cross-Cultural Roots of Minority Child Development will remain an essential resource for any scholar who is interested in minority child development and engages in cross-cultural research and multidisciplinary methodologies.

International Handbook of Educational Change
International Handbook of Educational Change

Author: Andy Hargreaves

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1998-05-31

Total Pages: 692

ISBN-13: 9780792335344

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The International Handbook of Educational Change is a state of the art collection of the most important ideas and evidence of educational change. The book brings together some of the most influential thinkers and writers on educational change. It deals with issues like educational innovation, reform, restructuring, culture-building, inspection, school-review, and change management. It asks why some people resist change and what their resistance means. It looks at how men and women, older teachers and younger teachers, experience change differently. It looks at the positive aspects of change but does not hesitate to raise uncomfortable questions about many aspects of educational change either. It looks critically and controversially at the social, economic, cultural and political forces that are driving educational change. School leaders, system administration, teacher leaders, consultants, facilitators, educational researchers, staff developers and change agents of all kinds will find this book an indispensable resource for guiding them to both classic and cutting-edge understandings of educational change, no other work provides as comprehensive coverage of the field of educational change.

Nomadic Subjects
Nomadic Subjects

Author: Rosi Braidotti

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2011-05-24

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 023151526X

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For more than fifteen years, Nomadic Subjects has guided discourse in continental philosophy and feminist theory, exploring the constitution of contemporary subjectivity, especially the concept of difference within European philosophy and political theory. Rosi Braidotti's creative style vividly renders a productive crisis of modernity. From a feminist perspective, she recasts embodiment, sexual difference, and complex concepts through relations to technology, historical events, and popular culture. This thoroughly revised and expanded edition retains all but two of Braidotti's original essays, including her investigations into epistemology's relation to the "woman question;" feminism and biomedical ethics; European feminism; and the possible relations between American feminism and European politics and philosophy. A new piece integrates Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the "becoming-minoritarian" more deeply into modern democratic thought, and a chapter on methodology explains Braidotti's methods while engaging with her critics. A new introduction muses on Braidotti's provocative legacy.

Atención a la diversidad cultural en el contexto educativo
Atención a la diversidad cultural en el contexto educativo

Author: Inmaculada González Falcón

Publisher: Ediciones Pirámide

Published: 2021-04-15

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 8436844637

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Esta obra nace con una clara vocación de la transmisión de los resultados de la investigación especializada y de la generación de nuevas oportunidades para la innovación y compromiso con la diversidad cultural y, más concretamente, con la inclusión del alumnado inmigrante en los centros educativos. La labor continuada de los autores que participan en ella, como profesores universitarios e investigadores en educación intercultural e inclusión educativa, ha permitido generar un saber especializado en torno a una misma mirada. Esto es, la necesidad de disponer de nuevas claves para comprender las prácticas educativas en los centros multiculturales de educación y de contar con distintos recursos y aportaciones para seguir avanzando hacia la inclusión educativa. En ella se apuesta por subrayar las pequeñas acciones que cada miembro de la comunidad educativa, y especialmente el profesorado, puede hacer para marcar la diferencia. Por esta razón, la obra se dirige, fundamentalmente, a ellos. Se formula desde el punto de vista de los principales actores educativos: directores, orientadores, maestros, profesorado de español para inmigrantes, educadores sociales, formadores, familias, etc., abordando distintas temáticas clave. Entre ellas: liderazgo inclusivo; orientación intercultural, competencias docentes interculturales; enseñanza del español para alumnado inmigrante; mediación intercultural, etc. Cada una de esas temáticas está fundamentada en la investigación y se completa con una cuidada selección de informes, aportaciones legislativas, prácticas educativas y recursos que ayudan a llevar a la práctica el enfoque inclusivo. Se espera que este volumen contribuya a evidenciar, desde el diálogo de la investigación y las buenas prácticas implementadas, las opciones que tienen los docentes, educadores e investigadores para contribuir, cada uno desde su particular ámbito de intervención, al desarrollo de una escuela intercultural e inclusiva.

The Journey to Inclusion
The Journey to Inclusion

Author: Xuan Thuy Nguyen

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-12-22

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9463003045

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This book offers insight on the politics of inclusion in Vietnam through a Foucauldian and post-colonial perspective on disability and education. Drawing on a socio-historical analysis of the inclusion of disabled people in Vietnam in the twenty-first century, the book guides readers through a ‘history of the present.’ By reflecting on the treatment of disabled people in Vietnamese social history, the book argues that this journey to inclusion calls for critical reflections on the challenges and possibilities for policies to transform exclusion for disabled people. The book unveils the problematics of social and educational institutions in governing disability and difference through a critical reflection on discourses and power in the global and local juncture, in relation to its engagement with disability in the global South. The intersection between the global politics of disability rights and development and the local politics of inclusion in Vietnam shapes the cultural politics of education. The ways inclusive education is historically constructed, within this socio-historical condition, reflects the challenges of inclusive thought and action for transforming injustice. Going beyond ‘deconstructive politics,’ The Journey to Inclusion argues for a re-positioning of the relationships between the global North and South as an alternative approach to inclusion. It suggests that critical research must construct a politics of engagement with subjugated voices and representations in transnational, national, and local contexts. A reflexive, critical, and inclusive dialogue that engages with Southern knowledge offers a political platform for reframing justice in the twenty-first century.