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Increasing Engagement in the Classroom
The nature and the quality of students’ engagementStudents’ engagement in the classroom plays a key role in sha** their attitudes, abilities,...
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The Negotiation of Scores by School Inspection Teams
This chapter focuses on the discursive moves employed by school inspectors to advance their scoring preferences as the most appropriate during team...
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Choosing a Jewish School
This chapter explores the one common denominator that unites our main cohort—how they came to attend a Jewish secondary school. We explore the...
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Growing Up in Britain
Jewish schools are frequently criticised for functioning as ghettos that separate young Jews from mainstream society, or as contributing to an...
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Jewish School Experiences
In this chapter, we present a portrait of the Jewish education teenagers experience at Jewish secondary schools in the UK, in their classrooms and in...
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Israel in the Life of Young Jews—Proximate and Personal, but Not Political
Decades of social scientific research in the UK show that British Jews typically feel strongly disposed towards the State of Israel and its security,...
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Focusing on Families
Drawing on concepts from prior research that identify the various dimensions of family systems in sha** the emerging Jewish lives of young people,...
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Feeling the Squeeze: Affective Mediation of Parental Educational Expectations Among Low-SES Students from Immigrant Backgrounds
In a broad variety of national contexts, descendants of immigrants from most groups have been found to have higher educational aspirations than their...
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Teachers’ Responses to Educational Policies for Newly Arrived Students with Limited School Background in Norway
This chapter examines educational policies and practices related to a separate educational programme in Norway that provides extended basic education...
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Doubly-Disadvantaged or Even Hidden Away: The Situation of Migrant and Refugee Children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
This chapter is concerned with exploring the experiences of families with children who have special educational needs. It problematizes the idea of...
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“I’m No Longer Tough”: School Motivation Among Minority Danish Boys
This chapter explores the experiences of two minority Danish boys, Waseem and Amir, who have both grown up in socially deprived areas and have faced...
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Do the “Right Thing” or the “Safe Thing”? Social Workers’ Dilemma When Supporting Youth in Local Communities Affected by Criminals
This study focuses on how professionals in the social services aim to support the children and youth living in a neighborhood defined by the Swedish...
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Kids These Days: Ethnographic Evidence on the Impact of Textbook Misrepresentation
To expand on the importance of culturally relevant curricula and textbooks, this chapter features the voices of students themselves, who attend...
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Interdisciplinarity and Musicology in Higher Degree Research
My time as a Higher Degree Research (HDR) student was typical of twenty-first-century arts and humanities research training, in the sense that I was...
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Misrepresentation in Educational Media (1954–1999)
In this chapter, eight textbooks are analyzed from the years 1954 through 1999. From dissecting quotes, images, and maps within the textbooks, the...
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Cultures of Work, the Neoliberal Environment, and Music in Higher Education
Music teaching, research, and scholarship in higher education is experiencing unprecedented change that is attributed to neoliberalism. Music...
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Recovering Musicology as a Public Service in the Neoliberal University: Obstacles, Obligations and Opportunities
Just what is the point of musicological research? Increasingly, it seems this is a question that is being answered definitively outside the walls of...
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