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Reflective Teaching in Higher Education
Paul Ashwin, Jan McArthur, Lancaster University, UK, Margaret Blackie, Susanna Calkins, Gregory Light, Northwestern University, USA, Kelly Coate, University of Sussex, UK, Fiona Hallett, Edge Hill University, UK, Camille Kandiko Howson, Imperial College London, UK, Kathy Luckett, Iain MacLaren, Michelle Tooher, National University of Ireland, Ireland, Velda McCune, University of Edinburgh, UK, Rebecca Schendel, Boston College, USA, & Karen Mpamhanga, University of Hertfordshire, UK
This is the definitive textbook for reflective teachers in higher education. Informed by the latest research, the book offers extensive support for those at the start of an academic career and career-long professionalism for those teaching in higher education. Written by an international collaborative author team of higher education experts led by Paul Ashwin, this new edition gives greater coverage of contemporary topics.
UK
ePub 9781350496897 £31.49 / $43.19
ePdf 9781350496880 £31.49 / $43.19
Series: Reflective Teaching • Bloomsbury Academic
Navigating the Doctoral Journey A Handbook of Strategies for Success
Amanda J. Rockinson-Szapkiw & Lucinda S. Spaulding
This co-edited book provides doctoral candidates with a practical, cross-discipline handbook for successfully navigating the doctoral process – from initial program selection to the final dissertation defense and preparing for the faculty interview. Invited chapters from established higher education experts cover topics ranging from university and program selection, preparing for comprehensive exams and dissertation research, self-care and self-management strategies, and recommendations for maintaining personal and professional support systems.
Each chapter includes strategies for success and practical tips, including how to create a study guide for the comprehensive examination, how to create a professional support group, how to talk to your family about the doctoral process, how to select and work with a chair and committee, how to identify an appropriate research design, how to navigate the IRB process, and how to master the research and writing process.
Space, Time and Encounter in the University Classroom
Elizabeth Hauke, Imperial College, UK
This book explores space, time and encounter in an interdisciplinary higher education classroom during a typical academic year considering how they might present as protagonists of authenticity. In this ethnography, the author is both the researcher and the teacher, delivering highly interactive and student centred modules for undergraduate students at a leading science and engineering university in the UK. The book demonstrates a remarkable alignment between the design and aspirations of the teaching, the experiences within the classroom, and the conduct of the research. Revealing the inner thoughts and inspirations of the researcher, the book includes insights from philosophy, anthropology, education, neuroscience, music, architecture, photography and popular culture.
UK January 2026 • US January 2026 • 320 pages • 40 bw illus
HB 9781350477179 • £90.00 / $120.00
ePub 9781350477193 £81.00 / $110.69
ePdf 9781350477186 £81.00 / $110.69
Series: Alternative & Education • Bloomsbury Academic
Bloomsbury Higher Education Research
Simon Marginson,
University of Oxford, UK
Brexit, EU Students and UK Higher Education
Broken Bridges
Vassiliki Papatsiba, Cardiff University, UK & Simon Marginson, University of Oxford, UK
This open access book examines the effects of Brexit on UK higher education, based on the largest academic research project conducted in the UK across 12 universities in all four nations. With an analysis of the impact of Brexit in three areas, revenue, diversity and competition, the book also offers a broader understanding of the internationalisation of higher education in the UK. The authors review developments in policy and practice in the internationalisation of UK higher education and research.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by UKRI.
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 282 pages • 10 bw illus
HB 9781350553804 • £90.00 / $115.00
ePub 9781350553828 • £00.00 / $00.00
ePdf 9781350553811 • £00.00 / $00.00
Series: Bloomsbury Higher Education Research • Bloomsbury Academic
The Future of Cross-Border Academic (Im)mobilities Power, Knowledge and Agency
Edited by Aline Courtois, University of Bath, UK, Simon Marginson, University of Oxford, UK, Catherine Montgomery, Durham University, UK & Ravinder Sidhu, University of Queensland, Australia
This open access edited collection brings together reflections on the fast changing and crisis ridden global context and develops new ways of conceptualising academic mobilities, and immobilities, against a backdrop of a conflicted and precarious future for global higher education. The result is a set of vivid cutting-edge contributions, some of which take a global view and others which explore a country perspective.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by UKRI.
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 336 pages • 15 bw illus
HB 9781350502406 • £90.00 / $120.00
ePub 9781350502420 • £00.00 / $00.00
ePdf 9781350502413 • £00.00 / $00.00
Series: Bloomsbury Higher Education Research • Bloomsbury Academic
Online Learning Futures
An Evidence Based Vision for Global Professional Collaboration on Sustainability
Eileen Kennedy & Diana Laurillard, University College London, UK
To fully realise its transformative potential, this book argues the need for an evidence-based design approach. Drawing on the experiences of online learners who are professionals: educators, engineers and researchers., it demonstrates that open, online, collaborative learning experiences are not only feasible but effective for building professional community knowledge.
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 264 pages • 10 bw illus
PB 9781350324275 • £28.99 / $39.95
Previously published in HB 9781350324237
ePub 9781350324251 • £26.09 / $36.44
ePdf 9781350324244 • £26.09 / $36.44
Series: Bloomsbury Higher Education Research • Bloomsbury Academic
Reclaiming the Teaching Discourse in
Higher Education
Curating a Diversity of Theory and Practice
Edited by Ian M. Kinchin, University of Surrey, UK
This book offers a reappraisal of the current state of university teaching, and re-imaginings of potential futures. It encourages an escape from accepted wisdom, liberating teaching from the bonds of reductive binary and linear thinking, and accepting the need for a plurality of theoretical perspectives. Teaching is relational and highly context dependent, and our discussion of teaching should recognise this. The performative culture pervading many campuses can dampen down large-scale innovation, leaving marginalised pockets of subversive collaboration and experimentation to operate below the corporate radar. Here the contributors give voice to some of those emerging ideas and challenge neoliberal orthodoxy.
