Faculty Bookshelf

The American Education Policy Landscape

The American Education Policy Landscape

Jennifer A. Rippner

In today’s complex educational environment, it’s critical for educators to understand the policy landscape. Research-based and grounded in a non-ideological perspective, The American Education Policy Landscape is an essential guide for educators, graduate students, and policymakers alike. This accessible resource unpacks complex concepts and provides a comprehensive overview of early childhood, K-12, and higher education policy issues, including governance structures at the local, state, and national levels; the process of policymaking; issues of educational finance; and the impact of stakeholders. The American Education Policy Landscape provides aspiring and practicing educators, analysts, researchers, and policymakers with the foundational knowledge and context for understanding education policy, enabling them to make effective decisions, provide informed advice, and craft critical research questions on education.

Applied Conversation Analysis Social Interaction in Institutional Settings

Applied Conversation Analysis: Social Interaction in Institutional Settings

Jessica Nina Lester and Michelle O'Reilly

Focusing on applied conversation analysis (CA), this timely book offers practical insights and guidelines for CA scholars studying social interactions in institutional settings. Written in an accessible style and packed with case studies, examples, activities, and practical tips, the book takes readers through the entire process of planning and carrying out an applied CA research study. By highlighting challenges, debates, and important questions, each chapter provides the theoretical foundation necessary for making informed decisions at every stage of a research project. The book is divided into three sections (context and planning, doing a project using conversation analysis, and disseminating your research) to mirror the research process.

Art Themes: Choices in Art Learning and Making

Art Themes: Choices in Art Learning and Making

Marjorie Manifold

This text provides a basic introduction to what art is and can be in the lives of people who do not necessarily think of themselves as 'artists.' A variety of art themes, genres, materials, and processes that appeal to novice art makers are organized by conceptual themes in a way that allows choices in media, style, or content for open-ended results. The text may be used in secondary or adult studios, but is especially designed for use in online teaching/learning contexts.

Centering Diverse Bodyminds in Critical Qualitative Inquiry

Centering Diverse Bodyminds in Critical Qualitative Inquiry

Jessica Nina Lester, Emily A. Nusbaum

Digital Tools for Qualitative Research shows how the research process in its entirety can be supported by technology tools in ways that can save time and add robustness and depth to qualitative work. It addresses the use of a variety of tools (many of which may already be familiar to you) to support every phase of the research process, providing practical case studies taken from real world research.

Citizen Identity Formation of Domestic Students and Syrian Refugee Youth in Jordan: Centering Student Voice and Arab-Islamic Ontologies

Citizen Identity Formation of Domestic Students and Syrian Refugee Youth in Jordan: Centering Student Voice and Arab-Islamic Ontologies

Patricia K. Kubow

Moving beyond Western philosophical and political frameworks, this text engages with and centers Arab-Islamic ontologies, pupil voice, and gender to explore citizen identity formation and belonging among domestic students and Syrian refugees in Jordan. Focusing on the role of double-shift schools, educational policy, and provision, the volume interrogates how citizenship and youth identity is rooted, upheld, and altered over time. With an eye to complex historical, local, and national contexts of migration and (in)security in the Middle East, the book strives for a reconceptualization of citizen identity and education to better reflect the development of socio-civic identities amidst poverty, forced migration, and unrest. Based on direct access to 10 public schools in Jordan and using qualitative data, it applies an innovative combination of different methods to ascertain student voice to theorize education for citizenship based on real and challenging experiences of Syrian refugees as well as domestic Jordanian students. Moving beyond the traditional Western philosophies that largely frame citizenship discourses, it applies process philosophy to a field dominated by political considerations while also paying attention to social contexts. As such, it goes beyond the context of Jordan to inform regional and international discourses, policies, and initiatives surrounding refugees and education in emergencies. The book will appeal to scholars, professionals, and students in the fields of comparative and international education, citizenship youth studies, social studies, and social foundations of education, as well as those working in the formal and non-formal educational development sectors.

Commemorative Literacies and Labors of Justice: Resistance, Reconciliation, and Recovery in Buenos Aires and Beyond

Commemorative Literacies and Labors of Justice: Resistance, Reconciliation, and Recovery in Buenos Aires and Beyond

James S. Damico, Loren Lybarger, Edward Brudney

This book examines literacy practices of commemoration marking the 40th anniversary of the March 24, 1976 coup in Argentina. Drawing on research conducted across three distinct sites in Buenos Aires in March 2016—a public university, a Catholic church, and a former naval base and clandestine detention center transformed into a museum space for memory and justice—this book sheds light on the ways commemorative literacies at these locations work spatially to mobilize memory of the past to address and advance justice concerns in the present. These labors of justice manifest in three ways: as resistance, reconciliation, and recovery. Damico, Lybarger, and Brudney also demonstrate how these particular kinds of commemorative literacies resonate transnationally in ways that necessitate a commitment to commemorative ethics.

