Education category: 70663 books
Critical Feminism and Critical Education
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teacher Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Challenging the current state of public education and teacher preparation, this book argues for a re-imagination of teacher education through a critical feminist and critical education perspective. Offering a rich discussion of the promise and pedagogy of self-reflexivity and testimonio, which emerges...
by Jenny McWhirter, Nick Boddington, Jenny Barksfield
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
This book provides an overview essential for a proper understanding of effective approaches to PSHE education in secondary education and the valuable role it can play in promoting the health and wellbeing of adolescents.
Coverage includes:
The importance and scope of PSHE education
The...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Research into teacher education is dominated by Anglophone literature, with the inevitable result that teacher education in non-English speaking regions of the world largely remains unexamined. This book fills the gap in the existing literature and comprises twelve invited contributions from an international...
by Loretta Bass
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Education has traditionally been studied from the perspectives of educators, administrators, politicians and parents. However, the central actors of education: young people themselves have been left out of the study of education. This volume focuses on the lived experience of education from the perspectives...
Interpreter Education in the Digital Age
Innovation, Access, and Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
This collection brings together innovative research and approaches for blended learning using digital technology in interpreter education for signed and spoken languages. Volume editors Suzanne Ehrlich and Jemina Napier call upon the expertise of 21 experts, including themselves, to report on the...
Student Feedback
The Cornerstone to an Effective Quality Assurance System in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
In recent years, student feedback has appeared at the forefront of higher education quality. In particular, the issues of effectiveness and the use of student feedback to affect improvement in higher education teaching and learning, and also other areas of student tertiary experience. Despite this,...
Advances in Engineering Education in the Middle East and North Africa
Current Status, and Future Insights
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
This book provides a collection of the latest advances in engineering education in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and sheds insights for future development. It is one of the first books to address the lack of comprehensive literature on undergraduate engineering curricula, and stimulates...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
The SAGE Handbook of International Higher Education examines the internationalization of higher education from a marginal to a core dimension of higher education worldwide. This mainstreaming of internationalization is a fascinating phenomenon: new concepts, programs, providers, and methods of delivery...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Gender, Masculinities and Lifelong Learning reflects on current debates and discourses around gender and education, in which some academics, practitioners and policy-makers have referred to a crisis of masculinity. This book explores questions such as: Are men under-represented in education? Are women...
Latin America
Management Education's Growth and Future Pathways
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
Latin American business schools have grown in scale and quality in recent decades, yet they have received a relatively low level of attention globally when compared to schools from other parts of the world. This book seeks to address this dearth of attention and provide an in-depth examination of...
Geography of Education
Scale, Space and Location in the Study of Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Geography of Education sets out the scope of this emergent, interdisciplinary field. It illustrates the essential affinity of geographical and educational studies, by emphasising the geographical factors influencing formal education systems and other forms of knowledge transfer. Colin Brock begins...
Pedagogies for Internationalising Research Education
Intellectual equality, theoretic-linguistic diversity and knowledge chuàngxīn
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
This book explores pedagogical concepts, metaphors and images of non-white, non-western researchers and research students on the inter/nationalization of education. Specifically, this book draws on the intellectual resources of China and India to explore the pedagogical dynamics and dimensions of...
by Tamsin Hinton-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Would lone parents rather exist on benefits than work to support their families? Must universities be responsible for ensuring their students can balance learning with childcare? What can elite higher education institutions learn from new universities in ensuring academic success for this group of...
Marxism and Education
International Perspectives on Theory and Action
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Marxism and Education offers contemporary Marxist analyses of recent and current education policy, and develops Marxist-based practices of resistance from a series of national and international perspectives. Part I identifies and critiques pressure points, impacts of, and developments in capitalism...