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 234 pages • 10 bw illus
HB 9781350411470 • £90.00 / $120.00
ePub 9781350411494 • £81.00 / $110.69
ePdf 9781350411487 • £81.00 / $110.69
Bloomsbury Academic
Intellectual Leadership, Higher Education and Precarious Times
Edited by Tanya Fitzgerald, University of Western Australia, Australia, Helen M. Gunter, University of Manchester, UK & Jon Nixon, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
This book draws on interdisciplinary social science and philosophical frameworks to offer new dimensions to debate about intellectual leadership and higher education. The chapters are focused on provoking readers to think critically about intellectual leadership in precarious times. The contributors frame critical questions about the unevenness, ambivalences, and disruptions that now mark everyday life and interactions. In the precarious present and in times of precarity, what has changed and why? What might now be the new social reality within which we work?
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 232 pages • 10 bw illus
PB 9781350291843 • £28.99 / $39.95
Previously published in HB 9781350291805
ePub 9781350291829 • £81.00 / $110.69
ePdf 9781350291812 • £81.00 / $110.69
Series: Perspectives on Leadership in Higher Education • Bloomsbury Academic
How to Mend a University Towards a Sustainable Learning Environment In Higher Education
Ian M. Kinchin, University of Surrey, UK
Many contemporary commentators present a damning account of the current state of higher education, to the extent that our universities may be considered to be broken. This book offers an alternative perspective to the dominant neoliberal discourse and provides the conceptual tools to help construct a trajectory of repair for our universities. These ideas are presented within this book as five moves to transform our current pathological situation and develop towards a more healthy and sustainable ecological learning environment. In this book, Ian Kinchin draws upon a wide range of sources from the philosophy of education, biological and clinical sciences as well as educational research and academic development.
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 180 pages • 20 bw illus
PB 9781350338685 • £28.99 / $39.95
Previously published in HB 9781350338647
ePub 9781350338661 • £81.00 / $110.69
ePdf 9781350338654 • £81.00 / $110.69
Bloomsbury Academic
Reconstructing the “Uni-versity”
From the Ashes of the "Mega- and Multi-versity" to the Futures of Higher Education
Harvey J. Graff
This book criticizes the timeless but repetitive mythologies of never-ending lack of precedents and absence of continuities in discussions of the “decline” or “failure” of modern higher education and replaces them with a historical corrective that clearly links the past and present to visions of the future. Our collective past provides essential lessons if we know how to read and learn from them. The author brings his experience from over 50 years as a professor to provide an accurate history of higher education and establish a new agenda.
UK December 2025 • US October 2025 • 336 pages
HB 9781666955095 • £95.00 / $130.00
ePub 9781978763388 • £94.20 / $117.00
ePdf 9798216260370 • £94.20 / $117.00
Bloomsbury Academic World English
Higher Music Education and Employability in a Neoliberal World
Edited by Rainer Prokop, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria & Rosa Reitsamer, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria
This open access book offers international and interdisciplinary insights into the learning cultures, curricula designs and emancipatory initiatives within higher music education institutions. Drawing together international empirical case studies the contributors look at the discourses surrounding employability and artistic standards that form the traditional foundation of conservatoire education.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
UK December 2025 US December 2025 240 pages 30 bw illus
PB 9781350266964 £28.99 / $39.95
Previously published in HB 9781350266957
ePub 9781350266988 • £00.00 / $00.00
ePdf 9781350266971 • £00.00 / $00.00
Bloomsbury Academic
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Student Voice in Higher Education
Edited by Jerusha Conner, Villanova University, USA, Rille Raaper, Durham University, UK, Carolina Guzmán-Valenzuela, Universidad de Tarapacà, Chile & Launa Gauthier, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan
This Handbook brings together scholarship from various subfields, disciplinary traditions, and geographic and geopolitical contexts to understand how student voice is operating in different higher education dimensions and contexts around the world. The Handbook helps not only to map the range of student voice practices in college and university settings, but also to identify the common core elements, enabling conditions, constraints, and outcomes associated with student voice work in higher education.
UK December 2025 US December 2025 480 pages 25 bw illus
Esther E. Gottlieb, Ohio State University, USA, Radhika Iyengar, Columbia University, USA & Matthew A. Witenstein, University of New Mexico, USA
This book introduces comparative and international education (CIE) to new students of the field. It guides the reader through the many ways that education can respond to recent political and social changes, such as the intense debates regarding nationalism, democratic participation, inequality, social justice, climate change, and the recent impact of the global pandemic. The first four sections cover the key theories, methods, practices, and the history of CIE and the fifth section includes ten case studies written by contributors from around the world which illustrate key debates in the field.
Social Movements, Resistance and Alternative Futures in Higher Education and Society
Spyros Themelis, University of East Anglia, UK
This book discusses and compares how social movements in Brazil, Chile, Greece and England are beacons of alternative politics. It focuses on the potential of these movements to radically transform higher education and society. It explores how social movements create new forms of resistance to the ubiquity of global capitalism and new forms of thinking, acting and being in the world that are not based on exploitation and profit. The book draws on empirical material collected over 12 years in conversation with key participants in social movements.
UK
HB 9781350476431 • £90.00 / $120.00
ePub 9781350476455 • £81.00 / $110.69
ePdf 9781350476448 • £81.00 / $110.69
Bloomsbury Academic
Maria Hantzopoulos, Vassar College, USA & Monisha Bajaj, University of San Francisco, USA
Critical Perspectives on Refugee and Migrant Integration in Education
Grassroots Narratives from Multiregional Settings
Edited by Marcus Otto, Georg Eckert Institute, Germany & Tania Saeed, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan
This open-access book offers a critical appraisal, at the cross-section of theory and practice, of concepts of integration at work in education in diverse geopolitical settings. With chapters written by international experts, the book includes discussion of regions of conflict, postconflict and also non-conflict societies in which a cultural hegemony has developed strategies to “integrate” groups perceived as “other”. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Georg Arnhold Program.
