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Education Abroad and the Undergraduate Experience
Critical Perspectives and Approaches to Integration with Student Learning and Development
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Co-published with NAFSA.
This volume focuses on two questions. First, how can education abroad be embedded into undergraduate education so that students experience it as an integral component of their education and something they help shape, rather than as time away from their education and...
Digital Governance of Education
Technology, Standards and Europeanization of Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Digital Governance of Education explores the multiple ways in which digital technologies are changing the experience of education. With much of the contemporary education practice either taking place or being documented digitally, a huge amount of data is constantly being collected and analysed to...
China's Education Reform
Current Issues and New Horizons
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
China's Education Reform: Current Issues and New Horizons collects important research findings of education studies on China conducted by the academics at East China Normal University (ECNU) in recent years. The book covers topics including the rebuilding of contemporary Chinese education reform,...
Physical and Health Education in Canada
Integrated Approaches for Elementary Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2018
Physical and Health Education in Canada: Integrated Approaches for Elementary Teachers is a comprehensive text for Canadian teacher candidates preparing for responsibilities associated with physical and health education teaching in the elementary grades (K through 8). The book also serves as a practical...
Visions in Global Education
The Globalization of Curriculum and Pedagogy in Teacher Education and Schools: Perspectives from Canada, Russia, and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
This book is a compilation of new scholarship in the field of global education. Previously unaddressed or barely touched upon topics include: the historical evolution of the global education movement; the development of a foundation for the formation of a philosophy of global education; an analysis...
Globalisation and Education Reforms
Paradigms and Ideologies
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
This book explores the interrelationship between ideology, the state, and education reforms, placing it in a global context. It examines some of the major education reforms and policy issues in a global culture, particularly in light of recent shifts in quality and standards-driven education, and...
Education Governance for the Twenty-First Century
Overcoming the Structural Barriers to School Reform
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
America's fragmented, decentralized, politicized, and bureaucratic system of education governance is a major impediment to school reform. In this important new book, a number of leading education scholars, analysts, and practitioners show that understanding the impact of specific policy changes in...
Globalizing Education for Work
Comparative Perspectives on Gender and the New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2004
This book explores how changes in the new world economy are affecting the education of male and female workers. Authors from Australia, Africa, Brazil, Europe, North America, and South Korea use methodologies--such as literature reviews, case studies, legislative analysis, evaluations of model delivery...
American Higher Education in Crisis?
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
American higher education is at a crossroads. Technological innovations and disruptive market forces are buffeting colleges and universities at the very time their financial structure grows increasingly fragile. Disinvestment by states has driven up tuition prices at public colleges, and student debt...
Education Matters
Global Schooling Gains from the 19th to the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Education has significant and far-reaching effects not only on individuals, but also on the societies in which they live and to which they contribute. The education level of a population affects how a country supports itself and others and the degree to which it can participate in the global field....
On the Line
Business Education in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
This book presents different perspectives of online business education - how it is designed, delivered and how it supports advances in management disciplines. The authors describe online platforms in their provision of timely, excellent and relevant business education. The book starts by examining...
Competence-based Vocational and Professional Education
Bridging the Worlds of Work and Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
This book presents a comprehensive overview of extant literature on competence-based vocational and professional education since the introduction of the competence concept in the 1950s. To structure the fi eld, the book distinguishes between three approaches to defi ning competence, based on 1.functional...
by Preston Roberson
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Online Education: A Guide To Getting Your Degree Online
This book covers several topics including:
Chapter 1: Is an online degree right for you Chapter 2: Getting An Online education and the importance of time management Chapter 3: Brightening horizons studying abroad online Chapter...
Higher Education as a Field of Study in China
Defining Knowledge and Curriculum Structure
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
Higher Education as a Field of Study in China: Defining Knowledge and Curriculum Structure concerns the complexity of higher education as an academic field_the evolving nature of the field in light of the overall development of higher education in China. It reviews how higher education as a field...