Learning and Personality
How does an introverted student succeed in a classroom built for extroverts? This book documents how socially active methods can harm students who learn best through reflection, revealing a glaring conflict within education and a mass misunderstanding of introversion.
Peace and Social Justice Education on Campus
This volume provides important reflections by peace and social justice educators working on college campuses. Contributions offer critical assessments of institutions, pedagogies, and practices, making visible the spaces in which education and learning occur.
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.
An Ethnography in an Irish Girls Secondary School
This ethnographic study explores the cultural experiences of a group of Irish 6th year girls, and provides a feminist perspective on the agency-structure debate. It highlights how hegemony is evident in visible and invisible ways in interactions among the cultural group.
Using Information and Communication Technology tools in the teaching and learning of history has become a common practice worldwide. This book gathers the experiences and reflections of researchers from three continents, based on their own activities and empirical studies.
Education and Teacher Education in the Modern World
This book discusses current problems, policies, and trends in modern teacher education. It explores the challenges facing teachers from various geographical, cultural, socio-political, demographic, and economic points of view.
Questions about the roles teachers’ religious beliefs play in their professional activities have been largely excluded from academic conversations in TESOL. However, Baurain shows here that faith and professional practices can, and do, interact and interrelate in various ways.
This book presents teaching methodologies and skills assessments for the 21st century. It explores how novel platforms and emerging software can provide students with the tools and skills for success in a competitive, global labor market.
The Emotionally Intelligent College
This text synopsises the research that has been conducted pertaining to emotional and social skills development in third level learning environments, and will help students and educators reach their maximum potential.
A Community of Voices on Education and the African American Experience
This book fills a void in the history of African American education by addressing the vibrant education ethos within Black America. It is essential reading for all interested in ensuring the posterity of a society via equal access to quality education.
This book explores new developments in science and technology education. It examines the impact of updated pedagogical practices, elaborates on future challenges, and points to new research directions, bridging the gap between research and practice.
Establishing a Culture of Intercultural Education
This edited volume brings together experienced educators and researchers who focus on problematic aspects of intercultural education, as well as crucial issues related to different regional contexts.
Education as Jazz
The result of an international event celebrating the second UNESCO International Jazz Day in 2013, this title investigates the issue of improvisation, considered as a multi-faceted concept and practice, seen here as a mix of values and skills fundamental for human development.
Storyline
Story making is a fundamental human activity. This book shows how educators worldwide use the Storyline Approach to unlock the power of stories in learning, tapping into imagination and emotion to develop skills, forge connections, and unite the cognitive and affective domains.
This study of teacher trainees in Luanda, Angola argues that current academic and research literacy practices are questionable and potentially harmful. It calls for a re-evaluation of assumptions about student capability and offers a powerful critique of traditional methods.
The result of a conference held in Salzburg in 2013, this title reflects the increasing importance given to local knowledge in various sciences, and discusses the positive and negative viewpoints associated with this concept.
Education in a Society uncertain of its Values
This title investigates the ends to which education should be directed today to cope with the ever-changing values of society, and the ever-present threats of economic crisis and terrorism.
“Sharks and Sprats”
Sokolowska offers a snapshot of recent migration from Poland to Ireland with a special focus on transnational migratory practices, examining how young people negotiate their identities during their second culture acquisition.
Bringing together 17 papers, this edited volume addresses recent thinking and research on Classroom-based Language Assessment within the fields of language testing, assessment and general education.
Children, Young People and Sport
This research-based study explores the motivations of children and young people in playing sport, what it means to them, and how it fits into their everyday lives, capturing the texture, nuances and meanings of participation in sport in Australia, France, Japan and New Zealand.