E-book Understanding Psychology: Understanding Students' Thinking

This textbook is about how students learn and how teachers can teach well. Although this textbook assumes no prior knowledge about educational research, it is intended to be much more than just an “introduction” that will lay the groundwork for you to learn to teach later on. On the contrary, as you read this book, you will learn theory- and research-based skills that you could apply right …

E-book University-Community Partnerships for Transformative Education: Sowing…

This open access edited volume reports on a unique network of innovative in-school and out-of-school programs, University-Community Links. UC Links connects university faculty and students with young people and their families in diverse communities around the world. Chapters in this volume describe programs in the United States (California) as well as Germany, Italy, Spain, Uganda, and Uruguay.…

E-book More & More: The Invisible Oceans

More&More is an art and research project that explores the language and mechanics of global trade, container shipping, and the exchange of goods. It questions a mercantile structure that by necessity disallows the presence of ocean as a real space in order to flatten the world into a Pangaea of capital. The project is presented in two volumes, released in conjunction with an exhibition of Marin…

E-book Innovations in Teaching History: Eighteenth-Century Studies in Higher …

An essential teaching companion offering practical strategies for enhancing learning for all teachers of history in higher education. The study of the eighteenth century has been a growth area in university research and teaching in recent decades. Although widely taught in history departments, the eighteenth century also presents challenges, including new students’ unfamiliarity with the peri…

E-book Altmetrics for Digital Libraries : Concepts, Applications, Evaluation,…

The continuing adoption of technology (i.e., computers, cell phones,and information systems) and the associated large-scale growth of information haveled to the “big data” movement (Diebold, 2012; Mayer-Schönberger & Cukier, 2013), where “big data” refers to the large volume of information that no longer fits in the memory that modern computers use for process…

E-book The Creighton Century, 1907-2007

The first Creighton Lecture took place on 4 October 1907, almost seven years after the death of the scholar and bishop whom it honoured. Apart from being delivered by a lifelong friend, its published version stands in no discernible relation to Mandell Creighton himself, except for treating of his narrower patria, the Anglo-Scottish border. In fact the whole subsequent lect…

E-book Environmental Education in Indonesia: Creating Responsible Citizens in…

Indonesia’s wealth of natural resources is being exploited at breakneck speed, and environmental awareness and knowledge among the populace is limited. This book examines how young people learn about the environment to see how education can help to develop environmental awareness and avert vast environmental destruction, not only in Indonesia, but also in the Global South more generally. Base…

E-book Creating the University of the Future: A Global View on Future Skills …

This open accesspublication presents a global panorama of institutional strategies, academic programs, scholarly insights as well as teaching and learning practices taking stock of the Future Skills Turn taking place in higher education. Future Skills have evolved to be one of the most important priorities for the development of higher education institutions globally. Students and graduates lea…

E-book Global Agendas and Education Reforms: A Comparative Study

This open access book examines the effects of global education agendas such as digitalization, innovation and entrepreneurship, education in emergencies, globalization-internationalization, diversity, and sustainability on education reforms in several countries and regions. It explores how increasing international interaction and communication tools bring along a more intense convergence in nat…

E-book Impacts of Study Abroad on Higher Education Development

This open-access book is an exceptional contribution to the burgeoning fields of higher education development and higher education internationalization as it empirically examines the impact of the study abroad experiences of faculty members on individual and institutional development. The research and its outcomes presented here utilize results from a large-scale survey and interviews of facult…

E-book Collaborative Research in the Datafied Society

The influence of austerity measures and neoliberal ideologies has sparked discussions about the relevance and value of academic institutions, particularly in the humanities and social sciences. Universities are redirecting academic focus towards greater societal engagement. This book argues that academia has much to gain by moving beyond its institutional walls, in our case, by doing data work …

E-book Women in STEM in Higher Education : Good Practices of Attraction, Acce…

Women present a historic and worrying gap in science and technology-related disciplines, generally knowns as STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering,and Mathematics), except in the case of health professions. A holistic approach isneeded to support policymakers worldwide in bridging the gender gap in STEM, inwhich higher education institutions have a crucial role. Promoting this active impli-cat…

