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Accounting Education Research
Prize-winning Contributions
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
An annual prize is awarded for the best paper appearing in Accounting Education: an international journal, and this book contains the prize-winning papers for every year from 1992 to 2012.
The journal’s primary mission since the first issue was published in March 1992 has been to enhance...
Web-Based Education in the Human Services
Models, Methods, and Best Practices
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
A much-needed look at innovative and effective methods for creating virtual learning environments for human services
Web-Based Education in the Human Services reflects the vitality and diversity of Web-based courses currently delivered within human services. Unlike previous texts that have...
Advancing Democracy Through Education?
U.S. Influence Abroad and Domestic Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
This book explores the diversity of American roles in such crosscultural engagement in education for democracy, both within the United States and around the world. Crosscultural engagement in education for democracy inevitably bears the impressions of each culture involved and the dynamics among them....
Enhancing Student Learning and Development in Cross-Border Higher Education
New Directions for Higher Education, Number 175
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Higher education is expanding, internationalizing, and changing rapidly around the world. Yet, many of the broader international higher education community and funders are unaware that much of what the United States has achieved in quality higher education derives from the student affairs staff.
This...
Socio-Cultural Perspectives on Science Education
An International Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Global science education is a reality at the end of the 20th century - albeit an uneven reality - because of tremendous technological and economic pressures. Unfortunately, this reality is rarely examined in the light of what interests the everyday lives of ordinary people rather than the lives of...
by Antonio Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
This reference is loaded with necessary resources useful to those wish to learn or develop new administrative, financial or technical skill sets and receiving a certification or degree in the process. Inside you will find educational resources and professional business tools, blogs, podcasts and YouTube...
Equity in Education
Breaking Down Barriers to Social Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
In times of growing economic inequality, improving equity in education becomes more urgent. While some countries and economies that participate in the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) have managed to build education systems where socio-economic status makes less of a difference...
The Early Care and Education Teaching Workforce at the Fulcrum
An Agenda for Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this important new book, Sharon Lynn Kagan and her colleagues focus on the more than 2 million individuals who care for and educate nearly two thirds of the American children under age 5 participating in nonparental care. Providing the most thorough synthesis of current research on the early care...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Phil R. Manning "Can you prove that continuing education really makes any difference?" Over the years, educators concerned with continuing education (CE) for health professionals have either heard or voiced that question in one form or another more than once. But because of the difficulty...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2004
The Routledge International Companion to Education addresses the key issues underpinning the rethinking and restructuring of education at the beginning of the new millennium. The volume contains over fifty major contributions exploring a wide range of issues, including:
* philosophy of education
*...
The meanings of Inclusion in cross-cultural contexts
Exploring the experiences of adult learners and teachers in two FE colleges in the London Area
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2010 in the subject Pedagogy - Adult Education, University of London (Goldsmiths College), course: Education, language: English, abstract: The focus of the research in this thesis concerns the meanings of inclusion. The thesis explores the meanings of inclusion...
by Dr Colin Brock
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Education in West Central Asia is a comprehensive critical reference guide to education in the region. With chapters written by an international team of leading regional education experts, the book explores the education systems of each country in the region. With chapters covering Iran, Pakistan,...
An Activist Handbook for the Education Revolution
United Opt Out's Test of Courage
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Contributions by: Rosemarie Jensen, Shaun Johnson, Morna McDermott, Laurie Murphy, Peggy Robertson, Ruth Rodriguez, Tim Slekar, Ceresta Smith, United Opt Out National Forward by Ricardo Rosa, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth This book is intended for educators, parents and community activists...
The Future of Higher Education in the Middle East and Africa
QS Middle East and North Africa Professional Leaders in Education Conference
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
This book addresses some of the challenges posed by the globalization of higher education. It examines the emergence and resulting challenges of English as Lingua Franca (ELF) and of the decision to use English as the Medium of Instruction (EMI) as part of a strategic policy of internationalization....