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Paul Downes Ed.; Guofang Li Ed.; Lore Van Praag Ed.; Stephen Lamb Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024
Providing a cornerstone to the global debate on equity and inclusion within education, this handbook explores equity issues pertaining to poverty and social class, race, ethnicity, sociocultural, sociolinguistic exclusion in education and recognises intersectionality and gender across these dimensions. This carefully curated collection of essays…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Inclusion, Poverty, Social Class
Fitzpatrick, Katie; May, Stephen – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022
In this book, Fitzpatrick and May make the case for a reimagined approach to critical ethnography in education. Working with an expansive understanding of "critical," they argue that many researchers already do the kind of critical ethnography suggested in this book, whether they call their studies critical or not. Drawing on a wide…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Ethics, Teaching Methods, Educational Research
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Gurzynski-Weiss, Laura, Ed. – Language Learning & Language Teaching, 2020
This book examines the role of interlocutors and their individual differences (IDs) in second language (L2) development from four theoretical lenses: the cognitive-interactionist approach, sociocultural theory, the variationist approach, and complex dynamic systems theory. A theoretical overview to each approach is written by a preeminent scholar…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Sociocultural Patterns
OECD Publishing, 2018
Migration flows are profoundly changing the composition of classrooms. Results from the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) reveal that in 2015, almost one in four 15-year-old students in OECD countries reported that they were either foreign-born or had at least one foreign-born parent. Between 2003 and 2015, the share of…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Resilience (Psychology), Student Characteristics, Adjustment (to Environment)
Irby, Beverly, Ed.; Brown, Genevieve H., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011
The Research on Women and Education SIG of the American Educational Research Association presents the third book in its series, Gender and Early Learning Environments. Finding after the publication of Gender and Schooling in the Early Years, the second book in the series, that there was and is a paucity of published literature on early childhood…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Females, Early Childhood Education, Young Children
OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2011
This report explores the factors and conditions that could help more students succeed at school despite challenging socio-economic backgrounds. It does this by studying resilient students and what sets them apart from their less successful peers. Understanding how educational systems can support disadvantaged students and help them "beat the…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Success
Mac Naughton, Glenda, Ed.; Davis, Karina, Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
This book explores the prominence of "race" in the lives of young children and their early childhood educators. It critiques the often presumed racial innocence of young children and shows instead how young children actively engage with the politics of race as they form their own identities. It challenges early childhood educators to engage with…
Descriptors: Race, Popular Culture, Early Childhood Education, Fantasy