For engineers and students, this volume presents articles by international experts on themes at the interface between engineering and society, including ethics, education, and the future of engineering. Each chapter contrasts distinct perspectives to develop critical thinking.
This book demonstrates fractional calculus’ use to model natural phenomena and new processes in advanced technologies. The focus is on modelling, results, and interpretations, rather than theorems. A source for students and scientists modelling nonlinear and hereditary phenomena.
Sophistes
Heidegger saw Plato as the founder of a Western metaphysics to be overcome. Yet Heidegger’s own interpretation of Plato is controversial, and its impact on the study of Platonic philosophy itself has been neglected. This volume offers a critical re-evaluation.
Education is unlikely to become inclusive without deliberate efforts to dismantle exclusion. This book explores what these efforts entail, from developing teachers to be responsive to learner diversity to reconstituting systems for meaningful inclusion.
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.
Mind, Learning, and Knowledge in Educational Contexts
Uniting education, psychology, and neuroscience, this volume explores bioeducational sciences. It examines foundational questions of mind-brain and nature-nurture, focusing on the relationship between biological constraints and cultural development.
Academic Days of Timişoara
Social Sciences Today contains papers from an international symposium covering economics, education, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. This collection will appeal to social science teachers at all levels of instruction.
Byron and Latin Culture
This collection of papers details the huge influence of Latin poets on Byron. His borrowings, imitations, and parodies are catalogued in unprecedented detail, revealing how classical writers inspired *Don Juan*. Also explores Byron’s influence on European art.
From an Existential Vacuum to a Tragic Optimism
This book uses Victor Frankl’s logotherapy to analyze the search for meaning in modern literature. It explores our age’s “existential vacuum”—a sense of meaninglessness—and discovers a “tragic optimism” and a longing for God in poetry, novels, and fantasy.
Theories of Affect and Concepts in Generic Skills Education
This book revitalizes the concept of generic skills, which have recently become widespread in universities, but also advocates daring pedagogical practices that invigorate the meaning of, and approach to, teaching and learning in present landscapes of higher education.
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.
The Art of Noticing Deeply
In this work, authors study the spaces where we teach and learn, where we explore and interact, and where we pause and wonder. They give insights into ways the arts intersect teachers’ creative beings, and suggest rethinking our knowledge about teaching and learning.
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.
Conceptualizations of Childhood, Pedagogy and Educational Research in the Postmodern
This monograph investigates the new sociology of childhood and new directions in pedagogy and research that have been conceptualised as a result of the recent debate between modernism and postmodernism within the social sciences.
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.
Establishing a Culture of Intercultural Education
This edited volume brings together experienced educators and researchers who focus on problematic aspects of intercultural education, as well as crucial issues related to different regional contexts.
Whiteness in Academia
How do white academics contribute to racial oppression, even in fields designed to resist it? This book uses fictional tropes—from science fiction to detective fiction—in a series of ‘counter stories’ that critique whiteness in academia and explore power.
Investigating the Role of Language in the Identity Construction of Scholars
This volume explores major hindrances to communication in the way we over-generalise, stereotype and undermine the people with whom we communicate. It investigates the consequent need for greater intercultural awareness on the part of educators and students.
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.
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.