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Adult education policy and the European Union: theoretical and methodological…
The European Union is now a key player in making lifelong learning and adult education policy: this is the first book to explore a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives researchers can use to investigate its role. Readership: Educational Researchers and their students
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- 9789462095489
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- 194 p.; 22 cm
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- Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, 1
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- 374.924 ADU a
Child’s play multi-sensory histories of children and childhood in Japan
Few things make Japanese adults feel quite as anxious today as the phenomenon called the “child crisis.” Various media teem with intense debates about bullying in schools, child poverty, child suicides, violent crimes committed by children, the rise of socially withdrawn youngsters, and forceful moves by the government to introduce a more conservative educational curriculum. These issues ha…
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- 9780520968844
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- 314 p.; 22 cm.
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- 305.230952 CHI c
Collaborative curriculum design for sustainable innovation and teacher learning
This open access book provides insight into what it takes to actively involve teachers in the curriculum design process. It examines different aspects of teacher involvement in collaborative curriculum design, with specific attention to its implications for sustainable curriculum innovation and teacher learning. Divided into six sections, the book starts out by introducing the notion of collabo…
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- 9783030200626
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- VI, 424 p.
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- 375.001 COL c
Bite : recipes for remarkable research
BITE: Recipes for remarkable research is an edited field book capturing the research, learning and experiences of an international network of scholars studying effective and creative research environments. The book encapsulates what it is that enables remarkable research, and offers, as Professor Lizbeth Goodman says, “practical, evidence-based instantiations of ideas and innovations” as we…
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- 9789462095847
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- ix, 309p. : ill.
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- 378 BIT b
Adult education policy and the European Union : theoretical and methodologica…
The European Union is now a key player in making lifelong learning and adult education policy: this is the first book to explore a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives researchers can use to investigate its role. Chapters by leading experts and younger scholars from across Europe and beyond cover the evolution of EU policies, the role of policy ‘actors’ in what is often seen…
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- 9789462095472
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- xiii, 179p. : ill.
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- 374.924 ADU a
EqualBITE : gender equality in higher education
Gender imbalances still exist across all areas of higher education. From salaries and promotion, to representation in the curriculum, formal approaches and good intentions rarely address the full complexity. EqualBITE digs into the messy reality of higher education gender issues, presenting people’s stories, experiences and frustrations and – more importantly – what can be done. Universit…
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- 9789463511438
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- xiii, 350p. : ill.
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- 378.0082 EQU e
Academia in crisis : the rise and risk of neoliberal education in Europe
Academia is standing at a junction in time. Behind lies the community of the curious, ahead the mass and the market. This book joins in a growing stream of works that explore the vicissitudes of present-day European universities in what Bauman coined as liquid times. Here, a number of concerned (engaged) European scholars attempt to defend and brush up academic core values and practices, starti…
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- 9789004402034
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- ix, 201p. : ill.
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- 378.4 ACA a
The societal unconscious : psychosocial perspectives on adult learning
The Societal Unconscious presents an innovative development of theory and methodology for adult education and learning research, recognizing psychodynamic dimensions of learning processes. With few exceptions the unconscious has been neglected in critical adult education research. The psychosocial approach in this book seeks to re-integrate the societal and the psychodynamic dimensions in analy…
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- 9789004420274
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- xvi, 251p. : ill.
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- 374.0019 SOC s
Doing critical and creative research in adult education : case studies in met…
Scholarship on adult education has fueled a high level of methodological creativity and innovation in order to tackle a diverse range of issues in a wide range of settings and locations in a critical and participatory manner. Adult education research is marked by the desire to do research differently and to conduct critical research with rather than about people which requires theoretical and m…
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- 9789004420755
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- xx, 228p. : ill.
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- 374 DOI d
Grading goal four : tensions, threats, and opportunities in the sustainable d…
For the third time in three decades world leaders reaffirmed their promise of "Education For All" when adopting Sustainable Development Goal 4 in 2015. It is the most far-reaching commitment to quality and equity in education so far, yet, there is no consensus on what the agenda means in practice. With a decade left until the 2030 deadline, Grading Goal Four calls upon the education communi…
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- 9789004430365
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- xxviii, 469 p. : ill.
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- 379 GRA g
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