The freedom of students to learn at university is being eroded by a performative culture that fails to respect their rights to engage and develop as autonomous adults.
In this book, Starratt enters the national conversation among educational administration scholars and practitioners about what constitutes the core of their knowledge and practice.
Telling Stories to Change the World is a powerful collection of essays about community-based and interest-based projects where storytelling is used as a strategy for speaking out for justice.
The new comparative research in this volume explores the global flow of competence-based education, curricular policy, and frameworks for instructional practice.
This edited book gathers seven established art educators-educator artists who address art education from the philosophical position of Deleuze and Guattari.
The essays compiled in Poetry in Pedagogy: Intersections Across and Between the Disciplines offer praxes of poetry that cultivate a community around students, language, and writing, while presenting opportunities to engage with new texts, new textual forms, and new forms of text-mediated learning.
Growing student numbers, increased student expectations, new approaches to learning, and fast-paced technological advances all contribute to the need for universities to take a more strategic approach to their buildings, including formal and informal learning spaces.
This edited volume explores how mathematics education is re/configured in relation to its past, present, and future when the rhetoric of critical global citizenship education is being applied to diverse local settings.
Originally published in 1937, Number in the Nursery and Infant School surveys the teachings of Froebel, Montessori and Dewey, the prevalent theories in education at the time, and takes elements from each in order to outline a new method.
The Role of Education in Enabling the Sustainable Development Agenda explores the relationship between education and other key sectors of development in the context of the new global Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda.
This book focuses on reconceptualising the teaching of STEM education through dialogue and transformative learning, presenting examples of research from Mexico and the UK.
The book explores the pedagogical potential of autobiographical writing in English-as-a-foreign language, approaching the topic from an educational, longitudinal, dialogical, and social perspective.
Originally published in 1981 to mark the twentieth anniversary of the birth of the Pre-school Playgroups Association, Parents and Playgroups brings together three wide-ranging reports which examine the role of the playgroup movement, its underlying philosophy and the contribution made by both playgroups and Mother and Toddler groups to the lives of thousands of mothers and children throughout Britain at the time.
Die vorliegende Studie befasst sich mit differenten Sozialisationsprozessen von männlichen Nachwuchsleistungssportlern aus dem Sektor Handball, welche in (Sport-)Internaten leben.
This topical book explores the ally perspective in advocating for Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender, Queer and Inter-sex (LGBTQI+) human rights across American, Canadian, and Australian educational contexts.
Zu den wichtigen sozialen Einflussgrößen, die nicht nur die Konstruktion, sondern auch die Realität und Praxis institutionalisierter Kindheit(en) mitbestimmen, gehören, so der Ausgangspunkt und der Gegenstand dieses Bandes, technologische Entwicklungen und die Anwendung und Nutzung von Techniken in der Kindheit für und durch Kinder.
Das Buch will einerseits die Herausforderung der Erlebnispädagogik für ein modernes Verständnis von Bildung und Erziehung ernst nehmen und aufnehmen und andererseits die zumeist wie selbstverständlich vorausgesetzte Symbiose von "Erlebnispädagogik und Kulturkritik" problematisieren, an ihrer Trennung arbeiten und ihre begründbaren und verantwortbaren Theorieentwürfe und Praxisformen in ein modernisiertes Verständnis von Sozialer Arbeit einbringen.
For over 30 years, Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice has been the definitive sourcebook of theoretical foundations, pedagogical and design frameworks, and curricular models for social justice teaching practice.
Although difficult, change in academic structures is necessary today, especially in fast-changing fields today such as biology, computing, management, the social sciences, and others.
The authors propose the science curriculum concept of Global Science Literacy justifying its use internationally with reference to the nature of science, the probable direction of science in the new millennium, the capability for GSL to develop inter-cultural understanding, and its relevance to non-Western cultures and traditions.
In contrast to research that focuses on the underperformance of young Black males in the British education system, the dominant notion of this volume is educational success.
This volume explores how educational leadership and administration (ELA) is constructed in the Middle East and North African region (MENA), and charts the development of ELA as a discipline.
Around the world, schools and school systems are spending billions of dollars in the design and build of learning environments that are equipped with innovative design elements.
For the past five to ten years researchers have been developing tools and guidelines for developing accessible e-learning experiences for students with disabilities.
Over the last forty years, the International Journal of Lifelong Education has become a global leader in the field of research on adult education and lifelong learning.
First published in 1983, this volume assembles recent theory on school organization, drawing on a wide range of research, mainly on schools in contemporary Britain but with some illuminating historical and overseas comparisons.
At a time when medical care for the people of the United States is undergoing wrenching change due mainly to vast and costly technological progress, doctors have had to cede much of their initiative and responsibility to third parties.
Improving School Board Effectiveness offers a clarifying and essential look at the evolving role of school boards and how they contribute to efforts to improve student learning.
This book examines the implications of computer-generated learning for curriculum design, epistemology, and pedagogy, exploring the ways these technologies transform the relationship between knowledge and learning, and between teachers and students.
Addressing the issue of behaviour problems in the early years, this book offers early years practitioners a practical and well-researched resource covering subjects such as: the nature and extent of behaviour problems in the early years definitions of behaviour problems theoretical frameworks and factors screening and assessment a blueprint for early identification and intervention.
Lucy Cane presents the first full-length study of Sheldon Wolin (1922-2015), an influential theorist of democracy and prescient critic of "e;inverted totalitarianism"e; in the United States.
