This book is a guide to the PTLLS Award (which has been replaced with the Award in Education and Training) and is a comprehensive introduction to teaching in a variety of settings.
This two-volume Journey of a Rabbi consists of essays describing ventures undertaken, events experienced, and ideas articulated that reflect the life work of a rabbi and Jewish educator.
This thoughtful volume challenges widely accepted, traditionalist scientific notions of 'the academic' - prevalent in higher education institutions globally - in order to promote best practice, and redefine the field as accessible, inclusive and forward thinking.
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.
Während der Zusammenhang von sozialer Ungleichheit und schulischem Leistungsprinzip durchaus im Fokus empirischer Forschung steht, stellt die Analyse des Herstellungsprozesses von Differenz und Ungleichheit im Vollzug von Unterricht nach wie vor ein Desiderat dar.
Originally published in 1985, this book argues that to make sense any attempt to improve the situation must take account of what we now know about adult growth and development, accepting as an operational imperative that it is as problematic and turbulent as childhood.
From a traditional role of information gatekeepers, librarians have been challenged to become pedagogues who teach and counsel students in information literacy.
Re-visioning Community Collegestraces the development and generational evolution of community colleges, explores the past success and future capacity of community colleges as disruptive innovators, and analyzes this sector's unique advantages and vulnerabilities.
Whether entering higher education straight from school, or returning to study later in life, students need to develop effective study skills to get the most out of a course.
Arising from work by the Gender and Lifelong Learning Group of the Gender and Education Association, this book presents reconceptualisations of lifelong learning.
Expanding Transformation Theory offers a deeper understanding of the philosophy, principles and major components of Transformation Theory, which was developed by Jack Mezirow.
This book offers insights from a seven-year study into the impact of English as an International Language at a national level, from the effect of rich English input on a previously monolingual people's linguistic repertoire to its effect on the situated language use demanded of speakers who find themselves in a new linguistic environment for which they have not been prepared.
Technology-Enhanced Professional Learning addresses the need for continuous workplace learning that derives from the emergence of new, specialized, and constantly changing work practices.
Adult education offers the potential to enhance the individual's sense of agency to direct and improve their future; this is especially important in times of significant societal unrest.
By drawing on observation and detailed discourse analysis from interviews with teachers in Lithuanian and North American schools, this text identifies individual, school-specific, and national factors which impact teachers' informal professional learning.
In the twenty-first century, educators around the world are being told that they need to transform education systems to adapt young people for the challenges of a global digital knowledge economy.
This collection provides a wide array of concrete and inspiring "e;playful"e; approaches to teaching in a range of higher education contexts and discipline areas, grounded in the learning sciences and within a future-oriented revisioning of the university learning environment.
Leadership of different kinds exists at many levels in the post-compulsory sector-from principles to programme leaders, administrative staff and even caretakers.
This volume focuses on resilience in educational contexts which has emerged as an important field of research, with recent investigation into resilience of school students teachers, and post-secondary students and staff.
2025 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Honorable MentionAn incisive account on the underrepresentation of women, especially women of color, in positions of leadership in K12 schools and how to correct this bias.