Complementary Research Methods for Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

Complementary Research Methods for Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

Chad R. Lochmiller

Draws upon the expertise of educational leadership researchers, policy scholars, and research methodologists who have undertaken detailed and rigorous research and written influential methodological arguments about educational leadership and policy.

Chapters will include an introduction to the methodology or approach described, a discussion of relevant theoretical perspectives, a brief review of extant research, and a section drawing upon the author’s expertise to offer novice and experienced researchers recommendations about employing the methodology in their own work.

Brings together the various perspectives presented within the volume to articulate a methodological future for the field using a complementary approach to research in educational leadership and policy.

Contestations of citizenship, education, and democracy in an era of global change: Children and youth in diverse international contexts

Contestations of citizenship, education, and democracy in an era of global change: Children and youth in diverse international contexts

Patricia K. Kubow, Nicole Webster, Krystal Strong, Daniel Miranda

This book considers the shifting social, political, economic, and educational structures shaping contemporary experiences, understandings, and practices of citizenship among children and youth in diverse international contexts. As such, this edited book examines the meaning of citizenship in an era defined by monumental global change. Chapters from across both the Global South and North consider emerging formations of citizenship and citizen identities among children and youth in formal and non-formal education contexts, as well as the social and civic imaginaries and practices to which children and youth engage, both in and outside of schools. Rich empirical contributions from an international team of contributors call attention to the social, political, economic, and educational structures shaping the ways young people view citizenship and highlight the social and political agency of children and youth amid increasing issues of polarization, climate change, conflict, migration, extremism, and authoritarianism. The book ultimately identifies emergent forms of citizenship developing in formal and non-formal educational contexts, including those that unsettle the nation-state and democracy. Edited by a team of academics with backgrounds in education, citizenship, and youth studies, this book will appeal to scholars, researchers, and faculty who work across the broader field of youth civic engagement and democracy, as well as international and comparative education and citizenship.

Conversational Forms of Instruction and Message Layer Design

Conversational Forms of Instruction and Message Layer Design

Andrew S. Gibbons, Elizabeth Boling

This book examines the theoretical basis of one of the functional layers—the message layer—of an architectural theory of instructional design. The architectural theory (Gibbons, 2003; Gibbons & Rogers, 2009; Gibbons, 2014) identifies seven functions carried out during instruction that correspond with designable strata, or layers.

A robust literature from disparate fields supplies relevant theory for message layer design. This book builds the case for validation of the message layer by bringing together work from instructional theory, conversation theory, research in the learning sciences, intelligent tutoring system research, and K-12 education.

Culturally Sensitive Art Education in a Global World: A Handbook for Teacher

Culturally Sensitive Art Education in a Global World: A Handbook for Teacher

Marjorie Manifold, Steve Willis, and Enid Zimmerman

Globalization is blurring the lines between once clearly defined groups of people, making cultural sensitivity more important than ever. Culturally sensitive art education can cultivate the ability for students to empathize with and care about others, but until now, few guidelines have existed to help art educators bring together those from dissimilar cultural backgrounds. Editors Manifold, Willis, and Zimmerman have created Culturally Sensitive Art Education in a Global World: A Handbook for Teachers as a source of useful models for teaching art to students from diverse populations in a culturally sensitive way.

Curriculum for Justice and Harmony: Deliberation, Action and Knowledge in Social and Civic Education

Curriculum for Justice and Harmony: Deliberation, Action and Knowledge in Social and Civic Education

Keith C. Barton and Li-Ching Ho

It was a seemingly simple question that inspired an idea for this book from Li-Ching Ho to Professor Keith Barton: Should the purpose of social studies be to prepare students for democracy, or should it aim for something higher?

“In the United States and many other settings, we have long assumed that the central purpose of social studies, or what we’ve referred to more broadly as ‘social and civic education,’ is to prepare students to take part in the public life of democratic societies,” Barton explained.

Curriculum for Justice and Harmony: Deliberation, Action and Knowledge in Social and Civic Education, expands on whether schools should orient toward more substantive goals, with democratic participation as a means but not the end of public life. In the book, they explore two purposes broad enough to guide all social learning: a view of justice that involves advancing well-being, reducing manifest injustices and removing barriers that limit opportunities, and critical harmony, which promotes social relationships, embraces conflict, values difference and supports balance.

Digital Tools for Qualitative Research

Digital Tools for Qualitative Research

Trena M. Paulus, Jessica Nina Lester, Paul G. Dempster

Digital Tools for Qualitative Research shows how the research process in its entirety can be supported by technology tools in ways that can save time and add robustness and depth to qualitative work. It addresses the use of a variety of tools (many of which may already be familiar to you) to support every phase of the research process, providing practical case studies taken from real world research.