UK December 2024 • US December 2024 • 228 pages • 10 bw illus
HB 9781350452343 • £90.00 / $120.00
ePub 9781350452367 • £00.00 / $00.00
ePdf 9781350452350 • £00.00 / $00.00
Series: Peace and Human Rights Education • Bloomsbury Academic
The Politics of Educational Aid in Tunisia
Fighting Jihadism and Islamic Extremism Through Educational Diplomacy
tavis d. jules, Loyola University Chicago, USA
Drawing on the concept of ‘educational diplomacy’ tavis d. jules shows how soft power is being used as a diplomatic tool in the Middle East to deal with the post-revolutionary fallout in Tunisia. Using a comparative-historical approach jules illustrates how soft financial gifts and lending by industrialized countries, multilateral agencies, and other aid donors for educational programs are being used a preventative measures against Jihadism. The book explores how educational aid is used to influence local policies and politics.
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 272 pages • 10 bw illus
Constructive Conflict Pedagogies for Building Democratic Peace
Teaching Strategies from around the
World
Edited by Kathy Bickmore, University of Toronto, Canada
This open access book shows what teaching for democratic citizenship and peace can look like in classrooms in violent and lessviolent contexts around the world. It features chapters written by leading scholars and practitioners based in Canada, Chile, Columbia, Cyprus, Mexico, Spain, the UK and the USA.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Weatherhead Canada Program.
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 328 pages • 10 bw illus
HB 9781350519718 • £90.00 / $120.00
ePub 9781350519732 • £00.00 / $00.00
ePdf 9781350519725 • £00.00 / $00.00
Series: Peace and Human Rights Education • Bloomsbury Academic
Education, Affect, and Film
Visual Imaginings and Global Explorations Through a Comparative Lens
Irving Epstein, Illinois Wesleyan University, USA What can a study of international film contribute to our understanding of education in a globalized context? Irving Epstein brings together insights from film theory, affect theory and CIE to explore the ways in which educational meanings are mediated through globalization processes. Some of the many films discussed in detail in the book include Parasite, Small Axe, My Octopus Teacher, The Pearl Button, and A Separation
UK December 2025 US December 2025 244 pages 10 bw illus
PB 9781350332546 £28.99 / $39.95
Previously published in HB 9781350332508
ePub 9781350332522 • £81.00 / $110.69
ePdf 9781350332515 • £81.00 / $110.69
Series: New Directions in Comparative and International Education • Bloomsbury Academic
Anti-racism in Early Childhood Education
Theory and Practice
Edited by Victoria Bamsey, Plymouth Institute of Education, UK, Lynn J. McNair, The University of Edinburgh, UK & Nakissa Campbell, University of East London, UK
This book explores racism and antiracist practice in early childhood education (ECE), exploring how different theoretical lenses can enable students and practitioners to consider the complexity of race and racism in early childhood and education and the impact it has on young children’s lives. Written by academics and practitioners based in the USA and the UK, the chapters cover a range of Issues and theories including, race and play, decolonial approaches in ECE, Marxism, critical pedagogy, child-centered pedagogy, pro-Black pedagogies, Black feminist perspectives, critical race theory and immigration.
Maria Cooper, Jean Rockel, University of Auckland, New Zealand, Carrey Tik-Sze Siu, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Mary Benson McMullen, Indiana University, USA & Sacha Powell, Froebel Trust, UK
This book applies the principles of Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852) to infant-toddler care and education today in England, the USA, New Zealand, and Hong Kong. The book contributes to critical debates on the application of Froebelian principles, including unity and connectedness, play, nature, and creativity and makes recommendations for practice in infant-toddler education and care settings in diverse cultural contexts. The authors present new research from ethnographic studies which investigate pedagogies of care with one-year olds in infant-toddler settings.
UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 216 pages • 10 bw illus
Edited by Tina Bruce, University of Roehampton, UK, Yukiyo Nishida, University of Aberdeen, UK, Sacha Powell, Froebel Trust, UK, Helge Wasmuth, Mercy College, USA & Jane Whinnett, University of Edinburgh, UK
This book showcases the cutting-edge work being done around the world on this pioneer of early childhood education and shows the many ways in which Froebel's work has been applied and extended. It presents a wealth of global Froebelian expertise on topics including religious education, architecture, neuroscience and peace education and links Froebel's theories to other thinkers including John Dewey and Michel Foucault. It also highlights what Froebel means today in a variety of (educational) settings around the world and includes contributions from academics and practitioners based in North and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia.
Edited by Jayne Osgood, Middlesex University, UK & Victoria de Rijke, Middlesex University, UK
This book deconstructs traditional developmentalist logic around play where the focus is on what play enables children’s bodies and brains to do and become. It includes contributions from academics and practitioners based in Australia, Canada, Finland, South Africa, the USA and the UK and explores play in the broadest sense, making space for the myriad forms that play takes for both children and adults connected to children in childhood contexts. The contributors offer alternative ways of thinking about play in childhood, including those emerging from indigenous, posthumanist, feminist new materialist, social semiotic, socio-cultural, aesthetic and multimodal approaches to childhood.
UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 160 pages • 10 bw illus
HB 9781350439474 • £90.00 / $120.00
ePub 9781350439504 • £81.00 / $110.69
ePdf 9781350439498 • £81.00 / $110.69
Series: Postdevelopmental Approaches to Childhood • Bloomsbury Academic
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in Early Childhood
Edited by Jessica Prioletta, Bishop’s University, Canada, Adam Davies, University of Guelph, Canada & Kylie Smith, University of Melbourne, Australia
This Handbook surveys, challenges and advances theories, research approaches, and practices around gender and sexuality in the early years and foregrounds early childhood as a crucial site for constructions and deconstructions around gender and sexuality. It features chapters by leading academics, practitioners, and policy makers based in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, South Africa, the UK and the USA. It covers a range of critical theories, methods and practices including post-developmentalism, feminist, queer, and trans theories, indigeneity, race, and class, ethnography and action research, care ethics and sexual health.
