Passing the Torch
Passing the Torch explores the mentor-student relationship and how anthropology is passed from one generation to the next. Through personal stories and classical examples, such as Boas’s mentoring of Margaret Mead, this book illuminates how the discipline is passed on.
Going Forward
This collection focuses on the need to address emerging and diverse issues in education. It offers insights into the ways in which higher education continuously evolves and how it has risen to face constant challenges.
Teacher Education in the 21st Century
Various teacher education questions are addressed in this volume, from different theoretical perspectives, with emphasis on actual practices in classrooms. The common denominator is the notion of convergence—the coexistence of people and practices in diverse contexts.
Sophistes
Heidegger saw Plato as the founder of a Western metaphysics to be overcome. Yet Heidegger’s own interpretation of Plato is controversial, and its impact on the study of Platonic philosophy itself has been neglected. This volume offers a critical re-evaluation.
Game-Based Learning and the Power of Play
This edited volume explores the application, potential and challenges of game-based learning and gamification across multiple disciplines and sectors, and provides comprehensive insights into the potential of games for facilitating learning and engagement at every life stage.
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.
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.
A critical analysis of the impact of the Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe is offered here, looking at how politicisation led to the violation of human rights. The book also looks at the enduring impact this has left on the victims, mostly children.
Engaged Learners and Digital Citizens
Garner encourages teaching faculty to adopt a proactive stance to technology through engaging digital tools that promote skill acquisition. He delineates a model for digital learning, providing examples of digital tools and their possible applications for teaching and learning.
Stories of Peace Volume II
The chapters within this collection highlight the importance of creating and sustaining peace, proposing that peace can be created and sustained through people’s actions. They present stories to inspire the reader to work for peace.
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.
Investigating the Role of Language in the Identity Construction of Scholars
This volume explores major hindrances to communication in the way we over-generalise, stereotype and undermine the people with whom we communicate. It investigates the consequent need for greater intercultural awareness on the part of educators and students.
The Art of Noticing Deeply
In this work, authors study the spaces where we teach and learn, where we explore and interact, and where we pause and wonder. They give insights into ways the arts intersect teachers’ creative beings, and suggest rethinking our knowledge about teaching and learning.
Responding to challenges arising from an increase in Chinese students at western universities, Burrows provides a guide on how to deal with such problems. She explores such issues as cultural differences, as well as suggesting how best to engage the student.
This conference proceedings covers a range of areas, including health, design, law and fieldwork. It comprises several methodologies to investigate the use of iPads in Higher Education, such as surveys, questionnaires and focus groups.
Challenges in Global Learning
This volume offers a wide range of approaches for framing and addressing global education issues. It is constructed around four research themes which reflect current strategic research priorities in Australian education, forming a framework for evaluating educational changes.
Rethinking Social Issues in Education for the 21st Century
Key social issues and controversies in education are revisited in this volume. The text shows how common interests and collaboration help us understand social issues, the evaluation of governmental responses, and the promotion of ideas about the way forward into the 21st century.
Guide to Early Childhood Education
This textbook represents a resource for educationalists working in the field of Early Childhood Education. Its three main parts offer insights, early learning ideas, classroom environmental changes and pertinent information and internet resources to help guide successful learning
Resulting from a teacher education conference, this collection will stimulate dialogue among such groups as teacher educators, researchers, students, teachers and NGOs. Its papers are written by European teacher educators, presenting their experiences and ideas.
Putting Theory into Practice in the Contemporary Classroom
This work emerges from interest in how postmodern theory illuminates the products and ideas of high culture, as well as the ins and outs of everyday life. It helps us to understand troublesome classroom dynamics and specifies pedagogical strategies for dealing with them.