Removable Partial Dentures
Of value to any dental student, dentist, or technologist, from beginner to experienced practitioner. The book offers detail in all clinical phases of RPD diagnosis, fabrication, and delivery, based on documented research and decades of university-level teaching experience.
Alice Walker’s Womanist Fiction
This book explores Alice Walker’s theory of womanism, focusing on its concerns with African American women’s rights, identities, and self-actualisation. It traces the development of this concept across her canon of novels, showing how it was coined and complexly wrought.
This book offers VET teachers a set of practical, tested tools to develop students’ transversal competences. The units cover teamwork, communication, and conflict resolution, providing In-TRAY type activities with downloadable elements for direct use in the classroom.
This book presents a rich international perspective on social justice from educators worldwide. It offers practical classroom strategies and theoretical wisdom, uniquely combining local and global insights for teachers, researchers, and those in higher education.
Culture and Technology Integration in Higher Education
This book investigates technology implementation from a cultural perspective. Through an ethnographic study, it examines how culture impacts teachers’ technology adoption at personal, collegial, and institutional levels, upsetting top-down efforts to change.
This book presents classical management theory integrated with modern innovations like agile management, AI, and neuroscience. It covers key issues in sports management—from finance and quality to conflict and corruption—and includes new case studies from the field.
The Teaching and Learning Challenges of 21st-Century Higher Education
This book explores pedagogy in higher education, drawing on expertise from professionals in the UK, China, and Malaysia. It tackles challenges from the Covid-19 pandemic and provides practical insights for practitioners to enhance their teaching and improve student outcomes.
Untold Stories of Black Leadership in Higher Education
Black leaders from within academia share candid stories of their journey to becoming skilled leaders. Their narratives provide meaningful insight into leadership at the college level and offer a guide for handling conflict and change.
This book examines 21st-century education, focusing on how today’s challenges can become opportunities for renewal. It explores the role of education in modern society, highlights prospects for future schools, and presents practical examples for teachers and educators.
Schools Effectiveness and Schools Improvement in South Africa
This book examines school improvement and effectiveness in the South African context. Authors explore crucial themes from curriculum leadership to inclusion, offering vital perspectives for leaders and policy-makers seeking to change education in developing countries.
The Promises and Pitfalls of Technology in Higher Education
What will universities look like in 30 years? This book examines the impact of technologies like AI, virtual reality, and robots on the future of higher education. Journey from the university’s past to a transformed future campus, seen through the eyes of students and professors.
Leadership and Policy in Urban Education
The Urban Education Sourcebook explores 21st century controversies in K-12 education. Topics include trauma pedagogy, principal support, school boards, and segregation policies. This text also includes activities, key vocabulary, and suggested readings.
The Foundations of Urban Education
This volume explores key 21st-century issues impacting urban schools. It prepares teachers by focusing on theoretical and historical foundations, discussing topics like the achievement gap, charter schools, teacher pay, culturally relevant pedagogy, and teacher motivation.
This book concisely highlights various science laws, their formulas, and applications. These laws are fundamental to our understanding of the natural world and provide the foundation upon which many scientific theories are built.
Emergent Bilingual Students and Their Academic Performance
Emergent Bilinguals are a fast-growing but underserved subgroup. Based on multiyear studies of their reading and mathematics performance, this book provides educational leaders, researchers, and policymakers with vital pre-pandemic baselines to inform changes in instruction.
What are the main issues in intercultural education today? With theoretical foundations, research, and case studies from diverse authors, this book helps readers go beyond stereotypes and effectively face complex diversity issues in multicultural settings.
Transforming Computing Education with Problem-Based Learning
This book argues that Problem-Based Learning (PBL) can develop professional computing competencies. It proposes a methodology to implement PBL in a manageable way and reports on teaching and learning experiences, providing a realistic picture of this methodology.
Pastoral Care in Education
A celebration of 40 years of NAPCE and a forward-thinking volume on today’s key pastoral issues. Bringing together expert contributors, it offers fresh insights and evidence-based strategies for all educators, making the case for the centrality of pastoral care in education.
A concise, practical introduction to learning and teaching in higher education. It covers key issues from how students learn and assessment to curriculum design and technology, while keeping a critical eye on the pressures faced by teachers and students today.
Challenge the educational theories you learned in school. In an era demanding radical transformation, leading experts present a bold roadmap for the future of learning and research in Society 5.0.