Inclusive Education Strategies Books

This edited volume examines the thrust towards equity in education for marginalized and out-of-school youth, as well as youth with disabilities, in countries located in the Global South.

Guided by the scholarly personal narratives of LGBTQ+ higher education scholars, practitioners, and scholar-practitioners, this informative volume explores how individuals exist within and experience the insider/outsider paradox within higher education...

Drawing on autotheoretical methods, this insightful volume explores how LGBTQ+ scholars, practitioners, and scholar-practitioners exist within and negotiate an insider/outsider paradox within higher education, highlighting issues of affect, legibility,...

Each chapter of this ground-breaking book builds your confidence and ability to create dynamic and anti-racist learning environments and will ensure your setting fosters a positive sense of identity and belonging. With accessible guidance, strategies,...

Offering contributions and vignettes from teachers, school leaders, and scholars, this volume purposefully dismantles practitioner-academic divides to invite dialogue around diverse understandings of Global Citizenship Education (GCE).

Offering a vital, critical contribution to debates on gender, sexuality and schooling in South Africa, this book highlights how South African educational practices, discourses, and structures normalise cisheteronormativity, along with how these are...

The aim of this book, "Mentoring in Schools: The Way to Succeed" by Pam and John Richardson, is to provide an aide memoire for mentors of young people with a ready reference for safe and effective mentoring best practice. Every year of a young person's...

The books in the Spelling & Word-Power Series cover 3 levels of practice, arranged from Starters (which introduces the structure of words, sounds and rules), Level 1 (expands knowledge of phonics and increases the level of structuring of words and...

The book provides a comprehensive theoretical exploration of LGBTQ+ inclusion in schools drawing on critical insights from across the disciplines of sociology, psychology, history, and queer theory to present a robust theoretical foundation for...

The Need for Refining English Language MethodologiesEnglish language teaching (ELT) methodologies have evolved significantly over the years, moving from traditional grammar-translation methods to more communicative and student-centered approaches...

Numerous studies indicate that completing a college degree reduces an individual's likelihood of recidivating. However, there is little research available to inform best practices for running college programs inside jails or prisons or supporting...

Caribbean Discourse in Inclusive Education Volume II “Responding to Learner Diversity and Learner Difficulties” shares selected critical reflections and recommendations on the way educational communities respond to student diversity and...

Caribbean Discourse in Inclusive Education Volume II “Responding to Learner Diversity and Learner Difficulties” shares selected critical reflections and recommendations on the way educational communities respond to student diversity and...

Identifying Special Needs provides expert guidance to recognising and categorising the specific characteristics of a range of special needs. Drawing on her experience as an educational psychologist and special education teacher, Glynis Hannell provides...

How can teachers help students navigate tough topics in an increasingly politicized world? Featuring perspectives from teachers and students across the country, this book provides hope, applicable knowledge, and practical skills for teachers to address a...

How can we help teachers reach all students, honor their full humility, and understand how ableism and racism intersect? This book blends narrative with interviews to show what would help neurodivergent students of color feel supported and cared for in...

This edited volume is about diversifying the teaching profession. It is unique in its inclusion of multiple dimensions of diversity; its chapters focus on a wide range of under-represented groups, including those from lower socio-economic groups, Black...

Strengthen your culturally responsive teaching by designing curricula that leads for equitable, humanized outcomes. In this powerful new book, JessaBrie Moreno and Mariah Rankine-Landers reveal how artistic research and creative inquiry across subject...

A comprehensive theory-to-practice guidebook, Supporting Literacies for Children of Color argues for a new strength-based view of teaching to support the literacy talents and abilities of preschool-aged children of Color. The early childhood field...

Whilst there is an extensive body of research exploring the barriers to gender equality and female empowerment in high-income states, there are far fewer systematic analyses within lower-income settings. This book will be of interest to researchers and...

This timely book tackles underlying issues that see disproportionate numbers of African American males with dyslexia undiagnosed, untreated, and falling behind their peers in terms of literacy achievement.Considering factors including dialectic...

  Giving Voice to Profound Disability is devoted to exploring the lives of people with profound and multiple learning difficulties and disabilities, and brings together the voices of those best placed to speak about the rewards and challenges of...

This comprehensive book provides all the information that practitioners need to know about assessment in relation to their pupils with Specific Learning Difficulties. The why, how and what of assessment is addressed, whilst the link between assessment...

