This book examines an important aspect of the relationship between higher education and the public - especially secondary - system of schooling in Britain.
Informal Learning at Work reflects the growing interest in changing the way the workplace encourages and enhances learning and professional development.
Drawing on research and practice, this key text provides a rich, detailed, and accessible guide to Communities of Practice (CoPs) theory and how to implement it within higher education.
Solidly grounded in theory and research, but concise and practice-oriented, Adult Learning: Linking Theory and Practice is perfect for master s-level students and practitioners alike.
Enhancing the Wellbeing and Wisdom of Older Learners: A Co-research Paradigm examines how lifelong learning, becoming wise, and sharing wisdom are integrally linked to older people's wellbeing.
Birgit Phillips explores the concept of transformative travel as it pertains to long-term independent travelers and offers a broad philosophical understanding of the complex socio-cultural processes involved in identity negotiation.
Every day we are confronted with problems and challenges which we address by drawing on our experience and by using this experience to find ways of learning what to do in new circumstances.
The Media Teacher's Handbook is an indispensible guide for all teachers, both specialist and non-specialist, delivering Media Studies and media education in secondary schools and colleges.
Bringing together the current international body of knowledge on key issues for educating for well-being in law, this book offers comparative perspectives across jurisdictions, and utilises a range of theoretical lenses (including socio-legal, psychological and ethical theories) in analysing well-being and legal education in law.
Die Beiträge schließen an die bildungspolitische Forderung nach Lebenslangem Lernen an, fokussieren zugleich aber die erziehungswissenschaftliche Perspektive und fragen danach, wie Lernen in einer Lebenslaufperspektive theoretisch zu fassen und empirisch zu analysieren ist.
Im vorliegenden Buch werden die Grundbedingungen für ein Lernen vor Ort am Beispiel zweier Regionen in der Steiermark beschrieben und mit demographischen und räumlichen Faktoren in Beziehung gebracht.
Die zweite überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage des Standardwerks informiert umfassend über die Entstehung, Theorie und Praxis der Fachschulen, vom 19.
In den, traditionell ehrenamtlich geprägten, deutschen Sportverbänden lässt sich eine zunehmende Einflussnahme und Entscheidungskompetenz des hauptberuflichen Führungspersonals beobachten.
Teaching Boys Who Struggle in School: Strategies That Turn Underachievers into Successful Learners responds to growing concerns about a crisis in boys' academic achievement.
This book is the first to systematically introduce China's tourism education system and the various tourism education practices in China to the international audience and stakeholders.
Experiential Learning Design comprehensively demonstrates the key theories and applications for the design of experiential approaches to learning and training.
In this book, Johnnie McKinley presents the results of her in-depth study of a group of teachers in grades 3-8 who managed to radically narrow the achievement gap between their black and white students by using a set of culturally responsive strategies in their classrooms.
International service learning (ISL) programs are growing more popular with students looking to advance their skills and knowledge to become global citizens.
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.
Responding to the emerging needs of lifelong learners arguably represents one of the most fundamental challenges facing higher education systems of the countries of the developing world.
Adult ESL/Literacy from the Community to the Community: A Guidebook for Participatory Literacy Training tells the story of a university-community collaboration to develop, implement, and evaluate a project designed to train immigrants and refugees as adult ESL and native literacy instructors in their own communities.
Universal Access Through Inclusive Instructional Design explores the ways that educators around the world reduce barriers for students with disabilities and other challenges by planning and implementing accessible, equitable, high-quality curricula.
Anhand der Ergebnisse von drei empirischen Studien stellen die Beitragsautoren Heterogenität, Zielgruppenbezug und Matchingherausforderungen der wissenschaftlichen Weiterbildung pointiert und differenziert dar.
As the number of higher education (HE) courses offered in further education (FE) settings increases, so does the need for teachers and trainee teachers to develop their teaching skills.
A visionary blueprint for educational reform that envisions school systems as opportunity engines, preparing young citizens for future workplace success, civic engagement, and fulfilling lives.
This is a comprehensive guide to establishing shared play experiences that assist in the development of communication, social understanding and cognition.
Mit diesem Buch zielt die Autorin auf die Stärkung einer Berufsbildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung (BBNE) im Berufsfeld Ernährung und Hauswirtschaft ab, denn trotz des Zusammenhangs zwischen dem Berufsfeld und einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung fehlt es bisher an entsprechenden Forschungsarbeiten.
Drawing on a rich variety of participatory action research methods including ethnographic observation, artefact collection, focus groups, and interviews, this volume explores the transformational potential of development programs which actively involve marginalized groups.
This volume provides an in-depth, qualitative exploration of familial entrepreneurship as an innovative employment model, being established by families in response to difficulties faced by individuals with developmental disabilities in entering the labor market.
The basic concern of the volume is to determine the preconditions of personality development and to show their significance and their perspectives for educational science and for pedagogical practice.