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.
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 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.
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 book covers recent topics, approaches, and methodologies in education and applied linguistics. It serves as a reference for undergraduate, graduate, and PhD students and researchers who want to learn about the latest developments in these fields.
Misconceptions in Science Education
Despite access to information, learners often provide incorrect, intuition-based responses to science and mathematics questions. This book suggests a paradigm shift, using an “empathic space” to utilize misconceptions as a learning tool, leading to a cathartic “Aha!” moment.
This collection of articles utilises thematic orientations, methodological approaches and data materials to give an insight into the opportunities and challenges that exist for education in society, in relation to the growing cultural and linguistic complexity prevalent today.
With the development of technology, people are now able to access more comfortable education. This anthology offers articles on technology, guidance and leadership topics and will serve as a reference book for those wishing to learn about recent advances in the field of education
This volume offers strategies and materials to help teachers guide students in understanding fundamental subjects. Covering key dimensions of teaching, it serves to ensure high academic achievement and is ideal for educators seeking professional development.
Bringing together a number of experts in their respective fields and representing an important contribution to the topic of science and mathematics education, the contributions here deal with various aspects of education, including theoretical modelling and reasoning skills.
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.
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.
This volume brings together 49 chapters related to the field of education. The main topics explored here include teacher-student interactions, pre-service teachers, early childhood education, digital education, and attitudes of students towards the environment, amongst others.
Factors Relating to Information Skills
Using a judiciously planned and scientifically carried-out study, Kumer provides empirical evidence that the information skills of students of higher learning institutions can be improved using a set of personal and environmental variables.
Aesthetic Teaching Pedagogies
Inocian presents a range of teaching strategies appropriate for 21st century learners, and highlights the outcomes-based assessment of learning; the curriculum basics for arts-based teaching; and activities based on the integrated arts.
English Studies in Indian Universities
Tasildar examines the development of curricula in English in Indian universities vis-a-vis the needs of second language learners studying in Special English programmes. He also reflects on how globalization has strengthened the connection between English and employment.
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.
This monograph offers a thorough discussion of the relevance of incorporating robotics into the 21st century classroom. It explores essential topics including outcome-based education, robotics technology, its use in education, and its theoretical underpinnings, among others.
Human Rights and Citizenship Education
This volume examines different conceptualizations of human rights, citizenship and interculturalism, as well as their inter-relationships in various national contexts. It also explores the theoretical and practical bases on which teaching of these concepts should be grounded.
This text explores ways in which universities in East Africa can better serve the common good. Each essay presents insightful discussions of the role of quality assurance in creating educational systems that are relevant to the global knowledge economy.