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.
The Supervisory Assemblage
A nomadic inquiry into the doctoral process, this book uses Deleuzian and feminist poststructuralist thought to raise questions, not answer them. It reveals academic production as a complex process, offering a powerful statement on learning’s capacity to transform a life.
Interculturality
In an era of accelerating globalization, intercultural issues are crucial. This book creates a platform for dialogue between practitioners and researchers through concrete case studies to promote constructive understanding and combat racism and xenophobia.
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.
This book explores metaphors as instruments for describing, understanding, and inspiring education research. Authors show how metaphors provide new perspectives on the philosophical assumptions and methodological issues of research.
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.
Life Stories and Sociological Imagination
This book examines music artists Faudel (France) and Adam Tensta (Sweden), revealing how they connect personal struggles to public issues. Their work offers a unique window into how national identity is changing in France, Sweden, and beyond.
This study investigates the effectiveness of audio versus text feedback for non-native English-speaking students in online courses. It shows how feedback impacts learning and perception, and how results differ if the instructor is a native or non-native speaker.
Psychology at Work in Asia
This book provides a valuable window into the development of psychology in Asia, especially in the workplace. Indigenous trends are provided by native authors, making it a must-read for academics, business professionals, and cross-cultural researchers.
Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in the United Arab Emirates
Professors reflect on enhancing learning opportunities for their students. The authors take a scholarly approach to examine innovative techniques, from active learning to the effect of technology, providing inspiration for teaching excellence in Higher Education worldwide.
This book investigates Anna Banti’s contribution to a female literary canon and the renewal of the Italian historical novel. Focusing on her novel La camicia bruciata, it shows how Banti’s personal experience of marriage and motherhood influenced her narrative.
The Coherence of the Inchoate
This book compares children’s in-school and out-of-school internet use. At home, learning is self-motivated and purposeful, often assisted by peers. As home and school practices diverge, school use may become increasingly irrelevant to children’s lives.
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.
Mapping the Broad Field of Multicultural and Intercultural Education Worldwide
This volume addresses core matters in diverse societies, from the needs of migrant populations to enriching school curricula with new intercultural dimensions. It highlights the importance of Intercultural Education in developing a new, dynamic citizen.
This volume is for Language Teacher Trainers (LTTs), lecturers, and experienced teachers aspiring to the role. It offers the main issues, tools, and research for their daily practice and professional development, with suggestions for academic students.
Intercultural Horizons
This volume features papers from the Intercultural Horizons conference on “Best Practices in Intercultural Competence Development.” Authors include leaders in the field, researchers, and teachers, providing diverse perspectives on intercultural communication.
Philosophy and Education
Are children natural philosophers? This book shows how to build on their inherent curiosity about life’s big questions. It describes models for introducing philosophy into schools using literature, games, and activities to help students develop analytic skills.
Earthly Honest Things
This collection of twenty-five shorter writings is from a leading authority on William Langland. Including four new pieces, these revised essays are an indispensable companion for specialists and an exciting introduction for students.
Conflict Resolution and the Scholarship of Engagement
To transform entrenched conflicts, theory and practice must unite. This edition connects the Scholarship of Engagement to the work of conflict resolution professionals, exploring examples from genocide prevention to community mediation and transitional justice.
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.