Discursive Perspectives on Education Policy and Implementation

Discursive Perspectives on Education Policy and Implementation

Jessica Nina Lester, Chad R. Lochmiller, Rachael E. Gabriel

Explores the growing interest in conceptualizing, theorizing, and actualizing the study of everyday and institutional interactional practices that are germane to the policy arena; Assists in providing both researchers with examples of how discourse and conversational analysis research can considered in relationship to education policy; Focuses on localized understanding of policies as elucidated by discourse

Discursive Psychology and Disability

Discursive Psychology and Disability

Jessica Nina Lester

Brings together the dual focus on disability and discursive psychology; Offers a comprehensive look at how discursive psychologists might study disability; Includes responses to the empirical and theoretical chapters written by disability studies scholars

Doing Qualitative Research in a Digital World

Doing Qualitative Research in a Digital World

Jessica Nina Lester and Trena M. Paulus

While some qualitative methods texts touch upon online communities as a potential data source, show how to conduct interviews and focus groups online, or select recording devices and analysis software, no book to date has guided readers in the creation of a comprehensive digital workflow for their research. By working through each chapter in this book, readers will be able to generate a unique digital workflow for designing and implementing their research. The book provides a deep exploration of the relationship between theories of technology, substantive theories, and methodological theory, and shows how together these inform the development of a quality research design. The authors include vignettes—narratives written by qualitative researchers describing cutting-edge use of digital tools and spaces—and also give examples of published studies, which together provide practical illustration of the content. Woven throughout is explicit attention to ethical challenges that are likely to be faced by researchers when adopting digital tools. The book invites readers to engage in a critical appraisal of the role of technology in qualitative research through reflection, conversation, and engagement with the larger community of researchers.

Engaging Online Language Learners: A Practical Guide

Engaging Online Language Learners: A Practical Guide

Faridah Pawan, Sharon Daley, Xiaojing Kou, Curtis J. Bonk

The core of the book is online teaching strategies and activities to engage and motivate our students (Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6). We begin, however, by contextualizing these suggestions by detailing the specific ways the online medium has specifically changed the way our students learn languages; and the expertise and resources we already have available as language teachers to address these changes. (Chapters 1-2). The final three chapters (7, 8, & 9), are for our development as teachers, namely the type of online competencies for us to explore to enhance our expertise, the support administrators can provide, and inspirational online practices as encouragement for us to teach online.

Examining Mental Health through Social Constructionism

Examining Mental Health through Social Constructionism

Michelle O'Reilly, Jessica Nina Lester

Offers cutting-edge theoretical and empirical analysis research from the new Palgrave Language of Mental Health series; Outlines a variety of language-based methodologies for studying mental health; Provides practical strategies by reviewing the application of social constructionist research in therapeutic practice and child mental health

A Guide to Special Education Law

A Guide to Special Education Law

Elizabeth A. Shaver and Janet Decker

Edited by Elizabeth A. Shaver, J.D. and Janet R. Decker, J.D., Ph.D., A Guide to Special Education Law (2017), pools the experience and expertise of special education legal experts from across the U.S. into one valuable resource. In their current roles as special education attorneys and university professors, the authors navigate the complex maze of federal and state legislation, regulations, and case law. They also must stay abreast of constant changes.The authors provide a clear and concise explanation of the current status of special education law. Importantly, they translate the law for those who do not have a legal background. Each chapter also offers practical recommendations. By heeding the authors’ useful guidance, special education directors, teachers, paraprofessionals, parents, and others will be better prepared to address the many legal dilemmas they face.

Handbook of Research in Educational Communications and Technology: Learning Design

Handbook of Research in Educational Communications and Technology: Learning Design

M.J. Bishop, Elizabeth Boling, Jan Elen, Vanessa Svihla

Elizabeth Boling, Professor in Instructional Systems Technology, co-edited this handbook that sets out the priorities for research in the field.

The book is in its fifth update. Revising it is a project that took four years to complete, but is critical as areas for research change as time goes along. Books such as these are published in most fields of scholarship. According to Boling, they pull together the state of knowledge in a field and outline areas for future research and are widely used in doctoral programs as readings that makes doctoral students and faculty scholars aware of the critical areas for research.

“The handbook represents what a field has accomplished in research and what should be priorities for the future. To be an editor on a handbook of research means to help define what is important in a field of study for the several years following its publication,” Boling added.

Historical Instructional Design Cases: ID Knowledge in Context and Practice

Historical Instructional Design Cases: ID Knowledge in Context and Practice

Elizabeth Boling, Colin M. Gray, Craig D. Howard, John Baaki

Historical Instructional Design Cases presents a collection of design cases which are historical precedents for the field with utility for practicing designers and implications for contemporary design and delivery. Featuring concrete and detailed views of instructional design materials, programs, and environments, this book’s unique curatorial approach situates these cases in the field’s broader timeline while facilitating readings from a variety of perspectives and stages of design work. Students, faculty, and researchers will be prepared to build their lexicon of observed designs, understand the real-world outcomes of theory application, and develop cases that are fully accessible to future generations and contexts.

