Communication and Interculturality in Higher Education
This book is an academic adventure addressing communication and interculturality in higher education. It unpacks the barriers to intercultural encounters and shows how institutions of higher learning can be a vehicle for building intercultural awareness and competence.
This book offers strategies for developing the online classroom into a deep learning community. Anchored in educational theory, it shows how a strong sense of community ownership enhances students’ ability to master content through shared authority, voice, and peer connection.
Community College Finance
This book explores resource development at Mississippi’s Community and Junior Colleges, determining if fundraising adequately serves their needs. Fundraising in a recession is necessary, and colleges that survive will learn invaluable lessons.
Comparing Inclusive Education
This book offers a comparative analysis of inclusive education in Italy and China, based on teachers’ experiences. It explores cultural traditions and teachers’ perceptions to enrich our knowledge of making education more inclusive through a cross-cultural dialogue.
Concept Map-Based Formative Assessment of Students’ Structural Knowledge
This book shows higher education staff how to develop students’ structural knowledge—a precondition for expert performance. It provides practical scenarios for using concept mapping in formative assessment to build the complex problem-solving skills needed for today’s careers.
Conceptualizations of Childhood, Pedagogy and Educational Research in the Postmodern
This monograph investigates the new sociology of childhood and new directions in pedagogy and research that have been conceptualised as a result of the recent debate between modernism and postmodernism within the social sciences.
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.
University assessment efforts have failed to enhance educational quality. Plagued by questionable reliability and validity, the prevalent summative approach may not be the best method. This book suggests alternatives that yield more meaningful, quality-driven information.
This indispensable guide for educators provides a road plan for integrating technology into the classroom. Through evidence-based strategies and real-world case studies, you will gain the knowledge to foster student engagement, optimize learning, and flourish in the digital age.
This book argues for placing equity and social justice at the centre of education. Leading researchers show how marketization harms students and offer strategies to reimagine schools for disadvantaged communities, ensuring all young people can effectively engage.
This book enhances understanding of approaches to curriculum, instruction, and assessment in early childhood education. It covers holistic development through play, arts, math, and science, and shares diverse research methodologies for researchers and practitioners.
Contested Boundaries
Contested Boundaries uses Toni Morrison’s enigmatic novel, A Mercy, as a locus to discuss her entire canon. Essays explore her re-figuration of core themes—the legacy of slavery, trauma, and love—charting a shift in her work to open up new ways of interrogating her writing.
Contexts for Teacher Education
Good teaching is more than mastering technique. It is proactive, emotional work, infused with pleasure, passion, creativity, and joy. Continuing professional development is necessary for all educators to keep pace with change and to renew their knowledge, skills, and visions.
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.
Contrastive Phraseology
This collection of essays offers a comprehensive, modern analysis of phrasemes for researchers, teachers, translators, and lexicographers. A contrastive approach outlines divergences between languages, from major ones to less-investigated ones like Ukrainian, Georgian, and Thai.
The brain is a muscle; a growth mindset strengthens it by rewiring neural circuits. This book provides the tools and roadmap required to bring this pedagogy into the classroom and develop a culture where students believe that ‘with practice and hard work, I can do better.’
Creative Dialogues
This collection of essays is a groundbreaking contribution to Narrative Medicine and the Health Humanities. Featuring prestigious scholars like Rita Charon, it is highly beneficial for healthcare professionals, medical students, and Humanities researchers.
This book explores work-integrated learning (WIL) programmes for the student, coordinator and supervisor. It integrates practical industry experience within the higher education curriculum to enhance student development, and highlights the diverse WIL approaches in South Africa.
This book discusses cross-curricularity in language teaching from pre-school to university. It explores integrating media, art, and culture into language classes, offering practical solutions grounded in theory for teachers and scholars.
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.