Student Engagement: Promoting Positive Classroom Behaviour encourages pre-service teachers in Australian primary and secondary schools to make choices about how best to design and manage their classrooms and schools to maximise productive behaviour and learning. The text explores numerous dimensions of student engagement from within and outside school settings, including verbal and non-verbal communication; disengaged behaviours and corrective strategies; trauma-informed practice; working ...

Pete, Alyce, and Lily are back at it again with another WEIRD adventure! Seventh grade started off without a hitch, until third period that is. That's when the three friends were assigned a massive history project that was due in two weeks! Pete was planning to fly solo this year, after last year's "episode", but his hopes were quickly crushed by Lily. As the friends begin working on their projects, things begin to go haywire. It seems that Willow Street has other plans for them, as they a...

Pete, Alyce and Lily had been neighborhood friends since they were seven, and knew from their adventures that Willow Street was far from normal. Willow Street had always been weird, but it became REALLY weird just before the end of sixth grade. Shortly after that family disappeared. Little did they know, that walk home from school would lead them on an adventure that would trigger events that would change their lives, and the people around them forever. The annual talent show was only thre...

In Black France / France Noire, scholars, activists, and novelists from France and the United States address the untenable paradox at the heart of French society. France's constitutional and legal discourses do not recognize race as a meaningful category. Yet the lived realities of race and racism are ever-present in the nation's supposedly race-blind society. The vaunted universalist principles of the French Republic are far from realized. Any claim of color-blindness is belied b...

They said this day would never come. They said our sights were set too high. They said this country was too divided, too disillusioned to ever come together around a common purpose. But on this January night, at this defining moment in history, you have done what the cynics said we couldn't do. - Barack ObamaThe thrilling, inspirational story of Obama's first Presidential campaign, as told by those who lived it.

Increasing numbers of children and adolescents internationally are being diagnosed with secondary health problems (e.g., overweight-obesity, diabetes, asthma, anxiety, etc.) due in part, or at least related to, a lack of physical activity. Children and adolescents with various forms of special needs (for example, children and adolescents with physical or intellectual disabilities, children and adolescents from disadvantaged social backgrounds and children and adolescents with chronic illne...

As a social justice endeavor, one of the goals of inclusive education is to bolster the education of all students by promoting equal opportunities for all, and investing sufficient support, curriculum and pedagogy that cultivates high self-concepts, emphasizes students’ strengths rather than weaknesses, and assists students to reach their optimal potential to make a contribution to society. Dedicated to the identification of international strategies to achieve this goal, Inclusive Educatio...