How to Prevent Special Education Litigation

How to Prevent Special Education Litigation: 8 Legal Lesson Plans

Regina Umpstead, Janet Decker, Kevin P. Brady, David Schimmel, Matthew Militello

It is essential that today’s educators and school leaders are more informed about the legal rights and entitlements of students with disabilities. This resource provides eight easy-to-implement lesson plans on special education law that require no legal knowledge and can be facilitated by school principals, special education directors, teachers, or university instructors. In short one-hour sessions, participants learn by engaging in practical activities instead of only passively reading about the law. All of the lessons utilize actual situations that have led to expensive litigation and each includes the following sections: Introduction for Facilitators; Materials Needed; Hook; Background, Purpose, and Objectives of the Lesson; Activity; Questions for Conversation; Test Your Knowledge; and Additional Resources. This one-of-a-kind book will help schools and districts reduce the time and energy devoted to dealing with violations of the law, resolving parental complaints, correcting errors by school employees, and more.

Improving Communication in Mental Health Settings: Evidence-Based Recommendations from Practitioner-led Research

Improving Communication in Mental Health Settings: Evidence-Based Recommendations from Practitioner-led Research

Michelle O'Reilly, Jessica Nina Lester

Improving Communication in Mental Health Settings draws on empirical studies of real-world settings to demonstrate contemporary practice-based evidence, providing effective strategies for communicating with patients/clients in mental health settings. The book integrates clinical experience and language-based evidence drawn from qualitative research. Drawing on studies that utilize scientific language-based approaches such as discourse and conversation analysis, it focuses on social interaction between professionals and patients/clients to demonstrate effective communication practices. Chapters are led by clinical professionals and feature a range of mental health settings, different mental health conditions and types of patient/client, and evidence-based recommendations.

Infants and Toddlers at Play: Choosing the Right Stuff for Learning and Development

Infants and Toddlers at Play: Choosing the Right Stuff for Learning and Development

Dylan Brody and Mary Benson McMullen

As an early childhood educator, you know how important play is for young children. You also know that selecting the right play materials to include in your program matters; there are so many options, and often your budget does not stretch to cover everything. With this book, discover ideas for both familiar and new play materials and how those materials support the cognitive, social and emotional, and physical learning and development of children from birth to age 3.

With a thoughtful selection of appropriate play materials, you can enhance the quality of your program by creating an environment and providing experiences that enable all children to thrive.

Innovative Learning Analytics for Evaluating Instruction: A Big Data Roadmap to Effective Online Learning

Innovative Learning Analytics for Evaluating Instruction: A Big Data Roadmap to Effective Online Learning

Theodore W. Frick, Rodney D. Myers, Cesur Dagli, and Andrew F. Barrett

Innovative Learning Analytics for Evaluating Instruction covers the application of a forward-thinking research methodology that uses big data to evaluate the effectiveness of online instruction. Analysis of Patterns in Time (APT) is a practical analytic approach that finds meaningful patterns in massive data sets, capturing temporal maps of students' learning journeys by combining qualitative and quantitative methods. Offering conceptual and research overviews, design principles, historical examples, and more, this book demonstrates how APT can yield strong, easily generalizable empirical evidence through big data; help students succeed in their learning journeys; and document the extraordinary effectiveness of First Principles of Instruction. It is an ideal resource for faculty and professionals in instructional design, learning engineering, online learning, program evaluation, and research methods.

Internationalizing Rural Science Teacher Preparation: Action Research for Global Competency

Internationalizing Rural Science Teacher Preparation: Action Research for Global Competency

Gayle A. Buck, Vesna Dimitrieska, Valarie L. Akerson

This edited volume discusses the need to increase quantity and enhance quality of science education focused on preparing rural students to thrive in an interconnected, interdependent, and complex world. It acknowledges that globally integrated education incorporates local knowledge and culture with global trends. Additionally it highlights globally competent science teaching is not included in most preparation programs, and teachers enter schools unprepared to address students’ needs. Rural schools lack opportunities to keep up with reform efforts and may have limited experiences with diversity, particularly at the global level.

An Introduction to Educational Research: Connecting Methods to Practice

An Introduction to Educational Research: Connecting Methods to Practice

Chad R. Lochmiller, Jessica Nina Lester

Expand your understanding of educational research with this practice-first introduction. Written specifically for education practitioners, An Introduction to Educational Research: Connecting Methods to Practice approaches research methods from a practice-first perspective that aligns research with professional experiences and identifies the tools and resources readers can use when conducting their own research. Throughout the book, the authors illuminate complex research concepts using problems of practice confronting educators to help readers make meaningful connections with key concepts and research practices. The authors present balanced coverage across research methodologies that is linked to practice, so readers clearly see research as a tool they can use to improve classrooms, schools, districts, and educational organizations.

