The Trials of Evidence-based Education explores the promise, limitations and achievements of evidence-based policy and practice, as the attention of funders moves from a sole focus on attainment outcomes to political concern about character-building and wider educational impacts.
This practical, hands-on book explains how to ensure that your students are information and communication technology literate-that is, competent with a range of tools, technologies, and techniques for seeking out and applying information.
This compelling book introduces Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's capability approach and explores its significance for theory, policy and practice in education.
Newly available in paperback, this original and informative volume outlines a new, well-designed reflective teaching and learning model that can be used with single- or multi-disciplinary groups of students and professionals.
Das Buch zeigt, warum lebenslanges Lernen in Zeiten der Digitalisierung und der digitalen Transformation für Führungskräfte, Organisationen und Unternehmen im Sinne der unternehmerischen sowie persönlichen Weiterentwicklung wichtig sind.
As moral educators we are more used to teaching others and researching their learning and moral development than reflecting on and writing formally about our own moral learning.
In diesem Fachbuch werden notwendige Ressourcen und praktische Handlungsmöglichkeiten für Unternehmen aufgezeigt, um internationale Fachkräfte in der DACH-Region zu finden, zu binden und zu entwickeln.
Your teacher training may have provided sound theory and a collection of instructional techniques, but it's often the practical details that can make day-to-day survival difficult in your first days, weeks, and years of teaching.
Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung steht Widerstand als ein soziales Phänomen in interorganisationalen Kooperationen, die im Kontext des Lebenslangen Lernens zunehmend an Bedeutung gewonnen haben.
This book analyzes the deep historical and theoretical roots of self-directed learning models in order to put forward a new conceptual understanding of self-directed learning.
Die IFS-Therapie (das Modell des "Inneren Familien-Systems") geht davon aus, dass unsere Persönlichkeit aus verschiedenen Anteilen besteht: Teile, die beschützen, verwundete Teile und im Zentrum das Selbst, das in der Lage ist, unser inneres System mit Weisheit, Mut und Mitgefühl zu führen.
This groundbreaking book takes a humanistic approach to counselling young people, establishing humanistic counselling as an evidence-based psychological intervention.
Part leadership book, part business book and 100% true, this is like hearing a wise, honest, and humorous mentor finally tell you about the world of business as it is and how to find your place in it.
This book, first published in 1956, is intended for those who interview people to assess their suitability for appointment or promotion to a particular position of employment.
Action learning is one of the most prominent individual and organisational development approaches used in all parts of the world, including in over 70 member states of the United Nations.
Originally published in 1991, this book provides the reader with a comprehensive synthesis of developments, issues and practices related to a self-direction in learning.
Drawing from a wealth of specialist and mainstream school experience, this book intelligently synthesises ground-breaking research on teacher-student trust and learning to present innovative approaches to inclusive practice relevant to practitioners at all levels.
This book provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive account of the APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) organisation and examines the challenges APEC now faces in the new century.
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Early Childhood Education and Care explores early childhood education and care in Australia from a variety of perspectives, highlighting the complexity of working within the field and the need for a truly interdisciplinary approach.
In Broader, Bolder, Better, authors Elaine Weiss, of the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education campaign, and Paul Reville, former Massachusetts secretary of education, make a compelling case for a fundamental change in the way we view education.
In this cutting-edge volume, scholars from around the world connect affect theory to the field of literacy studies and unpack the role and influence of this emerging area of scholarship on literacy education.
School Choice in China explores the major characteristics of schooling options in China, highlighting how largely middle-class parents exploit their cultural, economic and social capital for their children's admission into choice schools.
With China's accession to the WTO in Spring 2002 it is essential that Western investors and business people get an effective 'tool kit' which enables them to succeed in the highly competitive Chinese market and to deal with the issues and changes that the WTO will bring.
Offering an examination of educational approaches to promote justice, this volume demonstrates the necessity for keeping race, ethnicity, class, language, and other diversities at the core of pedagogical strategies and theories that address queer, trans, gender nonbinary and related issues.
This new and updated second edition of Diversity and Inclusion on Campus: Supporting Students of Color in Higher Education provides an exploration of the range of college experiences, from gaining access to higher education to successfully persisting through degree programs.
First published in 1992, this book looks at the interaction between ideals and reality, with the focus upon social inequality and education in modern society, as well as the possibilities for education to lessen the related problems.