Young and Homeless
Exploring the education, life experiences and aspirations of homeless youth
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.
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Exploring the education, life experiences and aspirations of homeless youth
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.Inclusive Educational Practice in Europe
Psychological perspectives
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.
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Psychological perspectives
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.Children’s Literature about Refugees
A catalyst in the classroom
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.
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A catalyst in the classroom
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.Doing Justice to History
Transforming Black history in secondary schools
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.
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Transforming Black history in secondary schools
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.Distress in the City
Racism, fundamentalism and a democratic education
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.
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Racism, fundamentalism and a democratic education
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.Catching Hell and Doing Well
Black women in the UK – the Abasindi Cooperative
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.
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Black women in the UK – the Abasindi Cooperative
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.Learning to live together
Struggles for citizenship and human rights education
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.
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Struggles for citizenship and human rights education
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.British-Islamic Identity
Third-generation Bangladeshis from East London
This ethnographic account of the lives and multifaceted identities of six British-born third-generation Bangladeshis from East London asks whether they see themselves as Bangladeshi, British, Muslim, Londoners, none of these or a fusion of them all. It shows how young English Bangladeshis construct a new British-Islamic identity for themselves.
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Third-generation Bangladeshis from East London
This ethnographic account of the lives and multifaceted identities of six British-born third-generation Bangladeshis from East London asks whether they see themselves as Bangladeshi, British, Muslim, Londoners, none of these or a fusion of them all. It shows how young English Bangladeshis construct a new British-Islamic identity for themselves.Conflict Transformation through School
A curriculum for sustainable peace
Conflict transformation changes the relationships, attitudes, interests, discourses and underlying structures that encourage violent political conflict. Uganda after twenty years of war provides a case study of the role of education in building sustainable peace, and how the school curriculum can contribute to or impede conflict transformation.
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A curriculum for sustainable peace
Conflict transformation changes the relationships, attitudes, interests, discourses and underlying structures that encourage violent political conflict. Uganda after twenty years of war provides a case study of the role of education in building sustainable peace, and how the school curriculum can contribute to or impede conflict transformation.Methodologies for Researching Cultural Diversity in Education
International perspectives
Educational researchers highlight challenges of researching in culturally and ethnically diverse contexts and describe innovative approaches in seven countries that give agency to the children who are being researched, rather than to the researchers.
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