Adult Continuing Education category: 1694 books
Uncovering English-Medium Instruction
Glocal Issues in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
English-medium instruction (EMI) is a complex educational innovation and a prerequisite for active participation in the process of internationalizing academia. Given its impact on today’s universities, it is crucial that EMI should be effectively and responsibly implemented.
This book draws...
Uneasy Transitions
Disaffection in Post-Compulsory Education and Training
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Originally published in 1990, this title offers a range of perspectives from practitioners, administrators and researchers, examining personal experiences of disaffection in students and staff within the context of national political, social, and economic change. The transitions include moves into...
by Dietmar Tatzl
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
This book offers a macrostrategy for teaching English as a foreign language to students in tertiary degree programmes. This teaching strategy has been developed from various methodological currents in higher education and language didactics. The volume provides inspiration, ideas and practical examples...
by Eva Reid
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Slovak education, including foreign language education, is going through curricular reform. Even though the development of intercultural communicative competences is claimed to be one of the key aims of foreign language teaching, recent research suggests that most teaching time is devoted to the development...
Equality, Participation and Inclusion 1
Diverse Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
What are the experiences of children and young people?
How can we think about the challenges they face?
What systems and practices can support them?
How can we develop greater equality, participation and inclusion across diverse settings?
This second edition of Equality,...
Surviving and Thriving with Teacher Action Research
Reflections and Advice from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Action research can be a transformative learning experience that strengthens educators’ practice and empowers our voices. For the novice action researcher, however, it can sometimes be frustrating, isolating, and overwhelming. Surviving and Thriving with Teacher Action Research is an outstanding...
Classroom Behaviour Management in the Post-School Sector
Student and Teacher Perspectives on the Battle Against Being Educated
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
This book listens to the voices of post-school teachers, managers, theorists, trainees, teacher educators and students talking about the battle against being educated. It analyses models of classroom behaviour management, with examples of theory critiquing practice and practice criticizing theory....
People Need to Know
Confronting History in the Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
People Need to Know follows a group of students as they study the defining event in their community’s history – a 1930 lynching that was captured in one of the century’s most iconic and disturbing photographs. With ambitions of contributing to public understanding, the students set out to create...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
The International Handbook of Research in Professional and Practice-based Learning discusses what constitutes professionalism, examines the concepts and practices of professional and practice-based learning, including associated research traditions and educational provisions. It also explores professional...
Kompetenz im Studium und in der Arbeitswelt- Competence in Higher Education and the Working Environment
Nationale und internationale Ansaetze zur Erfassung von Ingenieurkompetenzen- National and International Approaches for Assessing Engineering Competence
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Gute Lehre an Hochschulen hat in den vergangenen Jahren erheblich an Bedeutung gewonnen. Dies gilt angesichts hoher Studienabbruchquoten insbesondere in den Ingenieurswissenschaften. Um die Effekte guter Lehre auf die Lernergebnisse bei den Studierenden zu erfassen, fehlen jedoch bislang empirisch...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Creating jobs and increasing productivity are at the top of agenda for policymakers across the world. Knowledge accumulation and skills are recognized as central in this process. More-educated workers not only have better employment opportunities, earn more, and have more stable and rewarding jobs, but...
Dare to Dream
The Story of One Man's Inspiring and Colourful Journey to Education in Adulthood
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Lack of opportunity is the common reason people give for their inability to attain their potential. This story invites the reader to take the colourful route of gaining an education in adulthood. In doing so we satisfy restless curiosity and obtain peace of mind. The author's story provides clues...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
When online learning began more than two decades ago, many universities envisioned the creation of international student markets, but this has only recently become a reality. The emergence of a global economy, advances in technology, increased market competition, reduced funding, and the growing desire...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
The knowledge and decisions of professionals influence all facets of modern life, a fact reflected by the increasing and distinct emphasis on public accountability for what professionals know and do. The nature of this accountability has been fundamentally transformed in response to a changing context...