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This article explores how active citizenship can be encouraged through education and community action. It proposes that service learning and a renewed focus on voluntarism can both promote social cohesion between different ethnic and cultural groups while also fostering among the population a greater understanding of and commitment to civic culture. It reviews the international evidence on service programmes and the newly created National Citizen Service programme in the United Kingdom, arguing for a greater role for service learning in the citizen educational offer.

Hardly a day goes by without some reference to the potential impact of artificial intelligence in our lives. I believe that universities both in the United States and around the world will also experience significant change brought about through AI.

Part I Understanding School, Family, and Community Partnerships -- 1 Partnering with Families of Young Children with Disabilities in Inclusive Settings -- 2 Empowering Families of Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder for Success in Secondary Transition -- 3 Community Involvement: What supports are available for diverse families of students with disabilities? -- Part II Evidence-based Practices on Home-School Partnerships -- 4 Building School Level Capacity through a Problem Solving Approach to Parental Engagement in a Large Urban Setting -- 5 Partnering with Families of Students at Risk for Emotional and Behavioral Disorders -- 6 Families as Mentors: Preparing Teachers to Partner with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families -- Part III Evidence-based Practices on Community Involvement -- 7 A Community "Not Forgotten" -- 8 Building Capacity to Engage Culturally Diverse Families through Inter-Professional Partnerships and Training -- 9 A Community-based Approach to Providing Health and Education Supports for Students with Disabilities in Affordable Housing -- 10 Cultural Brokering Intervention for Families of Children Receiving Special Education Supports -- Part IV Evidence-based Practices in Other Parts of the World -- 11 Family Engagement Practices in Early Intervention: A Review of Three Countries -- 12 Engaging Families: A Case Study of an Elementary Inclusive School in Hong Kong -- 13 Preparing Israeli Teacher Candidates to Develop Professional/Family Partnerships

Preliminary Material -- Introduction /Gregory P. Fairbrother -- Abstract /Dongping Yang -- 1 2014 Blue Book of China's Education General Report /Dongping Yang -- 2 Survey Report on 2013 College Graduates' Employment Situation /Changjun Yue -- 3 China's Educational Attainments and Educational Equality: Empirical Data from 2002 to 2012 /Baicai Sun and Yunpeng Liu -- 4 Trends in Preschool Education: Public Finance Investment, Development Trends, and Challenges to its Equality /Yingquan Song -- 5 A Review and Evaluation of China's Financial Investment in Education over the Past Two Decades /Jinyan Zhou , Liansheng Yuan and Xue Zou -- 6 The Reformation of the National College Entrance Examination is Imminent /Bingqi Xiong -- 7 A Practical Exploration into the Development of Small-Scale Rural Schools in the Post-"Revocation and Merging" Era /Huquan Liu -- 8 Rebuilding the Government-School Relationship: An Exploration and Reflection /Guohua Zeng -- 9 The Current Situation Regarding the Protection of Children's Rights and Interests in China and Related Policy Suggestions /Mingxiao Yu -- 10 Report on the Development of Reading ngos in Mainland China since 2008 /Dongmei Xu -- 11 The 2013 Investigation into the Nationwide Schoolchild Suicide Epidemic /Pingyuan Cheng -- 12 The Current Situation and Development of Information Transparency in Local Educational Administrative Portals /Tianxue Zhang and Sha Gao -- 13 From Homeschooling to Non-School Experimental Education /Fangyan Yuan and Huquan Liu -- 14 Online Report on Public Satisfaction with Education in 2013 /The 21st Century Education Research Institute -- Appendix 1 The Statistical Bulletin of China's National Educational Development in 2012 -- Appendix 2 The Statistical Communiqué on the 2012 National Execution of Educational Funds -- Appendix 3 A Chronicle of Education in 2013 -- Appendix 4 Top Ten News Reports on Education in China, 2013 -- Appendix 5 Educational Problems in China, China's Problems with Education /Jianxiong Ge -- Appendix 6 Financial Subsidies for Key Public Schools are China's Largest Inequity /Xianping Lang -- Appendix 7 Why I Chose Shenzhen /Hongbing Cheng -- Index.

"Disasters are socially-constructed and therefore the role of at-risk people and their communities in disasters is critical. Learning by these people and their communities before, during and after a disaster is paramount. This book is about learning that aims to help keep people safe and minimise damages in disasters. It focusses on disasters emanating from natural hazards"--

This book explores the way in which the pressures of globalisation are shaping higher education funding and access across the world. Higher education is seen as a way of developing human capital and building knowledge economies, but major debates continue about who should attend university; how the costs of higher education should be distributed between the individual student and the state; how students from non-traditional backgrounds can be helped to succeed in higher education; and the intended and unintended consequences of widening access initiatives.Globalisation is not a uni-directional force, but is accompanied by movements to reinforce the local and the regional, often driven by fears of loss of identity. Universities across the world have become more powerful and autonomous from the state, but at the same time students as consumers of education have an increasingly powerful voice. They frequently find themselves in opposition to the business model which infuses higher education systems and student protests have had a strong influence on policy development. This book explores the way in which the twin pressures of globalisation and localisation play out in higher education across the developed world, often reflected in more specific debates on fees regimes, access and culture.