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  • Problem-Based Learning in Clinical Education

    The Next Generation

    Edited by Susan Bridges, Colman McGrath, Tara L. Whitehill ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Developed in the context of health sciences education in the late 1960s, problem-based learning (PBL) is now widely deployed as an education methodology. Its problem-solving, collaborative, student-centred ethos is seen as a more appropriate system of pedagogy than earlier ‘chalk-and-talk’ modes. Focusing on its use in clinical education, this collection of recent scholarship on PBL examines the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Areas of Vocational Education Research

    Edited by Zhiqun Zhao, Felix Rauner ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book provides an overview of some fundamental topics of international Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), e.g. genesis of TVET research, fields of TVET research, curriculum development, TVET planning and developing, methods of TVET research etc. The International Handbook of Technical and Vocational Education and Training Research (Rauner/Maclean), published in 2009 by ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Building Learning Experiences in a Changing World

    Edited by Piet Van den Bossche, Wim H. Gijselaers, Richard G. Milter ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Advances in Business Education & Training is a Book Series to foster advancement in the field of Business Education and Training. It serves as an international forum for scholarly and state-of-the-art research and development into all aspects of Business Education and Training.This new volume deals with several aspects of the challenge to design learning in and for a changing world. The first part ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Systems Theory for Pragmatic Schooling: Toward Principles of Democratic Education

    by C. Cunningham ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Writing for educators and education leaders, Cunningham shows that combining a philosophy of pragmatism with thinking about education as systems can illuminate challenges in contemporary schooling and provide practical solutions for creating a democratic education. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Extraordinary Learning in the Workplace

    Edited by Janet P. Hafler ...
    Series Book 6 - Innovation and Change in Professional Education
    The contributing authors of this multidisciplinary text agree that workplace learning truly is extraordinary when it is marked by structural congruence and a positive synergy among the intended and formal preparation of professionals, that tacit learning occurs within the hidden curriculum, and that the subsequent demands, both formal and tacit, are embedded in subsequent workplace settings. Thus, ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Redesigning Professional Education Doctorates

    Applications of Critical Friendship Theory to the EdD

    by Valerie A. Storey ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This volume demonstrates that Critical Friendship Theory can help distinguish education doctorate (EdD) programs from research doctorates (education PhDs). Drawing on multiple, detailed case studies of CFT implementation at universities, it covers curriculum and implementation, online and in-person education, challenges, and strategies for success. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Informatics Curricula and Teaching Methods

    IFIP TC3 / WG3.2 Conference on Informatics Curricula, Teaching Methods and Best Practice (ICTEM 2002) July 10–12, 2002, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil

    Edited by Lillian Cassel, R. Reis ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Several aspects of informatics curricula and teaching methods at the university level are reported in this volume, including:*Challenges in defining an international curriculum;*The diversity in informatics curricula;*Computing programs for scientists and engineers;*Patterns of curriculum design;*Student interaction;*Teaching of programming;*Peer review in education.This book contains a selection ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Innovation in Hospitality Education

    Anticipating the Educational Needs of a Changing Profession

    Edited by Jeroen A. Oskam, Daphne M. Dekker, Karoline Wiegerink ...
    Series Book 14 - Innovation and Change in Professional Education
    This book analyses the development of hospitality education from vocational to higher education, and discusses the positioning of hotel schools. It addresses questions such as: Should hospitality management become part of generic business education? Are the technical training programmes that have defined the identity of these schools a remnant of their vocational past, or have they contributed to ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Bridging the Skills Gap

    Innovations in Africa and Asia

    Edited by Shubha Jayaram, Bob Adamson, David Sorrell, Wambui Munge, Nitika Jain ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This volume seeks to examine the skills development agenda for youth by exploring two key questions for sustainable livelihoods: What are the skills needed for employability in developing countries, especially in Africa and Asia? And, what skills are currently possessed by students and secondary school leavers? An introductory chapter will set the stage for the discussion and analysis to follow by ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Elaborating Professionalism

    Studies in Practice and Theory

    Edited by Clive Kanes ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    What are the future possibilities for the standing of professional practice as it faces growingly problematic markets for services, complex demands for managerial accountability and control, and problematic circumstances and expectations in its ethical and self-regulative governance? New sources of inspiration may be needed if professionalism is to be either a viable or desirable form for the ... Read more

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  • Learning at the Crossroads of Theory and Practice

    Research on Innovative Learning Practices

    Edited by Piet Van den Bossche, Wim H. Gijselaers, Richard G. Milter ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Core concepts in education are changing. For example, professional performance or expertise is not uniquely the fruit of specialist knowledge acquired at professional schools, but the sum of influences exerted by a complex web of continuous learning opportunities for which an individual is well (or ill) prepared by their schools and their workplace. The key contributory factors to professional ... Read more

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  • Rethinking School-to-Work Transitions in Australia

    Young People Have Something to Say

    by Barry Down, John Smyth, Janean Robinson ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book draws on the stories of thirty-two young Australians to identify the barriers and obstacles they face in ‘getting a job’ in precarious times and from their vantage point. It maps the kinds of educational policies and practices that need to be created and more widely sustained to assist their career aspirations and life chances. It is timely in terms of contributing to an alternative set ... Read more

    $49.49 USD