This book concerns the pursuit of wisdom in education, and the argument that wisdom - personified here as Sophia - is tragically marginalised or absent in current Western epistemological discourses.
Lifelong Learning is essential to all individuals and in recent years has become a guiding principle for policy initiatives, ranging from national economic competition to issues of social cohesion and personal fulfilment.
This book opens up ways to engage critically with what counts as innovatory practice in lifelong learning today, locating its discussion of innovations in lifelong learning within an international and comparative framework.
This book explores the contemporary conditions of marginal work within the context of persistent unemployment, poverty, and homelessness in wealthy nations.
New graduate students are often unaware of the many hazards and pitfalls that occur during the dissertation process: intensive schedules, dwindling motivation, difficult or unavailable mentors, and research and publication complications.
In this collection of work, the contributing authors tackle the topic of non-formal education from a variety of disciplines, such as computer science, psychology, education, science education, literacy, music, art, and social studies by sharing original p
Der vorliegende Text beleuchtet den aktuellen Stand und die Herausforderungen der Digitalisierung in deutschen Schulen auf Grundlage einer breiten Datenbasis.
Aimed at library science students and librarians with newly assigned administrative duties the book is about improving one's thinking and decision making in a role as a library manager.
This volume of the "e;International Perspectives on Education and Society"e; series comparatively examines various two-year and community college institutions worldwide.
This book explores the concept of resilience and its significance in responding to a rapid and ever-changing globalised world whilst critiquing its 'buzzword' status in contemporary times.
This book explores 'why some people experience post-traumatic growth leading to greater wisdom and others do not' and suggests that a critical variable is how one copes with that trauma: individuals who actively reflect on their experiences of trauma should develop higher levels of self-transcendent wisdom.
This book focuses on large and small group educational settings and offers brief strategies to engage learners to assure active learning strategies are core to the learning environment.
This book presents the authentic voices of science teachers engaged in practitioner inquiry as one component of a comprehensive professional development program.
The book offers a well-grounded vision of the significant theory and application of the concept of Capability as a lifecourse and lifespan development.
This book presents the most comprehensive discussion of emerging trends in higher education in the Asia Pacific, ranging from graduate attributes to integrated workplace learning, with an in-depth focus on work readiness, employability and career development.
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.