This book provides a comprehensive analysis of LGBTQ+ centers and organizations in urban areas, a phenomenon that began in North American and Western European cities four decades ago and now flourishes around the world.

It analyzes two different LGBTQ+ organizations in Israel: the Jerusalem Open House and the Tel Aviv LGBTQ Center. It traces their different histories, sociocultural and geographical locations, and different social relations. Both have become essential players in Israeli LGBTQ+ activism and urban hubs for the LGBTQ+ community. The book provides a case study of an understudied aspect of LGBTQ+ community life from a region outside North America and Europe, offering a comprehensive analysis that foregrounds different types of spaces, traces movements across cities, and employs varied analytical approaches to examine a significant location in global LGBTQ+ politics. The book explores the spatial activism produced in these spaces, the gendered power relations structured within them, the social groups they engage and serve, the political organizations that have emerged there, and their role as catalysts for broader social movements. It also addresses the planning processes and local political negotiations involved in their establishment. Through this lens, the book highlights current debates surrounding this phenomenon, including local and national tensions, homonationalism and pinkwashing, trauma and social movements, and the neoliberal conditions framing both centers.

This book will be of interest to students of geography, sociology, anthropology, urban studies, planning, tourism studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and LGBTQ+ studies.

Examining anthropocentric assumptions and arguments in care ethics literature, this book argues that caring for plants represents a moral obligation and vital relationship between human carers and plant cared-fors.

By exploring the moral value in plants and their capabilities for caring relationships, the book demonstrates that this type of care is already in practice and discusses three case studies of human-plant contexts: bonsai, tomato plants, and giant sequoias. Brelje reasons that plants should be included in care ethics based on the human carers and plant cared-fors ability to meet the core requirements of caring relationship: carers' valuing-attitudes for plants, caring affect towards plants, human-plant interdependency, responsive interactivity between humans and plants, and plant success conditions. This theory is applied to real life caring relationships between human carers and plant cared-fors through interviews with bonsai practitioners, tomato plant farmers, native caretakers, and parks personnel, providing sketches of contemporary human-plant care relationships. Each case offers context-relevant challenges based on plant type and use, aesthetic, and consumption, while highlighting the common ethical care patterns.

Plant-Inclusive Care Ethics will be useful for students, instructors, and practitioners in environmental ethics, plant humanities, critical plant studies, and plant-related artistic work.

Jane Seymour, the third wife of Henry VIII, was queen of England for only seventeen months, something which has accounted for the little interest shown in her by historians. In her lifetime, however, she was a significant political figure, while her legacy and memorialization extended beyond her early death following childbirth in October 1537.

Jane Seymour: Patronage, Material Culture and Image Crafting is the first full length academic study of Jane's life and queenship. Using extensive archival research, it pulls together all of the surviving information to provide both a biographical and a thematic account. Chapters include a consideration of Jane's queenship and political role, her material cultural environment, her household, her financial position and her religion, before also considering her afterlife and attempts to commemorate her both officially and unofficially. In doing so, the book banishes many myths that have grown up around the queen, most notably ideas of her passivity and powerlessness and also often repeated (but unsubstantiated) claims of her conservative religious outlook. This book presents a picture of Jane as an active and highly political queen consort.

The book is a valuable resource for students and established scholars since it adds considerably to knowledge of the queen and re-inserts her into the heart of the dynasty, while also drawing pertinent conclusions on sixteenth-century queenship.

Andrew Skourdoumbis offers a critical interpretation of the ideas and values of a neo-liberal politico-economic framework of globalisation founded on the 'American Model', examining the ways in which this framework has been imposed (hustled) into fields such as education.

The chapters unravel how the 'education hustle' centres itself around advancing an Anglo-American politico- economic primacy in an increasingly multipolar world, one that is not necessarily interested in providing an equitable and efficient system of education based on democratic principles. The author argues that there is a strategic politico-economic interest at work based upon an accepted, taken-for-granted and unquestioned state of affairs, ultimately to the detriment of education, which risks its educative democratic value.

This book is an essential read for postgraduate students and academics in the fields of sociology and politics of education, and teacher education.

