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Vocational Education in the Nordic Countries
Learning from Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Vocational Education in the Nordic Countries: Learning from Diversity is the second of two books that disseminates new and systematic knowledge on the strengths and weaknesses of the different models of vocational education and training (VET) in four Nordic countries. Vocational education in Europe...
Human Rights and Schooling
An Ethical Framework for Teaching for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Most of the struggles for equitable schooling, including multicultural curricula and culturally responsive teaching, have largely taken place on a local or national stage, with little awareness of how international human rights standards might support these struggles. Human Rights and Schooling explores...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
This book explores the way in which the pressures of globalisation are shaping higher education funding and access across the world. Higher education is seen as a way of developing human capital and building knowledge economies, but major debates continue about who should attend university; how the...
Neoliberalism and Market Forces in Education
Lessons from Sweden
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
Neoliberalism and Market Forces in Education provides a wide perspective on the dramatic transformation of education policy in Sweden that has taken place during the last 30 years, with a specific focus on marketization. The marketization of education in Sweden is set in the wider international context...
Global Learning and Education
An introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
What is globalisation?
How are its effects felt by different people across the world?
How can we help young people flourish in a world characterised by globalisation?
Conflict, poverty, breaches of human rights, and environmental sustainability are everyday issues for global citizens...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The primacy of education in development agendas is unquestioned. With the gradual acknowledgement of the potential benefits that migration can hold for development, the relationship between migration and education is a growing area of research. Migration, Education and Socio-Economic Mobility explores...
Global Citizenship Education and the Crises of Multiculturalism
Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
The notion of global citizenship education (GCE) has emerged in the international education discourse in the context of the United Nations Education First Initiative that cites developing global citizens as one of its goals. In this book, the authors argue that GCE offers a new educational perspective...
Reclaiming Discipline for Education
Knowledge, relationships and the birth of community
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Discipline is of profound educational importance, both inside educational institutions and outside of them in personal and social life. Reclaiming Discipline for Education revisits neglected philosophical ideas about discipline in education and uses these ideas to re-think practices and discourses...
Science | Environment | Health
Towards a Renewed Pedagogy for Science Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Health and the environment are important learning areas in science education and their significance is growing. Not only do they have high social relevance, but they are also close to students’ interests and needs. They provide many opportunities to unlock science with questions that are personally...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
This collection of essays invites readers to think through critical questions concerning anti-racism education, such as: How does anti-racism education centre race as an analytic and simultaneously work with multiple sites of oppression, without reifying hierarchies of difference? How can anti-racism...
Geographies of alternative education
Diverse learning spaces for children and young people
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
This book offers a comparative analysis of alternative education in the UK, focusing on learning spaces that cater for children and young people. It constitutes one of the first book-length explorations of alternative learning spaces outside mainstream education - including Steiner, human scale and...
Technology in Social Work Education and Curriculum
The High Tech, High Touch Social Work Educator
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Save time and trouble as you incorporate technology into your social work curriculum
The dramatic increase in the use of computers and other forms of technology in social work education and practice has educators, trainers, and administrators investing valuable time, money, and effort into...
by Lawrence Nixon, Trish Spedding, Paul Wakeling
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
***Reflective Teaching in Further, Adult and Vocational Education***is the definitive textbook for reflective professionals in further, adult and vocational education, drawing on the experience of the author team and the latest research, including that of the Teaching and Learning Research Programme...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
'Open', 'informal', and 'humanistic' are words used to describe new styles of education which depart from ordinary or traditional education. Too often, however, these adjectives are used in a strongly polemical or self-justifying rather than analytical way. Often too, the grounds for accepting or...