Based on extensive research in 1,000 primary and secondary classrooms, this book grapples with tough questions on teaching methods, curriculum, assessment, and teachers' professionalism. The authors isolate the key elements that make the difference in the classroom and offer teachers practical approaches to working with all of their students.
Based on extensive research in 1,000 primary and secondary classrooms, this book grapples with tough questions on teaching methods, curriculum, assess...
A framework for developing practical and sustainable ways to improve boys' education, this resource highlights key understandings of gender, masculinity, and pedagogy. The successful and innovative strategies demonstrate how and what teachers do in the classroom to encourageor constrainboys' academic and social behaviors. With detailed case studies from varied school types and age groups, this guide, written for an international market, also helps teachers support boys' education without neglecting the girls. As the concern for boys' under achievements grows, these tactics help motivate and...
A framework for developing practical and sustainable ways to improve boys' education, this resource highlights key understandings of gender, masculini...
Exploringcurrent approaches to addressing boys' education in schools, this bookhighlights the limitations of structural reform initiativesand the failure to address the impact of socioeconomic status, race, sexuality, disability and hegemonic masculinity on both boys' and girls' participation in schooling."
Exploringcurrent approaches to addressing boys' education in schools, this bookhighlights the limitations of structural reform initiativesand the fail...
Many young people failed by the school system are those who face a range of social and economic challenges due to multiple forms of injustice. This book provides an insight into the educational practices that work to re-engage young people who have become disenchanted with traditional schooling. It examines the lives of students and workers who participate in education sites on the fringes of mainstream education, and includes a rich tapestry of personal experiences from those who have been failed by their schooling experiences.
The book draws upon research of international relevance...
Many young people failed by the school system are those who face a range of social and economic challenges due to multiple forms of injustice. This...
This edited collection challenges the urban-centric nature of much feminist work on gender and education. The context for the book is the radical reconfiguration of rural areas that has occurred in recent decades as a result of globalisation. From a range of diverse national contexts, including Kenya and South Africa, Australia and Canada, and the United States and Pakistan, authors explore the intersections between masculinity, femininity, and rurality in education. In recognition of the heterogeneity of categories such as rural girl and rural boy they attend to how educational exclusions...
This edited collection challenges the urban-centric nature of much feminist work on gender and education. The context for the book is the radical r...
In many English-speaking countries, teachers are encouraged to differentiate their classrooms, and in some cases, through various policy mechanisms. This encouragement is often accompanied by threats and sanctions for not making the grade. By exploring the ways in which one education system in Australia has mandated differentiation through an audit of teacher practices, this book provides a timely engagement with the relationship between differentiated classrooms and social justice. It covers tensions, for instance, between providing culturally-appropriate classrooms, including...
In many English-speaking countries, teachers are encouraged to differentiate their classrooms, and in some cases, through various policy mechanisms...
