Education category: 70663 books
International Perspectives on Science Education for the Gifted
Key issues and challenges
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
In the spirit of encouraging international dialogue between researchers and practitioners, often working within isolated traditions, this book discusses perspectives on science education for the gifted informed by up-to-date research findings from a number of related fields. The book reviews philosophy,...
The Decline in Educational Standards
From a Public Good to a Quasi-Monopoly
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
The Decline in Educational Standards: From a Public Good to a Quasi-Monopoly is about the “commodification” of education and the factors that have changed education from a public good into a “commodity” over the last 50 years. When we look at today’s education, we see that academic standards...
Educating Entrepreneurial Citizens
Neoliberalism and Youth Livelihoods in Tanzania
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Educating Entrepreneurial Citizens examines the multiple and contradictory purposes and effects of entrepreneurship education aimed at addressing youth unemployment and alleviating poverty in Tanzania.
Governments in sub-Saharan Africa face increasing pressure to educate young people through...
by William Van Zyl
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
ABSTRACT
The theory of "modernisation" and the concept of "development education" have moved over the past decades from Neoliberalism to a future digital paradigm. With the advent of logarithmic development in the digital environment over the past 20 to 30 years, the...
Educational Judgments (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 9)
Papers in the Philosophy of Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
The topics covered in this volume, originally published in 1973, include the need for a more adequate concept or definition of education, the issue of whether indoctrination is compatible with education, particularly with moral education, and the processes of judging the merits of different approaches...
Sensuous Curriculum
Politics and the Senses in Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2019
The sensuous is the human experience, unfolding our everyday experiences and articulating our affects. Without sensory information, we could neither know nor be. This is because we gain information through our senses and interpret that information as perceptions, the sociocultural frames used to analyze...
The Gift of Languages
Paradigm Shift in U.S. Foreign Language Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
The emergence of newer international standards and the focus on STEM education are transforming entire educational sectors. Yet, as schools focus more attention to developing global competencies and 21st century skills in their pedagogy, it has become critical to re-engage educators and school communities...
Philosophy and Education
An introduction to key questions and themes
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Written specifically for education studies students, this accessible text offers a clear introduction to philosophy and education. It skilfully guides readers through this challenging and sometimes complex area bringing key philosophical ideas and questions to life in the context and practice of education....
by Samuel Amaele
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
This book "Understanding Philosophy of Education" is primarily written by the author in response to the yearnings of the undergraduate and graduate students in the faculties and institutes of education within and outside Nigeria, for a comprehensive and balanced study material in this foundation...
Arts Integration and Special Education
An Inclusive Theory of Action for Student Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Arts Integration and Special Education contributes to research, policy, and practice by providing a theory of action for studying how linguistic, cognitive, and affective student engagement relates to arts integrated learning contexts and how these dimensions of engagement influence content area and...
The Right to Higher Education
Beyond widening participation
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
The landscape of higher education has undergone change and transformation in recent years, partly as a result of diversification and massification. However, persistent patterns of under-representation continue to perplex policy-makers and practitioners, raising questions about current strategies,...
Deep Knowledge
Learning to Teach Science for Understanding and Equity
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Deep Knowledge is a book about how people’s ideas change as they learn to teach. Using the experiences of six middle and high school student teachers as they learn to teach science in diverse classrooms, Larkin explores how their work changes the way they think about students, society, schools,...
Creating Tomorrow's Schools Today
Education - Our Children - Their Futures
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2014
'It's time to focus on the needs of our children, not the whims of our politicians, to provide a way forward for a new landscape in education.'
Is our education system working?
What future are we preparing our children for?
What future do we NEED to prepare our children for?
Are we at risk...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
The book focuses on teaching knowledge and principles (Higher Education) regarding professional practice of engineering (life and lifelong learning). It covers recent developments in engineering education. This book comprises the select proceedings of the conference organised by the Portuguese Society...