Higher Education in Africa
This book observes the development, quality and outcomes of higher education in Africa, with a specific focus on relations between Africa and Europe. Issues related to the mobility of African students and scholars are debated in several national and international case studies.
Jungmeister provides an accessible model on reflexivity for all its applications during the research process, filling the gap in the limited number of reflexivity books. He includes a number of graphics, tables, samples and checklists to make the concept easy to grasp and apply.
This book takes a post-modern approach to Intellectual Capital (IC), exploring it as ‘images’ rather than ‘rules’. Offering different perspectives from academics and practitioners, it analyzes IC in education, business, and the public sector and its impact on a company’s value.
Intercultural Education and Competences
This volume explains why it is necessary to invest in education. It analyses the current situation in intercultural education and intercultural competences, and addresses the challenges to, and possible ways of dealing with, different perspectives in intercultural education.
Smartphone-based Learning in the Japanese ESL Classroom
Gromik gives an account of the integration of smartphone video recording in the language classroom. He reports on the implementation process and practical issues related to this learning method, and he suggests that digital video production is a necessary academic skill.
Kobylarek portrays an institution, the Polish university, resistant to change and defying all attempts at reform. He proposes a redefinition of the function of the university, based on a thorough analysis of the needs of all its various groups of stakeholders.
Landscapes of Participatory Making, Modding and Hacking
This collection describes maker culture as it is manifested in particular socio-cultural contexts, and describes some of the underlying narratives behind the emergence of such cultures and hackerspaces, approaching this phenomenon from an academic perspective.
This volume probes how space and gaze are tied in with social constructions of gender relations. It considers the gendered body, the queer gaze, the relationship between body and memory, the memory of war, monstrosity, and also domestic and hybrid spaces as key concepts.
Mindfulness and Education
This title contributes to the nascent field of mindfulness in education by exploring practical implementations and theoretical concerns within educational contexts. It captures the diverse approaches to research-linked mindfulness programmes being implemented in education.
Reflective Development through the Care Model
Christodoulou proposes a new model for engaging teachers in transformational learning through an ‘emotionalized’ version of reflection. She presents the Collaborative, Appreciative, Reflective Enquiry (CARE) model, a guide for teachers to engage in reflective practice.
The papers here provide global and local teaching scenarios, addressing such matters as the need for diagnostic tests and re-examining language policies in Asian countries. They offer valuable information for researchers working in the field of English Language Teaching.
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.
Romanowski introduces intercultural communication, giving examples of classroom activities, as well as presenting empirical research. He offers a novel model of intercultural sensitivity assessment and outlines the results of intercultural communicative competence research.
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.
This book helps educators transform classrooms into inclusive, socially engaging environments. It explores innovative pedagogical designs to lower learner anxiety, increase participation, improve learning experiences, and develop intercultural competence across disciplines.
The fourteen narratives in this text bring together both language teachers’ stories and political stories of the problems of school programs and contexts. They are framed by the work of Clandinin and Connelly (1996) and their notion of ‘levels’ of stories told by teachers.
Diversity and Social Justice in Early Childhood Education
This book discusses how early childhood education can work with diversity and language to allow inclusion and social justice for all children. Building on case studies from Nordic countries, it offers insights from children, practitioners and parents.
Teacher Education in India
A progressive country is built upon the quality and commitment of its teachers. The teacher education system is a powerful vehicle to raise educational standards. This collection of papers analyses this system and its improvement, with special reference to North East India.
Turn research into practice. This guide shows how to integrate linguistics, translation, literature, and cultural studies into the language classroom with innovative strategies for teaching English, Spanish, French, and German.
This collection explores the vital role of modern university language centres. Covering technology, creativity, methodologies and plurilingualism, its chapters show how to integrate theory with the best practices from real contexts for effective and successful language teaching.