E-book Angloscene : Compromised Personhood in Afro-Chinese Translations

In this sense, the February 2018 broadcast should have stood out for its inclu-sion of Africa and Africans, an inclusion that also should have prompted epis-temic questions around whether the inclusion of Africans suggested shifts in China’s own ethno-racial epistemologies of alterity and territory. For instance: Are Africans now Chinese ethnic minorities? How wou…

E-book Becoming a Scholar : Cross-cultural reflections on identity and agency…

Our story begins in a part- time Doctor in Education (EdD) programme offered at the UCL Institute of Education. It is the beginning of the aca-demic year and a cohort of about 20 students has assembled in a class-room. The students, however, are not from London nor do they live anywhere in the United Kingdom. Instead, they have travelled to the op…

E-book A Voice for Maria Favela : An Adventure in Creative Literacy

The story behind this book has its origins in some work that I began in 1981, with a group of students classed as requiring ‘Special Education’ – that is to say, students who had spent more than three years in school, but had still not learned to read or write. The events took place at a public school, the Escola Paula Brito, in the Rocinha favela of Rio de Janeiro.I had a…

E-book Delivering on the Promise of Democracy : Visual Case Studies in Educat…

n July 2016, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded my proposal to develop “visual case studies” to highlight institutions and their approaches, with the hope that insights into their successes would be valuable for anyone interested in the evolving story of higher education. I invited seven leaders from the Frontier Set to participate in our research so we could highlight their unique …

E-book Enhanced Living Environments : Algorithms, Architectures, Platforms, a…

Enhanced and Assisted living environments (ELE/ALE) have been in focus ofthe researches for more than decade [8]. Adaptation of novel technologies inhealthcare has taken a slow but steady pace, from the first wearable sensors forchronic disease conditions and activity detection with offline processing towardsimplantable or non-invasive sensors supported by advanced data analytics forpervasive a…

E-book The Globalization of Science Curricula

Globalization is a topic that is frequently in the news, with the economic andsociopolitical impacts of globalization often receiving a considerable mediacoverage. By contrast the effects of globalization on education and curricula receivefar less attention. Nonetheless, the potential impacts of globalization on education areof international interest, and some have argued that competition betwe…

E-book Epigrafia tra erudizione antiquaria e scienza storica : Ad honorem Det…

Io, come sapete, sono stato Soprintendente di Firenze per poco meno di venti anni, dal 1988 al 2006; e in un periodo così lungo ho avuto rapporti frequenti di amicizia e di collaborazione con Detlef Heikamp, questo tedesco di Bre-ma, cittadino del mondo, che ha scelto Firenze come città della vita e degli studi. Essendo per lui la vita e gli studi una unità inscindibile.Ricordo il 1994, il 2…

E-book HBR'S 10 Must Reads: THE ESSENTIALS

Change is the one constant in business, and we must adapt or face obsolescence. Yet certain challenges never go away. That's what makes this book "must read." These are the 10 seminal articles by management's most influential experts, on topics of perennial concern to ambitious managers and leaders hungry for inspiration--and ready to run with big ideas to accelerate their own and their compani…

E-book Art, Research, Philosophy

What is‘artistic research’? I say‘artistic research’. I could have used a number ofalternative names:‘art as research’,‘arts-based research’,‘creative research’,‘fine artresearch’,‘practice-based research’,‘practice-led research’and‘visual arts research’.It is by no means clear whether they all refer to exactly the same thing. I don’tpropose to identify how…

E-book Reading Novels Translingually: Twenty-First-Century Case Studies

This book examines how literary fiction depicts multilingual practices and incorporates them on the level of the text. Multiple languages surround us today, rendered more visible in the digital and globalized age. In literature, too, languages intermingle, often to striking effect. The early twenty-first century has seen a new fascination with the age-old phenomena of literary multilingualism a…

E-book Education Leadership : Scoping, Perspectives and Future Trajectory

At a time in history when humanity has placed its trust in education to take on any challenge in the world and has, as a result, made massive investments in education, education leaves much to be desired. Whether in terms of supplying access for all in institutions of education, ensuring quality education for all, ensuring equity or equality in education or succeeding in ac…

E-book International Teaching and Learning Settings in the Academic Professio…

Academic education plays an important role in the development of professionalism of adult educators. Given the interconnectedness of adult education with global and international developments, this international and comparative study illustrates the need for a systematic and comprehensive internationalisation of adult education programmes and the relevance of international teaching and learning…

