Voices from the Classroom illustrates that teachers have a leading voice in the policies that impact their students and the profession of teaching. The publication includes chapters on issues ranging from dyslexic students' geospatial abilities to teachers' differential behaviours related, student characteristics and the experiences of refugees with bullying in the educational space. All the contributions published in this book emerged from real classrooms: our teachers and researchers conducted their research by drawing on their experience as educators.

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Dr. Vana Chiou is a faculty member (Laboratory Teaching Staff) at the Department of Geography, University of the Aegean, Greece. Her research interests focus on contemporary teaching methods, assessment, teacher training, and inclusion in education. She is also a co-editor of the book series Voices from the Classroom (Waxmann Publications). She has contributed to various publications, including edited volumes, book chapters, and articles in both Greek and international journals. Additionally, she has participated in and co-coordinated several European projects. Lotte Geunis is a political advisor with a proven track record on open government reforms, gender and inclusion. Lotte has consulted for the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank, International IDEA and the Open Government Partnership. She is a PhD fellow at Maastricht University, focusing on political elites and youth participation. Lotte is the co-editor of three books and the author of over a dozen publications. She holds an MPhil from the University of Oxford and a BA from the University of Warwick. Oliver Holz, Prof. Dr. phil., M.A. (1970); MA in educational sciences and psychology; PhD in educational sciences; coordinator and organiser of European network(s); research with the emphasis on comparative educational science; employed at the KU Leuven, various publications on relevant educational subjects. Working at Izmir University of Economics, School of Foreign Languages since 2008, Nesrin Oruç Ertürk has earned her PhD degree from Anadolu University in 2007, assigned as an Assoc. Prof. Dr. in 2014 and appointed as Prof. Dr. in 2019. Her main interest areas are Lifelong Learning, teacher training, and second language acquisition. She has published many books and has many articles published in national and international journals. She has carried research and taught abroad in departments of linguistics at different universities (State University of New York, SUNY, USA; Universidad de Alcala, Spain). Since 2015, she has been assigned as the director of EKOSEM (Izmir University of Economics, Continuing Education Center) and is a member of the Executive Board of TUSEM (The Council of Turkish Universities Continuing Education Centers). Fiona Shelton, Doctoral Candidate, MAEd, BEd, FHEA, MCCT. Current doctoral research focuses on memories of primary school from 1944 - 2009. Master of Arts in Education focusing on the role of the stakeholder in curriculum design. Fiona has 25 years of experience in the education sector in schools and Higher Education, Fiona is currently Dean of Students and Head of the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching. Bouna-Vaila, Andromachi, Dr., studied Social Anthropology at University of the Aegean, and she holds a master's and a PhD degree in the field of "Sociology of Gender" from the University of Ioannina. She was an Academic Scholar at the University of Ioannina. She is currently a lecturer at the University of the Aegean where she teaches sexual orientation/gender identity issues and sociology of violence. At the same time, she is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of the Aegean - her research focuses on "Gender-based school violence at Greece and Albania". She has taken part in numerous scientific conferences and has published books on gender issues. Dr. Vana Chiou is a faculty member (Laboratory Teaching Staff) at the Department of Geography, University of the Aegean, Greece. Her research interests focus on contemporary teaching methods, assessment, teacher training, and inclusion in education. She is also a co-editor of the book series Voices from the Classroom (Waxmann Publications). She has contributed to various publications, including edited volumes, book chapters, and articles in both Greek and international journals. Additionally, she has participated in and co-coordinated several European projects. ELEFTHERIOU, Paraskevi is a PhD candidate of Pedagogy at University of Athens. She completed postgraduate studies in the Master's program "Theory, Practice and Evaluation of Educational Process" at the Athens School of Philosophy. She has been working as a professor in private education since 2010 and has been involved in research programs at the Athens School of Philosophy. Her research interests are educational research as an axis for intercultural education, the education of immigrants and refugees, the application of critical pedagogy. Based on these interests she has a number of publications and participation in conferences. Dr. Ayse Karaçizmeli is a part-time lecturer working at Izmir University of Economics, Faculty of Business Administration. She obtained her PhD from the Marketing Department of Ege University, Turkey. She was employed as a research assistant in Harran University and Ege University totally for ten years. She conducted research in Lille-II University, France as a researcher. As a member of CCT (Consumer Culture Theory) Community, her research area is mainly on consumer behaviour, consumption sociology and gender studies. Dr. Aikaterini Klonari is Professor in Geography Department at University of the Aegean. Her research interest is on Geographic Education and use of ICT in teaching Geography. She teaches a wide variety of courses in undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She continues to conduct research locally and internationally on teaching and learning methodology, Geography Curricula and on GIS in Education.