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theories in Childhood Studies
Edited by Sarada Balagopalan, Rutgers University, USA, John Wall, Rutgers University, USA & Karen Wells, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Showcasing the cutting-edge theoretical work that has been produced within the field of childhood studies, this Handbook speaks to both scholars and students in the field by addressing basic questions such as what childhood is, how childhoods are diversely constructed and how children’s experiences can be better understood. The volume draws together an international range of theoretical perspectives from the social sciences, humanities, politics, postcolonialism, feminism, critical race studies, queer theory, disabilities studies to generate a much-needed conversation about how to move childhood studies forward as a grounded field of research.
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 392 pages
PB 9781350263994 • £39.99 / $54.95
Previously published in HB 9781350263840
ePub 9781350263864 • £117.00 / $159.29
ePdf 9781350263857 £117.00 / $159.29
Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks Bloomsbury Academic
Feminist New Materialism, Girlhood, and the School Ball
Toni Ingram, Auckland University of Technology, Australia
Engaging with feminist new materialism, Toni Ingram reveals the ways in which the school ball (or prom) can be understood as an assemblage of material objects, spaces, practices, ideas and imaginings which contribute to the process of becoming school ballgirl. The ball-girl is not a fixed identity or subject but is an intra-active becoming – a dynamic, shifting process where bodies, sexuality and femininities are relationally produced. (Re)conceptualising the school ball-girl as emergent phenomena provides openings for thinking about girls and this schooling practice beyond popular cultural narratives. Building on the social theory of Barad, Bennett, Best, Deleuze and Guattari, this book offers a new perspective on girls, sexuality, gender and schooling, while also exploring the potential of feminist new materialisms for rethinking educational practices.
UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 184 pages • 10 b/w illus
PB 9781350215276 • £28.99 / $39.95
Previously published in HB 9781350165724
ePub 9781350165748 £26.09 / $36.44
ePdf 9781350165731 £26.09 / $36.44
Series: Feminist Thought in Childhood Research • Bloomsbury Academic
The Safetyfication of Education
Neoliberalism, Psychopolitics and the End of Critical Education
Marta Estellés, The University of Waikato, New Zealand
This open access book examines the dominance of safety discourses in education and their connection with neoliberalism. The study reveals the hidden curriculum of safety practices at schools, its paternalistic underpinnings and individualizing effects. The book highlights the dangerous political implications of safety discourses, i.e. the end of democratic education, and the need to move away from ‘safety’ in our education systems.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Spencer Foundation.
Casey D. Cobb, University of Connecticut, USA & Gene V. Glass, Arizona State University, USA
This title gives readers a clear understanding of the true state of public and private education systems in the USA by refuting falsehoods, misunderstandings, and exaggerations – and confirming the validity of other assertions. Issues covered include categories of public and private schools and variations in academic performance and socioeconomic status therein; controversies surrounding school choice, including school vouchers and charter schools; accountability and assessment of private and public schools; debates about school environment, safety, and curricula; and teacher and administrator quality. All of these issues are examined in individualized entries, with objective responses grounded in evidence.
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 240 pages
PB 9798216201687 • £21.99 / $29.95
Previously published in HB 9781440863745
ePub 9798216134046 £21.55 / $26.95
ePdf 9781440863752 £21.55 / $26.95
Series: Contemporary Debates • Bloomsbury Academic World English
Education for Sustainability and Global Citizenship
Intercultural, Ethical, and Justice-Based Approaches
Namrata Sharma, State University of New York, USA
This book questions the implications of the environmental crisis on formal, non-formal and informal education from a human rights position. The author addresses teaching about sustainability and global citizenship for social-ecological justice engaging diverse perspectives. Examples are drawn from Indigenous knowledge, various ecological worldviews and practices including the Earth Charter, the Soka Amazon Institute, and the UN Harmony with Nature Knowledge Network promoting Earth Jurisprudence. The final section of the book offers practical solutions for planetary citizenship for educators and policy makers, including teaching and curriculum guidelines that can be used to integrate intercultural perspectives and develop a global outlook.
Edited by Jenni Tikkanen, Turku Institute for Advanced Sciences (TIAS), Finland, Marcelo Parreira do Amaral, University of Munster, Germany, Tero Järvinen, University of Turku, Finland & Natália Alves, University of Lisbon, Portugal
The chapters in this open access volume challenge the dominant understandings of educational achievement and learning outcomes, and explore the social factors influencing the construction of their quality. The international contributors review research and policy on learning outcomes, providing systematic analyses of the state of the international research on learning outcomes, of European policies, and the current situation of youth learning outcomes in Europe. They also discuss how using participatory research methods can empower young people and support their agency in their life courses.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Horizon Europe.
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 272 pages • 10 bw illus
HB 9781350445901 • £90.00 / $120.00
ePub 9781350445925 • £00.00 / $00.00
ePdf 9781350445918 £00.00 / $00.00
Bloomsbury Academic
She's Just Spirited Parenting a Neurodivergent Child and the Diagnosis That Changes Everything Nefertiti Austin
One diagnosis can change everything. That’s what Nefertiti Austin discovered when she was told her daughter had ADHD and SPD. In She’s Just Spirited: Parenting a Neurodivergent Child and the Diagnosis that Changes Everything, Nefertiti captures the failures and triumphs of raising a neurologically diverse child. Alongside relatable anecdotes from her own experiences, Nefertiti offers insight from experts and easy to digest strategies she wishes she had had from the start. In addition, Nefertiti shines a light on why many neurologically diverse children and teenagers are overlooked and undiagnosed and what parents can do to ensure their child is evaluated by the right people at the right time. With tips for navigating the mental health and educational systems, deciphering psychological jargon, advocating for your child, and encouraging family and friends to get on board, She’s Just Spirited is an invaluable and relatable guide that empowers parents to fully love and support their neurologically diverse child.
