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Disability, Conflict, and Environmental Conditions: Introduction
It is now accepted that persons with disabilities suffer disproportionate harms in disaster and displacement contexts, most particularly when persons...
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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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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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Globalization, Political Realism, and the Agent-Exclusion Problem
It is argued that political realists have framed internationalized relations by way of an implicit appeal to what is called the ‘agent-exclusion...
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Acculturation Versus Assimilation: Engaging with Cultural Diversity
How is cultural diversity perceived in a settler state like Canada? In this chapter I trace the evolution of Canadian policies of nation and identity...
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Students’ Attitudes to the Employment Options of College Graduates on the Autistic Spectrum and Their Integration in the Labour Market
The challenge of becoming integrated in the workforce is relevant for all graduates of the system of higher education, but it is particularly...
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Challenges, Possibilities, and Tensions When Investigating Child Sexual Abuse Against Preschoolers
Investigating and adjudicating sexual abuse against young children is a difficult task for the criminal justice system. The current chapter focuses...
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What Types of Experiences Do Students and Teachers Have with Digital Distraction in School?
One of the initial strengths of 1:1 learning was its ability to foster greater collaboration. For example, students and teachers were able to...