A roadmap for enhancing students' equitable access to biliteracy development

Monolingual ideologies have driven US educational policy for centuries. Despite the benefits of multilingualism, policies have often prioritized English and reduced children's access to their home languages. The "Seal of Biliteracy" is a language education policy that recognizes students' proficiency in two languages as a mechanism for nurturing students' bilingualism and growing the United States' multilingual capacity. Since its inception, the Seal of Biliteracy has become a national program that has been extended into elementary and middle schools as pathway awards-benchmarks signaling that younger students are on the pathway to receiving the Seal of Biliteracy.

Pathways to the Seal of Biliteracy provides foundational understandings, practical examples, and key levers necessary to help parents, educators, and policymakers understand and implement pathways to biliteracy in schools. Situating the program within broader bilingual, heritage, and world language education systems, Amy J. Heineke and Kristin J. Davin explain the history of bilingualism and language policy in US education, and they outline an accessible and equitable approach to developing successful pathway programs.

Pathways to the Seal of Biliteracy will be an invaluable tool for educators, stakeholders, and policymakers looking to nurture multilingualism, advance language programming, and help students achieve the Seal of Biliteracy.

In an era marked by uncertainty and rapid change, how do educational leaders sustain resilience, not just for themselves, but for their entire school communities? Leading with Resilience brings together powerful narratives and research-driven insights from teachers, school leaders, and system-level changemakers navigating some of the most challenging moments in recent history. Drawing from three longitudinal projects in California, this compelling volume explores how resilience can be cultivated through intentional leadership, community care, and equity-centered practices.

From the frontlines of the global pandemic to the lived experiences of AAPI educators and women of color pursuing superintendency, each chapter offers a unique lens on the emotional, cultural, and systemic dimensions of resilience. These stories illuminate the strategies that have helped leaders not only survive but thrive, fostering wellbeing, driving change, and inspiring hope.

Whether you're an educator, policymaker, or aspiring leader, this book offers a timely and deeply human look at what it means to lead with strength, compassion, and purpose in times of crisis.

Effective teaching makes a huge difference to students' knowledge, and their life chances. But improving teaching is extremely difficult - many changes within schools have little impact on classroom practice. This new book from bestselling author, Harry Fletcher-Wood, shows how leaders can design and deliver effective professional development and help teachers make lasting improvements. Addressing common barriers, including lack of focus and time pressure, it synthesises key ideas and shows how they can be implemented step-by-step.

Blending research and experience, the book offers practical tools to help teacher educators refine their practice and solve the critical challenges they face, including:

? Designing a coherent programme

? Leading effective training

? Coaching teachers to improve

? Supporting teachers to adopt new habits

? Leading change within the school

? Evaluating impact

Each challenge is addressed through bitesize steps, illustrated with worked examples. Suggested actions, reflection questions and checklists help the reader put new ideas into practice immediately. Readable, evidence-informed and easy-to-apply, Improving Teaching is an essential guide for anyone helping teachers to get better.

Rationale for Psychosexual Therapies: 100 Key Points and Techniques is a practical, accessible, and structured resource that condenses complex psychosexual theories into digestible, actionable points.

Noor provides a structured, multidisciplinary, and user-friendly guide covering the full spectrum of psychosexual phenomena from assessment and diagnosis to evidence-based treatments. Through its exploration of emerging trends and gaps in current thinking - including the rise in the link between sexual dysfunction and mental health, cultural shifts in sexuality, and the challenges presented by accessibility to the digital world of pornography use, dating apps, and virtual infidelity - this book is invaluable to both professionals and the public.

This book bridges theory and practice, classic and modern, and clinical and lay audiences, making it essential reading for any practitioner or student in the fields of gender, sex, and sexuality.

Male Icons and Identity in 1960s Britain: Revolt into Style explores the profound social and cultural transformations of the 1960s through the lens of masculinity.

This collection of essays delves into how male identity, often resistant to change, serves as a barometer for the broader societal shifts of the era. Contributors from diverse academic backgrounds examine iconic figures from popular music (Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger), cinema (Michael Caine) and television (Patrick Macnee, Peter Wyngarde, and Patrick McGoohan), as well as artistic polymaths like Anthony Newley and Peter Whitehead. The essays also venture into the realms of politics, football, fashion and fine art, providing a comprehensive view of how evolving masculine ideals influenced British culture. The collection highlights the tension between traditional values and emerging pluralistic ideals, offering a nuanced understanding of the period's cultural dynamics.

