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  • 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

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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

  • Improving Schools

    Productive Tensions Between the Local, the Systemic and the Global

    by Shaun Rawolle, Muriel Wells, Louise Paatsch, Russell Tytler, Coral Campbell ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This unique book explores school improvement policy – from its translation into national contexts and school networks to its implementation in leader and teacher practices in individual schools and classrooms within this network of schools and its impact on students’ learning. It draws on multiple conceptual and theoretical resources to explore the complexities attached to a school improvement ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Transitions to Post-School Life

    Responsiveness to Individual, Social and Economic Needs

    Edited by Rupert Maclean, Margarita Pavlova, John Chi-Kin Lee ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book addresses growing reservations about the relevance of educational systems to the economic and social needs of individuals by examining different aspects of transitions from school to work or further studies within formal and informal settings in Asia. Highlighting important issues such as selectiveness and inclusiveness, integration of transversal competencies, vocationalisation of ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • English Language Education and Assessment

    Recent Developments in Hong Kong and the Chinese Mainland

    Edited by David Coniam ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This volume gathers contributions in the closely linked fields of English language assessment and language education. The contributors from China and Hong Kong represent a mixture of established and new scholars. Areas covered in the language education section range across major developments in the redefining of Hong Kong’s secondary and tertiary curricula, as well as the huge field of China’s ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Continuing Professional Education in Australia

    A Tale of Missed Opportunities

    by Barrie Brennan ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book offers a history of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in the Australian context. It presents an approach that links the development of CPD to a series of 'missed opportunities' and the identification of three key themes (mandatory CPD, competencies and regulation/registration) as well as with national regulation for select health professions. It not only relates the evolution of ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Globalization and the Singapore Curriculum

    From Policy to Classroom

    Edited by Zongyi Deng, Christine Kim-Eng Lee, S Gopinathan ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This volume provides a multi-faceted and critical analysis of the Singapore curriculum in relation to globalization. First, it details reform initiatives established by the Singapore government to meet the challenges posed by globalization. Next, Globalization and the Singapore Curriculum presents how these reforms have been translated into programs, school subjects and operational frameworks and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Teaching Profession

    Present and Future

    by A. Reis Monteiro ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    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 ... Read more

    $49.49 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

  • International Students in the Asia Pacific

    Mobility, Risks and Global Optimism

    by Peter Kell, Gillian Vogl ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book documents the growing mobility of international students in the Asia Pacific. International students comprise over 2.7m students and it is estimated by the OECD that this will top 8 million in 2020. The great majority of them are students from the Asian countries who study in the Europe, North America and Asia. In addition countries such as Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong are becoming ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Early Childhood Grows Up

    Towards a Critical Ecology of the Profession

    Edited by Linda Miller, Carmen Dalli, Mathias Urban ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Once the Cinderella of the education system, early years education has evolved into a much more substantially funded sector with staff experiencing greater opportunities for higher-level training and education as well as increasing demands. This book reflects practitioner debates about fundamental questions such as whether or not their field of work is a profession at all. Two key arguments are ... 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