Kindergarten Readiness for All
This book provides a framework for kindergarten teachers to support young children in their transition to school. It offers strategies to involve families, use assessment information, and teach social skills, providing concrete supports for children with a wide range of needs.
This book enhances understanding of approaches to curriculum, instruction, and assessment in early childhood education. It covers holistic development through play, arts, math, and science, and shares diverse research methodologies for researchers and practitioners.
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.
Internationalisation of Kazakhstan’s Higher Education at Home and Abroad
This book conceptualises the internationalisation of education in Kazakhstan since its independence in 1991. It deconstructs the interface of Western and post-Soviet ideologies by unpacking higher education policy, student mobility, curriculum, and brain drain.
This collection of essays from educators across Africa, Asia, and Europe explores key issues in education. Topics range from teacher education and psychosocial development to educational policy and language in teaching. For educators, researchers, and students.
Global Student Mobility in the Asia Pacific
Millions of students study abroad, facing hostility, poverty, and alienation. This book explores the dilemmas of transnational education, proposing pragmatic approaches and positive responses to the challenges of global student mobility.
My intercultural may not be your intercultural. This volume makes sense of the contested notion of the ‘intercultural’ in education, proposing critical and reflexive approaches from contexts worldwide. For students, teachers, and researchers.
The Foundations of Urban Education
This volume explores key 21st-century issues impacting urban schools. It prepares teachers by focusing on theoretical and historical foundations, discussing topics like the achievement gap, charter schools, teacher pay, culturally relevant pedagogy, and teacher motivation.
Learning Spaces for Inclusion and Social Justice
Stemming from a Nordic research project conducted in Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, this anthology draws lessons from success stories of individual immigrant students and whole school communities in developing learning contexts that are equitable and socially just.
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.
This book concisely highlights various science laws, their formulas, and applications. These laws are fundamental to our understanding of the natural world and provide the foundation upon which many scientific theories are built.
Transforming Education in India
This book provides deep insights into Indian education. It examines education at all levels, exploring recent challenges and government initiatives to improve teaching and learning. A good source of knowledge for students, teachers, researchers, and administrators.
Children, Young People and Sport
This research-based study explores the motivations of children and young people in playing sport, what it means to them, and how it fits into their everyday lives, capturing the texture, nuances and meanings of participation in sport in Australia, France, Japan and New Zealand.
This collection of essays discusses how formal, non-formal and informal education contributed to the creation and perpetuation of the Cyprus conflict, as well as to prejudices, inter-ethnic stereotypes, and misperceptions.
This book provides insights into key aspects of language teacher education. It explores theoretical issues supporting the European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages (EPOSTL), discussing reflection, autonomy, and case studies for educators and students.
This collection of studies addresses how globalization impacts culture, literature, language communication, and teaching policies within English Studies. Written by authors with diverse backgrounds, it explores how “global” and “local” entities are intertwined.
Lessons from the Kalahari
A unique look inside the classrooms of rural South Africa. This study reveals the real-world challenges and successes of Northern Cape teachers as they innovate to improve learning.
The Future of Post-Human Urban Planning
Is sustainability as desirable as we are led to believe? Contrary to conventional wisdom, the concern has been exaggerated, becoming a fad with ignored dark sides. This book provides a better way to understand sustainability, transcending the debate.
Peace and Social Justice Education on Campus
This volume provides important reflections by peace and social justice educators working on college campuses. Contributions offer critical assessments of institutions, pedagogies, and practices, making visible the spaces in which education and learning occur.
The result of a conference held in Salzburg in 2013, this title reflects the increasing importance given to local knowledge in various sciences, and discusses the positive and negative viewpoints associated with this concept.