Imagination in Educational Theory and Practice
This book connects educators and researchers to argue for the centrality of imagination in 21st-century education. They concur that imagination is essential to realizing human potential and confronting the most urgent problems facing our world.
Reservoirs of Hope
This book is about hope and the personal spirituality that sustains school leaders. Based on interviews, it uses the metaphor of ‘reservoirs of hope’ to explore how a leader’s values in action can sustain a school, without their own reservoir running dry.
Business Process Reengineering
Master Business Process Reengineering. This practical guide provides expert strategies and the unique Sturdy BPR Matrix to implement real-world change and achieve your business objectives.
Decolonization and the Other
Histories of the British West Indies focus on decolonization from the top down, ignoring the impact on local populations. This book explores local perspectives by using West Indian literature to supplement the historical record and understand these events.
Following the Path from Teaching to Research University
Smaller universities are pressured to join the research race, creating stress and faculty resistance. This book explores the shift from a teaching to a research culture, unveiling the characteristics of productive faculty at private institutions.
This study explains the stunning vitality and success of postcolonial Indian novels. It analyses themes of empire, nation, gender, and language to show how writers from Rushdie to Roy have created a truly world literature, liberated from the nation.
Global Encounters
Scholars worldwide share their most successful teaching practices in cross-cultural studies and international education. This compilation highlights the need for culturally sensitive education to foster skills in the next generation of global citizens.
Speech Act Theory and Communication
This study investigates the pragmatic value and meaning-creation strategies of second-language students at the University of Venda. The analyses demonstrate the multi-dimensional thought processes involved and the nature of linguistic interaction.
Quality Issues in ICT Integration
This publication discusses the quality of integrating technology into teaching and learning. Drawing on the experiences of researchers and tutors, it offers students and teachers an insight into various applications of technology and their critical evaluation.
Fleshly Things and Spiritual Matters
This book offers fresh insights into medieval bodies from multiple perspectives. Ten essays by renowned scholars explore diverse, interdisciplinary approaches, connecting medieval literature with history, theology, gender studies, and the arts.
The Next Buddha may be a Community
What does internationalization in education really look like? This book investigates what intercultural competence means to staff and students in a university case study, exploring how it can be achieved and where more support is needed.
Living in Liverpool
This collection penetrates the lost world of working-class Liverpool. It reprints a selection of writings from social commentators, chief amongst them journalist Hugh Shimmin, who recorded the habits, housing, and wages of the city’s toiling masses.
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.
Turning Points and Transformations
Turning points and transformations are central to literature, culture, and life. But why are they transformational, and what brings them about? The essays in this volume examine these questions, exploring personal and cultural shifts and how we cope with them.
Resolving Classroom Management and School Leadership Issues in ELT
Experienced teachers use action research to examine problems in leadership and management. This volume features work by UAE researchers on classroom issues and broader leadership matters, concluding with a rare retrospective on their empowering investigations.
History and Narration
This volume explores the relation between narration and history, arguing we must be aware of the rhetorical strategies in historical writing. The essays consider narrativity in authors as diverse as V. Woolf, S. Rushdie, J. M. Coetzee, and A. Ghosh.
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.
This volume offers a critical evaluation of interculturality, capturing vigorous debates across four continents. Scholars break with tradition to challenge the tired old notion of ‘culture’ and establish new ways of engaging with the concept.
This book balances theories with interactive learning activities. Believing that one learns research by conducting it, the activities provide opportunities for students to develop and sharpen the research skills useful for conducting their own research.
This study deals with the Muslim situation in India and the state’s institutional response. It discusses the efficacy of redress mechanisms, like the National Commission for Minorities, and argues that such safeguards are not enough without a strong appreciation for pluralism.