E-book 15 uur voorschoolse educatie in Amsterdam = 15 Jam Pendidikan Prasekol…

Onderzoek naar de effectiviteit van voor-en vroegschoolse educatie (vve) laat zien dat voorschoolse educatie eraan kan bijdragen dat onderwijsachterstanden van kinderen uit laagopgeleide gezinnen en kinderen met een migratieachtergrond verminderen, maar dat de kwaliteit van voor-en vroegschoolse educatie voor verbetering vatbaar is (Leseman & Veen, 2016; Veer, Luijten, Van Tuijl, & Sleegers, 20…

E-book Music : Arts Education

The arts are organised expressions of ideas, feelings and experiences in images, in music, in language, in gesture and in movement. They provide for sensory, emotional, intellectual and creative enrichment and contribute to the child’s holistic development. Much of what is finest in society is developed through a variety of art forms which contribute to cultural ethos and to a sense of well-b…

E-book Adult Education and Social Justice: International Perspectives

This book investigates the ways in which the social purposes of adult education are (re)interpreted over time, and between the global south and global north. It brings together thirty-seven authors from fourteen countries with extensive experience as academics and/or practitioners in the field. The book is inspired by the work and life of Lalage Bown, a leading proponent of post-colonial and in…

E-book Public History of Education: A Brief Introduction

Is historical knowledge important for education? How can we build a shared historical knowledge with schools, communities, and education professionals? The book responds to these questions by suggesting the public history approach, as applied in education and, more generally, to all professions that are based on human relations. The public history of education refers directly to North American …

E-book Study Secrets

One of the first questions that students have when they start reading Study Secrets is ‘what actions should I take first?’. This book is packed with so much helpful information that it can be difficult to know where to start. A student who can read, but doesn’t act upon their reading, is really the same as a student who never reads at all. Acting upon the secrets you learn is the only way…

E-book Global Political Demography : The Politics of Population Change

Political demography, or the systematic study of population changeand politics, public policies and polities, sees population dynamics (struc-ture and change) as one of the main drivers of politics at the meso-and macro-level. As an approach, it can be defined as the study of thedynamics in the size, composition and distribution of populations andtheir effects on political and policy processes.…

E-book Enhancing the Value of Teacher Education Research: Implications for Po…

This book invites us to critically reflect on the value of research in, on and for teacher education. It explores the nature and role of teacher education research and identifies ways to enhance its value for policy and practice. It gathers together studies that deploy a wide range of methodologies, including small-scale practitioner-focused research and large-scale empirical studies, consideri…

E-book Global Education Monitoring Report, 2023: Technology in Education: A T…

The report underscores the importance of learning to live both with and without digital technology; to take what is needed from an abundance of information but ignore what is not necessary; to let technology support, but never supplant, the human connection on which teaching and learning are based. The focus should be on learning outcomes, not digital inputs. To help improve learning, digital t…

E-book FUTURE/PRESENT: Arts in a Changing America

Building on five years of national organizing by Arts in a Changing America, an artist-led initiative that challenges structural racism in the art world, FUTURE/PRESENT includes a range of poetry, essays and criticism, visual and performance art, artist manifestos, interviews, and reflections on community practice.

E-book Unmasking Racism: Guidelines for Educational Materials

Racist ideologies and discrimination continue to be a global problem. They are still widespread in our societies and rooted in different channels that enable their diffusion. Racism in education materials is a prevalent issue that must be addressed.These Guidelines intend to increase awareness and improve understanding of how racism manifests itself in educational materials and to provide guida…

E-book Ways of Seeking: The Arabic Novel and the Poetics of Investigation

In Ways of Seeking, Emily Drumsta traces the influence of detective fiction on the twentieth-century Arabic novel. Theorizing a “poetics of investigation,” she shows how these novels, far from staging awe-inspiring feats of logical deduction, mock the truth-seeking practices on which modern exercises of colonial and national power are often premised. Their narratives return to the archives …

E-book Global Citizenship Education in A Digital Age: Teacher Guidelines

Internet access has increased the flow of diverse information and expanded spaces for different expressions of knowing and being – and opportunities for effecting positive societal change. But it has also exacerbated and accelerated the spread of misinformation, disinformation, hate speech, and online violence. Between January and March 2021, 85, 247 videos violated YouTube hate speech policy…