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 216 pages • 4 bw images
HB 9798881805555 • £21.99 / $29.95
ePub 9798881805562 • £21.55 / $26.95
ePdf 9798765165188 • £21.55 / $26.95
Bloomsbury Academic USA/Canada
Heart and Science: Teaching Special Education
Andrew M. Markelz, Ball State University, USA & Kate H. Elliott, Ball State University, USA Heart and Science: Teaching Special Education is a powerful and practical guide that brings together the passion and purpose of special education with the proven strategies that lead to success. Blending heartfelt stories with evidence-based practices, this book highlights how effective special education teaching lives at the intersection of empathy and expertise. Perfect for new and veteran teachers alike, this must-read resource offers both inspiration and actionable tools to support students with disabilities and their families. Whether you're looking to rekindle your passion or deepen your practice, this book will equip and uplift you on your journey as a special educator.
An Introduction to Social Justice Education in the UK
Key Challenges and Opportunities
Edited by Sheine Peart, Bishop Grosseteste
University, UK
This book introduces the key issues in social justice education in the UK. Written for and by educators working in diverse settings including informal education, primary classrooms and higher education, the editor and contributors draw on research from across different sectors. The chapters introduce a range of case studies, scenarios, theories, and issues that educators face in day-to-day teaching including, ableism, racism, critical race theory, antisemitism, access to nature, motherhood, male teachers in early childhood settings and navigating social media.
All undergraduate and most graduate kinesiology, PETE, etc. programs require students to complete motor learning, motor development, and motor control coursework, yet no textbooks provide direct and explicit implications for disability. This book will provide the general concepts of motor behavior but will directly relate them to examples in disability while also providing a more in-depth understanding of the constraints that should be considered with physical, cognitive, and social, emotional, behavioral disabilities. Students who will be working with individuals with disabilities typically lack the knowledge and more in depth understanding necessary to be able to translate these concepts to disability.
Encouraging Activism in Secondary English: Reading and Writing for Social Justice presents research-backed social justice teaching strategies that secondary English teachers can implement to encourage their students to think critically and take action on issues that matter to them. It includes canonical and young adult literature, and other potential classroom texts including media, film, and historical documents.
Sarah Kaka, Matthew S. Hollstein, Elizabeth Kenyon & Nancy Patterson
Teacher Educators as Scholar Citizens: Activism and Resistance in Uncertain Times explores the powerful intersection of scholarship and activism, showcasing personal stories, methodologies, and strategies. It equips educators to challenge injustice, inspire change, and integrate activism into teaching, scholarship, and advocacy for an equitable world.
A Practical Guide to Incorporating Children's Literature into Middle Grades Math Classes
Candice Y. Brucke
Once Upon a Time in Math Class: A Practical Guide to Incorporating Children's Literature into Middle Grades Math Classes will help you learn how to link literature with math and address college and career readiness standards, consisting of the standards for mathematical practice, 2) ratios, rates, and proportions, 3) number sense, 4) expressions and equations, 5) geometry, 6) statistics and probability, and 7) functions. It includes lesson plans, a book list, suggested ways for students to take notes, rubrics, learning documents, and answer keys.
Do American professional public school teachers have the same rights to a private life as other citizens? This is an astute and incisive analysis of every teacher’s dual life – as responsible exemplars to society’s youth and as their own professional and private selves. Using historical and legal analysis to capture the tension between these two guises, it explores the balance between the weight of expectation from teachers’ communities on one hand and the need for autonomy in professional environments on the other. A Teacher’s Right to a Private Life explores some of the core questions that surround this debate.
Edited by Elizabeth Haddon, University of York, UK
Instrumental Music Education presents insights from instrumental and vocal teaching, including oneto-one and group contexts with learners of varied ages, levels and backgrounds across cultures and genres. Many of the chapters in this open access book detail critical incidents, issues or challenges that have arisen for the authors; these are considered in relation to reflective practice and theoretical perspectives, exploring diverse approaches, resources and teaching philosophies. The contributors all include instrumental/vocal teaching within their work, and have drawn on a wealth of experience and original research to examine teaching contexts, cultures, processes and resources supporting the development of instrumental/vocal pedagogy.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by University of York, UK.
Enacting Differentiation in the Teacher Education Classroom supports teacher educators in integrating Differentiated Instruction into their courses. With strategies for modeling DI, pre-assessment, faculty development, and reflection, this book provides practical tools to enhance educator expertise and prepare preservice teachers for diverse classrooms.
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 160 pages • 2 figures
Successful Strategies for Pursuing National Board Certification Version 3.1
Components 1 and 2, Second Edition
Bobbie Faulkner
Successful Strategies for Pursuing National Board Certification, Version 3.1, Components 1 and 2 covers two of the four components candidates for National Board Certification are required to submit. Component 1 assesses a candidate’s content knowledge of the subject(s) they teach. Component 2 asks candidates to demonstrate how they differentiate their teaching to meet the varied needs of their students. Together, these components comprise 55% of the total score needed to certify.
Creating Equity-Centered Communities: Belonging, Bold Hope and You is not just another book about equity. Personal and systematic transformation starts here. Building relationships, increasing personal capacity, recognizing, and removing systemic inequities, requires pushing past haphazard acts of improvement and policies that divide rather than unify.
Drawing extensively on contemporary research and empirical evidence, including that from Australia, Brazil, the UK and Europe, this book sets out the key ideas, concepts and approaches for education for environmental sustainability in the context of teacher education. Conceptual ideas explored in the book include sustainability, nature and justice as well as empirically grounded approaches for teacher educators including participation, co-creation and outdoor education. This book provides a researchinformed guide to enable teacher educators to further explore, reflect and implement education for environmental sustainability in their teaching and research so that teacher education is rooted in the endeavour to live justly on a finite planet.
