This timely new handbook will be an essential read for all college staff who find themselves involved in mentoring trainee teachers in post-compulsory education, either through choice or necessity!
This book brings together social semiotics, cultural studies, multiliteracies, and other approaches in order to theorize very different learning environments, giving visibility to the modal effect in a range of disciplines.
This book explores the development of practical wisdom, or phronesis, within the stories of four mature students studying for degrees in art and design.
Originally published in 1991 this book analyses the input of those who made important contributions to the education of adults in the USA between 1607 and 1920.
„Aufstieg durch Bildung – offene Hochschulen“ lautet der Titel eines durch das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung im Jahr 2011 ausgeschriebenen Wettbewerbs, der Teil einer Qualifizierungsinitiative ist.
This book proposes a developmental theory of human mind as a basic interaction system of meaning making elements - so called dualities - progressing in dialectical shifts towards higher self-awareness.
This comprehensive guide introduces and operationalises the Employability Capital Growth Model (ECGM), offering an innovative tool for career development practitioners and academics to prepare university students for a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous labour market.
It has been over a century since "e;Cooperative System of Education,"e; a work-study programme for higher education, was initiated by Herman Schneider at University of Cincinnati in the United States.
Mariska Ott zeigt am Beispiel des französischen Berufsbildungssystems auf, inwiefern es möglich ist, auf Basis von wirkungsorientierten Curricula (Outcome-Orientierung) verschiedene, aber gleichwertige Lernwege – darunter ein Verfahren zur Anerkennung von informell erworbenen Kompetenzen – zu etablieren.
It is imperative that teachers build community in their classrooms and across their academic teams and grades in order to make school a safe and supportive place for adolescents.
Supporting the Workplace Learning of Vocational and Further Education Teachers is written to help people understand the arrangements in a workplace that enable and constrain teacher learning - and then to do something about it.
Research confirms that the teacher makes the greatest difference in the learning success of students, so it's important that new teachers get off to a strong start.
This volume is the continuation of a two-part series that focuses on salient topics and issues affecting Black males as they engage in adult education and learning.
Teaching in Post-14 Education & Training provides a skilfully balanced mix of essential theory and practical guidance to support you if you are studying an ‘education and training’ qualification.
The book provides a grounded, narrative exploration of contemporary qualitative PhD research in the fields of language education and applied linguistics.
Recent writing on education and social change, and a growing number of new governmental initiatives across Western societies have proceeded in denial or ignorance of the personal missions and biographical trajectories of key public sector personnel.
A new concept on human diversity has emerged over the past 10 years that promises to revolutionize the way educators provide services to students with special needs: neurodiversity.
After long periods of military dictatorships, civil wars, and economic instability, Latin America has changed face, and become the foremost region for counter-hegemonic processes.
For every element that we design in the landscape, there is a corresponding grading concept, and how these concepts are drawn together is what creates a site grading plan.
British Further Education: A Critical Textbook provides a coherent account of the system of Further Education in Great Britain, which is defined as the public provision for the education of persons who have left school, other than at universities, colleges of education, or establishments run by the armed services.
This book presents research involving learning opportunities that are afforded to learners of science when the focus is on linking the formal and informal science education sectors.
Originally published in 2003 Realizing Qualitative Research into Higher Education, looks at how qualitative research in broad terms, confronts the question of the researcher's involvement in the production of knowledge.
A revolutionary framework for teacher learning centered on justice-focused coaching that encourages culturally responsive practice and disrupts systems of oppression.
This book looks in detail at the strong contrasts in the provision traditionally made for 'academically' and 'vocationally' minded students, and looks at differences and similarities in practice.
The focus of this edited book is to evoke and provoke conceptual conversations between early a/r/tographic publications and the contemporary scholarship of a/r/tographers publishing and producing today.
This concise and up-to-date guide to 14-19 education aims to demystify recent policy initiatives in the sector to help teachers and practitioners understand the rationale for the qualifications on offer and support them in their daily practice.
