A legacy of the Napoleonic era, the Baccalauréat exam has long mirrored French society. This book hones on its first century, tracing its evolution from a single oral exam into a complex, standardized test battery designed to channel the nation’s academic elite.
Private Instincts and Public Ideals
How do you choose a school? Most guides focus only on your child’s success. This collection of essays features parents who also consider the flourishing of others, equal opportunity, and diverse schools. Their stories will challenge and enrich your own parenting journey.
A Civil Society Teaching Primer
For college teachers, this book depicts American civilian life as an experience shaped by the organized movement of water. It provides a plan and teaching resources to help learners make connections between civil society, their sense of place, and essential water services.
This book covers the concepts of acids and bases and the effects governing their strength. It discusses reaction mechanisms and presents the structure, geometry, and reactions of key intermediates like carbocations, carbanions, free radicals, and carbenes, supported by examples.
The Aging Criminal
Global experts condense the latest scientific discoveries on severe mental illness in forensic detainees into a single, easy-to-read guide. They interpret findings from genomics into new therapeutic practices. For practitioners, researchers, patient families, and specialists.
A guide to two Additional Basic Qualification (ABQ) courses for Ontario teachers: Senior English and Special Education. This book covers curriculum, strategies for behavioural exceptionalities, Individual Education Plans (IEPs), lesson plans, case studies, and helpful rubrics.
Global Learning at Small Institutions
This volume of essays offers models for effective global learning at small institutions. It provides guidelines and practical steps for educators and administrators, showing how challenges like limited resources can inspire creative, thriving programs.
University Students’ Wellbeing
This case study explores wellbeing issues like stress and anxiety among university students. It offers a roadmap to resilience through coping strategies like meditation and mindfulness. For students, educators, and policymakers seeking to enhance wellbeing, this book is for you.
This book addresses the critical gap between traditional teaching and Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL). It bridges the divide by exploring theories, principles, and pedagogies for 21st-century learning, covering course design, online assessment, and quality assurance.
East Jerusalem Palestinian Students’ Experiences in Israeli Academia
Through the captivating stories of East Jerusalem youth, this book reveals their fight for an education in Israel—a journey of navigating cultural barriers, challenging disparities, and forging identities within a landscape of conflict.
Dynamic Empowerment in Peace Education
This book explores empowerment as a key component to peace education, differentiating effective from ineffective approaches. Focusing on fairness, peace practices, and constructivist approaches, this is an essential text for educators seeking to put philosophy into praxis.
Blended Learning and AI in Higher Education
Explore the transformation of higher education through blended learning and AI. With a focus on India and global trends, this guide offers educators practical advice on personalizing learning, navigating ethical challenges, and preparing students for a tech-driven future.
Transforming Education in India
This book provides deep insights into Indian education. It examines education at all levels, exploring recent challenges and government initiatives to improve teaching and learning. A good source of knowledge for students, teachers, researchers, and administrators.
This book reports on a large-scale study using integrated reading-into-writing tasks to improve academic reading. It offers practical insights into reading processes, making it essential for applied linguists, EAP instructors, and language assessors.
Learning to Teach
Diverse teacher educators share stories of their experiences as students and teachers. This collection reveals how these experiences influence their teaching, offering effective practices for culturally diverse learners with a focus on social justice, equity, and inclusion.
Explore the transformative world of Forest Schools. This pioneering work champions an educational revolution, bringing learning to the forest. Stavrianos illuminates the benefits for children with SEND, showing how nature fosters confidence, curiosity, and holistic development.
Embark on a journey into the future of nutrition. This book explores the remarkable potential of millets as the cornerstone of tomorrow’s diet. Discover their role as functional foods, ensuring nutritional security and shaping a healthier, more sustainable future for us all.
This collection of reflective biographical accounts follows diverse academics on their journeys to becoming educational researchers. Their personal stories highlight the challenges, resolutions, and ‘what I wish I knew’, revealing a path that is profoundly transformational.
Faith in Higher Education
This book examines the church-founded model of higher education as a promising solution to current challenges, especially in developing countries. Case studies reveal this model emphasises student wellbeing over profit and delivers relevant courses over easily marketed subjects.
A discussion on the changing nature of South Africa’s higher education sector, covering challenges like low enrollment and high dropout rates that rob the country of economic potential. A welcome addition for policy-makers and scholars.