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Eleanore Hargreaves; Brian Lally; Bassel Akar; Jumana Al-Waeli; Jasmine Costello – UCL Press, 2024
"Schooling for Refugee Children" is a collaboration between five authors who explore their interactions with refugee children displaced from Syria to the Lebanese borders and London. Through a programme of carefully tailored research activities, they analyse the children's representations of their personal journeys and current…
Descriptors: Refugees, Children, Social Justice, Foreign Countries
John Brown – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2024
Education is naturally transformative, but the acquisition of new skills and construction of new knowledge are only possible when we empower students instead of forcing their conformity. Our current compliance-based teaching methodologies rely on coercion, conditioning and external motivators that engender submission and fear in students and…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers, College Faculty, Undergraduate Students
Besley, Tina, Ed.; Peters, Michael A., Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2012
Intercultural dialogue is a concept and discourse that dates back to the 1980s. It is the major means for managing diversity and strengthening democracy within Europe and beyond. It has been adopted by the United Nations, UNESCO and the Council of Europe as the basis for interreligious and interfaith initiatives and has become increasingly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intercultural Communication, Multicultural Education, Global Approach
DeVitis, Joseph L., Ed.; Irwin-DeVitis, Linda, Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2010
Written by a prominent array of scholars and practitioners, this book elucidates the complexities, contradictions, and confusion surrounding adolescence in American culture and education. For too long, harmful public myths and lies have portrayed teenagers as a principal cause of our nation's social ills. Similar unfair charges have been lodged…
Descriptors: Caring, African Americans, Females, Democracy