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Global Perspectives on Educational Innovations for Emergency Situations
This open access book focuses on making the transition from in-person, classroom education to other feasible alternative modes and methodologies to deliver education at all levels. The book presents and analyzes research questions to explore in this arena, including pedagogical issues relating to technological and infrastructure challenges, teacher professional development, issues of disparity,…
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- 9783030996345
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A Deeper Learning Companion for CLIL
If education is to prepare learners for lifelong learning, there needs to be a shift towards deeper learning: a focus on transferable knowledge and problem-solving skills alongside the development of a positive or growth mind-set. Deeper learning is inextricably linked with CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) – a revolutionary teaching approach where students study subjects in a d…
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- Do Coyle,Oliver Meyer,, Susanne Staschen-Dielmann
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- 9781009043755
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The Teaching Profession Present and Future
This volume contributes to debates about the teaching profession by reviewing international and national reports on its status, as well as on reforms of various education systems. It proposes a global approach to the quality of the teaching profession as a decisive ingredient of education quality, including a conception of its identity and a vision of its future. Moreover, it is suggested that …
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- 978-3-319-12130-7
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Integrating Practice-based Experiences into Higher Education
This book advances understandings about and practices for effectively integrating practice-based (e.g. workplace) experiences in higher education programs. This issue is becoming of increasing salient because higher education programs globally are increasingly focussing on preparing students for specific occupations. Such imperatives are reflected in the cooperative education movement in North …
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- 978-94-017-7230-3
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The Grants Register 2017
The most comprehensive guide on postgraduate grants and professional funding globally. For thirty-five years it has been the leading source for up-to-date information on the availability of, and eligibility for, postgraduate and professional awards. Each entry is verified by its awarding body and all information is updated annually.
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- 978-1-137-51142-3
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Urban and Regional Planning Education Learning for India
This is the first volume exclusively dedicated to planning education, with a focus on India and learning from global experiences for India. Prior to the 1990s, planning education in India was largely confined to national and local economic concerns. Within a globalized scenario, such pedagogies and theories have become outmoded. With new concerns emerging in planning, new pedagogical tools and …
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- 978-981-10-0608-1
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- 38 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
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Facing Trajectories from School to Work Towards a Capability-Friendly Youth …
This book promotes a radical alternative impact on youth policy in Europe to overcome the situation of vulnerability and discrimination of a growing number of youngsters in their transition from school to work. It follows a Human Development perspective in using the Capability Approach (CA) as analytical and methodological guiding tool to improve the social conditions of the most socially vulne…
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- 978-3-319-11436-1
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- 15 b/w illustrations
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Expansive Learning in Professional Contexts A Materialist Perspective
This book discusses approaches to organizational learning from a materialist point of view. Inspired by research into Police Firearms training, features of expansive learning inform the development of perspectives on training which challenge traditional modes of research and delivery. The book critically reviews a range of approaches to expansive learning and organizational research, establishi…
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- 978-1-137-57436-7
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- XI, 119
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Educating the Deliberate Professional
This book takes a fresh look at professional practice and professional education. In times of increased managerialism of academic teaching and a focus on graduate learning outcomes, it discusses possibilities to teach and learn otherwise. A deliberate professional is someone who consciously, thoughtfully and courageously makes choices about how to act and be in the practice world. A pedagogy of…
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- 978-3-319-32956-7
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- XIII, 234
Teaching Reflective Learning In Higher Education
This book is about understanding the nature and application of reflection in higher education. It provides a theoretical model to guide the implementation of reflective learning and reflective practice across multiple disciplines and international contexts in higher education. The book presents research into the ways in which reflection is both considered and implemented in different ways acros…
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- 978-3-319-09271-3
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- X, 234
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