Education category: 70663 books
Livelihoods and Learning
Education For All and the marginalisation of mobile pastoralists
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Current paradigms of ‘development’ generally serve mobile pastoralist groups poorly: their visibility in policy processes is minimal, and their mobility is constructed by the powerful as a ‘problem’, rather than as a rational livelihood strategy. Increasingly damaged eco-systems, shrinking...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2019
This book contains the contributions presented at the 6th international KES conference on Smart Education and e-Learning (KES SEEL-2019), which took place at St. Julian’s, Malta, June 17–19, 2019. It contains fifty-five high-quality peer-reviewed papers that are grouped into several interconnected...
Mathematics Education in East Africa
Towards Harmonization and Enhancement of Education Quality
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
This book is a valuable resource for policymakers and practitioners as it brings insights mainly from developing countries where relatively less research activity takes place. It is also a valuable resource for courses in mathematics education in the teacher education colleges, and departments of...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
This book examines the nexus between nation-building and history education globally and the implication for cultural diversity and social justice. It studies some of the major education reforms and policy issues in history education in a global culture, and regards them in the light of recent shifts...
Quality of Secondary Education in India
Concepts, Indicators, and Measurement
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
This book provides useful insights into quality issues in secondary education in India and addresses the important questions of why there is need to improve the quality of education; how one can measure the quality of education; and the ways to improve quality. The analysis in this book is conceptually...
Habits of Mind
Fostering Access and Excellence in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Habits of Mind maintains that the fact that almost everyone now goes to college need not be seen as an obstacle to excellence in education. Some critics have insisted that college is not for everyone, but William B. Allen and Carol Allen assert that the college diploma has rightly become as much the...
Democracy and Education by John Dewey
With a Critical Introduction by Patricia H. Hinchey
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Some hundred years after John Dewey worked to illuminate what it means to educate and how public education serves as the bedrock of democracy, his seminal Democracy and Education speaks urgently not only to critical contemporary educational issues but to contemporary political issues as well. As mania...
Spinoza and Education
Freedom, understanding and empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Spinoza and Education offers a comprehensive investigation into the educational implications of Spinoza’s moral theory. Taking Spinoza’s naturalism as its point of departure, it constructs a considered account of education, taking special care to investigate the educational implications of Spinoza’s...
Critical Media Pedagogy
Teaching for Achievement in City Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“In this important new book the authors present a compelling case for broadening the way we think about literacy in relation to the ‘new media.’ Through compelling case studies, they examine the ways in which youth engage this medium both as active participants and producers of new,...
Institutionalizing Health and Education for All
Global Goals, Innovations, and Scaling Up
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Health for All and Education for All have been rallying cries for a host of international development activities for more than a quarter century. Where did these global goals come from? Why have the health goals seemingly advanced so much faster than those in education? In this book, author Colette...
Education and Political Subjectivities in Neoliberal Times and Places
Emergences of norms and possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Education and Political Subjectivities in Neoliberal Times and Places investigates the conditions and possibilities for political subjectivities to emerge in international educational contexts, where neoliberal norms are repeated, performed and transformed. Through demonstrating the possibility of...
by Robyn Benson, Margaret Heagney, Lesley Hewitt
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Government initiatives in many countries emphasise social inclusion in higher education, resulting in a more diverse student population. This presents opportunities and challenges for academic and professional staff in managing and supporting these students. Managing and Supporting Student Diversity...
From Vocational to Professional Education
Educating for social welfare
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
One of the most important routes to employment within the social welfare sector worldwide is higher education, which equips students not only with the knowledge for employment, but with the tools to use and build on this knowledge. During the last few decades there has been an academic drift in professional...
Professional Social Work Education and Health Care
Challenges for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Professional Social Work Education and Health Care responds to critical concerns about the educational preparation of social workers within the rapidly changing health care environment. Contributors address issues and questions of importance to educators who are contending with the multiple challenges...