Why does technology integration in education still reflect traditional, teacher-centred methods? This book offers a practical guide for developing a learner-centred philosophy of teaching with technology by examining the core beliefs that guide educators’ decisions.
Based on large-scale research, this book challenges standard views to help create affirming spaces for trans*+ individuals in healthcare and education. It dives into controversies in media, medicine, and mental health, offering provocative questions and illuminating answers.
This book explores the under-researched topic of Social, Emotional and Behaviour Difficulties (SEBD) in the Cypriot education system. Based on original research, it documents educators’ views on good practice to help professionals accommodate pupils’ needs.
This monograph offers a thorough discussion of the relevance of incorporating robotics into the 21st century classroom. It explores essential topics including outcome-based education, robotics technology, its use in education, and its theoretical underpinnings, among others.
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.
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.
Transforming Learning
Aimed at educators who want to impact the lives of the students who attend their classrooms, this volume presents indigenous frameworks applied to subjects in education, the humanities and sciences that inform critical praxis in teacher education.
This book offers ideas for developing creative and critical thinking, strategic writing, and effective interpersonal skills. It presents strategies to foster cultural diversity and collaboration, cultivating the transformation of a student into a 21st century leader.
Transgender Children and Young People
This collection approaches the current theory and practice of transgendering children. Essays are written against the grain of the popularised medical definition of ‘the transgender child’ as a young person whose ‘true’ gender lies in the brain, or pre-social ‘identity’.
Turning Points and Transformations
Turning points and transformations are central to literature, culture, and life. But why are they transformational, and what brings them about? The essays in this volume examine these questions, exploring personal and cultural shifts and how we cope with them.
Universalisation of Elementary Education
This study evaluates the District Primary Education Programme (DPEP) in South India, questioning its success in achieving access, retention, quality, and equality. The DPEP enhanced access and gender equality but saw only moderate success in retention and quality.
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.
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.
Despite communicative teaching, many EFL university students in the UAE lack adequate communicative competence and critical thinking skills. This book argues for utilising literature, offering an approach to integrate language, literature, and critical thinking.
Voices from Far Away Lands
In an era of global tension, stories from international lives offer vital insights. These compelling essays explore our search for identity, community, and belonging in a changing world.
Today’s tech-savvy students learn visually and dislike traditional assessment. This book shows teachers how to make the assessment process fun and interactive. Introduce highly interactive applications and make your classes more active in the learning process.
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.
Ní Chuileann investigates the ability of a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder to recognise voice. It questions the assumption that voice recognition is a simple task for the typically developing child, the child with developmental delays and the child with autism.
This compilation of papers addresses education-related matters, with a particular focus on the purpose of education, results from a child-centred perspective, and discrimination in national and gender characteristics of education.
While William James is renowned, his *Talks to Teachers on Psychology* is often overlooked. This book fills a significant gap in Jamesian studies by analyzing his work as an educator, the origins of the lectures, and his influence on modern education.