Legal Rights of School Leaders, Teachers, and Students

Legal Rights of School Leaders, Teachers, and Students

Martha McCarthy, Suzanne Eckes, Janet Decker

This succinct resource helps academic professionals understand how basic legal principles apply to educational questions. Written in a reader-friendly style that legal novices can easily understand, Legal Rights of School Leaders, Teachers, and Students details the principles underlying school law and provides essential guidelines for school personnel to follow in their everyday work. Descriptive scenarios of landmark cases and compelling visuals clarify concepts and help educators understand the context of legal principles as they apply to a range of school issues. While the coverage is comprehensive, the presentation is straightforward and non-technical with extensive footnotes that allow readers to delve further into topics.

Literacies That Move and Matter: Nexus Analysis for Contemporary Childhoods

Literacies That Move and Matter: Nexus Analysis for Contemporary Childhoods

Karen Wohlwend

Expanding the definition and use of literacies beyond verbal and written communication, this book examines contemporary literacies through action-focused analysis of bodies, places, and media. Nexus analysis examines how people enact and mobilize meanings that are largely unspoken. Wohlwend demonstrates how nexus analysis can be used as a tool to critically analyze and understand action in everyday settings, to provide a deeper understanding of how meanings are produced from a mix of modes in daily social and cultural contexts.

Designed to help readers understand the theoretical and methodological assumptions and goals of nexus analysis in classroom and literacy research, this book provides a comprehensive understanding of the theory, framework, and foundations of nexus analysis, by using multimodal examples such as films and media, artifacts, live action performances, and more.

Making Sense of Social Research Methodology: A Student and Practitioner Centered Approach

Making Sense of Social Research Methodology: A Student and Practitioner Centered Approach

Pengfei Zhao, Karen Ross, Peiwei Li, and Barbara K. Dennis

Making Sense of Social Research Methodology: A Student and Practitioner Centered Approach introduces students to research methods by illuminating the underlying assumptions of social science inquiry. Authors Pengfei Zhao, Karen Ross, Peiwei Li, and Barbara Dennis show how research concepts are often an integral part of everyday life through illustrative common scenarios, like looking for a recipe or going on a job interview. The authors extrapolate from these personal but ubiquitous experiences to further explain concepts, like gathering data or social context, so students develop a deeper understanding of research and its applications outside of the classroom. Students from across the social sciences can take this new understanding into their own research, their professional lives, and their personal lives with a new sense of relevancy and urgency. The text is organized into clusters that center on contemporary key questions in research and reflect an integrative nature.

Negotiating the Complexities of Qualitative Research in Higher Education. 3rd Ed.

Negotiating the Complexities of Qualitative Research in Higher Education. 3rd Ed.

Susan R. Jones, Vasti Torres, Jan Arminio

This third edition of the book addresses the essential elements of qualitative research in higher education. This addition includes a wider array of methodological approaches and conceptual frameworks.

On Being and Well-Being in Infant/Toddler Care and Education: Life Stories From Baby Rooms

On Being and Well-Being in Infant/Toddler Care and Education: Life Stories From Baby Rooms

Mary Benson McMullen

With its real-life stories and invitations for reflection and conversation, this book is an ideal professional development resource for pre- and in-service birth–age 3 professionals. The author shares lived experiences of being in four distinctly different baby rooms as a researcher over extended periods of time. She frames each life story around elements of well-being and asks readers to consider whether and how environmental and relational factors supported or hindered the physical, psychological, and emotional health of the children and adults. The author encourages readers to see themselves in the stories, to consider how they may have acted in the circumstances described, and to deliberate on their own practices and beliefs. With empathy and respect, McMullen fully conveys an intent to elevate, celebrate, and honor those who spend their days in infant toddler care and education, while examining the critical role all adults in society play in the lives of our youngest citizens.

The Palgrave Handbook of Adult Mental Health

The Palgrave Handbook of Adult Mental Health

Michelle O'Reilly, Jessica Nina Lester

This Handbook gathers together empirical and theoretical chapters from leading scholars and clinicians to examine the broad issue of adult mental health. The contributors draw upon data from a variety of contexts to illustrate the multiple ways in which language as action can assist us in better understanding the discursive practices that surround adult mental health. Conversation and discourse analysis are useful, related approaches for the study of mental health conditions, particularly when underpinned by a social constructionist framework. In the field of mental health, the use of these two approaches is growing, with emergent implications for adults with mental health conditions, their practitioners, and/or their families.

The Palgrave Handbook of Child Mental Health

The Palgrave Handbook of Child Mental Health

Michelle O'Reilly, Jessica Nina Lester

A landmark publication in the field, this state of the art reference work includes contributions from leading thinkers across a range of disciplines on topics including ADHD, autism, depression, eating disorders and trauma. It is an essential resource for all those involved or interested in child mental health.

