Has technology’s ease of manipulation created distrust in photography? Or have we always desired to manipulate the image to satisfy the demand for the “idealised”? This book explores how artists stage reality to help us look more closely at the world.
The NNEST Lens
The NNEST Lens invites you to re-examine TESOL and applied linguistics using multilingual, multicultural, and multinational perspectives. This volume’s original contributions question theory and share strategies, taking diversity as a starting point for all.
Experienced professors from Australia, New Zealand, the USA, and Eastern Europe recount in interviews their secrets to success in mentoring doctoral students. Their supervision styles are analysed and compared to elucidate what it means to be a successful advisor.
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.
Medical Education Reform in China
Due to the rapid pace of scientific progress in medicine, there is a global movement to improve medical education. This unique book describes a novel and successful example of medical education reform that may inspire medical school leaders both in China and abroad.
Hebei Women’s Normal Education Pioneers
The six chapters of this text tap into the best elements of Chinese traditional culture to show respect to the pioneers of Hebei women’s education and its contemporary potential, giving insights into social, cultural, economic and political movements throughout Chinese history.
Innovative Mnemonics in Chemical Education
This book details time-economic, innovative learning techniques to help students grow an interest in chemistry and memorize the subject. It solves the limitations of conventional methods and provides chemical applications, problems, and free educational tools.
Potential Development Using Thinking Tools
This book cracks teaching myths that make learners knowledge duplicators instead of creators. Thinking tools move the focus from mastering content to critical thinking, turning learners into thinking engineers who take ownership of what they discover, create, and solve.
Reservoirs of Hope
This book is about hope and the personal spirituality that sustains school leaders. Based on interviews, it uses the metaphor of ‘reservoirs of hope’ to explore how a leader’s values in action can sustain a school, without their own reservoir running dry.
This book deals with emotional intelligence in teacher trainees, showing how it affects their aspiration and self-concept. It demonstrates how teachers should observe and manage students’ emotions to adopt specific strategies for effective learning.
Teaching Students to Become Digital Content Curators
Today’s students are faced with a virtual tsunami of digital information, which means it is necessary to arm them with the skills of digital content curation. To avoid misinformation, this text outlines a process for examining, evaluating and synthesising digital content.
Native-speakerism in English Language Teaching
The first large-scale study of native-speakerism in China’s ELT. This critical examination reveals how the ideology is enacted and legitimized through the attitudes of students, teachers, and administrators toward language, culture, and teaching methods.
Honors education celebrates excellence, but sorting students by attainment raises questions of diversity, equity, and inclusion. How can honors programs be fair and inclusive? This book, born from a National Society for Minorities in Honors conference, explores solutions.
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 is an intensive case study of an Indian state representative of the country’s Muslim minorities. It investigates the problems of promoting inclusive higher education and presents findings useful for reshaping minority education plans and policies in India.
American Education Mythologies
Myths can be used to confuse and convince. This book critiques myths in American education—about guns in schools, banned books, Critical Race Theory, and more—and remythifies them to conjure new understandings that support our most vulnerable youth.
How do various nations view honors education? Whether known as “honors” or “talent-development,” it is associated with a student-centric ethos and creative approaches to learning. This exploration considers how honors education can empower educators and students worldwide.
Honors Education and the Foundation of Fairness
How can we support high academic achievement while allowing equitable access to higher learning? By focusing on equity, contributors shine light on conditions of inequity in honors education and advocate for supporting a wide range of identities. This book is a call to action.
Liberal Arts Perspectives on Globalism and Transnationalism
As globalization expands, reactionary forces like nationalism and populism have exposed its blind spots. This volume gathers leading scholars to analyze the human cost of immigration, the threats of online technologies, and other pressing challenges of our interconnected world.
This book prepares teachers in Southern Africa to effectively teach exceptional children. It provides a new framework for inclusive education, calling for a partnership between universities and schools to improve educational equity and reform teacher education.