This collection is ideal for students and academics in gender studies, cultural history, and sociology, as well as general readers interested in understanding a transformative decade when established norms of male identity faced unprecedented challenges.

This book is a survey of world history that explores diverse women's and gender history at the secondary reading level. With sample lesson plans and teaching activities, this guide aligns with curriculum and content already taught in secondary schools.

The book spans prehistory to the end of the 20th century, highlighting the lives of women in every region of the world, elite rulers and peasant women, as well as queer, trans, and non-binary people where known and relevant. The text is packed with primary source visuals to enhance student comprehension and make connections between the text and the real women who lived these stories. Each chapter concludes with an inquiry-based lesson plan for students and teachers to use that explores primary source material surrounding a compelling question, which is best practice according to the National Council for the Social Studies. The book also includes teacher guides on how to teach with the lesson plans, introductory activities, and teacher tips.

This is a key resource for secondary social studies teachers to integrate women's and gender history into their current World History curriculum.

This book provides you with concrete strategies and clear information that will enable you to meet your students' needs in today's uncertain climate.

Uncertainty surrounds our schools, including lack of funding for teaching materials, book shortages for school libraries, and cuts for resource staff. Many schools are opening with unfilled teaching positions and teachers who are on staff find they have larger classes. This book offers practical ways to organize students so teachers can support those that require extra help as well as show how they can maintain their agency and meet the learning needs of a diverse group. The book includes formative assessments, examples of teaching strategies and lesson plans, teaching tips, self-assessment forms for teachers and students, reflection questions, and literacy snapshots where you can observe how teachers of different grade levels use a strategy or teaching technique with students. With a focus on collaborative student learning and collective teacher efficacy (CTE), the book is full of concrete ideas and strategies to help teachers build a community of learners through the challenges they may face.

This is a key resource for any elementary and middle school teachers, new or experienced, as well as administrators, coaches, and resource teachers.

Part of the ground-breaking series Key Thinkers in English in Education and the Language Arts, this text focuses on the work of British curriculum theorist, John Dixon. Regarded widely as the de facto 'father' of the influential 'Growth' model of English, this book accessibly presents Dixon as a much broader thinker around the nature of subject English, and, in particular, as a key theorist around writing and literary response. By concentrating on three major book publications and a number of seminal research-based booklets throughout the late 20th century, the author provides readers with an influential overview on Dixon's work as a major curriculum thinker, which will be of interest to scholars in the fields of teacher education, English Education and curriculum studies around the world.

This study of Anne of Cleves, the fourth wife of King Henry VIII, offers readers a more nuanced retelling of her queenship, which has often been dismissed as unimportant due to its brevity.

Re-evaluating many of the misconceptions surrounding the queen, including her religion, the fateful year of her marriage, and her appearance, the book brings together historiography and the most recent research on Anne, not least her fascinating relationship to books and her foreign reputation. Schutte expertly weaves together her analysis of well-known archival sources, alongside that of letters, printed books, manuscripts, engravings, and other material objects to illuminate Anne's rich cultural legacy.

This book combines chronological chapters with thematic ones to offer the most comprehensive study of Anne available. It stands as a valuable resource for students, specialists, and all those interested in Tudor history, queenship, women's history, and Henry VIII and his wives.

This book offers a vital psychoanalytic overview of antisocial personality disorder, a condition that causes great distress to its sufferers, their families, and society.

Following a historical introduction to how psychoanalysts, from Freud onwards, have conceptualised sociopathy, psychopathy, and delinquency, Jessica Yakeley presents a contemporary psychoanalytic understanding of antisocial personality disorder which integrates current psychoanalytic theory with cutting-edge empirical research findings from developmental and attachment studies. Drawing on her own experience of working with antisocial and violent patients, she offers a psychoanalytic framework to inform clinical work in managing and treating individuals with a diagnosis of this disorder. The reader is introduced to general treatment principles, followed by the latest evidence-based psychoanalytically-informed therapies for the condition. Yakeley also discusses the particular needs and treatment of specific populations of individuals with antisocial personality disorder, including women, sex offenders, and those from ethnic minority backgrounds, addressing issues of race, culture, stigma, and prejudice.