Pedagogy and Practice for Online English Language Teacher Education

Pedagogy and Practice for Online English Language Teacher Education

Faridah Pawan, Kelly Ann Wiechart, Amber Warren, Jaehan Park

Pedagogy—not technology—drives effective online instruction. The authors of Pedagogy & Practice for Online English Language Teacher Education discuss foundational theories of pedagogy and link those theories with their own practices in online courses for language teacher education and language teaching. This book discusses and shows examples of teaching presence in online learning; ways to incorporate reflective teaching in online classrooms; application of universal design for learning principles; use of connectivism as foundation for online professional networks; use of active learning, just-in-time teaching in a hybrid and flipped seminar; demonstrations of hard and soft scaffolding in a writing project; use of the online medium as a "third space" to provide a safe environment; and a description of a “future” being realized by teachers who transition between both face-to-face and online instruction.

The Pedagogy and Practice of Western-trained Chinese English Language Teachers

The Pedagogy and Practice of Western-trained Chinese English Language Teachers

Pu Hong, Faridah Pawan

Providing an East-West flow of language teaching knowledge and know-how to balance prevailing Western-centric perspectives, this book is an in-depth investigation of the impact of Western-based language teacher education on the pedagogy and practice of Chinese English language teachers who received their training in Western institutions or those that emphasize Western-based teaching approaches. A significant and growing number of these teachers will influence millions of language learners in China over the next decades.

Performances of Research: Critical Issues in K-12 Education (Counterpoints)

Performances of Research: Critical Issues in K-12 Education (Counterpoints)

Rachael Gabriel, Jessica Nina Lester

Participatory performances have long been used to invite audiences to embody, voice, and imagine the perspective of different characters, values, and viewpoints. Performances of Research: Critical Issues in K-12 Education provides a collection of performative texts that retell the lived experiences of children and youth in meaningful and engaging ways, while providing readers with an opportunity to participate in the retelling. Performances of Research is for faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students who are engaged in the study of social foundations in education, equity and social justice in education, and qualitative inquiry methods. This book is essential reading for pre-service teachers, classroom teachers, and faculties of education and works very well as a textbook for a variety of courses.

Playful Methods: Engaging the Unexpected in Literacy Research

Playful Methods: Engaging the Unexpected in Literacy Research

Carmen Liliana Medina, Mia Perry, Karen Wohlwend

This book introduces three new subjects to the context of literacy research—play, the imaginary, and improvisation—and proposes how to incorporate these important concepts into the field as research methods in order to engage people, materials, spaces, and imaginaries that are inherent in every research encounter. Grounded in cutting-edge theory, chapters are structured around lived narratives of research experiences, demonstrating key practices for unsettling and expanding the ways people interact, behave, and construct knowledge. Through an exploration of difference, play and the imaginary, the authors present an active set of practices that acknowledges and attends to the global, fragmented, politicized contexts in literacy research.

A Practical Guide to Social Interaction Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders

A Practical Guide to Social Interaction Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders

Michelle O'Reilly, Jessica Nina Lester, Tom Muskett

Highlights the economic consequences of a disabling culture; Aims to layer and complicate the discussions that surround autism in schools, health clinics and society; Illustrates social construction of autism in educational and historical discourses

Promoting Academic Success with English Language Learners: Best Practices for RTI

Promoting Academic Success with English Language Learners: Best Practices for RTI

CRAIG A. ALBERS AND REBECCA S. MARTINEZ

Educators and school psychologists throughout the country are working with growing numbers of English language learners (ELLs), but often feel unprepared to help these students excel. This highly informative book presents evidence-based strategies for promoting proficiency in academic English and improving outcomes in a response-to-intervention (RTI) framework. Illustrated with a detailed case example, the book describes best practices for working with K-5 ELLs in all stages of RTI: universal screening, progress monitoring, data collection, decision making, and intensifying instruction. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the book includes more than two dozen reproducible worksheets. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials.

Real Talk? How to Discuss Race, Racism and Politics in 21st Century American Schools

Real Talk? How to Discuss Race, Racism and Politics in 21st Century American Schools

Marcus Croom

Discussions around race and racism may be hot button topics in schools across America – but that doesn’t make the conversation any less imperative. Now a new book from IU School of Education faculty member Marcus Croom aims to make those conversations easier and provide support to teachers as they have these important discussions.

Croom, an Assistant Professor in Curriculum and Instruction, says he wrote the book, “Real Talk? How to Discuss Race, Racism and Politics in 21st Century American Schools,” in response to many indicators that educators want support and guidance on how to discuss public issues in their classes. After the Indiana Black Expo invited Croom to present about race, racism and politics during that summer event, he thought a published guide might not only help these conference participants but also teachers across America. The book includes links to valuable resources, including a free planning template.

