Call for Chapters: Neurodivergent Education and Lifelong Learning: From Babble to Later Life

Editors

Nathan Keates, University of Sunderland in London, United Kingdom
Krysia Waldock, University of Swansea, United Kingdom

Call for Chapters

Proposals Submission Deadline: November 3, 2024
Full Chapters Due: February 2, 2025

Introduction

Education spans the entirety of life, from a baby learning to talk to later life learning. People discover and learn each day of their existence, whether through formal education, parental guidance, friendship and community connections. Therefore, it is important to share how neurodivergent people learn throughout the life course. In this, there exists a need for an edited collection which embodies neurodivergent-affirming practice in relation to education, approaches to learning and learning about neurodivergent identities and lived experience.

Objective

Our book aims to contribute to dialogue on more inclusive and humanised approaches to understanding neurodivergent experiences in education, advocacy and learning about identity. By emphasising lived experiences over traditional neuronormative perspectives, it encourages researchers to explore intersectionality, identity, and advocacy within educational contexts. We hope this leads to innovative practices, improved inclusivity, and a deeper understanding of neurodiversity. Our book will take a neurodivergent-affirming position, so we are not interested in pathologising or medicalising neurodivergent people. We ‘humanise’ neurodivergent people, which is to suggest the opposite of the dehumanising tendency that can be noted in a lot of the literature. In addition, the work must be centred on neurodivergent lived experience rather than through a neuronormative lens. Chapters should not be imposing practices or perspectives onto neurodivergent people, i.e., teachers perspectives that are not informed by neurodivergent learners, etc. We will welcome proposals from both researchers and practitioners, and are particularly interested in proposals from neurodivergent people.

Target Audience

The target audience of our book is broad, including:
  • Education providers
  • Advocacy organisations
  • Neurodivergent people and their families or guardians
  • Researchers and policy makers
  • Healthcare providers
  • Other workplace settings


Recommended Topics

  • Intersectionality within education
  • Identity including learning about identity and having multiple identities within education and/or advocacy eg advocacy as a queer autistic person
  • Education through autistic/neurodivergent parent, carer or guardian
  • Informal education, i.e., not in a formal educational setting such as a school, college, or university
  • Adult and community education
  • Higher education
  • Compulsory education
  • Inclusion and accessibility
  • Advocacy as education
  • ‘Absenteeism’
  • Sharing inclusive practices both in education and advocacy settings


Submission Procedure

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before November 3, 2024, a chapter proposal of 500 to 1,000 words clearly explaining the mission and concerns of their proposed chapter. Authors will be notified by November 24, 2024 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by February 2, 2025, and all interested authors must consult the guidelines for manuscript submissions at https://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/ prior to submission. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-anonymized review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication, Neurodivergent Education and Lifelong Learning: From Babble to Later Life. All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-anonymized peer review editorial process.

All proposals should be submitted through the eEditorial Discovery® online submission manager.



Publisher

This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), an international academic publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. IGI Global specializes in publishing reference books, scholarly journals, and electronic databases featuring academic research on a variety of innovative topic areas including, but not limited to, education, social science, medicine and healthcare, business and management, information science and technology, engineering, public administration, library and information science, media and communication studies, and environmental science. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit https://www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2025.



Important Dates

November 3, 2024: Proposal Submission Deadline
November 24, 2024: Notification of Acceptance
February 2, 2025: Full Chapter Submission
March 30, 2025: Review Results Returned
May 18, 2025: Final Acceptance Notification
June 15, 2025: Final Chapter Submission



Inquiries

Nathan Keates
University of Sunderland in London
nathan.keates@sunderland.ac.uk

Krysia Waldock
Swansea University
krysia.waldock.research@gmail.com

If you have any inquiries regarding your proposal, including the length, topic or other aspects, and would benefit from a conversation with one or both editors, we can be contacted at the emails above. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.



Classifications


Education; Social Sciences and Humanities
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