Adult education, continuous learning

This is a core text for anyone training to be (or working as) an assessor in the further education and skills sector.

A collection of the essential emotional lessons we need in order to thrive.

This practical book explores creative ways of teaching and learning in the lifelong learning sector and provides a toolkit of creative teaching approaches with the potential to transform your teaching practice.

The definitive book on ethics for chemical dependency treatment professionals.

This book looks at the development of vocational education and training in China and how it is crucial to human resource development and improving competitiveness.

This book undertakes a deep examination of mentor and disciple relationships in the development of artists.

Hate Speech im Internet ist für Jugendliche Alltag.

Feedback is a crucial element of teaching, learning and assessment.

Inspired to Climb Higher: The Challenges, Questions, Struggles, and Joy of Earning Your Doctoral Degree invites readers to experience the personal stories of eight women with unique doctoral journeys who, while facing or overcoming the sometimes-mountainous challenges of everyday life, accepted the call to seek the highest level of academic achievement.

'Lifelong Learning' is a hot issue for educators across the world, as societies everywhere are concerned with developing a literate, skilled and flexible workforce and to widen participation in education at all levels and for all age-groups.

As lifelong learning grows in popularity, few comprehensive pictures of the phenomenon have emerged.

Education as a concept has long been taken for granted.

Teaching Language Teachers: Scaffolding Professional Learning provides an updated view of as well as a reader-friendly introduction to the field of Teaching Teachers, with special reference to language teaching.

A guiding resource and supportive companion, this book is designed for mature individuals intending to undertake an undergraduate degree.

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Actor-Network Theory (ANT) has enjoyed wide uptake in the social sciences in the past three decades, particularly in science and technology studies, and is increasingly attracting the attention of educational researchers.

Der Sammelband gibt einen breiten Überblick über Serious Games und gamifizierte Lernelemente in der schulischen Bildung sowie über die Erfahrungen und den nachhaltigen Lernerfolg dieser Formate.

This book explores the multiple ways in which doctoral programs are traversed by students, supervisors and administrators.

The obstacles that prevent the latest educational research reaching the classroom are daunting: few channels to communicate the results of educational research, fewer opportunities for teachers to participate in research themselves, and little support for honing a scientific approach to teaching.

Higher Education and the Carceral State: Transforming Together explores the diversity of ways in which university faculty and students are intervening in the system of mass incarceration through the development of transformative arts and educational programs for students in correctional institutions.

The inspiration for this timely book is the pressing need for fresh ideas and innovations in U.

This tenth anniversary edition of Knud Illeris's classic 2008 text is an updated and definitive collection of today's most influential learning theorists, now containing additional chapters from John Hattie and Gregory Donoghue, Sharan Merriam, Gert Biesta and Carolyn Jackson.

This is an invaluable guide to making the most of helping relationships.

Welchen Nutzen schafft Bildungs- und Berufsberatung?

This book offers stories and tools for designing and facilitating transformative sustainability pedagogy and explores how educators can intentionally design and facilitate eco-spiritual learning that promotes healing and wholeness.

Weiping Liu contends that the impacts of learning environments on Chinese only children must be studied from a bioecological systems perspective by considering the direct and joint effects of learning environments and personality within the macro-environments of culture, public policy etc.

This book brings together leading scholars in the field to provide insights on economics of education.

Writing is a necessary skill that allows people to communicate their ideas.

Reimagining Digital Learning for Sustainable Development is a comprehensive playbook for education leaders, policy makers, and other key stakeholders leading the modernization of learning and development in their institutions as they build a high value knowledge economy and prepare learners for jobs that don't yet exist.

Developing Resilience in FE Teaching explores the essence of resilience and provides practical approaches for working in the Further Education sector.

Im berufspraktischen Handeln sind Pädagogen, Psychologen, Soziologen aber auch Wirtschaftswissenschaftler darauf angewiesen, methodisch fundierte, empirisch bewährte und praktisch anwendbare Vorschläge zur Erfassung der organisational relevanten Handlungsbedingungen, -abläufe und -folgen zu erhalten.

This book highlights decisions governments have to make about their public education systems, the options they have before them and the consequences of their decisions.

Thisbook will enable teachers and managers in the post-compulsory sector to considera range of approaches to embed Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) intheir practice in the post-compulsory sector.

Many young people failed by the school system are those who face a range of social and economic challenges due to multiple forms of injustice.

Developing Effective 16-19 Teaching Skills aims to enhance the competence of student- teachers in secondary schools and FE college as they confront sixteen to nineteen teaching for the first time.

An important backdrop to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals involves consideration of the impact of a 'new demographics' derived from the interaction of two global developments.

What is Response to Intervention and why should we care?

This book explores the phenomenon of researchers at risk: that is, the experiences of scholars whose research topics require them to engage with diverse kind of dangers, uncertainties or vulnerabilities.

Life must be understood as the result of evolution, and human life as the emergence of the species Sapiens from the genus Homo of the family of apes.

Das Praxisbuch für die Seminar- und Trainingsarbeit!

This book explains how education policies offering improved transitions to work and higher-level study can widen the gaps between successful and disadvantaged groups of young people.