“Sharks and Sprats”
Sokolowska offers a snapshot of recent migration from Poland to Ireland with a special focus on transnational migratory practices, examining how young people negotiate their identities during their second culture acquisition.
This book investigates Anna Banti’s contribution to a female literary canon and the renewal of the Italian historical novel. Focusing on her novel La camicia bruciata, it shows how Banti’s personal experience of marriage and motherhood influenced her narrative.
The 21st century demands new skills: media literacy, leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. However, their relationship with education is not yet fully established. This book discusses these skills through studies in the context of Turkey.
This concise history of education in Greece focuses on the Byzantine and Modern periods (330 AD to the present). Reference is made to the key individuals and events that marked this lesser-known history. The book contains tables and diagrams showing the structure of education.
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.
A Civil Society Teaching Primer
For college teachers, this book depicts American civilian life as an experience shaped by the organized movement of water. It provides a plan and teaching resources to help learners make connections between civil society, their sense of place, and essential water services.
A Community of Voices on Education and the African American Experience
This book fills a void in the history of African American education by addressing the vibrant education ethos within Black America. It is essential reading for all interested in ensuring the posterity of a society via equal access to quality education.
Khalifa examines Cairenes’ interlingual errors in English main word stress following a metrical model and parameter resetting. The findings show the difficulty of stressing items with stress different from Cairene Colloquial Arabic (CCA) and with stress similar to CCA.
A concise, practical introduction to learning and teaching in higher education. It covers key issues from how students learn and assessment to curriculum design and technology, while keeping a critical eye on the pressures faced by teachers and students today.
This book analyzes the Israeli educational system, focusing on the pivotal role of mathematics education in its improvement. It explores innovative teaching methods that promote deep understanding and critical thinking, offering valuable insights for educators and policymakers.
This book presents classical management theory integrated with modern innovations like agile management, AI, and neuroscience. It covers key issues in sports management—from finance and quality to conflict and corruption—and includes new case studies from the field.
This study of teacher trainees in Luanda, Angola argues that current academic and research literacy practices are questionable and potentially harmful. It calls for a re-evaluation of assumptions about student capability and offers a powerful critique of traditional methods.
Academic Days of Timişoara
Social Sciences Today contains papers from an international symposium covering economics, education, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. This collection will appeal to social science teachers at all levels of instruction.
Academic Futures
“This is a book of its time, and one for its time.” This edited collection of new work exposes the diversity of higher education research. Chapters explore complexity, academic identities, and pedagogy, all sharing a rigorous, evidence-based approach.
This book challenges ELT’s traditional over-focus on Anglophone culture. As most English communication now occurs as a lingua franca between non-native speakers, this book offers an approach which rebalances content for localised and multicultural contexts.
This book examines administrative bloat, a major contributor to rising college costs. It details the unsustainable growth of nonessential university personnel through case studies on student success initiatives, technology transfer offices, and distance learning.
What does it mean for education to be ‘advanced’? In depth, focus, or application? Honors education has long reflected on what ‘advanced’ higher education might entail. Here, contributors consider the significant interests in the present and future of advanced learning.
Aesthetic Teaching Pedagogies
Inocian presents a range of teaching strategies appropriate for 21st century learners, and highlights the outcomes-based assessment of learning; the curriculum basics for arts-based teaching; and activities based on the integrated arts.
For engineers and students, this volume presents articles by international experts on themes at the interface between engineering and society, including ethics, education, and the future of engineering. Each chapter contrasts distinct perspectives to develop critical thinking.
Alfred North Whitehead on Learning and Education
This book explores Alfred North Whitehead’s educational ideas, based on his process philosophy. It presents an alternative framework for learning and shows how these ideas can be applied to different sub-domains, offering a promising alternative to traditional education.