The Rise of External Actors in Education: Shifting Boundaries Globally and Locally

The Rise of External Actors in Education: Shifting Boundaries Globally and Locally

Christopher Lubienski, Miri Yemini, Claire Maxwell

Increasingly it is not just the state that determines the content, delivery and governance of education. The influence of external actors has been growing, but the boundaries between internal and external have become blurred and their partnerships have become more complex. This book considers how schooling systems are being influenced by the rise of external actors, including private companies, NGOs, parent organisations, philanthropies and international assessment frameworks. It explores how the public, private and third sectors are becoming increasingly intertwined. Introducing new theoretical frameworks, it examines diverse sites – including Cambodia, Israel, Poland, Chile, Australia, Brazil and the US – to study the role of policies, institutions and contextual factors shaping the changing relationships between those seeking to influence schooling.

Science Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Tales from the Front Lines

Science Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Tales from the Front Lines

Valarie L. Akerson and Ingrid S. Carter

This book details the particular challenges educators faced trying to teach science during the COVID-19 pandemic - and how they connected with their students while continuing to teach.

Akerson, a Professor of Science Education, was part of a self-study team of science teachers and educators that met every two weeks last year to share insights and provide support to each other. After meeting with former student and professor Ingrid Carter and current student and science teacher Claire Cesljarev, they thought it would be a good idea to put all of their experiences together in a volume to share with others.

The Social, Cultural, and Political Discourses of Autism

The Social, Cultural, and Political Discourses of Autism

Jessica Nina Lester and Michelle O'Reilly

Strikes a balance between critical perspectives and ‘real life’ challenges of navigating disabling impairments; Contributes to the literature psychiatric disability, and questions the psychiatric basis of autism; Takes a critical approach to language-in-use, while attending to the social and cultural construction of autism

Studio Teaching in Higher Education: Selected Design Cases

Studio Teaching in Higher Education: Selected Design Cases

Elizabeth Boling, Richard A. Schwier, Colin M. Gray, Kennon M. Smith, Katy Campbell

Well-established in some fields and still emerging in others, the studio approach to design education is an increasingly attractive mode of teaching and learning, though its variety of definitions and its high demands can make this pedagogical form somewhat daunting. Studio Teaching in Higher Education provides narrative examples of studio education written by instructors who have engaged in it, both within and outside the instructional design field. These multidisciplinary design cases are enriched by the book’s coverage of the studio concept in design education, heterogeneity of studio, commonalities in practice, and existing and emergent concerns about studio pedagogy. Prefaced by notes on how the design cases were curated and key perspectives from which the reader might view them, Studio Teaching in Higher Education is a supportive, exploratory resource for those considering or actively adapting a studio mode of teaching and learning to their own disciplines.

Supporting Success for LGBTQ+ Students: Tools for Inclusive Campus Practice

Supporting Success for LGBTQ+ Students: Tools for Inclusive Campus Practice

Cindy Ann Kilgo

The newest edition to the National Resource Center’s series on Special Student Populations focuses on supporting LGBTQ+ students on campus. Despite increasing visibility and acceptance in some spheres, many LGBTQ+ students continue to experience a negative climate on college campuses, presenting barriers to their academic and personal success. This volume explores the last decade of research on LGBTQ+ college students with an eye toward understanding their needs and the unique conditions related to their college success. The opening chapter offers useful definitions to help ground practitioners in the current conversation. Readers will also find examples of inclusive excellence and questions for guiding practice to promote a more inclusive learning environment not only for LGBTQ+ students but for all students on the campus.

Teacher Training and Professional Development of Chinese English Language Teachers

Teacher Training and Professional Development of Chinese English Language Teachers

Faridah Pawan, Wenfang Fan, Pei Miao

This book provides an in depth look into Chinese ESL teachers undertakings at formal and informal levels to support and sustain their expertise in ways that balance collaborative and competitive efforts, situated and standards-based programs, ethnically responsive and government-based efforts, and traditional and 21st-century teaching visions. English is a mandated subject for approximately 400 million Chinese public school students. Making transparent the training and professional development received respectively by pre-service and in-service teachers, this book provides a rare window into how Chinese English Language teachers (ELTs) reconcile the two needs with the responsibility to teach large numbers of students while also navigating societal, cultural, and institutional cross currents. It also explores the range of ways China invests in the training and professional development of its English language teachers.

Teaching Nature of Science Across Contexts and Grade Levels: Explorations through Action Research and Self Study

Teaching Nature of Science Across Contexts and Grade Levels: Explorations through Action Research and Self Study

Valarie L. Akerson and Ingrid S. Carter (Editors)

Research published in this book was conducted by the doctoral students in the new online EdD program in science education. Faculty member Valarie Akerson and former IU Ph.D. student and now professor Ingrid Carter served as the Editors, The doctoral students learned about researching and teaching NOS, designed and carried out action research and self studies. The book includes research in kindergarten through college science classes, and is available through open access.

