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Paul Downes Ed.; Guofang Li Ed.; Lore Van Praag Ed.; Stephen Lamb Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024
Providing a cornerstone to the global debate on equity and inclusion within education, this handbook explores equity issues pertaining to poverty and social class, race, ethnicity, sociocultural, sociolinguistic exclusion in education and recognises intersectionality and gender across these dimensions. This carefully curated collection of essays…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Inclusion, Poverty, Social Class
Frau-Meigs, Divina, Ed.; Kotilainen, Sirkku, Ed.; Pathak-Shelat, Manisha, Ed.; Hoechsmann, Michael, Ed.; Poyntz, Stuart R., Ed. – John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2020
Over the past forty years, media education research has emerged as a historical, epistemological and practical field of study. Shifts in the field--along with radical transformations in media technologies, aesthetic forms, ownership models, and audience participation practices--have driven the application of new concepts and theories across a…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Media Literacy, Information Literacy, Cultural Influences
O'Connor, Rollanda E., Ed.; Vadasy, Patricia F., Ed. – Guilford Publications, 2011
Comprehensive, authoritative, and designed for practical utility, this handbook presents evidence-based approaches for helping struggling readers and those at risk for literacy difficulties or delays. Leading experts explain how current research on all aspects of literacy translates into innovative classroom practices. Chapters include clear…
Descriptors: Expertise, Evidence, Reading Comprehension, Learning Problems
Wolfe, Susan J. – 1978
Studies in the development of sexist language can provide insights into diachronic change in word meanings. Since semantic features are intimately related to the cultural and social matrices they represent, semantic change can be predicted on the basis of cultural constants as well as cultural changes. Prehistoric cultures can be reconstructed by…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Diachronic Linguistics, Etymology, Females