Drawing from in-depth interviews with alumni across the disciplines, this book explores the benefits of undergraduate research: meaningful intellectual engagement, a sense of belonging in the campus community, and vocational clarity and career success after college.
The advancement of knowledge is the advancement of education, just as the advancement of education is the advancement of science, by virtue of the nature of the overlap and complementarity between them.
The value of this book comes from the fact that it was written by a first-class social scientist, and one of the most guided sociologists in the world.
Drawing on research and practice, this key text provides a rich, detailed, and accessible guide to Communities of Practice (CoPs) theory and how to implement it within higher education.
In this book, leading experts present rigorous, readable studies of education policies and school markets in 11 European countries from Ireland to Ukraine, offering lessons for researchers, policymakers and educators.
The research in this volume draws on aspects of complexity theory and its integral link to systems performance to propose a new method for combatting the longstanding opportunity gap and related underperformance of so many underserved students in the American educational system.
The fortunes of the education service in Britain have been intimately bound up with the vitality of the local education authorities, particularly in the decades following the 1944 Education Act.
The new edition of Exploring Critical Issues in Gifted Education presents problem-based learning scenarios that explore authentic situations found in K-12 classrooms.
Offering an overview of the history, perspectives, and developments of education in Indonesia since the country's independence in 1945, in this book, the authors raise awareness of education's impact on national development in this unique context.
This book brings together leading academics and practitioners to provide research-informed strategies for nurturing young children as spiritual beings.
Owning Your Project-Based Learning is a user-friendly, vividly illustrated guide designed to help undergraduate students and their instructors fully realize the power of project-based learning (PBL).
This book presents research on disabled children and young people in sport, physical activity and physical education settings using empirical data gathered either with or from disabled children and young people, centring their experiences and amplifying their voices, while decentralising non-disabled voices in research about them.
Focusing on the empirical evidence base for pedagogical decisions taken when children are playing and learning outside, this groundbreaking book examines the intention and purpose of children's outdoor playful activity and the associated issues of pedagogy.
Drawing together the worlds of classroom practice, school leadership and scientific research, this is an essential how-to guide for initiating and maintaining a school improvement journey based on the science of learning.
As the demographics of college students in the United States continue to shift, researchers increasingly design studies that offer insight into students enrolled in higher and postsecondary education institutions.
Comparative Psychology and Educational Outcomes is designed to empower educators to lead with wisdom, strengthen their belief that all students can learn at high standards, and create a vision of excellence that becomes actionable, allowing us to be difference makers in the lives of all learners.
This edited volume explores how youth and informal sector workers in the Global South are pioneering learning and livelihoods that exist at the intersections of, and beyond, the boundaries of the state, market, and other formal institutions.
In an era where educational disparity poses a significant challenge, this book explores the transformative power of school-to-school collaboration through the development of the Education Group in China.
Drawing connections between the findings of a research project following young graduates from the Scottish islands of Orkney and Shetland, current international evidence, and theoretical literature, this book argues that understanding rural and island student transitions can expose the wider dynamics of place and mobility at play during student and early career experiences.
Returning Learning explores early school years teachers' perceptions of nature and how this informs their pedagogy through a posthuman theoretical framework.
This book provides insights into new developments and persistent traditions in Zen teacher training and education through the use of historical archival research and original interviews with living Zen Masters.
This book brings together a range of arts and development scholars and practitioners to explore the unique ways in which arts-based research methods can make a unique positive contribution to effective global development practice.
Language Conflict in Educational Settings: International Perspectives delves into the intriguing intersection of contact linguistics and education, a topic that has been relatively unexplored until now.
This book presents eleven contributions illustrating the main areas of research in French-speaking Europe in the field of environmental and sustainability education (ESE).
From an out-of-school perspective, the book studies private supplementary tutoring, also widely known as shadow education within the Chinese education landscape.
This edited collection highlights the diversity of perspectives within the broad field of intercultural education, focusing on education in modern multicultural societies, as well as exploring the role of migrant populations as modern citizens.
