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Education 101
This Handbook Will Ultimately Give You Various And Excellent Ideas On Education Including Graduate Degree Options, Benefits Of Online Learning, Online Distance Learning, Financial Aid For College, Best Bachelor Degree And A Whole Lot More!
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Education is the process of acquiring knowledge from teachers through their teaching. It is the learning that one gets in schools. It mainly involves activities like imparting knowledge by the teachers in classrooms, presentation of study materials by faculty members, practical training in workshop...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Twenty-first century medical schools, postgraduate bodies and other medical education organisations are responding to rapid advances in medicine, healthcare delivery, educational approaches and technology, and globalisation. Differences in geography, culture, history and resources demand diversity...
Reconceptualizing STEM Education
The Central Role of Practices
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Reconceptualizing STEM Education explores and maps out research and development ideas and issues around five central practice themes: Systems Thinking; Model-Based Reasoning; Quantitative Reasoning; Equity, Epistemic, and Ethical Outcomes; and STEM Communication and Outreach. These themes are aligned...
Culture, Transnational Education and Thinking
Case studies in global schooling
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
The notion of thinking skills as a key component of a 21st century school education is now firmly entrenched in educational policy and curriculum frameworks in many parts of the world. However, there has been relatively little questioning of the manner in which educational globalisation has facilitated...
Youth Held at the Border
Immigration, Education, and the Politics of Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Illegal. Undocumented. Remedial. DREAMers. All of these labels have been applied to immigrant youth. Using a combination of engaging narrative and rigorous analysis, this bookexplores how immigrant youth are included in, and excluded from, various sectors of American society, including education....
Trends and Issues in Distance Education 2nd Edition
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Over the last decade, the field of distance education (and elearning) has substantially strengthened and assumed a more international scope. There has been an impressive growth in the conceptual, empirical and experiential foundations of the field. Trends and Issues in Distance Education: International...
Reclaiming Education in the Age of PISA
Challenging OECD’s Educational Order
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Reclaiming Education in the Age of PISA provides a critical analysis of the OECD’s educational agenda and its main tool, namely, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment). Based on an analysis of the OECD’s public documents, including publications, webpages, and videos, d’Agnese...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In an age that dictates accountability and verifiability of educational programs, institutions of higher education are called on to justify their programs. To meet these demands, there is a need for improved methods for the evaluation of teacher education programs. More importantly, there is a need...
ICT in Education in Global Context
Emerging Trends Report 2013-2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
This book presents the current advances and emerging trends in digital technologies for learning and education through a number of invited chapters on key research areas. It addresses information and communications technology (ICT) in a global context, reporting on emerging trends and issues in four...
The Changing Face of Further Education
Lifelong Learning, Inclusion and Community Values in Further Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
What are the values and policies which are driving the development of Further Education institutions?
The rapid expansion and development of the post-compulsory sector of education means that further education institutions have to cope with ever-evolving government policies.
This book comprehensively...
Enhancing Assessment in Higher Education
Putting Psychometrics to Work
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Co-published with AIR. Published in association with AAC&U Assessment and accountability are now inescapable features of the landscape of higher education, and ensuring that these assessments are psychometrically sound has become a high priority for accrediting agencies and therefore also for higher...
Constructing Worlds through Science Education
The Selected Works of John K. Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Internationally renowned and award-winning author John Gilbert has spent the last thirty years researching, thinking and writing about some of the central and enduring issues in science education. He has contributed over twenty books and 400 articles to the field and is Editor-in-Chief of the International...
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Early Childhood Education and Care
Perspectives from Australia
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Early Childhood Education and Care explores early childhood education and care in Australia from a variety of perspectives, highlighting the complexity of working within the field and the need for a truly interdisciplinary approach. It argues that only a holistic understanding...
Philosophy of Education (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 14)
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
This volume provides an introduction to the philosophy of education, which will enable students meeting the subject for the first time to find their way among the many specialized volumes. It deals in a non-technical way with the more important issues raised in a philosophical approach to education,...