Education category: 70663 books
Translanguaging in Higher Education
Beyond Monolingual Ideologies
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
This book examines translanguaging in higher education and provides clear examples of what translanguaging looks like in practice in particular contexts around the world. While higher education has historically been seen as a monolingual space, the case studies from the international contexts included...
Education and the Pursuit of Wisdom
The Aims of Education Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
Education and the Pursuit of Wisdom examines the ways in which the timeless human search for wisdom relates to current educational practices. This book challenges the current approach of an economically-driven system preparing students solely for the workplace, and instead discusses the importance...
Global Higher Education Shared Communities
Efforts and Concerns from Key Universities in China
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
This book offers an in-depth investigation of the globalization of higher education at Chinese universities and colleges. The proposed “Global Higher Education Shared Community” model reflects the globalization of higher education with Chinese characteristics in terms of its conceptual, practical...
Learning Rebooted
Education Fit for the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Arguing that education systems are failing to keep up with the pace of change in society, The System Rebooted: Education Fit For the Digital Age, sets out a unique proposal for system-wide radical change. Focusing on the transformations needed in order to align education systems with current trends...
Ideology, Policy, and Practice
Education for Immigrants and Minorities in Israel Today
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Systems of state education are a crucial means for realizing the state’s focal aspiration of guaranteeing solidarity and civil loyalty (Van Kemenade, 1985 pp. 854ff. ). The means at hand include the state’s structuring and organization of schooling, determination of what education is compulsory,...
Education and Racism
A Cross National Inventory of Positive Effects of Education on Ethnic Tolerance
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
First published in 1999, this book gives an inventory of factors contributing to ethnic prejudice in seven countries and the role of formal education among them on the basis of national surveys. It appears that education is crucial in all the countries surveyed and contributes to more tolerant views...
Education Governance and Social Theory
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
The study of 'education governance' is a significant area of research in the twenty-first century concerned with the changing organisation of education systems, relations and processes against the background of wider political and economic developments occurring nationally and globally. In Education...
Critical Pedagogy, Sexuality Education and Young People
Issues about Democracy and Active Citizenry
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Critical Pedagogy, Sexuality Education and Young People presents cutting-edge empirical and theoretical research on the role of critical pedagogy in transforming sexuality education. Featuring the work of scholars from around the globe, including the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Higher education today faces several challenges including soaring cost, rising student debt, declining state support, and a staggering dropout rate. Digital technology enables numerous paths to innovation and promising solutions to these crises in higher education. However, few efforts have been made...
Cooperative and Work-Integrated Education in Asia
History, Present and Future Issues
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
It has been over a century since "Cooperative System of Education," a work-study programme for higher education, was initiated by Herman Schneider at University of Cincinnati in the United States. Today, it is known as "Cooperative Education" which is commonly included within the umbrella term of...
by Charles B. Corbin, Karen E. McConnell, Guy Le Masurier
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
This innovative new textbook, with a full suite of related resources, has been created to support student development and enhancement of healthy behaviors that influence their lifestyle choices and fitness, health, and wellness.
A key feature of this curriculum is the complete integration of...
Business Practices in Higher Education
A Guide for Today's Administrators
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Business Practices in Higher Education is a breakthrough guide offering higher education and student affairs professionals an understanding of the fundamental business nature of colleges and universities. The author discusses the practical applications of business concepts and models and how these...
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too
Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
**A New York Times Best Seller
Merging real stories with theory, research, and practice, a prominent scholar offers a new approach to teaching and learning for every stakeholder in urban education.**
Drawing on his own experience of feeling undervalued and invisible in classrooms as...
by Jean Anyon
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
There was only one Karl Marx, but there have been a multitude of Marxisms. This concise, introductory book by internationally renowned scholar Jean Anyon centers on the ideas of Marx that have been used in education studies as a guide to theory, analysis, research, and practice. Marx and Education...