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 272 pages • 15 bw illus
The Influence of Paul Black on Research, Pedagogy and Practice
Edited by Christine Harrison, King’s College London, UK, Constant Leung, King’s College London, UK & David Pepper, King’s College London, UK
This book explores the influence that Black has had across assessment and pedagogy across the curriculum, including STEM, humanities and social science subjects. The contributions are presented under three thematic sections, each of which reflects a set of shared educational concerns and values drawing on the natural and social sciences and developments in public policy. These concerns and values, with their emphasis on teacher assessment, provide a basis for a strategic, informed and coherent response to challenges in education, such as the cancellation of public examinations in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Critical Language Awareness and Teacher Cognition in ELT
Robert Weekly, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China
The book argues for the incorporation of Critical Language Awareness (CLA) in English language teaching. Teachers’ pedagogical beliefs and language attitudes are discussed in relation to these changing sociolinguistic conditions, seeking to address teachers’ principal concerns. Data are examined from focus groups across China, Turkey and the UK, including 63 teachers from 16 countries, speaking a total of 21 different languages. The diversity of the participants in terms of their language background, teaching experience and teaching qualifications enables identification of core factors across the groups in how they engage with challenges in their teaching practices.
UK November 2025 US November 2025 264 pages 10 bw illus
HB 9781350458130 £90.00 / $120.00
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Bloomsbury Academic
The Mental Health of Our Teachers
Reimagining Another Future
Debra
J. Phillips, Australian Catholic University, Australia
This open access book looks at the psychosocial factors influencing teachers’ mental health and examines the complex and interrelated socio-cultural meta-narratives that shape and influence how individuals and communities view and respond to teachers’ mental health. The book's account reveals how the sense of social justice that underscores most educators’ passion for teaching can be re-kindled through an understanding of the wider implications of social justice, the common good and re-imagining a different future.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.
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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Technology Education
Edited by David Gill, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, Dawne Irving-Bell, Edge Hill University, UK, Matt McLain, Liverpool John Moores University, UK & David Wooff, BPP University, UK
This Handbook draws together international perspectives on contemporary praxis in technology education from philosophy to empirical research. Through carefully commissioned chapters, leading authors explore the fundamentals of technology education, curriculum and pedagogy. Chapters discuss technology education as it can be experienced by children and young people, inside and outside of the classroom, across the world, as well as the importance of technology and the history and philosophical origins of technology education. Carefully curated, this is an innovative and exciting volume for students, teachers, teacher educators, researchers, lecturers and professors in technology education.
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 464 pages • 25 bw illus
PB 9781350242821 • £39.99 / $54.95
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Teachers as Mediators in Language Immersion Education
Navigating Ideologies, Cultures, and Identities
Kelle L. Marshall, Pepperdine University, Canada & Wendy D. Bokhorst-Heng, Crandall University, Canada
This book explores the role of teachers as intercultural mediators within language immersion education programs. The authors discuss research conducted on one-way French immersion in New Brunswick, Canada, an officially bilingual province and country. Their discussion is anchored on the Douglas Fir Group framework of second language acquisition, examining the implications of ideologies for language education, curriculum and intercultural instruction. The book offers a revised model of the framework, considering educators’ potential role as intercultural mediators between macro-level ideologies, meso-level curricular implementation and their students situated at the micro level.
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 288 pages • 10 b/w illus
HB 9781350186514 • £90.00 / $120.00
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Critical Approaches and Innovations in Language Teacher Education
Bedrettin Yazan, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Humanizing Language Teaching and Teacher Education in Transnational Spaces
Critical Perspectives on Identities, Pedagogies, and Research
Edited by Rashi Jain, Montgomery College, USA, Julian Chen, Curtin University, Australia & Ethan Trinh, Atlanta Global Studies Center, USA
This collection sits at the intersection of transnationalism, queer studies, and feminist theories, bringing refreshing perspectives on transnational language teaching and teacher education by amplifying voices from the Global South. Spanning the transnational ELT field, its pedagogical, theoretical, and empirical inquiries cover K-16+ settings across Australasia, Africa, and the Americas. Creating a critical and dialogic space to re-think the challenges and agency, struggles and growth of language teachers’ transnational identities.
UK February 2026 • US February 2026 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus
HB 9781350525665 • £85.00 / $115.00
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Critical Dialogic TESOL Teacher Education
Preparing Future Advocates and Supporters of Multilingual Learners
Edited by Fares J. Karam, University of Nevada, Reno, USA & Amanda K. Kibler, Oregon State University, USA
This edited volume showcases how teacher educators around the world engage with critical and dialogic approaches to prepare TESOL professionals. Chapters include duoethnographic accounts, critical discourse analytic approaches, and case studies from various EFL and ESL contexts such as the United States, Morocco, New Zealand, Italy, Thailand, and Turkey.
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 280 pages • 10 bw illus
PB 9781350342118 • £28.99 / $39.95
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International Perspectives on Critical English Language Teacher Education Theory and Practice
Edited by Ali Fuad Selvi, University of Alabama, USA & Ceren Kocaman, University of Potsdam, Germany
Exploring how teacher educators from diverse backgrounds, contexts and realities approach English language teacher education with a critical stance, this book offers complementary chapters on both theory and practical applications. With an explicit critical focus on English language teaching, put forward by a diverse collection of contributors, this is a useful reference and resource for language teacher education programs around the world.
UK December 2025 US December 2025 312 pages 10 bw illus
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Digital Gaming in the Language Classroom
Designing Effective Curricula
Kevin R. Wrobetz, Kobe Gakuin University, Japan
This book examines how single-player role-playing digital games can promote foreign language acquisition and looks at how they can be integrated into the curricula of foreign language classrooms. As well as guiding future research in digital games-based language learning to broaden the scope of games identified as being conducive to second language acquisition, the author outlines how to structure formal foreign language curricula around the use of a single-player role-playing game so as to achieve the most desirable pedagogical outcomes.
