Higher Education in the Asia Pacific
The Asia Pacific is the fastest growing region on the globe, and its universities are experiencing a dramatic surge. This insightful collection explores the key dilemmas for higher education, from international markets to the university’s role in nation-building.
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.
Written from a practical perspective with up-to-date scholarly references, this monograph investigates perspectives on teaching for the tertiary sector. Providing guiding principles and advice for teachers at the tertiary level, it will appeal to both teachers and learners.
History and Narration
This volume explores the relation between narration and history, arguing we must be aware of the rhetorical strategies in historical writing. The essays consider narrativity in authors as diverse as V. Woolf, S. Rushdie, J. M. Coetzee, and A. Ghosh.
“Sharks and Sprats”
Sokolowska offers a snapshot of recent migration from Poland to Ireland with a special focus on transnational migratory practices, examining how young people negotiate their identities during their second culture acquisition.
Khalifa examines Cairenes’ interlingual errors in English main word stress following a metrical model and parameter resetting. The findings show the difficulty of stressing items with stress different from Cairene Colloquial Arabic (CCA) and with stress similar to CCA.
This book presents exciting findings on the sources of test score gaps, using powerful DNA-based methods to analyze race, socio-economic status, and ancestry. It also considers the policy question of how these findings should be disseminated to the public.
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.
This collection explores the vital role of modern university language centres. Covering technology, creativity, methodologies and plurilingualism, its chapters show how to integrate theory with the best practices from real contexts for effective and successful language teaching.
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.
Zulfikar Ghose
Zulfikar Ghose was ranked with writers like Conrad and Nabokov, yet remains a marginal presence because his work resists categorization. This book investigates the structural patterns in his novels, focusing on his fastidious style and aesthetic design.
Living in Liverpool
This collection penetrates the lost world of working-class Liverpool. It reprints a selection of writings from social commentators, chief amongst them journalist Hugh Shimmin, who recorded the habits, housing, and wages of the city’s toiling masses.
This book elucidates what happens when people from different cultural backgrounds communicate. It highlights difficulties in conveying messages by examining discourse, power relations, and persuasion, providing a new viewpoint for linguists and students.
This text engages the reader in understanding past and contemporary critical issues in African scholarship, both in the diaspora and on the continent, that have been marginalized, unexamined, and under-researched, and proposes ways to make them visible.
This book takes a post-modern approach to Intellectual Capital (IC), exploring it as ‘images’ rather than ‘rules’. Offering different perspectives from academics and practitioners, it analyzes IC in education, business, and the public sector and its impact on a company’s value.
For teachers and students of philosophy, this book traces developments in Philosophy of Education from Rousseau through the twentieth century. The second part describes Christian approaches to educational philosophy that will appeal to Catholics as well as Protestants.
Improving Learning in Secondary Schools
The mere presence of feedback is not enough to support learning. This book argues feedback is a social process where context is critical. It presents a critical analysis of feedback in teacher talk and writing to generate a new, globally-applicable theory of classroom feedback.
Aesthetic Teaching Pedagogies
Inocian presents a range of teaching strategies appropriate for 21st century learners, and highlights the outcomes-based assessment of learning; the curriculum basics for arts-based teaching; and activities based on the integrated arts.
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.
Teacher Education in India
A progressive country is built upon the quality and commitment of its teachers. The teacher education system is a powerful vehicle to raise educational standards. This collection of papers analyses this system and its improvement, with special reference to North East India.