There is growing pressure on teachers and other educators to understand and adopt the best ways to work with diverse groups of races, cultures, and languages. Establishing sound cross-cultural pedagogy is critical given that racial, cultural, and linguistic integration has the potential to increase academic success for all learners. The handbook chapters highlight cross-cultural perspectives, challenges, and opportunities related to promoting cultural competence, equity, and social justice in education, as well as other pertinent topics such as acceptable social justice practices and effective diversity and multicultural education. This handbook is an essential collection for teacher educators, academicians, students, researchers, and librarians. Further, this handbook will benefit school administrators, faculty, teachers, and stakeholders interested in socio-cultural issues, perspectives, and trends in diversity education, cross-cultural competence, equity, and social justice in education.

This book informs readers and expands their understanding about specific challenges, issues, strategies, and solutions that are associated with women academics during mid-career and later. The book includes a variety of emerging evidence-based professional practice and narrative personal accounts as written by administrators, faculty, staff, and/or students - anyone keenly aware of the challenges faced by women in the academy. This book is ideal for instructors, administrators, professional staff, and graduate students. Perhaps most importantly, the current publication is both critical and timely given that there is a paucity of literature on the challenges and opportunities for mid-career women in higher education.