"e;In this 21st century, technological and social changes have never been as rapid as before, and educative practices must evolve and innovate to keep up.
See video interview with the author During the nineteenth century, social reformers took hold of an already existing institution-the school-and sought to make it compulsory.
While changes related to cultural diversity are visible and at work in social, cultural and political contexts, cultural diversity as such is being ignored or rejected across many countries.
Museums are institutions of both education and learning in service of society, that is, they are sites where educational experiences are designed and facilitated, and also places where visitors learn in broad and diverse ways.
Narrative research in contemporary times can free social scientists from the rhetorical forms (Emihovich, 1995) that alienate children and families from their own traditions.
This book is the second in a series entitled 'Learning and Development for a Better World' and it explores the potential for self-directed lifelong action learning (LAL) by focusing on the design of development pathways with and for young adults.
This book explores the concept of reflection through a dramaturgical lens as practitioners in a wide range of disciplines hold up the mirror to their own practice using theatre and theatricality as a way of unpacking their individual and collective practice.
A new challenge of learning in work organizations-both in business and public administration-is to master entire life cycles of product, production and business concepts.
The unwavering culture of continuous improvement efforts to bring about school change has irrevocably changed the role expectations for the school leader.
Since most research on work focuses on paid work, and most literature on education concentrates on schools, it is not surprising that studies on the relations between work and learning emphasize the relations between paid employment and organized education.
Current research into student learning in science has shifted attention from the traditional cognitivist perspectives of conceptual change to socio-cultural and semiotic perspectives that characterize learning in terms of induction into disciplinary literacy practices.
The literature in relation to home schooling grounded in empirical research and focusing on gender role and the impacts of social class has been neglected and unexplored.
This book explains and demonstrates how indigenous communities-built on traditional knowledge, culture and language-can be extended and strengthened by (1) the new, integrated methodology of Lifelong Action Learning (LAL), and (2) new approaches to learning and development as exemplified by the system of GULL (Global University for Lifelong Learning).
This book presents an entirely new perspective on professional learning and knowledge based on perspectives on the knowledge society and in particular an interpretation of Knorr Cetina's work on scientific 'Epistemic cultures'.
This book presents some of the most trenchant critical analyses of the widespread claims for the recent emergence of a knowledge economy and the attendant need for greater lifelong learning.
Here at last is a down-to-earth, written with humour and largeness of spirit, about the day-to-day practices of schools, which if reinvented, could make them into dynamic learning environments rather than what they are today.
This knowledge based edited book titled 'Khap Panchayat, Women and Honour Killing' is collection of 20 chapters categorised in to 04 sections A) Understanding the Khap Panchayats, B) Khap Panchayats and Discrimination against Women, C) Khap Panchayats, Honour Crime and Laws, D) Khap and other Non State Agencies.
This study examines international approaches in technical and vocational education and training (TVET), and determines their suitability for developing countries.
Feminism, Diversity and HRD aims to enhance critical understandings of feminism, diversity and HRD theorization and practice in the global political economy.
En la última década, en los Estados Unidos,la terapia familiar ha dejado de ser un proceso experimental, usado en lugares especializados, y se ha convertido en una de las modalidades terapéuticas que se practica en los centros de salud mental", dice el autor en el prólogo para la edición española.
El difícil acceso a los centros penitenciarios, incluso si se consigue acceder a su interior, hace complejo el conocimiento y la comprensión de las realidades y de las vivencias de la población reclusa y de los procesos de acción-intervención que se desarrollan en ellos.
Gracias a este métido basado en las investigaciones más recientes y perfeccionado con la experiencia de los autores, miles de personas obtienen resultados sorprendentes en los estudios, el trabajo y las relaciones personales.
El propósito de este libro es proporcionar una guía práctica sobre el uso de grupos de aprendizaje cooperativo como contexto para la evaluación de grupos, la coevaluación, la evaluación individual y la autoevaluación.
Doctoral Proposal Writing is an essential guide for current and prospective international doctoral students wishing to apply and study for a PhD in the UK, and other countries where courses are conducted in English.
