Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights

Teachers matter

• Mary-Claire Travers

The book traces the educational trajectories of 15 white working-class boys who have succeeded academically. A unique contribution to the study of social mobility and justice, it offers policymakers, education researchers and teacher educators approaches for tackling long-standing issues of white working-class boys’ academic underachievement.

• Mohamed Kahin
• Catherine Wallace

Although Somalis are among the largest immigrant communities in Britain, the schooling needs of Somali children have gone mostly unrecognized. This book suggests how to maximize the educational outcomes of Somalis in British schools.

Gypsies, Roma and Travellers in school, community and the academy

• Andrew Ryder

This account of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller policy and practice in education, social policy and politics is enriched by biographical narratives, theoretical analysis and the author’s quest for agency for these marginalized groups. It draws on his 25 years’ working as an activist, educationalist and researcher for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller rights.

Exploring the education, life experiences and aspirations of homeless youth

• Tina Byrom
• Sheine Peart

Why do young people become homeless, and what might be done about it? This new study is for those wishing to explore and understand the stories and experiences of homeless young people without falling into tired assumptions. It also explores an effective support service that assists those in difficult predicaments back into secure accommodation.

Psychological perspectives

• Christopher Arnold
• Jacqueline Horan

Psychologists have long been researching effective practice with children who don’t adjust readily to school systems that now aspire to include everyone. This book collates the findings of psychologists working in educational settings in 13 European states and will be essential reading for school psychologists, teachers and school leaders.

A catalyst in the classroom

• Julia Hope

Julia Hope describes her study on how primary school teachers use certain picturebooks and storybooks that relate refugee children’s experiences, so that young refugees feel validated and their classmates can understand something of what they’ve been through. It gives teachers both pedagogical support and the resources to tackle this urgent topic. 

Transforming Black history in secondary schools

• Abdul Mohamud
• Robin Whitburn

Doing Justice to History provides new insights into Black history at local, national and international levels, and will become a key resource for the annual Black History Month. The authors’ accounts of excellent practice in presenting an inclusive view of history to students, teachers and teacher trainers offer inspiration and guidance.

Racism, fundamentalism and a democratic education

• Linden West

This case study of one distressed post-industrial city struggling with various discontents is based on the stories of those who live there. They illuminate how racism, Islamophobia and Islamism take hold, and show how the city is emblematic of wider problems across the world today. But the book also describes the resources of hope in the city.

Black women in the UK – the Abasindi Cooperative

• Diana Watt
• Adele D. Jones

Photographs, poems and press cuttings enhance this account of the achievements of the women of the Abasindi Cooperative, who carved a space in their Manchester community to determine and redefine their conditions – along the way making a significant contribution to community activism in the UK today against race, class and gender oppression.

Struggles for citizenship and human rights education

• Hugh Starkey

Democracy provides a framework for lively struggles against discrimination by gender, ethnicity, class, or sexuality. In this lecture Hugh Starkey argues that education for cosmopolitan citizenship provides expression for multiple voices and promotes common standards that both include and transcend so-called fundamental British values.