This book illustrates the relationship between politics and the ways in which lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) issues are taught in schools. This book examines relationships between society, schools, and LGBTQ inclusion in order to...

This important guide offers practical teaching solutions to address the challenges facing RELD students in special education, particularly in high needs schools where the number of students identified as needing special education is above the national...

Bridging the gap between theory and practice, Mindful Interventions in Special Education helps aspiring educators develop their intervention toolkit. Covering topics from dyslexia to hypoactivity, each chapter provides an overview of the theoretical and...

Beginning with Braille, the illuminating classic written by a master teacher and beloved by readers in the United States and abroad, has been expanded and revised! This exceptional resource that has been an essential guide to helping educators teach...

This book examines how former, current and prospective Korean graduate students navigate American universities, especially with regard to the student-advisor relationship. Based on extensive case study research conducted around Vivid Journal-an online...

This book focuses on 3 broad and intertwined concerns in Indigenous education across several settler-colonial settings such as Australia, New Zealand and Canada. It highlights the work of scholars who are actively working to privilege Indigenous ways of...

This guidebook, designed to be used alongside the storybook A Nasty Dose of the Yawns, has been created to educate readers on the practical, social and psychological impacts of dyslexia on children and young people.Providing an easy-to-read introduction...

This guidebook is designed to be used alongside the storybook The Man-Eating Sofa (for 8-12 year-olds). Written in an engaging and accessible style, chapters explore the educational, social and psychological impact of autism and social communication and...

Learn how to create identity affirming classroom environments that honor the humanity of students. Although schools have potential to be spaces of inquiry and joy, they can also be the source of trauma and pain when educational equity is not a...

Teaching as Protest explores how K-12 teachers can expand the boundaries of their profession with anti-oppressive, community-building pedagogies. Now more than ever, students are looking to their schools to make meaning of our nation's complicated and...

This text responds to the growing need for speech-language pathologists in school settings by asking how factors including people, work, pay, opportunities for promotion, and supervision impact the overall job satisfaction of school-based speech-language...

This practical resource helps school staff to reframe behaviour as a means of communicating a need, ensuring they can sensitively and effectively support children with a range of Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs and Special Educational...

Regularly, schools and their personnel enact school disciplinary practices without considering how to harness the engagement of students, practitioners, and communities to enact transformative changes that reduce if not eliminate punitive school...

Help all of your students reach success in math! This essential book, from bestselling author and consultant Jennifer Taylor-Cox, is filled with suggestions that teachers and RTI/MTSS specialists can use to target instruction for struggling students in...

By adopting a comparative approach, this book investigates the philosophy, policy, practices, and challenges of inclusive education in the Chinese contexts, recognizing influences of Chinese culture, such as Confucianism, collectivism, and familism. In...

Flexible Mindsets in Schools abandons painstaking evolution in favour of a bold, transformative revolution. It blends research and easily implementable practice to drive solutions that give learners and educators the freedom to become self-directed: to...

This compelling book takes you inside a teacher's journey to explore the question of gender in education. Jason Ablin uses his background in math teaching, school leadership, and neuroscience to present expert interviews, research, and anecdotes about...

This book examines the development of play skills and schemas to support children with learning differences and physical disabilities in learning to play. It highlights the need for appropriate playground equipment in all school settings that educate...

Featuring leading voices in the field from across Canada and Europe, this edited collection offers empirical analyses of the historical, social, cultural, and legislative determinants of inclusive education in Canadian schools.Covering four thematic...

Can Redefining Gifted Education Unleash Every Student's Unlimited Potential?With over 35 years of experience, Brian Butler is an internationally recognized educational leader, consultant, and author. Brian's passion centers around empowering educators,...

The English Oral Language Assessment is a formative assessment designed to show student progress in English language acquisition in Grades PreK-8. Assessment contains two sections: one that measures receptive language skills and one that measures...

This edited volume addresses the dynamic global contexts redefining Asia Pacific higher education, including cross-border education, capacity and national birthrate profiles, pressures created within ranking/status systems, and complex shifts in the...

Palgrave Studies in Gender and EducationSeries editor: Yvette Taylor, London South Bank University, UKWhat do we mean when we talk about 'queer teachers'? Do we mean self-conscious subjects who understand ourselves as 'queer', educators who do queer work...

One of the key challenges facing schools today is that of reducing marginalisation amongst pupils in educational contexts. This timely book provides guidance and illustrative examples of the ways in which primary and secondary schools can include all of...