Change Agents at Work
This book investigates the change agent role, examining the skills they bring and how they develop over time. It provides crucial insights for agencies responsible for hiring and supporting change agents, helping them craft job postings and design effective support structures.
Mapping Primary School Leadership in a Post-Conflict Context
This book focuses on primary school leadership in the post-conflict country of Timor-Leste. It conveys the ‘lived experience’ of school leaders, describing the realities of their work and the strategies they adopt to overcome daily challenges.
This book highlights international media education research, topical findings, and educational practices. It explores the use of digital skills from school to higher education and beyond, providing insights for researchers, teachers, and policymakers promoting media education.
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.
Teaching Business, Technical and Academic Writing Online and Onsite
A must-have handbook for undergraduate and graduate teachers. Drawing on three decades of experience, this guide offers best practices for instructing students in writing proposals, reports, and academic papers, with specific strategies for remote teaching in a post-COVID world.
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.
Dyslexia and Creativity
This book explores dyslexia from a cognitive and neurological view, outlining a theory that links this learning difference to the creative process. It shows how artists and writers faced the struggles of dyslexia, harnessing its positive traits to fuel their creative success.
For online programs to succeed, institutions must support course design, communication, and students. This volume investigates these issues and will interest practitioners of online teaching, design, and administration of successful online programs.
This book prepares teachers in Southern Africa to effectively teach exceptional children. It provides a new framework for inclusive education, calling for a partnership between universities and schools to improve educational equity and reform teacher education.
Liberal Arts Perspectives on Globalism and Transnationalism
As globalization expands, reactionary forces like nationalism and populism have exposed its blind spots. This volume gathers leading scholars to analyze the human cost of immigration, the threats of online technologies, and other pressing challenges of our interconnected world.
Honors Education and the Foundation of Fairness
How can we support high academic achievement while allowing equitable access to higher learning? By focusing on equity, contributors shine light on conditions of inequity in honors education and advocate for supporting a wide range of identities. This book is a call to action.
How do various nations view honors education? Whether known as “honors” or “talent-development,” it is associated with a student-centric ethos and creative approaches to learning. This exploration considers how honors education can empower educators and students worldwide.
This book is an intensive case study of an Indian state representative of the country’s Muslim minorities. It investigates the problems of promoting inclusive higher education and presents findings useful for reshaping minority education plans and policies in India.
Honors education celebrates excellence, but sorting students by attainment raises questions of diversity, equity, and inclusion. How can honors programs be fair and inclusive? This book, born from a National Society for Minorities in Honors conference, explores solutions.
This text explores ways in which universities in East Africa can better serve the common good. Each essay presents insightful discussions of the role of quality assurance in creating educational systems that are relevant to the global knowledge economy.
Presenting a series of conversations conducted by the editor with internationally renowned educators, scholars and social critics, the primary focus here is on a set of important social and cultural issues and the global contemporary crises in higher education and economics.
Native-speakerism in English Language Teaching
The first large-scale study of native-speakerism in China’s ELT. This critical examination reveals how the ideology is enacted and legitimized through the attitudes of students, teachers, and administrators toward language, culture, and teaching methods.
This book covers recent topics, approaches, and methodologies in education and applied linguistics. It serves as a reference for undergraduate, graduate, and PhD students and researchers who want to learn about the latest developments in these fields.
Teaching Students to Become Digital Content Curators
Today’s students are faced with a virtual tsunami of digital information, which means it is necessary to arm them with the skills of digital content curation. To avoid misinformation, this text outlines a process for examining, evaluating and synthesising digital content.
This book deals with emotional intelligence in teacher trainees, showing how it affects their aspiration and self-concept. It demonstrates how teachers should observe and manage students’ emotions to adopt specific strategies for effective learning.