The focus of "Social Justice Issues and Racism in the College Classroom" is faculty and students of color at postsecondary institutions and the racial challenges they encounter in college classrooms. To achieve this aim, the book highlights the voices of various racial/ethnic groups of faculty and students, including international…

This toolkit provides secondary school teachers with resources to conduct staff or student development on racism. It encourages teachers and students to question their own and others' views about racism, suggests practical and positive ways of tackling racism as a whole-school issue, and provides a set of desired outcomes against which schools can…

This book is designed to help all staff in schools prevent one of the major impediments to their attempts to raise standards and improve schools, and that is the issue of bullying amongst pupils. The book highlights and unravels some of the complexities of bullying and provides ideas and practical solutions to the problem of writing policy and…

The purpose of this book is to provide an understanding of the phenomenon of school bullying and to suggest ways to counter it effectively. These purposes are addressed in parts 1 and 2 of the book, respectively. Part 1, "Understanding Bullying," consists of five chapters. Chapter 1 recounts the growing interest in bullying in Australia…

This collection of papers reveals the systemic violence, poverty, educational neglect, and social disregard that shape the lives of poor children in the United States. After an introduction, "Savage Policies: Systemic Violence and the Lives of Children" (Valerie Polakow), there are eight chapters: (1) "A Crucible of Contradictions:…

This publication describes the first phase of the Classroom Environment: Teaching for Learning Study in Australia, a six-year international research effort to identify correlations between teaching practices and student achievement. The report's first chapter presents a resume of the study and reviews research findings on managerial and…

This book explores factors that contribute to antisocial behavior among students and reviews the literature on preventing and responding to antisocial behavior. Chapter 1, "A Culture of Violence," links the widespread perception that school violence is increasing to a broader culture of violence. Schools are increasingly turning to…

This book addresses the complex and interrelated issues concerning student discipline, and suggests ways for colleges and universities to deal with the issues raised. Twelve chapters cover: (1) "The History of Student Discipline"; (2) "Present-Day Concerns About Student Misconduct and Crime on Campus"; (3) "Definitions and…

This volume contains papers submitted to the 12th Annual International Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES), held in Sofia and Nessebar, Bulgaria, in June 2014, and papers submitted to the 2nd International Partner Conference, organized by the International Research Centre 'Scientific Cooperation,' Rostov-on-Don,…