Putting Theory into Practice in the Contemporary Classroom
This work emerges from interest in how postmodern theory illuminates the products and ideas of high culture, as well as the ins and outs of everyday life. It helps us to understand troublesome classroom dynamics and specifies pedagogical strategies for dealing with them.
This book balances theories with interactive learning activities. Believing that one learns research by conducting it, the activities provide opportunities for students to develop and sharpen the research skills useful for conducting their own research.
Quality Issues in ICT Integration
This publication discusses the quality of integrating technology into teaching and learning. Drawing on the experiences of researchers and tutors, it offers students and teachers an insight into various applications of technology and their critical evaluation.
Re-Shaping Education for Citizenship
This book explores school processes in Hong Kong, where education must now manage diversity. It investigates how a liberal and democratic national identity, distinct from that of mainland China, develops under the “one country two systems” policy.
Reading, Writing, and Digitizing
Based on psycholinguistics, this book contrasts expert and novice readers and writers. It reveals how experts go beyond the text to create meaning in any medium and offers powerful strategies to support literacy development in others.
This book explores new developments in science and technology education. It examines the impact of updated pedagogical practices, elaborates on future challenges, and points to new research directions, bridging the gap between research and practice.
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.
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.
Following communism’s collapse, an expansion of higher education in Eastern Europe created an overproduction of specialists. This has discredited the value of education, risking social transformation. This book addresses the urgent reforms needed for the region’s universities.
Reinterpreting Indian Ocean Worlds
Exploring themes of ‘Intermixing,’ ‘The World of Trade’ and ‘Colonial Paths,’ these new studies reflect current research on the Indian Ocean world. This collection pays tribute to Kirti N. Chaudhuri, one of the most outstanding historians in the field.
Questions about the roles teachers’ religious beliefs play in their professional activities have been largely excluded from academic conversations in TESOL. However, Baurain shows here that faith and professional practices can, and do, interact and interrelate in various ways.
Removable Partial Dentures
Of value to any dental student, dentist, or technologist, from beginner to experienced practitioner. The book offers detail in all clinical phases of RPD diagnosis, fabrication, and delivery, based on documented research and decades of university-level teaching experience.
Renegotiating Islam with Post-colonial Pakistan and the West
Beyond simplistic portrayals, this book shows how authors Shamsie, Naqvi, and Haji redefine Muslim identity. Their works navigate the interplay of faith, culture, and migration to forge new ways of belonging in a globalized world, offering a vital, fresh perspective.
Research Journeys
This book provides doctoral students and supervisors with candid narratives of the doctoral experience. Ten accounts offer valuable insight into the challenges that arise and how they might be overcome, ‘lifting the lid’ on concealed aspects of the process.
Higher education is an important part of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This volume brings together research, teaching experiences, and reflections on actions taken in higher education institutes associated with these SDGs.
Reservoirs of Hope
This book is about hope and the personal spirituality that sustains school leaders. Based on interviews, it uses the metaphor of ‘reservoirs of hope’ to explore how a leader’s values in action can sustain a school, without their own reservoir running dry.
Resolving Classroom Management and School Leadership Issues in ELT
Experienced teachers use action research to examine problems in leadership and management. This volume features work by UAE researchers on classroom issues and broader leadership matters, concluding with a rare retrospective on their empowering investigations.
What are the main issues in intercultural education today? With theoretical foundations, research, and case studies from diverse authors, this book helps readers go beyond stereotypes and effectively face complex diversity issues in multicultural settings.
Rethinking Social Issues in Education for the 21st Century
Key social issues and controversies in education are revisited in this volume. The text shows how common interests and collaboration help us understand social issues, the evaluation of governmental responses, and the promotion of ideas about the way forward into the 21st century.
Road Safety Management in Africa
This book examines Africa’s capacity to reduce road deaths. It evaluates crash data accuracy, causes of death, and institutional weaknesses through detailed case studies, offering policy suggestions. Ideal for students and policy makers, this text encourages reflective practice.
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