Education category: 70663 books
Wasted
Why Education Isn't Educating
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Never has so much attention been devoted to education. Everyone - government ministers, social commentators and parents obsess about its problems. Yet we rarely ask why? Why is education a source of such concern? Why do many of the solutions proposed actually make matters worse?
Tony Blair's...
The Taming of Education
Evaluating Contemporary Approaches to Learning and Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This book evaluates contemporary approaches to education, with a particular focus on the ways in which assessment shapes the educational experience and influences pupils and students. It adopts a critical approach, arguing that there is a need for students to develop critical thinking skills, be flexible...
Higher Education and Lifelong Learning
International Perspectives on Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Responding to the emerging needs of lifelong learners arguably represents one of the most fundamental challenges facing higher education systems of the countries of the developing world. At the start of the new century the concept of Lifelong Learning may indeed be counted as one of the the key organising...
Heidegger and Executive Education
The Management of Time
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Global corporations and the senior executives who oversee them have been subject to great criticism in recent times: not only do such corporations hold extreme concentrations of wealth, but they continue to sanction staggering pay inequalities between the haves and the have-nots. At the same time,...
Education in Political Science
Discovering a neglected field
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
This pioneering volume is devoted to the analysis of education from the perspective of political science, applying the full range of the discipline’s analytical perspectives and methodological tools.
The contributions demonstrate how education policy can be explored systematically from a...
Work and Education in America
The Art of Integration
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2011
This, the first comprehensive academic volume on vocational education and training (VET) or career and technical education in the United States, features insights into a variety of issues in this field of research. The international reader will find an up-to-date synthesis as well as a critical analysis...
Enhancing Quality in Higher Education
International perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Interest in the quality of higher education provision has been steadily increasing over the last twenty years. This has been driven largely by the international creation of explicit policies and reporting requirements to review, audit and evaluate provision. The interest is associated in many countries...
by Roberto Miguel Rodriguez
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
A synthesis of peace education and its overlapping and interrelated fields and reflections about the origins of peace education; the theoretical, conceptual and pedagogical perspectives of various strands of peace education; a historic framework of peace education; education for dismantling a culture...
Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
The Reflective Professional
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2009
'This book provides teachers in higher education with what they need - a compelling framework for improving student learning. It combines a comprehensive synthesis of the latest research on learning and teaching with practical strategies for implementing it in their classrooms' - Professor Ken Bain,...
by Liz Atkins, Susan Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
This accessible and practical book is a perfect quick guide for postgraduate researchers in education. Looking at the interdependence of teaching and research, the authors show that a critical and analytical exploration of policies and practices is a necessary part of what we mean by being a 'professional'...
Democratic Education in Practice
Inside the Mission Hill School
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Mission Hill School, founded by MacArthur Award winner Deborah Meier and colleagues in 1997, is a small public school that has rethought almost everything about the process of teaching and learning. Beyond richly describing and evaluating this high-achieving school, the author argues that democratic...
Assessment in Physical Education
A Sociocultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Assessment has widely been acknowledged as a central element of institutional education, shaping curriculum and pedagogy in powerful ways and representing a critical reference point in political, professional and public debates about educational achievement and policy directions. Within physical education...
An Introduction to Multicultural Education
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
An Introduction to Multicultural Education provides a balance between the principles and practice of multicultural education in the K-12 classroom, presenting multicultural education as a learner-centered pedagogy. DomNwachukwu's book projects foundational principles and practices that make multicultural...
On Higher Education
Five Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966
During the session of 1964-65, the Ontario College of Education sponsored this series of lectures on Higher Education. The first two lectures in the volume, by Robin Harris, Principal of Innis College, and Professor of Higher Education are entitled "The Establishment of a Provincial University...