The Professional Doctorate in Education
This book explores how professional doctorate programmes in education challenge and strengthen professional identities, knowledge, and practices. It offers useful and provocative insights for EdD students and for the colleagues who design and deliver these programmes.
The Promises and Pitfalls of Technology in Higher Education
What will universities look like in 30 years? This book examines the impact of technologies like AI, virtual reality, and robots on the future of higher education. Journey from the university’s past to a transformed future campus, seen through the eyes of students and professors.
This book explores the intertwining worlds of social media and educational pedagogy. It critically examines the benefits, challenges, and ethical considerations of integrating platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok into the modern educational landscape.
This collection of essays explores the under-discussed role of higher education in the professionalization of adult educators. It examines how universities deliver skills, validate competences, and engage in the dialogue shaping the future of adult education policies.
Teachers cannot stop the wars that create refugees, but they can influence how migrant children are accepted in their classrooms. This book presents a unique model of intercultural education, realized through the commitment of teachers, pupils, parents, and the local community.
Why hasn’t greater education access transformed opportunities in Africa? This book views transformative education as a catalyst for innovation and 21st-century skills, sharing strategies to decolonize education and prepare learners for the modern workforce and entrepreneurship.
This book uses the social sciences to discuss emergent educational processes in late modernity, providing an overview of schooling’s contribution to its construction.
The Skill Approach in Education
This book is a guide to teaching essential skills for a changing world. It covers language, science, math, psycho-social, and visual arts skills, explaining how to prepare and implement activities to help students succeed in school and beyond.
The Supervisory Assemblage
A nomadic inquiry into the doctoral process, this book uses Deleuzian and feminist poststructuralist thought to raise questions, not answer them. It reveals academic production as a complex process, offering a powerful statement on learning’s capacity to transform a life.
The Supportive School
With young people’s wellbeing in decline, how do schools affect them? This book uses over 300 studies to identify the key factors, from peer relationships to academic pressure, and shows how a strong culture of support can make a profound difference.
The Teacher of the 21st Century
This book contains the best articles from the 2013 ATEE conference, presenting an exchange of ideas between European teacher educators and beyond. It enhances the quality of teacher education and stimulates dialogue among researchers, teachers, and students.
The Teaching and Learning Challenges of 21st-Century Higher Education
This book explores pedagogy in higher education, drawing on expertise from professionals in the UK, China, and Malaysia. It tackles challenges from the Covid-19 pandemic and provides practical insights for practitioners to enhance their teaching and improve student outcomes.
This book tells the ‘USC story’: the challenges faced and pedagogical enhancements made in embracing new technology to teach social work online. It details how faculty converted traditional courses for a virtual program that grew to over 2,200 students.
Head teachers are leaving the profession, creating a leadership crisis. For the first time, this book explores the reasons why—from accountability and work-life balance to salary—and considers potential solutions, such as succession planning and talent spotting.
This sourcebook focuses on 21st-century instruction and supervision to improve student achievement in urban contexts. It prepares pre-service and in-service teachers with current practices in S.T.E.M., Sciences, ESL, ELA, transmedia, and afterschool programs.
Hina evaluates issues regarding the USAID’s Teacher Education Project, a programme aiming to introduce sustainability reforms in Pakistan’s education sector. She assesses the urgent need to recognise teaching professionals in the context of Pakistan’s teacher professionalization.
Theories of Affect and Concepts in Generic Skills Education
This book revitalizes the concept of generic skills, which have recently become widespread in universities, but also advocates daring pedagogical practices that invigorate the meaning of, and approach to, teaching and learning in present landscapes of higher education.
As migration changes Europe, education plays a key role. This volume analyzes the support of immigrant children in Spain and Italy, focusing on themes like linguistic diversity, teacher training, and school culture. It serves as a sounding board for developments across Europe.
Integrating ancient wisdom with modern science, this book investigates myth’s effect on development. Using Homer’s Hymn to Demeter and music in a therapeutic setting, it reveals personal epiphanies that can change perceptions and contribute to a healing process.
Thinking European(s)
In a changing Europe of clashing identities, Thinking European(s) brings new geographies alive. It fosters active, reflective citizens by stimulating critical thinking through case studies from across Europe and the United States.