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  • Experience of School Transitions

    Policies, Practice and Participants

    Edited by Stephen Billett, Greer Johnson, Sue Thomas, Cheryl Sim, Stephen Hay, Jill Ryan ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Leaving school, whether to move on to training, work or education, is a fundamental rite of passage the world over. This volume draws on a wealth of international sources and studies in its analysis of the ‘transitions’ young students make as they move on from their secondary schooling. It identifies how these transitions are planned for by policymakers, enacted by school staff and engaged with by ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Administrative Passages

    Navigating the Transition from Teacher to Assistant Principal

    by Denise Armstrong ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book makes a much needed contribution to what we know about the role and work of the assistant principal. It offers terri c insights into the different challenges one faces after being appointed assistant principal, and it provides readers with a rich array of data regarding the mental, emotional, social, and physical adjustments accompanying one’s transition to this new role. The author ... Read more

    $98.09 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

  • Developing Learning Professionals

    Integrating Experiences in University and Practice Settings

    Edited by Stephen Billett, Amanda J. Henderson ...
    Series Book 7 - Professional and Practice-based Learning
    In higher education institutions across the globe, there is a growing interest in integrating classroom learning with experience in practice settings. This interest is the result of an increased emphasis on courses that prepare students for specific occupations in the hopes that upon graduation students will be job-ready.Developing Learning Professionals: Integrating Experiences in University and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Real-Time Coaching and Pre-Service Teacher Education

    by Garth Stahl, Erica Sharplin, Benjamin Kehrwald ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book details the findings of a small-scale research study on the use of real-time coaching in pre-service teacher education, founded upon the nexus of teacher education, mentoring, immediate feedback, teacher effectiveness, technology-enhanced learning and innovative approaches to developing better teaching practices. The book includes a robust literature review summarizing the scholarship on ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Cultural and Social Diversity and the Transition from Education to Work

    Edited by Guy Tchibozo ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This edited volume provides multidisciplinary and international insights into the policy, managerial and educational aspects of diverse students’ transitions from education to employment. As employers require increasing global competence on the part of those leaving education, this research asks whether increasing multiculturalism in developed societies, often seen as a challenge to their cohesion ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • International Perspectives on Competence in the Workplace

    Implications for Research, Policy and Practice

    Edited by Christine R. Velde ...
    As the world’s economy develops into a more dynamic, fast-moving, and unpredictable entity, it is crucial that the workers who create wealth have the ability to assess and respond to new and unforeseen challenges. In other words, the future will require a more competent workforce. What, though, does this mean in practice? In this, the fully revised second edition of Christine Velde’s book, a ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Supporting Workplace Learning

    Towards Evidence-based Practice

    Edited by Rob F. Poell, Marianne van Woerkom ...
    Series Book 5 - Professional and Practice-based Learning
    During the 1990s, the workplace was rediscovered as a rich source of learning. The issue of workplace learning has since received increasing attention from academics and practitioners alike but is still under-researched empirically. This book brings together a range of state-of-the-art research papers addressing interventions to support learning in the workplace. The authors are experienced ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Gender in Transnational Knowledge Work

    Edited by Helen Peterson ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This is he first edited book on gender issues in transnational business cooperation concerning knowledge work. This area has so far been researched mainly by organizational theorists, with their background in business studies, finance, communication or sociology, and gender has seldom been taken into account in these studies. This book shows how fruitful a gendered take on issues within this area ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Teachers as Self-directed Learners

    Active Positioning through Professional Learning

    by Kathleen Smith ...
    Series Book 18 - Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices
    This book redefines teacher in-service education as being less about participation in a program and more about the opportunity for teachers to experience a process of learning that is personally meaningful and contextually relevant to their own teaching practice. The research presented here reveals that teachers have the capacity to think and work differently, yet are rarely provided with ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Vocational Education

    Purposes, Traditions and Prospects

    by Stephen Billett ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book discusses what constitutes vocational education as well as its key purposes, objects, formation and practices. In short, it seeks to outline and elaborate the nature of the project of vocational education. It addresses a significant gap in the available literature by providing a single text that elaborates the scope and diversity of the sector, its key objectives (i.e. vocations and ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • The Architecture of Innovative Apprenticeship

    Edited by Ludger Deitmer, Ursel Hauschildt, Felix Rauner, Helmut Zelloth ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Benefiting from the support and involvement of two major international research networks, this collection features the latest research findings in TVET. Members of INAP, the International Network on Innovative Apprenticeship, and VETNET, the Vocational Education and Training Network, have contributed key research findings to this detailed survey of the field. Featuring the inclusion of the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD