Adult Continuing Education category: 1694 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Strategic Role of Tertiary Education and Technologies for Sustainable Competitive Advantage explores how education enables social and economic development through the targeted training of human capital and the evaluation and dissemination of knowledge resources across generations. This book provides...
Vocational Education of Female Entrepreneurs in China
A multitheoretical and multidimensional analysis of successful businesswomen's everyday lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
This book examines the ways in which formal and non-formal education can contribute to women’s successful design, development and operation of small businesses in rural settings. Calling on varied, pertinent social theories, the book examines profitable businesses operated by Dongxiang Muslim women...
by Jim Gould, Jodi Roffey-Barentsen
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
This textbook supports the new Level 5 Diploma in Education Training qualification for those training to teach in the further education and skills sector. Full of informed practical guidance to help you to develop your teaching skills and supported by meaningful links to theory, it covers all mandatory...
CLIL in Higher Education
Towards a Multilingual Language Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
This book offers a unique view of multilingualism in higher education from a global perspective. It presents a contextualised case of a multilingual language policy which takes the Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach. The volume discusses various approaches to multilingual education...
Cases on Professional Distance Education Degree Programs and Practices
Successes, Challenges, and Issues
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Although internet technologies have transformed the concept of professional development by providing the opportunity for virtual learning environments in a non-traditional setting, the implementation of professional distance education programs still poses a challenge. Cases on Professional Distance Education...
Higher Education Reform: Looking Back Looking Forward
Second Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2019
The central focus of this book is the concept of higher education reform in the light of an international and global comparative perspective. After decades of far-reaching reform, higher education around the world has profoundly changed and now has to face the challenges of the present. This volume...
The College Completion Glass—Half-Full or Half-Empty?
Exploring the Value of Postsecondary Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Despite the Great Recession and looming “student loan debt crisis”, college education remains the most proven, invaluable lifetime investment and serves as the most reliable path to upward mobility and socioeconomic class reassignment. Mfume suggests that “the value added” of even one year...
Workbook Education (EV)
Personal and employee education
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
The E in D.R.E.A.M Formula® stands for Education - that is, consistently advancing your leaders´ and employees´ development. Then one thing is perfectly clear: swiftly evolving technological and social conditions calls for continuous adaptation and life-long learning. But what exactly is education...
by James Holland, Keith Burns
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Part of the ALL-NEW Ladybird Expert series.
Find out about WWII's longest battle. This is an accessible, insightful and authoritative account of the naval campaign that kept supply lines open and enabled Britain to continue to fight.
Historian, author and broadcaster James Holland draws...
by James Holland, Keith Burns
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Part of the ALL-NEW Ladybird Expert series.
Learn about the fall of Europe in the Second World War in one of the most successful military strategies of modern warfare in this accessible, insightful and authoritative account.
Historian, author and broadcaster James Holland draws on the...
Journeys of Social Justice
Women of Color Presidents in the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2019
This edited volume documents the unique experiences of women of color in higher education administration. From full professors, senior administrators, deans, presidents, and chancellors, women of color share their social justice journeys to leadership roles in the academy. With a focus on women of...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Never before have leadership, equity, and social justice been more important and/or critical to the mission of public universities and institutions of higher education. The twenty-first century has ushered in a period of instantaneous feedback, including live newsfeeds, reviews of goods and services,...
The Crisis of Race in Higher Education
A Day of Discovery and Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
The compendium of writings in this edited volume sheds light on the event “Race & Ethnicity: A Day of Discovery and Dialogue” at Washington University in St. Louis and the work current students, faculty, and staff are doing to improve inclusivity on campus and in St. Louis. The book includes...
Teacher Educators Rethink Self-Assessment in Higher Education
A Guide for the Perplexed
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
This edited book provides readers with a guide for implementing self-assessment and self-evaluation that is based on a model implemented successfully in a diverse range of teacher education courses. Educators from disciplines as diverse as theater arts, early childhood, psychology, mathematics, and...