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Developing Curriculum for Deep Thinking
The Knowledge Revival
Av Tim Surma, Claudio Vanhees m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
537 kr
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This open access book discusses why the seemingly straightforward strategy of teaching children how to think deeply does not work and offers an alternative way forward for the curriculum to achieve these objectives. Over the years, the role of knowledge in the curriculum has, like a pendulum, …
Gert Biesta
A Challenge to Educational Orthodoxy
Av Tony Myers
Häftad, 2026
659 kr
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This book focuses on the work of Dutch educational philosopher Gert Biesta. It offers a comprehensive exploration of his revolutionary ideas, guiding readers through his critique of contemporary educational thought and his alternative vision for education. By engaging with Biesta's work, we are …
Letters to Paulo Freire
Radical Dialogues on Democratic Education and Courage
Häftad, 2026
484 kr
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This book embarks on a compelling journey to reinvigorate Freire's transformative ideas and apply them to the pressing challenges in twenty-first century education. Through a series of carefully crafted letters, it engages readers in an intimate conversation that reveals the enduring relevance of …
Alasdair MacIntyre, Rationality and Education
Against Education of Our Age
Häftad, 2018
537 kr
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Despite Alasdair MacIntyre being known as an academic who has made many notable contributions to a range of areas in philosophy, his thinking on education is not as well-known and/or properly understood by most audiences and readerships that predominantly reside in educational contexts. With this …
Characterisation of a Personal Learning Environment as a Lifelong Learning Tool
Häftad, 2013
537 kr
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This work focuses on the characterization of adult lifelong learners’ Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) by implicit and explicit tools of personalization. It aims aims toward creating a system for the development of a learning path for the characterisation of PLE for adult life learners. The …
Invitation to Didactique
Häftad, 2013
552 kr
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This is an introduction to a Didactique, research program that has been going on in France since the '70s and whose importance is now widely recognized, but whose content is still not easy access to anglophones. The work of Dr. Guy Brousseau has remained largely, in his native France, untranslated …
Preparing Future Teachers of K-12 Mathematics
Washington Teachers of Teachers of Mathematics
Häftad, 2100
748 kr
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This brief has a twofold motivation. One is to present an organization, Washington Teachers of Teachers of Mathematics (WaToToM) that has become a solid player in the arena of mathematics education in the state of Washington and has aspects that might be of value to people with similar goals in …
Giorgio Agamben: Education Without Ends
Häftad, 2018
537 kr
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Italian critical theorist Giorgio Agamben may be best known for his political writings concerning the curtailing of privacy rights in the wake of 9/11 and the status of prisoners of war and refugees. Yet, casting him primarily as a political theorist is misleading given his significant …
Change Laboratory for Teacher Training in Entrepreneurship Education
A New Skills Agenda for Europe
Häftad, 2018
537 kr
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This open access book illustrates a new type of formative intervention for in-service teacher training in entrepreneurship education. The book describes a Change Laboratory and shows how teachers and workshop assistants develop the idea of a multidisciplinary project entailing the design of a …
Creating the Future? The 1960s New English Universities
Av Ourania Filippakou, Ted Tapper
Häftad, 2019
537 kr
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This book examines the developments of the UK Higher Education system, from a time of donnish dominion, progressive decline and the increasing role of the market via the introduction of tuition fees. It offers a protracted empirical analysis of the seven new English universities of the 1960s: the …
Using ICT in Inquiry-Based Science Education
Av Geraldo W. Rocha Fernandes, António M. Rodrigues m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
537 kr
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This book analyzes the main Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) used in science education and the main theoretical approaches that support science education mediated by ICT in order to show how digital technologies can be employed in Inquiry-Based Science Education. It presents the …
John Holt
The Philosophy of Unschooling
Häftad, 2019
696 kr
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This is the first-ever book to offer an analytical study of John Holt’s philosophy of education. It provides a clear analysis and critical evaluation of the key themes in his work, considers the main objections to his views, and discusses their relation to the contemporary homeschooling movement. …
Democratic Socialism and Education: New Perspectives on Policy and Practice
Av Neil Hopkins
Häftad, 2019
552 kr
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This book engages with the political, philosophical and policy debates around contemporary democratic socialism and state education. It examines contemporary education and education systems, as well as democratic socialism in the context of the complex political world we live in currently. It takes …
Foundations for Paramedic Education
Häftad, 2019
569 kr
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This book addresses the nature of professional learning, paramedic skill development, practice assessment, and feedback from both clinical and educational theory perspectives. It provides clear guidance from the literature, learning theory, and current research to help clinical educators plan …
Evaluating Teaching Practices in Graduate Programs
Av Jesús Gabalán-Coello, Fredy Eduardo Vásquez-Rizo m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
537 kr
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This book proposes a method to evaluate the work of teachers acting in a very specific educational context: graduate programs at higher education institutions. There are many publications on the field of measurement and evaluation of teaching practices, but these studies are usually conducted at …
Hannah Arendt
The Promise of Education
Av Jon Nixon
Häftad, 2020
696 kr
