Call for Chapters: Mitigating Learner Disadvantages in Teaching and Learning

Editors

Shalin Hai-Jew, Hutchinson Community College, United States

Call for Chapters

Proposals Submission Deadline: August 25, 2024
Full Chapters Due: December 8, 2024
Submission Date: December 8, 2024

Introduction

Education and training are important ways to expand people’s KSAs (knowledge, skills, and attitudes / abilities). Formal learning, pre-K-16 to pre-K-22, has been designed to advance humanity through their various developmental stages. Learners do not arrive at formal learning with equal opportunities or equal advantages. They arrive with varying learning abilities and attitudes. They come as traditional and non-traditional learners. They come from variant class background. They come with different language abilities. They come with different family situations. They come from all over the world, from countries developed and undeveloped, and everything in-between. Some are part of generations of prior learners, and others may be the first of their generation. Some may have all the time and energy to focus on learning while others may have a number of other responsibilities. Public formal education is come-one come-all. As a matter of fact, it is mandatory. The question is how to stand in the gap to ensure that all learners have full access to the learning available and to the potential of their best selves. How can incentives for motivated learning be offered without causing unintended or negative outcomes? How can perverse incentives be avoided? How can all learners “level up” on their many capabilities? How can they pursue learning with a growth mindset, with the support of all those around them? The ideal of a level playing field exists as a north star for many. How can the scales be balanced out? How can social justice be achieved (particularly when so many are moving beyond DEIA)? Support for the whole student requires taking into consideration the whole learner and their range of needs. It means seeing what may be invisible otherwise in a classroom or online learning space.

Objective

The purposes of this book are to refresh the concept of supporting disadvantaged students of all dimensions and intersections…with new policies, new practices, new technologies, new resources, and fresh energies. Indeed, while past efforts have resulted in great strides, more recent research and insights…and heightened diversities of peoples…require novel approaches.

Target Audience

The target audience for this work includes those who work in student support services, tutoring, teaching and learning, curriculum design, learning experience design, and other applications. This work is for the professional practitioners mentioned prior and also for learners in higher education in the educational space.

Submission Procedure

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before August 25, 2024, a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors will be notified by September 8, 2024 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines.Full chapters of a minimum of 10,000 words (word count includes references and related readings) are expected to be submitted by December 8, 2024, 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, Mitigating Learner Disadvantages in Teaching and Learning. 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

August 25, 2024: Proposal Submission Deadline
September 8, 2024: Notification of Acceptance
December 8, 2024: Full Chapter Submission
February 9, 2025: Review Results Returned
March 23, 2025: Final Acceptance Notification
April 6, 2025: Final Chapter Submission

Inquiries

Dr. Shalin Hai-Jew

Hutchinson Community College

haijes@gmail.com

Classifications

Business and Management; Computer Science and Information Technology; Education; Media and Communications

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