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International Perspectives, Experiences, and Analysis
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To strengthen educational practices in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to disseminate scientific findings that reflect teachers’ perspectives, educational experiences, and data-driven insights. This book offers a compilation of diverse insights into and international reactions to online teaching and learning adaptations during the pandemic's lockdown across countries. It delves into the varied educational and cultural landscapes, presenting specific data to highlight the challenges and innovations that have shaped the learning environment today. Through this exploration, we aim to contribute to a more informed and resilient educational framework, tailored to the lived unprecedented times.

Contributors are: Laura Sara Agrati, Saba Alvi, Daniela Roxana Andron, Tasha Ausman, Yuhua Bu, Steve Burton, Maria Chatzi, Million Chauraya, Willian Lazaretti da Conceicão, Luciano Nascimento Corsino, Cheryl J. Craig, Christos Govaris, Oezge Hacifazlioglu, Catherine James, Gabriela Jonas-Ahrend, Stavroula Kaldi, Ruth Kane, Svletana Karkina, Manpreet Kaur, Stefania Kifor, Angeliki Lazaridou, Paul Magnuson, Maria Ines Marcondes, Juanjo Mena, Silvana Mesquita, Luiz Sanches Neto, Patsy Norton, Maureen Atieno Olel, Samuel Ouma Oyoo, Loredana Perla, Efsrathios Xafakos Rui, Balwant Singh, Vassoliki Tzika Alexandra Stavrianoudaki, Vasileios Stavropoulos, Athanasios Tasios, George Tekos, Marc Turu, Aikaterini Vassiou, Luciana Venâncio, Viviana Vinci, and Zheng Longping Ye.
This book contains detailed theoretical information as well as practical strategies, techniques and pedagogical tips. It also includes analysis to the problems and challenges that face ESL/EFL students in general and Arab learners in specific. The book could be of interest not only to EFL researchers in academic writing, writing instructors, EFL educators at the college level, policymakers, and undergraduate and graduate students, but also for any second or foreign language teachers.
Much has been written about successful curricula for/of the fourth/Fifth Industrial Revolution (4/5IR). The written work has been dominated by a contestation between content-driven approaches (professional needs) and outcomes-driven approaches (societal needs). The contestation between these approaches misses the production of conclusive curriculum components that underpin a successful digitalised curriculum for/of the 4/5IR. The contestation further misses a pragmatic curriculum, which is capable of addressing individual-unique needs. As such, this book concentrates on curriculum components that underpin a successful digitalised curriculum for/of the 4/5IR. It further discusses curriculum components for/of a pragmatic curriculum that harmonises between the two dominating approaches.

Contributors are: Bongani Boy Dlamini, Reuben S. Dlamini, Terrie Jwan Sella, Simon Bhekumuzi Khoza, Dumisa C. Mabuza, Makhulu A. Makumane, Dumsani W. Mncube, Cedric Bheki Mpungose, Sandile Ngcobo, Makhosazana E. Shoba, and Lerato Hlengiwe Sokhulu.
A Comparative Study of Language Diversity within Education Systems in France and Aotearoa New Zealand
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In many parts of the world, there is a growing interest in how existing linguistic knowledge is involved in the acquisition of further languages; in particular how learning the language of schooling can be improved through inclusion of students’ home languages. This theme gathers around it a rich international network of multilingual researchers interested in promoting the benefits of bilingual and plurilingual education, the recognition of linguistic and cultural diversity in schools, and strategies for supporting young migrants to succeed in schools.

Young Migrants and Plurilingualism in Schools: A Comparative Study of Language Diversity within Education Systems in France and Aotearoa, New Zealand presents findings from the author’s Ph.D. study carried out during 2017–2019 with young migrants and their teachers in France and New Zealand. These findings provide evidence for plurilingual learning spaces as improving student participation, interaction, sense of wellbeing and social cohesion—all elements of democratic coexistence in culturally and linguistically diverse societies.
Sami Education Theory, Practice and Research
Unveil the dynamic world of Sami education across Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Russia in this book. This vital volume presents cutting-edge research from top scholars, enriching teacher education with innovative, interdisciplinary insights. Discover unique contributions through a blend of Sami and Māori perspectives, and navigate the profound impacts of history on modern educational challenges and Indigenous self-determination.

Contributors are: Rauni Äärelä-Vihriälä, Kristina Belancic, Karianne Berg, Anna-Lill Drugge, Heidi Harju-Luukkainen, Máret J. Heatta, Hanna Helander, Huia Tomlins Jahnke, Ylva Jannok Nutti, Pigga Keskitalo, Asbjørn Kolberg, David Kroik, Marikaisa Laiti, Inker-Anni Linkola-Aikio, Torjer Olsen, Hanna Outakoski, Annika Pasanen, Rauna Rahko-Ravantti, Hilde Sollid, Tuija Turunen and Ekaterina Zmyvalova.
Lessons from a Life in Education
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In this book, an intellectual, professional, and personal memoir, Katherine Jelly examines a lifetime in education to argue for changes needed to sustain, strengthen, and renew our battered public schools. Mining her theoretical inquiry and her experience, she derives abiding ideas for critical, creative, and effectual teaching and learning, and proposes changes to K-12 schools, to teacher education, and to schools’ relationships to broader efforts at social change. Interweaving her studies and stories, grappling with the conundra, contradictions, and questions arising, Jelly frames the means and the actual potential for effecting meaningful, constructive change to public education in America.
Implications for Curriculum, Teacher Preparation and Pedagogical Practice
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Despite the superdiversity of an increasingly multicultural and multilingual world, policy and practice in education continues to deal with issues of inclusion and diversity in language education in rather tangential and peripheral ways. To address critical issues in multicultural and multilingual education, with implications for curriculum, teacher preparation and pedagogical practice, this volume brings together international perspectives on research, policy and pedagogical practice that help the global community gain new insights into ground-breaking work that addresses current questions, challenges and complexities in an education world of superdiversity.
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The academic experiences and emotions shared in these chapters can be described as thoughtful, courageous, insightful, and worrisome. Collectively, authors draw a troubled higher education landscape that has evolved over the years from, to put it mildly, a “more pleasant” working environment in more generous times, to a less pleasant working environment in today’s more restrictive, more competitive, and more financially difficult times.

However, on a positive note, contributing authors share their understanding of the core purpose of the higher education institution and its mission as purveyors of that purpose through adherence to the university’s stated triad of goals: teaching, research, and service.