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Defining diversity broadly, this book provides effective pedagogical techniques to help students question their own assumptions, think critically, and discuss issues within race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and ability.

Venturing out of the laboratory into the wild, it becomes untenable to locate memory strictly in the head. Instead, memory appears as a materially extended and socially distributed process, embedded within culture and history. This book explores the relations between practices of remembering and the settings in which they are enacted.

The first full-length volume exclusively devoted to new research on the challenges and practices of teaching global issues. It addresses the ways that schools can and do address young people's interest and activism in contemporary global issues facing the world.

The first full-length volume exclusively devoted to new research on the challenges and practices of teaching global issues. It addresses the ways that schools can and do address young people's interest and activism in contemporary global issues facing the world.

Filled with 60 learning activities for diverse contributors, this book offers a hands-on resource for leadership educators to use when facilitating leadership learning opportunities. Each learning activity includes learning outcomes, activity instructions, facilitation notes, and additional resources.

Showcases the educational journey of four Latino/a men and women who navigated the American education system successfully. Their success is significant given the multiple and varied challenges that most Latinos/as encounter throughout the K-20 educational continuum.

Explores the complexities of talented and high-performing Black girls and women in STEM across the P-20 trajectory. Analogously, the book aims to understand the intersections between giftedness, its identification, and racial, gender, and academic discipline identities.

Explores the complexities of talented and high-performing Black girls and women in STEM across the P-20 trajectory. Analogously, the book aims to understand the intersections between giftedness, its identification, and racial, gender, and academic discipline identities.

Explores the educational context of adverse childhood experiences and describes and reflects on research-inspired endeavours to integrate the resources of schools, universities, and communities to sustain a safe and supportive educational environment for and build the resilience of all students.

Explores the educational context of adverse childhood experiences and describes and reflects on research-inspired endeavours to integrate the resources of schools, universities, and communities to sustain a safe and supportive educational environment for and build the resilience of all students.

Though there has been a rapid increase of women's representation in law and business, their representation in STEM fields has not been matched. The authors of this book, address the issues that women of color encounter in STEM in higher education.

Provides a glimpse into the journeys that women from diverse backgrounds and ethnic differences take in their higher education undergraduate or graduate careers. The diverse women include ethnicities of Arabic, Asian, African-American, American Indian, and Latina.

Though there has been a rapid increase of women's representation in law and business, their representation in STEM fields has not been matched. The authors of this book, address the issues that women of color encounter in STEM in higher education.

Provides a glimpse into the journeys that women from diverse backgrounds and ethnic differences take in their higher education undergraduate or graduate careers. The diverse women include ethnicities of Arabic, Asian, African-American, American Indian, and Latina.

The lives of middle school students are dynamic, and their needs and desires are always evolving. This volume includes chapters focusing on varying aspects of curriculum, instruction, and assessment currently being implemented in middle grades classrooms across America.

The lives of middle school students are dynamic, and their needs and desires are always evolving. This volume includes chapters focusing on varying aspects of curriculum, instruction, and assessment currently being implemented in middle grades classrooms across America.

Distance Learning is for leaders, practitioners, and decision makers in the fields of distance learning, e-learning, telecommunications, and related areas.

Women's participation in the political arena is still disproportionately low. This book explores current research findings, development practices, theory, and the lived experience to deliver provocative thinking that enhances leadership knowledge and improves leadership development of women around the world.

Women's participation in the political arena is still disproportionately low. This book explores current research findings, development practices, theory, and the lived experience to deliver provocative thinking that enhances leadership knowledge and improves leadership development of women around the world.

"What are growing roles of psychology and the behavioural sciences at the United Nations today?" This volume brings together over 20 authors - both key experts and student interns - to answer this question.

Higher education institutions and its stakeholders are often perceived for their proclivity to foster debate. This book is not about how to facilitate debate, but rather, dialogue, which if managed well, can lead to positive growth, learning outcomes, and increased productivity.

Explores the experiences of fifteen Educational Leadership candidates focused on improving their bilingual/ multilingual school communities via conceptual ideas and policies learned as students and synthesizing these ideas into practice as future administrators.

The distinct focus of the book is key European features - 'contexts matter' - to promote and stimulate what 'European' might mean in any given context. The book valorizes different contexts and key strengths of the European perspective.

This is an edited (introduced and annotated) book by the Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky who belongs to the most well-known social scientists of the previous century. The book deals with an aspect of his life and work that is little known, notably his involvement with child studies.

Offers lessons and strategies that combine the power of inquiry-driven teaching with a funds of knowledge approach to capitalize on the lived civic experiences of urban youth and children. The book presents six strategies for making civic and social studies education relevant and engaging.

The distinct focus of the book is key European features - 'contexts matter' - to promote and stimulate what 'European' might mean in any given context. The book valorizes different contexts and key strengths of the European perspective.