The Post-pandemic Landscape of Education and Beyond: Innovation and Transformation: Selected Papers from the HKAECT 2022 International Conference by Anna Wing Bo TSO, Steven Kwan Keung NG, Locky LAW, Tiffany Shurui BAI
English | PDF | 2023 | 316 Pages | ISBN : 9811992169 | 6.9 MB
With the purpose of exploring the critical possibilities offered by the global crisis of coronavirus pandemic, this volume presents the collected works of scholars, educators and practitioners worldwide, bringing to the readers a broad array of perspectives on how COVID-19 inspires us to rethink, redefine, and make sense of the theoretical and pedagogical approaches that can be applied in various educational contexts.

Smart Education in China and Central & Eastern European Countries by Rongxia Zhuang, Dejian Liu, Demetrios Sampson, Danimir Mandic, Siyi Zou, Yu Huang, Ronghuai Huang
English | PDF | 2023 | 340 Pages | ISBN : 9811973180 | 6.5 MB
This book focuses on the development of smart education in China and some countries of Central and Eastern Europe. A brief discussion on the idea of smart education was given in the introduction chapter, followed by a series of national smart education profiles of eleven countries. In detail, the profile starts with an overview of ICT in Education or smart education in the country and policies of ICT in Education or smart education. Some key features of smart education in each country were discussed with examples of best practices. The profile ends with a description of trends of smart education in the country. Based on the information above, the final chapter presents an analysis among the eleven countries with six major features they presented and concluded the book with suggestions on advancing smart education by three points.

International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education By Robert B. