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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Higher Education systems and universities worldwide are constantly being transformed due to ever-changing practices and policies. Recent research reveals the challenges between society and higher education continue to grow. New Voices in Higher Education Research and Scholarship explores the role of...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
The Empirical Science of Religious Education draws together a collection of innovative articles in the field of religious education which passed the editorial scrutiny of Professor Robert Jackson over the course of his impactful fourteen year career as editor of the British Journal of Religious Education....
Higher Education and China’s Global Rise
A Neo-tributary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
This book examines the rise of China’s global profile in the international higher education community, as indicated by its rise of human capital, visibility in academic publications, world university ranking, expanding international cultural influence, and becoming a study-abroad destination of...
Closing the Gap
Digital Equity Strategies for Teacher Prep Programs
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Closing the Gap is an ISTE book series designed to reflect the contributions of multiple stakeholders seeking to ensure that digital equity is achieved on campuses, in classrooms, and throughout education. In this series, authors Nicol R. Howard, Sarah Thomas, and Regina Schaffer offer historical...
A Turning Point in Teacher Education
A Time for Resistance, Reflection, and Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
Since teacher education looked to become a formal field of study in the 1800s, it has historically contended with competing forces in the effort to solidify its professional identity. Currently, that contention is juxtaposed with those external forces that look to promote fast-track teacher training,...
Catholic Philosophy of Education
The Church and Two Philosophers
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Today’s pluralist and multicultural society raises questions about how to teach religiously and ethnically diverse students in Catholic schools. A Catholic Philosophy of Education addresses these challenges by examining the documents from the Roman Congregation for Catholic Education alongside the...
Mindfulness and Learning
Celebrating the Affective Dimension of Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2011
In recent decades, education at all levels has been seriously impoverished by a growing obsession with standards, targets, skills and competences. According to this model, only a circumscribed range of basic cognitive skills and competences are the business of education, whose main role is to provide...
New Perspectives in Special Education
Contemporary philosophical debates
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This book should be read by everyone who wants to understand special education today.
New Perspectives in Special Education opens the door to the fascinating and vitally important world of theory that informs contemporary special education. It examines theoretical and philosophical orientations...
Education Systems and Learners
Knowledge and Knowing
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
This book explores curricular, teaching and learning practices in schools in England and in higher education institutions, and considers the damaging effects of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) for UK higher education institutions, international comparative assessment systems such as the Programme...
Educating the Gendered Citizen
sociological engagements with national and global agendas
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2008
Globalisation and global human rights are the two major forces in the twenty-first century which are likely to shape the sort of learner citizen created by the educational system. Schools will be expected to prepare young men and women for national as well as global citizenship. Male and female citizens...
Understanding Education Policy
The ‘Four Education Orientations’ Framework
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Analysis of education policy often follows a particular orientation, such as conservative or neo-liberal. Yet, readers are often left to wonder the true meaning and conceptual framing behind these orientations. Without this knowledge, the policy analysis lacks true rigor, its value is diminished as...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
The diversity education literature, both nationally and internationally, is broad and diffuse. Consequently, there needs to be a systematic and logical way to organize and present the state of research for students and professionals. American citizens need to understand the dynamics of their increasingly...
Rethinking Science Education
Philosophical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
This book presents a “philosophy of science education” as a research field as well as its value for curriculum, instruction and teacher pedagogy. It seeks to rethink science education as an educational endeavour by examining why past reform efforts have been only partially successful, including...
by Sasha Pleasance
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Developing an understanding of professional practice is essential for anyone training to teach in the further education and skills sector. This *go-to *guide will give you a clear understanding of the major topics covered in the mandatory Wider Professional Practice and Development unit of the Level...