This book draws on ethnographic studies in nine countries across six continents to examine young children's perspectives on their male and female teachers.
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.
Reforming Education Systems for Inclusion and Equity addresses the universal challenge of developing forms of education that make a difference for all children and young people, no matter their characteristics or backgrounds.
Defining the principles and practices of walking as critical pedagogy, this book engages with social questions and challenges related to understandings of the Anthropocene.
Esta obra colectiva expone diversas concepciones teóricas, ontológicas, epistemológicas, axiológicas y prácticas sobre el origen, sentido, problemáticas, ventajas, detrimentos, alternativas y desafías de la filosofía de la innovación y su incidencia en la educación; reflexiona sobre las contribuciones de la tecnología y responde a interrogantes como: ¿Cuáles son los aporte de la tradición filosófica, del pensamiento ilustrado, de la postmodernidad y de la teoría crítica para la filosofía de la innovación educativa?
Against the backdrop of equity-sensitive approaches within education policy and practice, inequalities in student attainment remain a persistent problem.
This book extends on the scholarship on decolonising higher education by focusing on classroom pedagogies that can transform students' embodied affects and habits as conditioned by coloniality.
The Politics of Education provides an introduction to both the political dimensions of schooling and the politics of recent educational reform debates.
This book explores the opportunities and epistemological and structural challenges facing higher education in postcolonial South Africa and argues for a fundamental transformation to meet the needs of the 21st century.
Washback is understood as the effect tests have on teaching and learning, with positive washback producing intended outcomes and negative washback generating unintended effects.
The Global Classroom: An Essential Guide to Study Abroad (Second Edition) is a unique international studies text that provides students and practitioners with valuable resources for success in education abroad.
Reforming Education Systems for Inclusion and Equity addresses the universal challenge of developing forms of education that make a difference for all children and young people, no matter their characteristics or backgrounds.
This book extends on the scholarship on decolonising higher education by focusing on classroom pedagogies that can transform students' embodied affects and habits as conditioned by coloniality.
Historischen Erblasten verdankt das Paternalismuskonzept den schlechten Ruf, der es zum Abladeplatz für obsolete Praktiken und fragwürdige Werte hat werden lassen.
Die Protestbewegungen der 1960er Jahre kritisierten ein umfassendes, alles durchdringendes autoritäres und repressives System: Dieses System bewirke eine Entfremdung der Individuen von ihren Bedürfnissen und Interessen, welche den Widerstand gegen soziale Herrschaft und kapitalistische Ausbeutung nahezu unmöglich mache.
Embarking on a captivating journey into the heart of private tutoring entrepreneurship in China's bustling Chongqing region, Li Jun unveils the untold stories of private tutoring entrepreneurs, exploring their sensemaking processes through Karl Weick's theory of organizing.
This book develops a philosophy of education for the Anthropocene, proposing that we think about education in the light of contemporary bioclimatic challenges.
This book develops a philosophy of education for the Anthropocene, proposing that we think about education in the light of contemporary bioclimatic challenges.
Focusing specifically on educational contexts, this volume sheds light on how the increasing inequalities and issues of social exclusion found in the processes and systems of Nordic welfare states have a detrimental impact on the well-being and development opportunities of children and young people.
Adopting a critical realist approach to educational leadership, this book shows how applied theory can contribute to the development of mechanisms allowing for the effective leadership of organisations.
Global Education: Linking Theory and Practice highlights the work of distinguished and emerging scholars and practitioners and their work on education research, policy and practice in relation to education access, equity and quality.
Disfigurement: Understanding Visible Difference is a collection of essays which brings together an all-star cast of researchers, clinicians, advocates, and activists around the world, many of whom have lived experience with disfigurement.
This collected volume celebrates the life and work of the late Andrew Stables, a renowned scholar in semiotics and in educational philosophy and theory.
This collected volume celebrates the life and work of the late Andrew Stables, a renowned scholar in semiotics and in educational philosophy and theory.
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.
