Adult education, continuous learning

The definitive book on ethics for chemical dependency treatment professionals.

Der vorliegende Text beleuchtet den aktuellen Stand und die Herausforderungen der Digitalisierung in deutschen Schulen auf Grundlage einer breiten Datenbasis.

This book advocates for teacher professional development done differently.

As librarians move into the middle of their careers, they are more ready than ever to take on new leadership opportunities.

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.

Customer Care provides a detailed course suitable for delivery to library staff at all levels.

A practical work outlining the theory and practice of using active learning techniques in library settings.

This volume of the "e;International Perspectives on Education and Society"e; series comparatively examines various two-year and community college institutions worldwide.

Spark a culture of success.

How do you tailor education to the learning needs of adults?

This book explores the role of students' involvement in teacher professional development.

This book explores European governance and policy coordination within lifelong learning markets.

This book discusses the scientific developments on the new roles of interventions in career-and-life design (career education, career counseling, etc.

This book explores the potential for lifelong learning in dementia.

This book explores student-staff partnerships through a breadth of co-authored research projects.

This book presents thoughts on and experiences with the introduction of Theme-centered Interaction (TCI) into academia.

This book theorizes shadow education as a new component of curriculum, expanding the concept of curriculum to include this type of learning.

This book explores the lives, experiences and the formation of higher educational aspirations among marginalised migrant youth in South Africa.

This book compels professionals to actively imbibe self-awareness in their thought process in order to help them manage complexities in business.

Around the world, the landscape of Higher Education is increasingly shaped by discourses of employability, rankings, and student satisfaction.

This book examines the importance, and potential, of citizenship education, using extensive qualitative data from England and Sweden.

This multidisciplinary book represents an initial attempt to connect adult learning and knowledge management in theory and practice.

This book analyses how narrative fictions can be used by faculty and staff in the teaching of professionals in higher education.

This book examines how educational practice can be improved through practice-focused educational research.

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 and progresses the concept of negotiation as a means of describing and explaining individuals' learning in work.

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.

This textbook is a guide to success during the PhD trajectory.

This book focuses on a renewed interest in work based learning in higher education.

This book presents multiple cultural and contextual takes on working performances of academic/writer/thinker, both inside and outside the academy.

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 edited volume uses an African-centred approach to examine a renewed vision of development education in Africa.

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.

The present book collects, integrates, and discusses the range of perspectives and discourses on agency at work.

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.

This book focuses on critical walking and mapping practices through the research methodology of a/r/tography.

Based on an ethnographic study involving three families who live on a Midlands council housing estate, this book presents portraits of everyday lives - and the literacy practices that are part of them - as a way to explore the complex relationship between literacy and social justice.

This book examines service-learning as a critical pedagogy and explores the benefit of creating a reflective journal.

This book offers insights into questions related to mobility, literacy learning and literacy practices of adult and adolescent migrants.

This book explores the development of practical wisdom, or phronesis, within the stories of four mature students studying for degrees in art and design.

This book contains the full research papers presented at  the 20th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, held in 2017 at Wageningen University &  Research  in Wageningen, the Netherlands.

The book provides a systemic view of the state-of-the- art of Digital Game Based Learning (DGBL) across the lifespan, from age-specific game design requirements to technological devices that could overcome child and older adult difficulties in the use of DGBL technologies.

This volume explores the relationship between space, pedagogy, and technology, with a particular focus on the latter since it is the connecting element that relates to all analysed contexts.

This book focuses on knowledge management and learning organizations, showing how they realise entrepreneurship and innovation.

This book examines the experiences of the first graduates from The Doctor of Social Sciences (DSocSci) program at Royal Roads University, Canada's first applied research doctorate designed exclusively for working professionals.

This book explores new developments and objectives in translator education, with a focus on metacognitive aspects of both translating and learning to become a translator.

This book explores community education in Ireland and argues that neoliberalism has had a profound effect on community education.

This book compares the wellbeing of older Russian adults in the EU, USA, China, Japan, and Russia.