Originally published in 1991 this book is a comparative study of systems of preparing adult educators in the UK, Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Greece, Italy, Spain, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Cyprus.
This book offers a practical solution to the challenges trainee teachers and practising teachers face when asked to address English and maths across the further education curriculum.
Serious Games in Personalized Learning investigates game-based teaching and learning at a time when learning and training systems are increasingly integrating serious games, machine-learning artificial intelligence models, and adaptive technologies.
Lifelong Learning is essential to all individuals and in recent years has become a guiding principle for policy initiatives, ranging from national economic competition to issues of social cohesion and personal fulfilment.
Improving Learning by Widening Participation in Higher Education presents a strong and coherent rationale for improving learning for diverse students from a range of socio-economic, ethnic/racial and gender backgrounds within higher education, and for adults across the life course.
This book offers a one-stop guide to becoming employable and to careers in the criminal justice sector and beyond, exploring the key organisations and employers in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, explaining how they operate and detailing how they are changing.
This comparative resource charts the interface between the University of the Third Age (U3A) movement and active ageing, and in doing so, offers a comprehensive and thorough understanding of what U3A means in different geographical and sociocultural contexts.
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.
Der Leitfaden stellt die Rahmenbedingungen zum Auf- und Ausbaus eines regionalen Nachqualifizierungsangebots vor: Von der regionalen Bedarfserhebung, über den Auf- und Ausbau von passgenauen Nachqualifizierungsmöglichkeiten bis zur nachhaltigen Verankerung des Angebots in der Region.
This book explores the contemporary conditions of marginal work within the context of persistent unemployment, poverty, and homelessness in wealthy nations.
This volume looks at the recontextualization that results from the international transfer of dual modes of vocational education and training (VET), typically focused on apprenticeships, in their countries' new nation-specific and local context, highlighting the absorptive capacities and the different modes of duality in VET.
Given the tremendous importance of keeping up with the explosion of knowledge in professional fields-from medicine and health to teaching in schools and colleges - getting the most out of every learning opportunity is vital to the growth and vitality of our society, as well as to the development of professional practitioners themselves.
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.
By drawing on observation and detailed discourse analysis from interviews with teachers in Lithuanian and North American schools, this text identifies individual, school-specific, and national factors which impact teachers' informal professional learning.
Der Band stellt die abschließenden Ergebnisse der Wissenschaftlichen Begleitung des Programms Lernende Regionen - Förderung von Netzwerken für den Zeitraum 2007-2008 vor.
This book is based on a fieldwork intensive, EU funded project, aimed at sustaining the empowerment processes of career guidance practitioners by developing their awareness and use of their individual, organizational and networking resources.
This book discusses how Big Data could be implemented in educational settings and research, using empirical data and suggesting both best practices and areas in which to invest future research and development.
Die Autoren erklären das Externe und Interne Rechnungswesen, was bei der Kostenrechnung berücksichtigt werden muss, wie sich strategisches Management in der Erwachsenenbildung durchführen lässt und wie Marketing und Kostenrechnung miteinander verbunden werden können.
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This timely book explores current trends and future possibilities for undergraduate career education, the nature of the changing workplace, and its impact on students in colleges and universities.
Higher education institutions are increasingly concerned with the quality of their teaching and learning experiences they provide for students, including the increasing number from overseas.
Die Beiträge dieses Sammelbandes thematisieren die komplexen und bislang kaum in Zusammenhang gebrachten Verschränkungen von Begabungsförderung, Bildungsgerechtigkeit und Inklusion.
Recognising the regular adoption, by countries across the globe, of the vocational education and training (VET) model already so prevalent in German-speaking countries such as Austria, Germany and Switzerland, this book spotlights dual modes of VET, depicting its global emergence and subsequent cross-national attraction.
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.
When the first edition of Teaching with the Brain in Mind was published in 1998, it quickly became an ASCD best-seller, and it has gone on to inspire thousands of educators to apply brain research in their classroom teaching.
This edited book comprises chapters integrated around a central theme on college-educated Japanese, Korean, and Chinese women's orientation to English study.
All trainee teachers working towards ATLS or QTLS are accountable for the quality of their work, the delivery of their lessons and the success of their students.
Now in its fourth edition, this indispensable guide helps students to create their own personal development programme and build the skills and capabilities today's employers want.
Values and Virtues in Higher Education Research centres on practitioners studying and researching their practices in higher education settings, in order to improve those practices for the benefit of others and themselves.
Focusing on a less well-known area of education, the Further Education (FE) sector, this book provides education studies students a chance to provoke reflection, analysis, and understanding, as well as personal and professional development in the area.
In his 2011 ASCD best-seller Focus: Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning, author Mike Schmoker described a fresh pproach to K-12 teaching built on three core elements: a focused and coherent curriculum; clear, prioritized lessons; and purposeful reading and writing, or authentic literacy.