E-book From A to Z : Exhibiton Vocabulary

We want to use this document to share our way of thinking and doing things. We want to present our way of working, our way of understanding the factual universe that goes into thinking up and producing exhibitions on science and technology through this lexicon. We want to contribute towards raising awareness about a way of operating and understanding the world of exhibitions. We are making an e…

E-book Developing Sustainable Food Value Chains: Practical Guidance for Syste…

This brief provides a rigorous and standardized approach for value chain analysis and design (VCA/D).1 It assumes that a specific value chain (VC) has already been selected and describes how to complete the first two steps for its sustainable evelopment, namely analysing the VC and designing an upgrading strategy and development plan for it.2 The next step, beyond this brief, is the implementat…

E-Book Arts for Transformative Education: A Guide for Teachers from the UNESC…

The arts offer tremendous potential for enriching, enlivening and propelling learning that transforms individuals and communities. Arts learning fuels transformative education that helps increase students’ capacity and motivation to build a more peaceful and sustainable world. However, to fully realize that potential, teachers must mindfully structure and support educational experiences to op…

E-Book An Ed-Tech Tragedy?: Educational Technologies and School Closures in t…

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E-Book AI and Education: Guidance for Policy-makers

rtificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to address some of the biggest challenges in education today, innovate teaching and learning practices, and ultimately accelerate the progress towards SDG 4. However, these rapid technological developments inevitably bring multiple risks and challenges, which have so far outpaced policy debates and regulatory frameworks. This publication offers gui…

E-Book The UNESCO Recommendation on Education for Peace, Human Rights and Sus…

Commonly referred to as the “Recommendation on Education for Peace, Human Rights and Sustainable Development”, it updates the previous “1974 Recommendation” 1 that almost 50 years ago united countries in positioning education as a key driver of peace and international understanding. (See Box 1). As such, the Recommendation provides the legal foundation for Target 4.7 of the Sustainable …

E-Book AI in the United Arab Emirates’ Computing, Creative Design and Innov…

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E-book Abstract Book : Euro 2022

The complexity of the humanitarian systems and the high stakes for doing good with less have created a great deal of interest in the operations research community to address challenging problems faced by our societies and make a difference. In this talk, I will present some research problems and discuss how operations research can support humanitarian decision making at different levels. The fo…

E-book The Catholic Faith Handbook for Youth

The chapters do not explain everything there is to know about the Catholic faith. They cover the essentials, the basics. The Did You Know? articles give additional information that a well-informed Catholic should be aware of. They provide you with the answers to questions like “Why are the priest’s vestments (special clothing worn during Mass) different colors at different times of the year…

E-Book Making Universities Matter: Collaboration, Engagement, Impact

In an era of rapid change and increasing societal demands, the role of universities as knowledge producers and catalysts for change has come under scrutiny. This open access book offers a fresh perspective on the significance of universities in society, shedding light on how their knowledge can truly matter beyond academia. Drawing upon insightful inquiries from both the Swedish and internation…

E-book Research Methods in Education

This part locates the research enterprise in several contexts. It commences with positivist and scientific contexts of research and then proceeds to show the strengths and weaknesses of such traditions for educational research. As an alternative paradigm, the cluster of approaches that can loosely be termed interpretive, naturalistic, phenomenological, interactionist and ethnographic are broug…

E-Book Global Perspectives on Leadership in Early Childhood Education

Global Perspectives on Leadership in Early Childhood Education aims to improve leadership and management in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) settings through research evidence. Written for a wide audience, including the academic community, policymakers, practitioners, teachers, directors, and professionals, the book provides knowledge and tools to enhance the ECEC sector. Divided into …

E-Book Higher Education in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

This open access collection examines how higher education responds to the demands of the automation economy and the fourth industrial revolution. Considering significant trends in how people are learning, coupled with the ways in which different higher education institutions and education stakeholders are implementing adaptations, it looks at new programs and technological advances that are cha…

E-Book Developing Educators for The Digital Age: A Framework for Capturing Kn…

"Evaluating skills and knowledge capture lies at the cutting edge of contemporary higher education where there is a drive towards increasing evaluation of classroom performance and use of digital technologies in pedagogy. Developing Educators for the Digital Age is a book that provides a narrative account of teacher development geared towards the further usage of technologies (including iPads, …