A definitive reference for the theory and practice of Islamic finance. Explore global banking innovations and understand their vital role in today’s volatile economy.
Educational Trends
This textbook of articles and essays assists educational professionals with education and cultural awareness. Designed as a supplemental reading aid for university coursework, it is for teachers, administrators, students, and university personnel.
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.
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.
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 collection of essays from educators across Africa, Asia, and Europe explores key issues in education. Topics range from teacher education and psychosocial development to educational policy and language in teaching. For educators, researchers, and students.
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.
This book discusses cross-curricularity in language teaching from pre-school to university. It explores integrating media, art, and culture into language classes, offering practical solutions grounded in theory for teachers and scholars.
This collection examines the performance and transmission of post-traumatic memory in the US. Departing from early trauma theory, contributors analyze fiction, memoirs, and films to explore multidirectional memory, autobiography, national commemoration, and 9/11.
Focus on CLIL
This book analyses the changes that take place in a CLIL classroom in secondary education, where a foreign language is used as a medium of instruction. It will raise teachers’ awareness of these changes and help them understand the CLIL process.
This book enhances understanding of approaches to curriculum, instruction, and assessment in early childhood education. It covers holistic development through play, arts, math, and science, and shares diverse research methodologies for researchers and practitioners.
Emerging Critical Scholarship in Education
The doctoral journey is fraught with challenges. This book explores the routes of candidates conducting critical research in education, addressing their isolation not as a self-help guide, but by honouring individual stories to highlight broader issues.
The Teacher of the 21st Century
This book contains the best articles from the 2013 ATEE conference, presenting an exchange of ideas between European teacher educators and beyond. It enhances the quality of teacher education and stimulates dialogue among researchers, teachers, and students.
This book celebrates the diversity of universities but recognises the challenges faced by new students. It offers research, case studies, and practical advice from international experts on student transition, retention, and the first-year experience.
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.
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.
Innovative Learning Geography in Europe
New technologies have revolutionised geography teaching. This book, supported by EUROGEO, analyses the main challenges facing geographical education and illustrates examples of the use of geoinformation in classrooms in several European countries.
Game-Based Learning
This book is an invitation to delve into Game-Based Learning, an effective tool to teach and train in the 21st century. These chapters illustrate the advancements, challenges, and opportunities in the field, with practical guidelines and suggestions.
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.