This book explores work-integrated learning (WIL) programmes for the student, coordinator and supervisor. It integrates practical industry experience within the higher education curriculum to enhance student development, and highlights the diverse WIL approaches in South Africa.
This conference proceedings considers how literature and art explore different systems of values and principles of conduct, and how they can teach us to cope at times of trial. The essays here address themes of virtue and character formation from the Bronze Age to the present.
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 monograph will help stakeholders in higher education appreciate service-learning as an innovative and active approach with the potential to enrich students’ learning experiences, while adding value to the service mission of higher education.
This book presents studies on emerging educational trends, including the use of technology, robotics, and learning motivation. It offers innovative solutions to practical challenges for scientists and teachers who want to implement the newest scientific findings.
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.
This book explores how quality teaching and learning can ensure that discipline and academic performance prevail. It shows that quality teaching can determine discipline and academic performance, particularly now that other disciplinary measures have been seen to be ineffective.
This book analyses modern American art education from historical and comparative perspectives. It explores visual culture, social factors, and the transformation of the aesthetic experience in a multicultural milieu, illustrating current pedagogy with references to art museums.
The Decay of Truth in Education
Krahenbuhl compellingly documents how educational institutions and political institutions alike have abandoned truth as a primary virtue. The targets of this critique range across political, religious, and social groups as an outcome of the educational malaise towards truth.
Written from a practical perspective with up-to-date scholarly references, this monograph investigates perspectives on teaching for the tertiary sector. Providing guiding principles and advice for teachers at the tertiary level, it will appeal to both teachers and learners.
Decolonising the University
De Sousa Santos considers the nature of the transformation that the university is undergoing today, arguing that some of the current reforms are so radical that the question of the future of the university may well become the question of whether the university has a future.
Marginalization Processes across Different Settings
This book challenges typical studies of marginalization. Going beyond static categories, it focuses on how marginalization is constituted in action—in mundane processes across diverse institutional, geopolitical, and everyday settings.
Transgender Children and Young People
This collection approaches the current theory and practice of transgendering children. Essays are written against the grain of the popularised medical definition of ‘the transgender child’ as a young person whose ‘true’ gender lies in the brain, or pre-social ‘identity’.
An Exploration of Educational Trends (V2)
This textbook of articles and essays encourages and assists educational professionals in cultural awareness, diversity, and international studies. It can be used as a main textbook or supplemental reading for educators, administrators, and students from diverse disciplines.
This book presents a potential hierarchy between the three basic psychological needs central to Self-Determination Theory. It argues that a student’s motivation for autonomy is built upon the quality of the teacher-student relationship and the student’s perceived competence.
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.
Offering insights into contemporary communication studies, this volume details existing studies on qualitative research, current research programs, and trends for future expansion of this methodological approach.
This text engages the reader in understanding past and contemporary critical issues in African scholarship, both in the diaspora and on the continent, that have been marginalized, unexamined, and under-researched, and proposes ways to make them visible.
Bringing together a number of conference papers, this book explores the six educational alternatives that exist in Romania, namely Step by Step, Waldorf, Freinet, Curative Pedagogy, Montessori and the Jenaplan.
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.