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This book gathers some of Hannah Arendt’s core themes and focuses them on the question, ‘What is education for?’ For Arendt, as for Aristotle, education is the means whereby we achieve personal autonomy through the exercise of independent judgement, attain adulthood through the recognition of …
Teachers' Participation in Professional Development
A Systematic Review
Häftad, 2020
537 kr
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This book presents a systematic literature review focusing on studies examining teachers’ participation in professional development (PD) within Germany, Austria, and Switzerland since 1990. It has identified 81 relevant studies and summarizes the results while answering the following research …
Contemporary Thinking on Transdisciplinary Knowledge
What Those Who Know, Know
Häftad, 2020
455 kr
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How can we understand what a transdisciplinary (TD) approach might actually comprise of, given its complex and various uses? This book asks the question of leading practitioners in the field of higher education and transdisciplinarity.The emergence of transdisciplinarity has been a response to the …
Nicolas de Condorcet
The Revolution of French Higher Education
Av Olivier Marty, Ray J. Amirault
Häftad, 2020
537 kr
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This Springer brief explores the contribution of Nicolas de Condorcet in French higher education, the historical development of his work and its influence on the history of the French education system.Condorcet's educational proposals were first devised as five Memoires, which were consolidated …
Higher Education Landscape 2030
A Trend Analysis Based on the AHEAD International Horizon Scanning
Av Dominic Orr, Maren Luebcke m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
219 kr
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This open access Springer Brief provides a systematic analysis of current trends and requirements in the areas of knowledge and competence in the context of the project “(A) Higher Education Digital (AHEAD)—International Horizon Scanning / Trend Analysis on Digital Higher Education.” It examines …
Challenges of Academic Incivility
Social-Emotional Competencies and Redesign of Learning Environments as Remedies
Av Yariv Itzkovich, Dorit Alt m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
590 kr
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The book introduces readers with theory and empirical findings related to uncivil behaviour in academic settings and discusses its precursors, implications and remedies. In the first part, we define academic incivility, its manifestations and dimensions, while distinguishing between academic …
Information Literacy in Higher Education
A Sociocultural Perspective
Av Fabiola Cabra-Torres, Gloria Patricia Marciales Vivas m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
537 kr
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This book presents an innovative theoretical and methodological approach to study information literacy in higher education contexts. While mainstream studies tend to see information literacy as a technical and universal process, this book proposes a theoretical and methodological framework to study …
Danilo Dolci
Environmental Education and Empowerment
Av Abele Longo
Häftad, 2020
607 kr
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The book presents the multi-faceted opus of Danilo Dolci within the framework of Environmental Education, focusing on his work as a grassroots community educator, nonviolent activist and poet. It illustrates Dolci’s ‘Reciprocal Maieutic Approach’, a dialectic method of inquiry that can be defined …
Martin Luther
Father of the Reformation and Educational Reformer
Häftad, 2020
552 kr
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This book explores specific aspects of Martin Luther’s ideas on education in general, and on religious education in particular, by comparing them to the views of other great sixteenth-century reformers: Huldrych Zwingli, John Calvin, and Philip Melanchthon. By doing so, the author highlights both …
Unschooling Racism
Critical Theories, Approaches and Testimonials on Anti Racist Education
Häftad, 2020
643 kr
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This book draws on critical race theories and teachers’ testimonials grounded in 20 years of teaching experiences to reveal the ways in which racial and cultural biases are embedded in school curricula, and both their intended and unintended consequences on the learning and well being of students …
Veteran Teacher Resilience
Why do they stay?
Av Lee Brantley Shields, Carol A. Mullen
Häftad, 2020
537 kr
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This book explores why veteran teachers choose to remain in the classroom, making teaching their life’s career. The authors felt compelled to interview veteran teachers to learn about their experiences, how they make meaning of their classrooms and schools, and in particular what can be known about …
Janusz Korczak
Educating for Justice
Häftad, 2020
696 kr
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This book presents the educational view and practice of the Polish-Jewish doctor, writer and pedagogue Janusz Korczak (Warsaw 1878–Treblinka 1942). In the authors' reconstruction five core elements stand out: respect for every child; participation; justice; dialogue as expression and communication; …
Learning Through Simulations
Ideas for Educational Practitioners
Häftad, 2021
537 kr
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This book is written for teacher educators who are looking for strategies to teach a foreign or second language in a more meaningful way whilst applying active methodologies to develop critical thinking skills. The book is designed to guide the readers through a series of simulations that provide …
On the Possibility of a Digital University
Thinking and Mediatic Displacement at the University
Häftad, 2021
537 kr
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This book proposes a philosophical exploration of the educational role that media plays in university study practices, with a focus on the practices of lecturing and academic writing. Are the media employed in university study practices mere accessories, or rather constitutive of these practices? …
Sense-making: Problematizing Constructs of Literacy for 21st Century Education
Av Marilyn J. Narey, Kelli Jo Kerry-Moran
Häftad, 2021
643 kr
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This book is a rich, yet highly accessible volume that details an exciting and much-needed inquiry into the notion of literacy: what it is, why it is, and how it might be framed most effectively for 21st century education. The chapters unfold in a creative interplay of practice and theory. Narey’s …
