Empowering Engagement: Creating Learning Opportunities for Students from Challenging Backgrounds

Chapter 1. Engaging in Learning: The Challenges and Consequences for Students from Disadvantaged Backgrounds.- Chapter 2. Indicators and Facilitators of Engagement: Going Beyond Linear Thinking.- Chapter 3. Access and Opportunity to Learn: Essentials for Academic Engagement.- Chapter 4. 'Opportunity to Connect': Social Skills as Engagement Agents.- Chapter 5. 'Opportunity to Read': Student Voice as a Reading Engagement Enabler.- Chapter 6. 'Opportunity to Aspire': Promoting Mathematics Engagement and Aspiration for Challenging Mathematics.- Chapter 7. 'Opportunity to Flourish': Reconnecting Pedagogy for Youths Out-of-School and Out-of-Work.- Chapter 8. 'Opportunity to Re-engage': Alternative Education Programs and Pathways for Youths who 'Don't Fit'.- Chapter 9. Engagement for What Purpose? Engagement Towards What Outcome? Empowering Engagement for Students from Disadvantaged Backgrounds.