Historically viewed as an untreatable mental disorder, this book offers hope to professionals and patients grappling with antisocial personality disorder, and will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, and other professionals, academics, and trainees working in mental health, criminal justice, and forensic fields.

Explore evidence-based counseling theories to improve client outcomes across diverse populations

Mental health practitioners must choose from numerous therapeutic approaches while serving diverse clients. Counseling and Psychotherapy Theories in Context and Practice: Skills, Strategies, and Techniques, Fourth Edition provides comprehensive coverage of major theories alongside practical guidance for ethical, culturally sensitive application. This resource connects theoretical knowledge with real-world practice, explaining how to apply the latest evidence-based theory with actual clients.

The book systematically covers eleven major theoretical perspectives, from psychoanalytic and Adlerian through person-centered, behavioral, cognitive-behavioral, feminist, constructive, family systems, and third wave therapies. Each chapter explores foundational principles, practical techniques, and applications for diverse populations. Readers discover how neuroscience illuminates therapy mechanisms and learn contemporary perspectives including Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality.

This comprehensive resource also includes:

• Reflection exercises that encourage self-examination and help readers identify their natural theoretical orientations before formal training influences their preferences
• Brain Boxes explaining neuroscience concepts including neurogenesis, epigenetics, and the bidirectional relationship between therapeutic experiences and brain changes
• Practical guidance on ethics including competence, informed consent, cultural humility, confidentiality, and avoiding potentially harmful therapies
• Research-supported strategies for maximizing positive outcomes through progress monitoring, role induction, and practice-based evidence
• Putting It in Practice sections with case examples demonstrating how to apply theoretical concepts in clinical settings with diverse clients

Whether you're a student or practicing mental health professional, this book equips you with the theoretical foundation and practical skills needed to provide effective, ethical, culturally sensitive therapy. Counseling and Psychotherapy Theories in Context and Practice explains how to help clients achieve meaningful change.

This edited collection addresses Artificial Intelligence in literacy education, exploring the challenges, opportunities, and pedagogical applications of the use of large language models in the education field.

Artificial Intelligence has dynamically emerged in our lives, especially in the last five years, and is gradually transforming them. Undoubtedly, AI influences both education and the cultivation of literacies in the modern school and society at large. Recognizing the evolving nature of the educational dashboard, this book provides possible AI applications in educational settings, such as schools and classrooms, and it holistically examines AI technologies within societal and educational contexts. Considering that school is part of a broader organism that is societal, the book also examines AI applications beyond classes but also offers realistic possibilities and challenges in AI technologies as they evolve before us, rapidly. Chapters in the book cover the use of AI in language learning, writing studies, reading and writing assessment, curriculum research, teacher preparation, and more.

Bringing together new scholarship and voices in the field of AI literacy, this book is ideal for scholars, researchers, and graduate students in the fields of literacy education as well as educational technology and teacher education.

The remarkable life and work of the French philosopher and activist Simone Weil has fascinated scholars from many disciplines, with no less than Albert Camus calling her the "only great spirit of our times". Although contemporaneous with the rise of existentialism and educated alongside contemporaries such as Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, the creative and restless nature of Weil's thought set her apart. Equally adept at thinking across politics, philosophy, theology, ethics, literature, and science, Weil stands distinct in the canon of twentieth-century Western thought as a highly unique and controversial figure.

The Routledge Companion to Simone Weil is an outstanding survey of her thought. Thirty-seven chapters by an international team of expert contributors are divided into six clear parts:

• Contextualising Weil
• Philosophical Sources
• Key Concepts
• Politics and Society
• Interactions with Religion
• Conversations

Within these sections key thinkers and topics central to Weil's philosophy are addressed, including Plato, Kant, Marx, God, attention, love, beauty, labour and work, the body, slavery, rootedness, colonialism, fascism, Catholicism, Judaism, Indic thought, phenomenology, existentialism, feminism, literature, and many more.

The Routledge Companion to Simone Weil is an invaluable resource for anyone studying or researching Weil's thought, whether in philosophy and religious studies or related disciplines such as political theory, French literature, and Jewish studies.