The International Handbook of Research in Professional and Practice-based Learning discusses what constitutes professionalism, examines the concepts and practices of professional and practice-based learning, including associated research traditions and educational provisions.
This book identifies key elements of an international framework to develop systems-level change to promote access to education, including higher education, for socio-economically marginalized groups.
This book offers an international perspective on the growing interest worldwide in lifelong learning, particularly as it relates to learning beyond compulsory education and initial occupational preparation: across working life.
Recent changes in the world effected by the transformations of information technology, globalisation, and the move towards a knowledge economy over the last thirty years have been as radical and fundamental as the changes resulting from the invention of the wheel and the printing press.
This book critically reflects on the context in which lifelong learning policies and practices are organized in Europe with contributions of researchers and policy makers in the field.
This books explores the relationships between learning, democratic citizenship and the public sphere from thee interconnected angles: theory, methodology and research.
This book addresses the questions why citizenship education is an important subject for students in further and adult education and why we need democratic colleges to support the study of citizenship education.
Due to the development of the international Education for All and Education for Sustainable Development movements, for which UNESCO is the lead agency, there has been an increasing emphasis on the power of education and schooling to help build more just and equitable societies.
The three concepts central to this volume-practice, learning and change-have received very different treatments in the educational literature, an oversight directly confronted here.
The second edition of the International Handbook of Lifelong Learning is extensive, innovative, and international in scope, remit and vision, inviting its readers to engage in a critical re-appraisal of the theme of "e;lifelong learning"e;.
This, the first comprehensive academic volume on vocational education and training (VET) or career and technical education in the United States, features insights into a variety of issues in this field of research.
Effective knowing and learning for vocational purposes must take account of the wide range of variables that impact on knowledge formation and that promote learning.
This book is founded on the idea that 'becoming' is the most useful defining concept for a new 'professional' class whose members understand that development in their working lives is an open-ended, lifelong process of refinement and learning.
This book is concerned with the general issues of ageing, learning and education for the elderly and then with the more specific issues of why, how and what elders want to learn.
This important book breaks new ground in addressing issues of gendered learning in different contexts across the (adult) life span at the start of the 21st century.
This book bridges the gap between Education for Sustainable Development and community development and examines the contributions of critical environmental education as a theoretical framework to the policy, research, and practice of Education for Sustainable Development.
This book seeks to develop the philosophy of Heidegger notion and reflects the growing importance of work based studies which is becoming of special interest to higher education institutions and commercial organisations.
Practice-based learning-the kind of education that comes from experiencing real work in real situations-has always been a prerequisite to qualification in professions such as medicine.
El sistema tradicional en el que hemos crecido, y en el que continúan creciendo muchos niños, está centrado en las certezas, en los resultados fijos, en una experiencia única para todos.
En este libro, el lector encontrará numerosas técnicas, recursos, reflexiones y consejos que le serán de gran utilidad para iniciarse en la maravillosa práctica de la Narración Oral y así ser capaz de contar todo tipo de relatos, cuentos y narraciones a una gran variedad de público; en cualquier lugar y ambiente, y ante distintas audiencias o contextos.
Este manual se centra en una metodología de trabajo emocional con grupos basada en círculos a la que las autoras se refieren como creación de espacios azules, o contextos de intercambio seguros comprometidos con el desarrollo de las personas.
This essential text introduces criminal justice students to the topics of stress and wellness in personal and professional pursuits and provides them with the tools they will need to identify the signs of stress in their own lives and the lives of others.
In the 21st century, one of the most noteworthy changes in the human rights debate relates to the increased recognition of the link between business and human rights.
This important volume takes stock of the Total Literacy Campaign (TLC), assessing both its successes and failures in order to draw lessons for the future.
`A very useful reader, providing an excellent and authentic perspective on higher education and UGC in India' - Educational Review The University Grants Commission, which began functioning under an executive order in 1953, enters its Golden Jubilee year on 28 December 2003.
Written to give a clear articulation and formulation to the Indian Community college system in its all respects, the book, first on the subject, gives a clear idea how to start the community college, steps at starting, development of a curriculum, of teaching, job orientation, governance and administration, recognition and accredition, its origin and ideals, role of universities, and target groups.
In dem Buch "Ein kleines Buch über das Selbstbewusstsein" geht es darum, dem Leser eine kleine Übersicht zugeben, was Selbstbewusstsein ist, welche Wege dorthin führen und wie man diese am besten geht.
