Beyond Pedagogies of Exclusion in Diverse Childhood Contexts

1. Introduction
Beth Blue Swadener, Soula Mitakidou, Evangelia Tressou, Carl A. Grant

Part I. Pedagogies and Policies of Exclusion and Inclusion

2. Learner Differences: Determining the Terms of Pedagogical Engagement
Mary Kalantzis, Bill Cope

3. Language as Racism: A New Policy of Exclusion
Panayota Gounari, Donaldo Macedo

4. Policies as Top-Down Structures versus Lived Realities: An Investigation of Literacy Policies in Greek Schools
Triantafillia Kostouli, Soula Mitakidou

5. Pedagogies of Inclusion: Lessons from Escola Cidadã
Gustavo E. Fischman, Luis Armando Gandin

6. Persistent Exclusions in Postapartheid Education: Experiences of Black Parents
Bekisizwe S. Ndimande

Part II. Curricular Conversations: Successful Programs and Initiatives

7. The Curriculum and the Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion
Wayne W. Au, Michael W. Apple

8. Starting with What the Children and Their Families Know: An Argentine Elementary School Addresses Issues of Underperformance of Bolivian Immigrant Children
Mary Q. Foote, Mónica Mazzolo

9. Teaching against Threats to Democracy: Inclusive Pedagogies in Democratic Education
Diana E. Hess, Shannon Murto Wright

Part III. Toward Inclusionary Teacher Education and Professional Development

10. Pedagogies of Inclusion in Teacher Education: Global Perspectives
Christine E. Sleeter

11. Toward a “Critical Emancipatory Mezcla Praxis”: Xicana Participatory Action Research in Teacher Education
Lourdes Diaz Soto

12. Equity Issues in Early Childhood Teacher Learning in Australia
Glenda Mac Naughton

13. How the Politics of Domestication Sabotage Teachers’ Professional Growth and Students’ Learning
Alberto J. Rodriguez

14. Rethinking American Education through Indigenous Wisdom and Teachings
Kathryn D. Manuelito, Maxine Roanhorse-Dineyazhe

15. Reframing Refugee Education in Kenya as an Inclusionary Practice of Pedagogy
Wangari Pauline Gichiru, Douglas B. Larkin

16. Epilogue: On to Even More Engaging and Challenging Transnational Conversations about Pedagogies of Inclusion
Carl A. Grant

Keywords: Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Educational Philosophy, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, International and Comparative Education