Adult Continuing Education category: 1694 books
Universities for a New World
Making a Global Network in International Higher Education, 1913-2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Universities for a New World takes the Centenary of the ‘Association of Commonwealth Universities’ (ACU) as its point of departure in exploring what a 2009 ‘United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’ (UNESCO) Report has evocatively termed an ‘academic revolution’...
Learning Autonomy in Post-16 Education
The Policy and Practice of Formative Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2005
This book makes an important contribution to understanding the political, social and educational impact of assessment. Using a multi-layered approach, it offers a fascinating case study of how post-16 assessment systems are designed and debated inside policy making processes. This case study highlights...
Online College Success
Prepare, Manage, And Achieve Success in Online Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
For the aspiring student with a full-time life—job, family, and other obligations—taking online college courses can be the perfect way to pursue an education. But you may have questions about how it all works. While the online class experience is different, there are many similarities to an in-seat...
Dignity and Human Rights Education
Exploring Ultimate Worth in a Post-Secular World
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This book addresses the question of human rights education in a world that is witnessing a resurgence of religion in public life, and a continuation of religion across much of the globe, long after secularization theories predicted its decline. Promoting a universal vision of human rights while acknowledging...
Anay's Will to Learn
A Woman's Education in the Shadow of the Maquiladoras
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
The opening of free trade agreements in the 1980s caused major economic changes in Mexico and the United States. These economic activities spawned dramatic social changes in Mexican society. One young Mexican woman, Anay Palomeque de Carrillo, rode the tumultuous wave of these economic activities from...
by Nabeel Zaidi
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
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This textbook provides you with the tools and techniques to ensure your answers align to awarding organisation assessment criteria requirements.
While the qualification textbook Award in Education and Training: The Comprehensive Course Companion provides the information...
by Jason Hogan
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The ebook - ESL Conversation Dialogues Scripts 11-20. For Tutors Teaching Mature Upper Intermediate to Advanced ESL Students in Private English Language Lessons. Volume 2: Various I: Casual English, Australian English, General Discussions, and Clichéd Expressions - has been developed to fulfill a...
by Jason Hogan
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
ESL Conversation Dialogues Scripts 21-30 contains dialogues featuring Australian English expressions, with a number of common expressions thrown in to challenge the student. While intermediate level and above is recommended, these dialogues can also be used to challenge beginners into improving their...
Emerging Approaches to Educational Research
Tracing the Socio-Material
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
The last fifteen years have seen much conceptual and methodological innovation in research on education and learning across the lifecourse, bringing both fresh insights and new dilemmas. This innovation was initially fuelled by the growing influence of conceptual framings often named as either post-structural...
by Tara Fenwick, Richard Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
Actor-Network Theory (ANT) has enjoyed wide uptake in the social sciences in the past three decades, particularly in science and technology studies, and is increasingly attracting the attention of educational researchers. ANT studies bring to the fore the material – objects of all kinds – and...
by Keratso Georgiadou
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
This book explores the Muslim minority women’s perceptions of how computer education can lead them to social participation. Moreover, it discusses the contribution of (administrative) members of the community to this effort. The analysis of quantitative findings shows that Muslim women in Greek...
Achieving Your PTLLS Award
A Practical Guide to Successful Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
This accessible book comprehensively covers the new assessment requirements for Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector (PTLLS).
This updated edition includes:
-practical interactive activities for readers
-roles, responsibilities and relationships
-inclusive...
Theories of Practice
Raising the Standards of Early Childhood Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Author Carol Garhart Mooney's Theories of Childhood (first and second editions) is the best-selling Redleaf Press published book of all time with almost 100,000 copies sold. Garhart Mooney has a reputation for making big ideas easy to digest and accessible.
There has been much discussion of...
Exploring Globalization Opportunities and Challenges in Social Studies
Effective Instructional Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
This book on global issues, trends, and practices is intended to serve primarily as an instructional and learning resource in social studies methods courses for preservice teachers. In addition, it is an effective social studies and global education resource for college faculty, graduate students,...