Empowering Learners
A Practical Guide to Inclusive Teaching
Penny A Bishop author Maya Gunawardena author KV Dhanapala author Karen Oakley author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:19th Oct '26
£171.99
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This evidence-informed textbook helps educators implement high-impact teaching practices for all learners. It aligns personalised learning and inclusive teaching with psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, developmental research, and learning theories, equipping teachers with clear, research-based, actionable strategies to tailor education to learners' interests, strengths, and needs.
Bridging the gap between theory and practice, the authors offer practical tools to enhance pedagogical skills, foster learner engagement and agency, and promote equity. The book identifies six essential teacher roles:
- data gatherer and analyst to understand learner identities
- co-designer to offer maximum participation for all learners
- negotiator to offer flexibility in learning
- empowerer to facilitate learning through multiple ways
- assessor to track learner growth, and
- co-regulator to help learners manage emotions and learning
Practical activities, insights, and real-world examples demonstrate how to teach effectively in today’s diverse classrooms.
With insights into leveraging technology, fostering self-directed learning, and designing competency-based assessments, this essential text empowers pre-service and in-service teachers to create engaging, inclusive, and responsive learning environments.
Empowering Learners: A Practical Guide to Inclusive Teaching offers pre-service and early career teachers well-judged guidance on building inclusive classrooms. Gunawardena, Dhanapala, Bishop and Oakley bring their cross-disciplinary expertise to bear on creating the conditions for learning, from engaging with data, to curriculum work, pedagogical decision-making, assessing students’ learning, and the relational work that sits at the heart of teaching. Practical yet anchored in a clear conceptual framework, the book supports readers to engage in structured critical reflection on their own classroom practice. It will be a welcome resource for teachers at any career stage grappling with how to make schools and classrooms more inclusive.
- Professor Nicole Mockler, Sydney School of Education and Social Work, The University of Sydney, Australia
ISBN: 9781041197645
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 500g
170 pages