Transformative Teaching Around the World

Transformative Teaching Around the World

Curtis J. Bonk and Meina Zhu

Transformative Teaching Around the World compiles inspiring stories from Fulbright-awarded teachers whose instructional practices have impacted schools and communities globally. Whether thriving or struggling in their classrooms, instructing in person or online, or pushing for changes at high or low costs and risk levels, teachers devote intense energy and careful decision-making to their students and fellow staff. This book showcases an expansive variety of educational practices fostered across international contexts by real teachers: active and empowering learning strategies, critical thinking and creative problem-solving, cultural responsiveness and sustainability, humanistic integration of technology, and more. Pre- and in-service teachers, teacher educators, online/blended instructors, and other stakeholders will find a wealth of grounded, motivating approaches for transforming the lives of learners and their communities.

Understanding the Latinx Experience: Developmental and Contextual Influences

Understanding the Latinx Experience: Developmental and Contextual Influences

Vasti Torres, Ebelia Hernández and Sylvia Martinez

The dramatic growth of this population in the U.S. requires a considerably deeper understanding of individuals that share this multifaceted identity. This timely book synthesizes new research and its implications for practice that is critical for professionals working with Latinos in educational and counseling contexts. The authors provide insight into identity development, environmental influences, and how these factors influence persistence in higher education. By using a synthesis approach to organize multiple studies around how being Latinx influences the experiences of students in college and beyond, the authors offer a holistic view of the Latino population. Practitioners will learn about practices that help Latinx college students. Faculty and researchers will gain new understandings of the Latinx experience, and discover a starting point for further reflection and investigation.

Using Naturally Occurring Data in Qualitative Health Research

Using Naturally Occurring Data in Qualitative Health Research

Nikki Kiyimba, Jessica Nina Lester, Michelle O'Reilly

Uniquely focuses on the broad spectrum of data that is classified as 'naturally-occurring'; Offers an accessible pragmatic format that maintains the integrity of the topic whilst presenting it in a way that is comprehensible and applicable; Clearly discusses the ways in which naturally occurring data can be beneficial data sources for conducting qualitative health research in a variety of settings and contexts; Provides a forward-thinking acknowledgement of the use of computer-assisted technology in aiding health service delivery and how this data can be used in research; Clearly explains how naturally occurring data can be utilized by students and health practitioners using different qualitative methodologies

Walking with Strangers: Critical Ethnography and Educational Promise

Walking with Strangers: Critical Ethnography and Educational Promise

Barbara K. Dennis

Walking with Strangers transforms traditional notions of social research, giving an account of working with racial and linguistic diversity, a topic particularly poignant at this time when racist themes and violence in U.S. culture have risen and intensified" (P. Carspecken). The book explores "complexities, tensions, and dilemmas within human relationships" entailed in doing deep ethnographic research with/within communities. The book takes a methodological orientation, telling the ethnographic story from the inside. Many new methodological ideas are brought forth.

The Wiley Handbook of Early Childhood Care and Education

The Wiley Handbook of Early Childhood Care and Education

Christopher P. Brown, Mary Benson McMullen, and Nancy File (editors)

The essential resource to the issues surrounding childhood care and education with contributions from noted experts. The Wiley Handbook of Early Childhood Care and Education is a comprehensive resource that offers a review of the historical aspects, best practices, and the future directions of the field. With contributions from noted experts in the field, the book contains 30 interdisciplinary essays that explore in-depth the central issues of early childhood care and education. The handbook presents a benchmark reference to the basic knowledge, effective approaches to use with young children, curriculum design, professional development, current policies, and other critical information.

The expert contributors address the myriad complex policy and practice issues that are most relevant today. The essays provide insight into topics such as child development and diversity, the sociocultural process of child development, the importance of the home environment in the lives of children.

Women and Philanthropy in Education

Women and Philanthropy in Education

Andrea Walton

This book illuminates the philanthropic impulse that has influenced women’s education and its place in the broader history of philanthropy in America. Contributing to the history of women, education, and philanthropy, the book shows how voluntary activity and home-grown educational enterprise were as important as big donors in the development of philanthropy. The essays in Women and Philanthropy in Education are generally concerned with local rather than national effects of philanthropy, and the giving of time rather than monetary support. Many of the essays focus on the individual lives of female philanthropists (Olivia Sage, Martha Berry) and teachers (Tsuda Umeko, Catharine Beecher), offering personal portraits of philanthropy in the 19th and 20th centuries. These stories provide evidence of the key role played by women in the development of philanthropy and its importance to the education of women.

Women at Indiana University: 150 Years of Experiences and Contributions

Women at Indiana University: 150 Years of Experiences and Contributions

Andrea Walton

The first in-depth look at how women have shaped the history and legacy of Indiana University. Women first enrolled at Indiana University in 1867. In the following years they would leave an indelible mark on this Hoosier institution. However, until now their stories have been underappreciated, both on the IU campus and by historians, who have paid them little attention. Women at Indiana University draws together 15 snapshots of IU women's experiences and contributions to explore essential questions about their lives and impact.