UK February 2026 • US February 2026 • 224 pages • 10 bw illus
HB 9781350415928 • £95.00 / $130.00
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Series: Advances in Digital Language Learning and Teaching Bloomsbury Academic
Adult Learning, Literacy and Social Change
Alan Rogers, late of Universities of East Anglia and Nottingham, UK & Anna Robinson-Pant, University of East Anglia, UK
Theory and Practice in Adult Literacy, Learning and Social Change
Theoretical Insights and Case Studies from Around the World
Edited by Anna Robinson-Pant, University of East Anglia, UK & Catherine Kell, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Offering new theoretical, empirical and methodological perspectives on adult literacy, lifelong learning and social change, this book challenges traditional debates on adult literacy and development. Bringing together debates and research from the Global South and Global North, the volume focuses on literacy learning in classrooms and educational programmes, as well as literacy practices and adult learning in everyday spaces.
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 304 pages • 10 bw illus
HB 9781350400702 • £90.00 / $120.00
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Series: Adult Learning, Literacy and Social Change • Bloomsbury Academic
Literacy in the Lives of WorkingClass Adults in Australia
Dominant versus Local Voices
Stephen Black, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
This book provides a strong critique of dominant understandings of the role of literacy in the lives of adults. It explores how groups of working-class adults can manage the literacy practices of their everyday lives by drawing on social networks of support. It is based on research conducted by the author over a 40-year career in adult literacy education, featuring the voices of varied adult groups, including prisoners, the long-term unemployed, local council workers, manufacturing workers, adult literacy students, marginalised young people, vocational students, and patients living with a chronic illness.
UK June 2025 US June 2025 240 pages 10 bw illus
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Series: Adult Learning, Literacy and Social Change • Bloomsbury Academic World English
Practitioner Agency and Identity in English for Academic Purposes
Edited by Alex Ding, University of Leeds, UK & Laetitia Monbec, National University of Singapore, Singapore
This book provides an insightful series of windows into the identity of the English for Academic Purposes (EAP) practitioner in a range of cultural contexts across the world. Each chapter combines theoretical underpinnings with practical applications, and implements suggestions and recommendations for how EAP teachers’ roles can be taken forward. In a globalised world where EAP practice plays an increasingly important role, the reader will come face to face with the challenges and possibilities facing those who are supporting academic language development within Higher Education (HE) frameworks.
UK November 2025 US November 2025 264 pages 10 bw illus
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Series: New Perspectives for English for Academic Purposes • Bloomsbury Academic
Multiliteracy Play
Designs and Desires in the Second Language Classroom
Chantelle Warner, University of Arizona, USA
Drawing inspiration and practical examples from a variety of modern language classes in higher education in the USA, the book demonstrates how poetic and playful language can be embedded in multiliteracies pedagogy in ways that foster learners’ and teachers’ awareness of designs, while also making space for desires that are harder to script or plan for. In addition to building a conceptual map around poetics and play for researchers and teachers in language education, the book offers concrete examples of what a multiliteracies approach emphasizing designs and desires can look like in classrooms and curricula.
UK October 2025 US October 2025 238 pages 10 bw illus
PB 9781350338418 £28.99 / $39.95
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Civil Society’s Education
Reflections on the Informal Roots of Learning
Christopher Winch, King's College London, UK
This book examines the relationship between the educational activities of civil society and those of the state via three case studies in: vocational education, political education and educational markets. Winch argues that the narrower educational activities of the state cannot be understood independently of those that take place in civil society which consists of institutions such as families, churches, businesses, trade unions, charities and political associations.
UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 280 pages • 10 bw illus
HB 9781350513365 • £90.00 / $120.00
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Series: Bloomsbury Inquiries in Philosophy and Education • Bloomsbury Academic
Debating in Teaching and Learning English
Theory and Practice for Pedagogy and Curriculum
Ben WIlson, Independent Researcher, USA
Debating is a well-known method of dialogic speaking and is widely practiced, intercontinentally and across diverse cultural boundaries, to develop interaction, negotiation, agreeing and disagreeing in TEFL. This book invites scholars and practitioners to reflect on the demands of the current age for moving forward educational practice. It examines how debating can promote a holistic understanding and improvement of experience of education, and indeed academic outcomes. The author details the experiences of an adult EFL debate group in a private language school in the North of Italy, reporting how the participants experience the pedagogy, so as to offer insights into it as a form of teaching speaking in adult EFL.
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Physical Language Learning Spaces in the Digital Age
Felix A. Kronenberg, Michigan State University, USA
This book explores the design of physical spaces intended for language learning specifically. With a focus on creating new awareness of the affordances and benefits of physical spaces as active agents in the language learning and teaching processes, this book takes a practical approach to introduce readers without any prior knowledge of design or architecture to the topic. As language learning spaces need to consider stakeholders from diverse cultures, Felix Kronenberg provides examples from language centers around the world, including Australia, France, Germany, Japan, the UK, the USA. Readers will learn how to conceptualize and create supportive, resilient, flexible, inclusive, accessible, affordable, sustainable, and safe physical learning spaces.
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 208 pages • 10 bw illus
PB 9781350287419 £28.99 / $39.95
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The Necessity of Aesthetic Education
The Place of the Arts on the Curriculum
Laura D’Olimpio
Laura D’Olimpio argues that aesthetic education ought to be a compulsory part of education for all students, from pre-primary through to high school, as it is essential that young people have the opportunity to make art, experience and understand art and be informed as to the artistic history and aesthetic theories that have shaped their own culture and others. The book defends arts education on the basis of art’s distinctive value and centrality to human experience. It also engages with topics such as the art teacher’s role in the classroom, curricula concerns and gleaning moral meanings from artworks.
