Educational systems and structures

This book responds to challenging questions about curricular realignment, especially how a more porous approach to higher education reduces the impact of a "e;siloed"e; curriculum, lessens the tendency toward the fragmentation of knowledge, allows for the development of cross-disciplinary explorations, and promotes new approaches to knowledge and creativity through interdisciplinary integrative learning.

This book highlights the importance of English academic vocabulary for success at university and explores written tasks as effective pedagogical tools to promote the acquisition of academic words.

This edited volume brings together researchers and educators who present a balanced blend of theoretical and practice-based considerations about different pedagogies in the field of Progressive Education (including Philosophy with Children, Reggio Children, Philosophy with Children Hawaii, Dialogic Education etc.

This volume conceptualizes and distinguishes storying from narrative and storytelling to establish itself as a method.

This book focuses on discourses of the politics of history education and history textbooks.

The book provides a comprehensive analyses of Vygotsky's and Piaget's theories implementation in modern preschool education.

This book addresses common themes relating to the teaching and research nexus in the knowledge-based society through historical, comparative and empirical perspectives.

This book addresses policies and strategies on internationalization across very different higher education systems globally, including inter alia from South America, Asia and Africa.

This book illustrates the multiple roles of textbooks as victim, transformer, and accomplice to conflict by introducing the Intersecting Roles of Education in Conflict (IREC) framework for use in the research, development, production, distribution, and dissemination of textbooks and learning materials.

This book explores the issue of graduate employability in regional Vietnam.

This book lays the groundwork for the future of global citizenship, and it discusses where we are now, where to go from here, and how all of this fits into a lifelong learning context.

This book provides global perspectives on assessment and evaluation practices with young children in contemporary times within early childhood education systems.

This book presents changes in UK and global educational governance in the context of a radical shift in the operating logics of politics and its interaction with education.

This edited book provides an overview of unstructured and structured play scenarios crucial to developing young children's awareness, interest, and ability to learn Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in informal and formal education environments.

This textbook prepares teachers to incorporate gamified learning experiences into middle school classrooms.

This book explores cross-international experiences in the field of adult English language teaching and learning, using cross-cultural dialogues to hear voices from different countries and different settings - formal, informal and non-formal - discussing how their lifelong learning has or is still in the process of helping them to change their lives.

Winner of an AESA Critics' Choice Award 2023This book offers first-person narratives of teachers' curriculum encounters.

This book showcases the quality work that Latin American researchers have done on transition to school in Latin American countries by offering the English-speaking world, first-hand access to some Latin American transitions research, practices, and policies.

This book is a guide for educators on how to develop and evaluate evidence-based strategies for teaching biological experimentation to thereby improve existing and develop new curricula.

This book contains a series of unique international contributions that explore risk in partnerships involving education.

This book explores the internationalization policy, programs, and initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the United States.

This book offers an important overview of technology-enhanced education in Southern Africa.

This collection brings together a diverse group of scholars from throughout the world who have grappled with and investigated the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the lives of young children.

This book addresses what is, perhaps, the single most important issue for vocational education; its relatively low standing in an era of high aspiration.

This book focuses on discourses of effective learning environments globally for reducing discrimination in schools.

This contributed volume focuses on understanding the educational strengths and weaknesses of mediated content (including media as a learning supplement), in comparison to traditional face-to-face learning.

This edited volume presents new and original approaches to teaching the French foreign-language curriculum, reconceptualizing the French classroom through a more inclusive lens.

This volume presents the impacts of international higher education on citizen diplomacy.

This book explores emerging populations of mobile international students in order to consider innovative and inclusive approaches for a more equitable and socially just higher education for new generations of international students.

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This highly original collection presents speculative fiction as fiction-based research to re-imagine education in the  future.

This book contributes to the studies on learning processes occurring outside "e;traditional"e; socialization settings such as family and school, by analysing civic and political participation and learning experiences.

This book examines dominant discourses in social justice education globally.

This book addresses the questions of what constitutes the integrative learning of theory and practice (ILTP), and how this learning progresses over time - these are important questions that have been overlooked to date.

This book examines dominant discourses in human rights education globally.

This book examines educational policy at primary, secondary and university level in Ireland from the foundation of the State to the present day.

This book demonstrates that the COVID 19 pandemic asks for a a global approach to bioethics.

This book explores policies and practices in special education in the early years, highlighting shared enablers and barriers.

This book includes a range of empirical-based international contributions by the global community of teacher educators and related researchers on the Further Education/post-compulsory, vocational/occupational and lifelong learning sector.

Education needs new ways to prepare individuals and societies for the multitude of changing challenges in the twenty-first century.

This book explores diverse relationships at play in integrating Indigenous knowledges and Western Science in curricula.

This book is a comparative study of the endeavors to create a socialist system of higher education in the Soviet Union under Stalin and in China under Mao.

This book examines Norwegian education throughout the course of the 19th century, and discusses its development in light of broader transnational impulses.

The volume comprises a variety of research approaches that seek to explore and understand employees' learning and development through and for work.

This book explores the partnership between Finnish universities and the university-affiliated teacher training schools known as 'normal schools'.

This book explores the challenges and precarity of higher education post-pandemic, explicitly focusing on higher education in emerging countries.

Springer is proud to announce that 'Universities in the Knowledge Society' has received the ASHE-CIHE award for Significant Research on International Higher Education.

This book advocates for community-based research with vulnerable populations within the field of higher education.

This handbook brings together a range of global perspectives in the field of critical studies in education to illuminate multiple ways of knowing, learning, and teaching for social wellbeing, justice, and sustainability.

This volume describes and discusses some of the intricacies associated with qualitative research in this post-modern era.