Auli Toom - Böcker

This timely book offers a critically important contribution to debates around the meeting place of religious and secular worldviews in education.Edited by five leading figures in the field, and drawing on expert international scholarship and research, the book provides cutting-edge analysis that bridges the religious and secular in global educational contexts. Considering the role of the United Nations, UNESCO, OECD and PISA in varied international contexts, the book draws on critical analysis of primary empirical research and secondary critique to offer a coherent blend of theoretically complex yet practical analysis of policy implementation. Throughout this accessible and logically structured volume, the authors assert that the meeting place of religious and secular worldviews is one of the most important and pressing issues for religion in education.As a field-defining work of research into education, religion and worldviews, the book will be essential reading for scholars, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of religious education, religious studies, philosophy of education and international education.

This timely book offers a critically important contribution to debates around the meeting place of religious and secular worldviews in education.Edited by five leading figures in the field, and drawing on expert international scholarship and research, the book provides cutting-edge analysis that bridges the religious and secular in global educational contexts. Considering the role of the United Nations, UNESCO, OECD and PISA in varied international contexts, the book draws on critical analysis of primary empirical research and secondary critique to offer a coherent blend of theoretically complex yet practical analysis of policy implementation. Throughout this accessible and logically structured volume, the authors assert that the meeting place of religious and secular worldviews is one of the most important and pressing issues for religion in education.As a field-defining work of research into education, religion and worldviews, the book will be essential reading for scholars, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of religious education, religious studies, philosophy of education and international education.

This handbook provides a foundational, comprehensive, and systemic overview of the current research on learning and instruction in university education.Offering a synthesis of current essential empirical research on university education, this volume provides a starting point for an intentional transformation of university education anchored firmly in empirical evidence. The chapters are authored by leading international scholars in the field culminating in a wealth of expertise offering multiple expert stances on learning and instruction in university education. The chapters are based on systematic literature reviews. The book analyses the broad macro level factors and structures influencing university education and its development as well as micro level issues related to learning and instruction both from students’ and university teachers’ perspectives. It provides a thorough state-of-the-evidence and paves the way for future directions in research on university learning and instruction and the research-informed development of university education.This handbook is a foundational resource for higher education researchers and key stakeholders, alongside university teachers and students, as well as educational policymakers, and higher education developers wanting to draw on their work.

The teacher's role is changing rapidly throughout the world. Traditional ways of working as a teacher are being challenged and teachers are faced with new areas of expertise they need to manage as educational professionals. These characteristics, challenges, and changes in the teacher’s role have been identified internationally and are both conceptual and practical. Teachers’ work now includes much more than teaching in classrooms and has expanded to designing new learning environments, collaboration and networking with others and mentoring colleagues. The Teacher’s Role in the Changing Globalizing World addresses the significance of considering these issues, researching them, and emphasising the importance of actively influencing and protecting the parameters of the teacher role.