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Education and Schmid's Art of Living
Philosophical, Psychological and Educational Perspectives on Living a Good Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Instead of simply following the current neoliberal mantra of proclaiming economic growth as the single most important factor for maintaining well-being, Education and Schmid’s Art of Living revisits the idea of an education focused on personal development and the well-being of human beings. Drawing...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2019
The essential resource to the issues surrounding childhood care and education with contributions from noted experts
The Wiley Handbook of Early Childhood Care and Education is a comprehensive resource that offers a review of the historical aspects, best practices, and the future directions...
Education in Japan
A Comprehensive Analysis of Education Reforms and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019
This book illustrates the nature of Japan’s education system and identifies its strengths and weaknesses, as well as the socioeconomic environment surrounding education in contemporary Japanese society. It describes the basic institutional structure of each educational stage, in an overview of today’s...
Learning as a Creative and Developmental Process in Higher Education
A Therapeutic Arts Approach and Its Wider Application
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Much has been written about the importance of creativity in learning and education over the last few decades. This unique book extends beyond the usual focus on implementing creative methods in learning, teaching and assessing within higher education, to an examination of creativity as central to...
Conceptualizing Soft Power of Higher Education
Globalization and Universities in China and the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
This book examines the globalization trends in higher education from an international political science perspective, using Nye’s theory of soft power to explore the rationale behind it. It focuses on conceptualizing the Soft Power Conversion Model of Higher Education, which is embedded in the globalization...
The Case against Education
Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2019
Why we need to stop wasting public funds on education
Despite being immensely popular—and immensely lucrative—education is grossly overrated. Now with a new afterword by Bryan Caplan, this explosive book argues that the primary function of education is not to enhance students' skills but...
Improving Opportunities to Engage in Learning
A Study of the Access to Higher Education Diploma
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
Improving Opportunities to Engage in Learning investigates the experiences of mature adult learners returning to formal education. The book challenges the policy discourses in which Access to Higher Education survives by suggesting that continuing education is more about determination by students...
Understanding Education
An Overview of Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
The book ‘UNDERSTANDING EDUCATION : An Overview of Education’ is the result of author’s unique experiment of teaching different papers to his M.Ed. and B.E.d. Classes for more than 26 years. The author, in the beginning of every session, before teaching different papers allotted to him, used...
Further Education, Professional and Occupational Pedagogy
Knowledge and Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2018
The further education (and skills) sector in England has been viewed as a backwater of educational research compared to the other sectors. This comparative lack of research and related publications may be due in part to the huge diversity of the sector. Further Education, Professional and Occupational...
by Joseph Manase, Enedy Mlaki
Language: German
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Language: German
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Wissenschaftliche Studie aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Pädagogik - Erwachsenenbildung, University of Dodoma (College of Education), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: ABSTRACT The major purpose of this research article was to determine limiting forces/factors to successful implementation of adult education...
Making a Difference in Education
What the evidence says
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
What is working in education in the UK - and what isn't? This book offers a highly readable guide to what the latest research says about improving young people's outcomes in pre-school, primary and secondary education. Never has this issue been more topical as the UK attempts to compete in the global...
Perspectives on Access to Higher Education
Practice and Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
Access education has been through many changes since its beginnings in the late 1960s. Recent shifts in the academic landscape including standardization, grading, and new tensions in higher education raise difficult questions for educators regarding the future of access education.
This book...
Social Justice Education in European Multi-ethnic Schools
Addressing the Goals of Intercultural Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Europe is a multi-ethnic society experiencing a rise of anti-immigration, racist, xenophobic discourses, and right-wing political rhetoric and movements proposing legislation to further solidify structural inequality and institutionalized systems of oppression that fuel educational inequities. Social...
by Juhudi Cosmas
Language: German
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Language: German
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Pädagogik - Kindergarten, Vorschule, frühkindl. Erziehung, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Management of family involvement in the early childhood education is important because early childhood years are the period during which children acquire the basic...