Mind, Learning, and Knowledge in Educational Contexts
Uniting education, psychology, and neuroscience, this volume explores bioeducational sciences. It examines foundational questions of mind-brain and nature-nurture, focusing on the relationship between biological constraints and cultural development.
This book uses the social sciences to discuss emergent educational processes in late modernity, providing an overview of schooling’s contribution to its construction.
This book raises key questions about schooling in a globalized world. What does lifelong learning mean for knowledge transmission? Are competences the new form of qualification? How do teachers deal with these new professional dilemmas?
From Hip-Hop to Hyperlinks
This text invigorates composition classrooms with strategies for teaching American culture. Contributors share approaches on topics like food, music, and technology, tracing course structures with student samples. Ideal for instructors at any career stage.
Lambert looks at developing future leaders of further education colleges through a different lens, advocating for leadership development to be located within a sustainable leadership framework which encompasses a range of existing leadership theories.
Decolonising the University
De Sousa Santos considers the nature of the transformation that the university is undergoing today, arguing that some of the current reforms are so radical that the question of the future of the university may well become the question of whether the university has a future.
Teaching Art History with New Technologies
New technologies offer possibilities for art history instruction. This text assists faculty with case studies from early adopters who have advanced the discipline’s pedagogy. It provides practical suggestions and summarizes lessons learned for all educators.
The first book on ‘engagement’ in Religious Education, this collection breaks new ground by creating a dialogue with ethics. It offers fresh insights for the 21st century, aiming to make Religious Education a more stimulating and enjoyable experience for all.
A Case for Radical Pragmatic Leaders and Personalised Learning Schools
Thousands of disadvantaged youth are leaving Australian schools due to public policy that works against inclusion. This book highlights the damage done and examines schools that succeed ‘against the grain’, presenting them as examples for refreshed policy and radical leadership.
Zero for Parents and Teachers, or (Almost) All You Need to Know about Mathematics for Young Children
For parents and teachers nervous about teaching maths to young children, this book offers safe, sympathetic guidance. Written by early years educators, it covers basic topics in a friendly way, with fun activities to build mathematical confidence for you and your children.
Assessment is a major driver of the student tertiary experience. This book explores the rubric as the key tool in this experience, examining different models and providing data from students and academics on their efficacy for marking and providing feedback.
In an era of climate change and fake news, our future hangs in the balance. We can’t fall for easy answers. This book uses emerging insights from various fields to build evidence-based and wise solutions, challenging the flawed mental models that hold us back.
Essays on Education and Popular Culture
This volume is devoted to simple but deep readings of the subtle and not-so-subtle messages in films, and to the interpretation of the silences that are strategically delivered through the mass media. It will serve to promote mass literacy and mutual understanding.
International Student Transitions
Given the rising number of international students, the consideration of new approaches to English language development is vital. This volume introduces a framework to guide institutions in examining their views and beliefs regarding language acquisition and approaches to success.
While William James is renowned, his *Talks to Teachers on Psychology* is often overlooked. This book fills a significant gap in Jamesian studies by analyzing his work as an educator, the origins of the lectures, and his influence on modern education.
Citizenship, the Self and the Other
This book analyzes citizenship in diverse societies by talking to educators in multi-ethnic Britain. It uses unique interdisciplinary research to uncover the surprising common ground educators share on values, beliefs, and aims, offering key lessons for navigating difference.
Concept Map-Based Formative Assessment of Students’ Structural Knowledge
This book shows higher education staff how to develop students’ structural knowledge—a precondition for expert performance. It provides practical scenarios for using concept mapping in formative assessment to build the complex problem-solving skills needed for today’s careers.
This innovative volume will serve to provoke cognitive dissonance and intellectual unease, as it explores cognitive theories and inspires researchers and teachers to update and invigorate some of the theories that have been embedded in their minds since their own school years.
This collection offers examples of excellence, innovation and ingenuity as they occur in honours colleges and programs throughout the USA, discussing what we can do to contribute to human knowledge, to empower creativity and to make positive futures through education.