Explore diverse perspectives on online and remote language teaching. Drawing on lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic, its findings can be applied across different levels and languages, making it an essential resource for teachers, researchers, and students.
This book guides the switch from traditional source-based optical radiation measurements to more efficient, higher-accuracy detector-based applications. It covers improved standards from the UV to the IR range, enabling low-uncertainty radiometric and photometric measurements.
Organ Shortage Today
Society can solve an urgent health crisis: the unjust death of patients waiting for an organ. In this book, leading specialists from 10 countries analyze the medical, ethical, and social problems surrounding organ donation and offer proposals to save lives.
Passing the Torch
Passing the Torch explores the mentor-student relationship and how anthropology is passed from one generation to the next. Through personal stories and classical examples, such as Boas’s mentoring of Margaret Mead, this book illuminates how the discipline is passed on.
Pastoral Care in Education
A celebration of 40 years of NAPCE and a forward-thinking volume on today’s key pastoral issues. Bringing together expert contributors, it offers fresh insights and evidence-based strategies for all educators, making the case for the centrality of pastoral care in education.
Theologian and philosopher Paul Tillich believed that to fully live, one must do so on the boundary. This book applies his work to pedagogy, demonstrating how a “Tillichian” approach can diminish students’ existential anxieties and prepare them to live in the modern world.
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.
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.
This book addresses the critical gap between traditional teaching and Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL). It bridges the divide by exploring theories, principles, and pedagogies for 21st-century learning, covering course design, online assessment, and quality assurance.
Philosophy and Education
Are children natural philosophers? This book shows how to build on their inherent curiosity about life’s big questions. It describes models for introducing philosophy into schools using literature, games, and activities to help students develop analytic skills.
Philosophy for Children has spawned diverse practices and theories, leading to different conceptions of its purpose. This collection explores the field’s many directions, revealing the tensions and synergies between competing agendas.
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.
Potential Development Using Thinking Tools
This book cracks teaching myths that make learners knowledge duplicators instead of creators. Thinking tools move the focus from mastering content to critical thinking, turning learners into thinking engineers who take ownership of what they discover, create, and solve.
This book offers VET teachers a set of practical, tested tools to develop students’ transversal competences. The units cover teamwork, communication, and conflict resolution, providing In-TRAY type activities with downloadable elements for direct use in the classroom.
Drawing on over 43 years of experience, this book compiles the author’s extensive work on medical education. Replete with anecdotes, personal experiences, and the lessons learnt, it provides guidance to trainers and trainees tasked with training tomorrow’s health professionals.
Private Instincts and Public Ideals
How do you choose a school? Most guides focus only on your child’s success. This collection of essays features parents who also consider the flourishing of others, equal opportunity, and diverse schools. Their stories will challenge and enrich your own parenting journey.
This conference proceedings covers a range of areas, including health, design, law and fieldwork. It comprises several methodologies to investigate the use of iPads in Higher Education, such as surveys, questionnaires and focus groups.
This volume brings together the best papers from the International Conference on Education, Reflection and Development. Scholars discuss topics relevant for teacher training and didactic research in the context of globalization, of interest to anyone in education.
To remain viable amidst intense change, universities must adapt. This book presents an alternative approach: a whole-of-institution learning and teaching framework connected to strategic goals, based on five principles and a seven-year study.
Psychology at Work in Asia
This book provides a valuable window into the development of psychology in Asia, especially in the workplace. Indigenous trends are provided by native authors, making it a must-read for academics, business professionals, and cross-cultural researchers.
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