Education category: 70663 books
Placing Practitioner Knowledge at the Center of Teacher Education
Rethinking the Policies and Practices of the Education Doctorate
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Rethinking the Education Doctorate so that practitioner knowledge is at the center of programmatic concern in teacher education raises provocative education policy/practice considerations. Participants in the national Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) are doing just this. Their accounts...
A Learning-Centered Framework for Education Reform
What Does It Mean for National Policy?
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In her new book, Betty Demarest describes a bold agenda for education reform—one that is firmly grounded in a synthesis of educational research about learning, teaching, and the contexts of education. The author’s “learning-centered” framework includes: (1) a broad and balanced...
by Kenneth M. Zeichner
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The Struggle for the Soul of Teacher Education is a much-needed exploration of the unprecedented current controversies and debates over teacher education and professionalism. Set within the context of neo-liberal education reforms across the globe, the book explores how the current struggles over...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
The World Education Research Association (WERA) is an association of major national, regional, and international specialty research associations dedicated to advancing education research as a scientific and scholarly field. WERA undertakes initiatives that are global in nature and thus transcend what...
by Jovita M. Ross-Gordon, Amy D. Rose, Carol E. Kasworm
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
A research-based foundational overview of contemporary adult education
Foundations of Adult and Continuing Education distills decades of scholarship in the field to provide students and practitioners with an up-to-date practical resource. Grounded in research and focused on the unique needs...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Education is the first authoritative reference work to provide an international analysis of the relationship between power, knowledge, education, and schooling. Rather than focusing solely on questions of how we teach efficiently and effectively, contributors...
Realizing General Education: Reconsidering Conceptions and Renewing Practice
AEHE Volume 42, Number 2
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
General education is widely touted as an enduring distinctive of higher education, but what do we actually mean by general education? Differing perspectives not only make it challenging to consider its significance, but also open it up to a wide range of determinations regarding its effectiveness.
This...
Art and Design Pedagogy in Higher Education
Knowledge, Values and Ambiguity in the Creative Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Art and Design Pedagogy in Higher Education provides a contemporary volume that offers a scholarly perspective on tertiary level art and design education. Providing a theoretical lens to examine studio education, the authors suggest a student-centred model of curriculum that supports the development...
Achieving Your Award in Education and Training
A Practical Guide to Successful Teaching in the Further Education and Skills Sector
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Previously known as Achieving Your PTLLS Award, this third edition of the popular book comprehensively covers the new requirements for the new Level 3 Award in Education and Training for anyone training to teach in the Further Education and Skills sector or broader workplace and adult learning settings.
This...
Doctoral Education for the Knowledge Society
Convergence or Divergence in National Approaches?
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2018
This book explores and compares the systems of doctoral education in twelve higher education systems, consisting of four systems in East Asia, four in Europe and four Anglo-American systems.
The emphasis placed on doctoral education and training has increased dramatically in many higher education...
Measuring Quality of Undergraduate Education in Japan
Comparative Perspective in a Knowledge Based Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
This book explores how the global trend of quality assurance in higher education is related to the boom of measuring learning outcomes in Japan. It also presents a comparative study in higher education policy between Japan and the US, examining how both countries have reacted to the demands of globalization....
World Yearbook of Education 2003
Language Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
The issues raised by the role of language in education are some of the most important and contentious faced by education systems across the globe. Language is embedded in the concepts of nationhood and identity, and is therefore directly linked to the very social and political fabric of a country.
In...
Knowledge Hierarchies in Transnational Education
Staging dissensus
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Transnational education seeks equivalence in standards and/or relevance of outcomes through the transfer of Western theories, concepts and methods. Utilising a critique-interpretative approach, Jing Qi argues that equivalence/relevance-oriented approaches to transnational education assume the legitimacy...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
This handbook presents a global overview of developments in education and policy change during the last decade. It provides an accessible, practical and comparative source of current research that examines the intersecting and diverse discourses of this important issue.
Divided into two parts, the...