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.
Explore 20 interdisciplinary essays on the social factors shaping education from youth to adulthood. A vital tool for professionals and anyone passionate about lifelong learning, this collection offers fresh insights into continuous education.
Hina evaluates issues regarding the USAID’s Teacher Education Project, a programme aiming to introduce sustainability reforms in Pakistan’s education sector. She assesses the urgent need to recognise teaching professionals in the context of Pakistan’s teacher professionalization.
This book presents teaching methodologies and skills assessments for the 21st century. It explores how novel platforms and emerging software can provide students with the tools and skills for success in a competitive, global labor market.
Studies in Linguistic Variation and Change
This collection of studies focuses on the rapid changes from Old to Middle English. With contributions from various fields and theoretical standpoints, it is essential for scholars and students of historical linguistics and the medieval history of English.
Teacher Education in the 21st Century
Various teacher education questions are addressed in this volume, from different theoretical perspectives, with emphasis on actual practices in classrooms. The common denominator is the notion of convergence—the coexistence of people and practices in diverse contexts.
Education as Jazz
The result of an international event celebrating the second UNESCO International Jazz Day in 2013, this title investigates the issue of improvisation, considered as a multi-faceted concept and practice, seen here as a mix of values and skills fundamental for human development.
This volume offers a comparative perspective on the challenges and opportunities of diversity in the classroom. Through reflections from international educators, it explores the frustrations, triumphs, and successes of connecting with students across differences.
Diversities and Interculturality in Textbooks
Textbooks can create biased ideas about the ‘Other’. Using Finland’s top education system as an example, this volume reveals hidden ideologies and stereotyping, and offers concrete tools to develop teachers’ and students’ critical abilities.
Enacting English across Borders
Emergent researchers challenge misconceptions about teaching English in a globalised world. Drawing on Asian contexts, these studies critique existing assumptions, highlight inconsistencies in the field of ELT, and provide suggestions to address these issues.
This book argues for placing equity and social justice at the centre of education. Leading researchers show how marketization harms students and offer strategies to reimagine schools for disadvantaged communities, ensuring all young people can effectively engage.
Learning and Teaching with Geomedia is a practical introduction to the field for secondary education. It provides ready-to-use learning environments that foster spatial citizenship and are easily applied in any school with a web browser or mobile phone.
Going Forward
This collection focuses on the need to address emerging and diverse issues in education. It offers insights into the ways in which higher education continuously evolves and how it has risen to face constant challenges.
Using Information and Communication Technology tools in the teaching and learning of history has become a common practice worldwide. This book gathers the experiences and reflections of researchers from three continents, based on their own activities and empirical studies.
An Ethnography in an Irish Girls Secondary School
This ethnographic study explores the cultural experiences of a group of Irish 6th year girls, and provides a feminist perspective on the agency-structure debate. It highlights how hegemony is evident in visible and invisible ways in interactions among the cultural group.
Hospitality and Translation
What is the experience of Muslim pupils in an Anglican Primary School? Not the conflict that might be imagined. This book demonstrates the positive relationships possible between Muslims and Christians in Anglican schools.
Education in a Society uncertain of its Values
This title investigates the ends to which education should be directed today to cope with the ever-changing values of society, and the ever-present threats of economic crisis and terrorism.
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.
Ní Chuileann investigates the ability of a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder to recognise voice. It questions the assumption that voice recognition is a simple task for the typically developing child, the child with developmental delays and the child with autism.
Game-Based Learning and the Power of Play
This edited volume explores the application, potential and challenges of game-based learning and gamification across multiple disciplines and sectors, and provides comprehensive insights into the potential of games for facilitating learning and engagement at every life stage.