Education category: 70663 books
India Higher Education Report 2017
Teaching, Learning and Quality in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
Understanding teaching, learning and quality in higher education requires in-depth engagement with theoretical discourse and empirical evidences. With this objective, the Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education (CPRHE) has initiated multiple research activities to develop deeper insights into...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
Higher Education has become a central institution of society, building individual knowledge, skills, agency, and relational social networks at unprecedented depth and scale. Within a generation there has been an extraordinary global expansion of Higher Education, in every region in all but the poorest...
Education and Free Will
Spinoza, Causal Determinism and Moral Formation
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Education and Free Will critically assesses and makes use of Spinoza’s insights on human freedom to construe an account of education that is compatible with causal determinism without sacrificing the educational goal of increasing students’ autonomy and self-determination. Offering a thorough...
Global Perspectives on Catholic Religious Education in Schools
Volume II: Learning and Leading in a Pluralist World
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
This book shares global perspectives on Catholic religious education in schools, chiefly focusing on educational and curriculum issues that take into account the theology and the pedagogy which support learning in connection with Catholic religious education. Further, it offers insights into the distinctive...
Gender and Distance Education
Indian and International Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
This book investigates the intersection of gender and distance education from a feminist perspective and explores their contemporary innovative interfaces in Indian and international contexts.
The key issues raised here include a re- investigation of the democratizing potential of distance...
The Wiley Handbook on Violence in Education
Forms, Factors, and Preventions
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
In this comprehensive, multidisciplinary volume, experts from a wide range fields explore violence in education’s different forms, contributing factors, and contextual nature.
With contributions from noted experts in a wide-range of scholarly and professional fields, The Wiley Handbook on...
Preschool Bilingual Education
Agency in Interactions Between Children, Teachers, and Parents
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
This volume provides an up-to-date collection of key aspects related to current preschool bilingual education research from a socio-linguistic perspective. The focus is on preschool bilingual education in multilingual Europe, which is characterized by diverse language models and children's linguistic...
Funding Your Education
The Guide to Federal Student Aid
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
This guide provides a description of Federal Student Aid programs and the application process. Readers will find information on federal student aid as a source for funding postsecondary education, and know where to go for more detailed information.
Funding Your Education: The Guide...
Little Soldiers
An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice; Real Simple Best of the Month; Library Journal Editors’ Pick
In the spirit of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Bringing up Bébé, and The Smartest Kids in the World, a hard-hitting exploration of China’s widely acclaimed yet insular education...
Research in Deaf Education
Contexts, Challenges, and Considerations
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Edited by Stephanie W. Cawthon and Carrie Lou Garberoglio, Research in Deaf Education: Contexts, Challenges, and Considerations is a showcase of insight and experience from a seasoned group of researchers across the field of deaf education. Research in Deaf Education begins with foundational chapters...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Multicultural Education for Learners with Special Needs in the TwentyFirst Century provides general and special educators innovative information that address the road blocks to effective practice such that diverse learners will be appropriately; identified, assessed, categorized, placed and instructed....
The Education Apocalypse
How It Happened and How to Survive It
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
For decades, the U.S. invested ever-growing fortunes into its antiquated K-12 education system in exchange for steadily worse outcomes. At the same time, Americans spent more than they could afford on higher education, driven by the kind of cheap credit that fueled the housing crisis. The graduates of...
College Disrupted
The Great Unbundling of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
For nearly two decades, pundits have been predicting the demise of higher education in the United States. Our colleges and universities will soon find themselves competing for students with universities from around the world. With the advent of massive open online courses ("MOOCS") over...
Class Clowns
How the Smartest Investors Lost Billions in Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
The past thirty years have seen dozens of otherwise successful investors try to improve education through the application of market principles. They have funneled billions of dollars into alternative schools, online education, and textbook publishing, and they have, with surprising regularity, lost...