Mumbai is home to over 22 million people, of which 41.3% are estimated to live in bastis with limited access to basic facilities and support. The number of people with disabilities living in Mumbai was 0.48 million in 2011, expected to rise to 4 million by 2025. For people with disabilities to live a better quality of life, they require a…

Yongning River Boatman Work Songs are traditional folk music from the Yongning River region, performed by boatmen for practical purposes during laborious tasks. The study's objective is to investigate the promotion of education and literacy through the preservation of the Yongning River Boatman Work Song. Three key informants, including an…

This article discusses the role of the community in the development of socio-economically marginalised children. There are several government schemes and civil society efforts for their upliftment. There is further need to critically analyse researches done with a distinct political stance which either seek to manage the marginalised or to…

Purpose: The essay wonders about forms and ways of participation in the public sphere of adolescents. The investigated practices include individual and collective participation in different contexts (in the community, at school, among peers), in physical or web presence. Design/ methodology/approach: A web survey was carried out involving about…

Research investigating occupational aspirations in childhood is scarce. In addition, most research on occupational aspirations has focused on increasing the number of women in agentic jobs. In the present work, we investigate factors associated with communal occupational aspirations in two studies with young children (Study 1: 159 children [84…

Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) is a curriculum-based process of teaching and learning where learners are equipped with knowledge to cope with their developmental changes and risky sexual behaviors. Teaching and learning sexuality education has been seen as the responsibility for teachers only, however research indicate that it is a…

While previous research has shown that language use in the home is an important factor in bilingual language development, little research has focused on how specific language strategies used by parents relate to bilingual children's language exposure and vocabulary development. Yet, for parents, this information has the potential to inform their…

Often, migrants relocate because of acute disruption: war, disaster, or persecution. Slower forms of violence, however, can lead to lifestyle migration, at once a response to nostalgia and an unsatisfying present. Some young urbanites in Bulgaria seek new possibilities in heavily depopulated rural settings. While rural revitalization is generally…

Increasingly, doctoral education is being challenged to reflect and act on issues of access and equity. I argue that in art and design the expanding doctoral expectations and emphasis on doctoral community impact the multiple and intersectional concerns around diversity, equity and belonging that urgently need to be acknowledged and addressed. The…

An analysis was conducted of contemporary notions of inclusion and their provenance in developing thought about difference in education, with a particular focus on the role of community in promoting and enabling inclusion. Being informed by: (1) an international group of advisers; and (2) a national group of informants and commentators, a review…

Children from Roma communities are consistently among the lowest academic achievers in many European countries and this holds true in Greece. In Greek schools, Roma students experience high dropout rates and low performance compared to their non-Roma peers. Moreover, in Greece, as elsewhere, Roma experience wide-spread discrimination. Drawing on a…

Music-kings and -queens are musicians who facilitate experiences in spaces where community music (CM) and music education (MusEd) make music. These musicians lead and facilitate musicking to enrich people's music, social and cultural lives. This paper specifically explores two diverse projects occupying in-between musicking spaces that have been…

This article forms part of research into the role of support offered to children and youth by different community agents during the pandemic. In order to carry out the research, an online questionnaire was designed and administered between October 2021 and January 2022, to which 1,216 people in Catalonia (Spain) aged between 9 and 18 years…

This research investigated the indigenous history and culture of Ban Pang Mai community in Mae Suai District, Chiang Rai Province, Thailand, developed area-based multidisciplinary action learning resources for culturally diverse secondary school school students in Northern Thailand. And study lessons from the area-based multidisciplinary action…

The growing immigrant population in Iceland has had an impact on Icelandic schools. These changes require that municipalities, schools, and teachers respond to the educational needs of these students. The aim of this research is to gain an understanding of how four municipalities in Iceland organize and structure support for immigrant students and…