Development of Adult Thinking is a timely synthesis and evaluation of the current knowledge and emerging issues relating to adult cognitive development and learning.
During the 1980s and 1990s the elaboration of a reformed system of vocational qualifications was perhaps the most controversial of all the governments efforts to improve the provision of vocational education and training.
Originally published in 1991, this book gives international coverage of opportunities in youth development and education from a unique comparative angle.
Diese "Zugänge zur Systemischen Pädagogik" beleuchten unterschiedliche Themen und Dimensionen des professionellen Umgangs mit Selbstorganisation in den Kontexten von Erziehung, Bildung, Lernen und Kompetenzentwicklung, wichtige Schritte sind u.
This book addresses the importance of language in matters of sustainability and incorporating such concerns in implementing the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
This comprehensive guide to continuing professional development (CPD) in the lifelong learning sector (LLS) provides teachers with practical support and guidance alongside development activities.
Improving Mathematics at Work questions the mathematical knowledge and skills that matter in the twenty-first century world of work, and studies how the use of mathematics in the workplace is evolving in the rapidly-changing context of new technologies and globalisation.
Designed to mentor aspiring and current faculty, Becoming a Successful Community College Professor analyzes the ways in which the current institution of community colleges affects both staff and students, and presents strategies for effectively navigating the community college professor role from the point of job search to tenure status.
Leadership of different kinds exists at many levels in the post-compulsory sector-from principles to programme leaders, administrative staff and even caretakers.
Informal Learning and Literacy among Maasai Women highlights the importance and role of informal education in the emancipation and development of Maasai village women in Kenya.
This book presents essential insights into lifelong learning and education in healthy and sustainable cities, providing a basis for strategies to help achieve the 2030 Agenda sustainable development and health promotion goals.
The classic interdisciplinary reference on adult education, updated for today's learning environment Enhancing Adult Motivation to Learn provides adult educators with the information and strategies they need to guide non-traditional students toward positive educational outcomes.
The approach taken in this book emphasizes the basics of information technology and helps students decide whether to pursue an information technology career.
This timely book explores the challenges facing universities and individual scholars through an examination of the history and theory underlying the concept of academic freedom.
This book addresses the numerous challenges that academic deans need to understand and address throughout a successful career in academic administration.
Originally published in 1989, it was thought that one effective way out of the unemployment problem facing many young people in Britain at the time was to ensure that vocational courses in further education had a close 'fit' with the needs of industry and commerce.
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.
Project based learning (PBL) is gaining renewed attention with the current focus on college and career readiness and the performance-based emphases of Common Core State Standards, but only high-quality versions can deliver the beneficial outcomes that schools want for their students.
This book presents the authentic voices of science teachers engaged in practitioner inquiry as one component of a comprehensive professional development program.
Jennifer Lung entwickelte ein Testinstrument, mithilfe dessen sie das Schulcurriculare Fachwissen von 703 Mathematiklehramtsstudierenden zu unterschiedlichen Zeitpunkten im Studienverlauf erhebt.
This book brings together key perspectives from scholars in the Global South and Global North to illustrate diverse ways in which the UN's Global Citizenship Education (GCED) agenda can promote social justice and be used as a vehicle for negotiating and learning about diverse and shared objectives in education and the global public sphere.
This new text provides a jargon-free user guide to the key concepts, models and techniques of reflective practice from one of the leading writers in the field.
Bringing together narratives and theory-based analyses of practice, this volume illustrates collaborative curricular and co-curricular approaches to promoting vocational discernment amongst students in a Catholic university setting.
Die in diesem Fachbuch präsentierten Orientierungshilfen ermöglichen einen Überblick über die große Vielfalt der in Wissenschaft und Praxis in den letzten Jahren entwickelten Problemlösungen für das betriebliche Kompetenzmanagement.
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 Turning Point for Literacy covers the proceedings of the International Symposium for Literacy held in Persepolis, Iran from 3 to 8 of September 1975.
