This comprehensive guide to continuing professional development (CPD) in the lifelong learning sector (LLS) provides teachers with practical support and guidance alongside development activities.
Science Museums in Transition: Unheard Voices considers how museums can adapt their exhibits, programs, and organizational structures to the diversity of ideas, people, and cultures that speak to modern science.
This book explores prisoners' experiences of prison education and investigates whether participation in prison education contributes to an offender's ability to desist from crime and increases social capital levels.
Do for-profit colleges and universities (FPCUs) pose a threat to traditional providers of higher education, or do they play a vital role at a time when the capacity of public and private non-profits to meet demand is constrained?
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.
Review of Adult Learning and Literacy: Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice, Volume 6, includes chapters on:*Demographic change and low-literacy Americans;*The role of vocabulary in Adult Basic Education;*Implications of research on spelling for Adult Basic Education;*Issues in teaching speaking skills to adult ESOL learners;*The preparation and stability of the Adult Basic Education teaching workforce;*The adult literacy system in Ireland; and*Broad-based organizing as a vehicle for promoting adult literacy.
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.
This book provides both an overview of the core dilemma in America--racism and the deadly impact it has had on American society--and an account of the ways in which the book's contributors have attempted to deal with this dilemma in their own teaching practice.
Evaluative Practice in Learning, Design, and Technology provides learning, design, and technology stakeholders with comprehensive resources intended to support their engagement in evaluative activities.
Cultivating Moral Character and Virtue in Professional Practice is a pioneering collection of essays focused on the place of character and virtue in professional practice.
In dem vorliegenden Buch entwickelt und erprobt Sarah Schmelzeisen-Hagemann ein für verschiedene frühpädagogische Nutzungszwecke adaptierbares Interaktionsanalyseinstrument.
The benefits of collaborative learning are well documented--and yet, almost every teacher knows how group work can go wrong: restless students, unequal workloads, lack of accountability, and too little learning for all the effort involved.
This book applies and expands upon the concept of the 'learning conference' as a site of learning and development, using the paradigm and methodologies of participatory action learning and action research (PALAR).
Economic globalization, modern transportation, and advanced communication technologies have greatly enhanced the mobility of people across national boundaries.
The definitive guide to Homeland Security-updated with critical changes in the department's mission, tactics, and strategies Critical reading for government officials, diplomats, and other government officials, as well as executives and managers of businesses affected by Homeland Security activitiesProvides the most comprehensive coverage available on anti-terrorism intelligence, maritime security, and border securityUpdates include recent changes in the structure of the Homeland Security department, its new role in natural-disaster response, and new strategies and analytical tools
At a time when globalization and technology are dramatically altering the world we live in, is education reform in the United States headed down the right path?
In diesem Buch beantworten führende Expertinnen und Experten aus den Bereichen der Psychologie, Erwachsenenbildung und Betriebswirtschaftslehre praxisbezogene relevante Fragen zur Thematik der beruflichen Weiterbildung in der heutigen Arbeitswelt.
This book provides higher education students with a comprehensive resource to assist them in their academic persistence in an online course or program.
Anforderungsprofile scheinen auf Personalverantwortliche einen magischen Einfluss auszuüben, denn sonst wären sie für strategische Entscheidungen im Personalmanagement nicht so gefragt.
This book examines evolving trends in pre-employment and continuing education, focusing on how formal learning affects learners' skills, career motivation, and work readiness.
The demand for work-ready graduates, who are familiar with organizational practices in the workplace is increasing, and so the need for greater work integrated learning (WIL) is a growing concern for the education sector.
This book highlights the increasing need for people who will be working in professions such as teaching, health, engineering and business management to have the skills for living and working in a global society.
This book examines the tide of change facing higher education as it grapples with providing a more relevant and demonstrated value for its graduates entering the workplace.
Muthuveeran Ramasamy shows that the formal way of vocational education and training (VET) in rural areas often ignores the illiterate, the less educated, and the poor.
Exploring the unique challenges of vocational education, this book provides simple and straightforward advice on how to teach English Language Learners in today's Career and Technical Education programs.
Ausgehend von erheblichen und anhaltenden Wirksamkeitsdefiziten nimmt Lea Kallenbach in der vorliegenden Arbeit eine Perspektiverweiterung auf die evidenzbasierte Steuerung des Schulsystems vor.
Developing Social Equity in Australian Adult Education: Lessons from the Past presents a case study of the trajectory of an Australian adult basic education program in New South Wales from its humanist, social justice beginnings, through forty years of destabilising change.
This was a unit in the CTLLS and DTLLS qualifications, which have now been replaced with the Certificate and Diploma in Education and Training (CET and DET).