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 184 pages
PB 9781350224971 • £28.99 / $39.95
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Series: Bloomsbury Philosophy of Education • Bloomsbury Academic
The Selected Works of Antonia Darder
On Theory, Politics, and Struggle
Edited by Kevin D. Lam, Drake University, USA & Kortney Hernandez, Westcliff University, USA
Spanning 35 years, this reader includes 21 seminal works by the scholar, theorist, and activist Antonia Darder. Darder's ongoing contribution to the field of education is vast and she has helped to shape the fields of critical education, Freirean pedagogy, the critical study of race/racism, political economy, Latino studies/education, and biculturalism. Her work is informed by a deep personal history of struggle and scholarly rigor and is centred on social justice and economic democracy. Each section includes an introduction written by the editors and the volume also includes a preface and introduction from the editors, an epilogue written by Darder, a foreword written by Gilda L. Ochoa and an afterword by João M. Paraskeva.
This book introduces a variety of ways for educators to empower students as critical global citizens and agents of change using the educational theories of Paulo Freire. It covers key themes including social and planetary justice, ecopedagogy and sustainability education, diverse learner agency, restorative justice, women’s leadership, and social change. The contributors offer practical strategies for educators battling against oppressive action that aims to repress teacher and student voice, offering an alternative to the increasing standardization of a neoliberal curriculum and competitive meritocracy.
Edited by Jo Fraser-Pearce, IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK & James W. Fraser, New York University, USA
This handbook provides the first truly global scan of contemporary issues and debates around the world regarding the relationship(s) between the state, schools and religion. Organized around specific contested issues — from whether or not mindfulness should be practised in schools, to appropriate and inappropriate religious attire in schools, to long-term battles about evolution, sexuality, and race, to public funding — Fraser-Pearce and Fraser carefully curate chapters by leading experts exploring these matters and others in a diverse range of national settings. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Schools and Religion offers a refreshingly new international perspective.
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 432 pages • 25 bw illus
Henry A. Giroux addresses the attacks on student protesters speaking up against the war on Gaza, and connects this with wider attacks on critical education and democracy. He details the ongoing scholasticide taking place in Palestine; the systematic attacks by the Israeli military on schools, teachers and museums and argues that they represent the extreme endpoint of a broader, insidious campaign aimed at crushing dissent across universities in the United States, Europe, and beyond. Throughout the book he draws links between authoritarianism and education, the war on youth, the politics of higher education, the politics of mass media, as well as what he has termed “organized forgetting”.
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 208 pages • 10 b&w
A Pedagogy for Liberation Dialogues on Transforming Education
Paulo Freire & Ira Shor, CUNY Graduate Center, USA.
First published in 1987, this book brings together two renowned educators, Paulo Freire and Ira Shor, who describe their own experiences in liberating the classroom from its traditional constraints, including discussion of Freire's work in Guinea-Bissau and Shor's work in the USA. They demonstrate the effectiveness of dialogue in action as a practical means by which teachers and students can become active participants in the learning process. The authors illuminate the problems of the educational system in relation to those of the larger society and argue for the pressing need to transform the classroom in both Third and First World contexts.
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Educational Leadership: Innovative, Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Alan J. Daly, University of California, San Diego, USA & Chen Schechter, MOFET
National Institute for Research and Development in Education, Israel & Jeffrey S. Brooks, Curtin University, Australia & Victoria Showunmi, IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK & Yi-Hwa Liou, National Taipei University of Education, Taiwan
Gender and Educational Leadership in Greece
Emmy Papanastasiou, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Worldwide women constitute the majority of the teaching force, but men are more likely to achieve headship. Why are there so few women in educational leadership? How are leadership and gender constructed by men and women head teachers and teachers? Papanastasiou uses qualitative data from interviews with men and women head teachers and teachers in Greece and analyzes them using a feminist social constructionist framework to provide some answers to these key questions. In doing so, the book sheds light on social, cultural and political factors that influence women’s potential advancement in educational leadership.
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 192 pages • 10 bw illus
Edited by Yi-Hwa Liou, National Taipei University of Education, Taiwan & Alan J. Daly, University of California, San Diego, USA
The social systems engaged in this volume cut across a wide array of stakeholder groups representing different levels of the educational endeavor, and diverse perspectives from multiple areas and international settings. This book not only builds on previous and ongoing research and practice, but also extends to cutting edge issues and practices around the use of social networks in education across different contexts and settings with a core intent to provide a perspective on leadership and connect it with leadership practice that works at these settings for change.
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 328 pages • 20 bw illus
PB 9781350336469 • £28.99 / $39.95
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Series: Educational Leadership: Innovative, Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives Bloomsbury Academic
Serving as a Lead Learner
Powerful Reflections by America's Superintendents
Peter Stiepleman
Serving as a Lead Learner: Powerful Reflections by America's Superintendents captures the wisdom and lived experiences of school leaders navigating one of the most challenging eras in education. Through shared reflections, this book offers lessons on leadership, strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, and the evolving role of superintendents.
Leadership for Society Leading Education for Social Integration and Mobility
Rima'a Da'as, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel & Chen Schechter, MOFET National Institute for Research and Development in Education, Israel
The book explores the context and complexities leaders face in a divided society, and how these are involved in processes outside of the school. They offer a new theoretical framework of "leadership for society" with practical implications for effective leadership in complex societies. This book also develops our understanding of minority education in the reality of conflicts between the state and the minority's identity. The authors believe that school leaders’ participation in the extended community will improve and affect the development of schools and enable negotiating the cultural, social and political complexities.
UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 144 pages • 10 bw illus
Melanie C. Brooks, Edith Cowan University, Australia & Miriam D. Ezzani, Texas Christian University, USA
Islam, Education and Freedom explores six key areas of freedom: identity, acceptance, pedagogy, conflict, trust, and love. Based on a qualitative case study of a progressive Islamic school in Southern California, North Star Academy, the book illustrates through the voices of the participants how each particular freedom was applied in the school. The authors show how the six freedoms were understood, taught, and practiced with the aim of developing courageous and confident American Muslims.
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 218 pages • 10 bw illus
PB 9781350231221 • £28.99 / $39.95
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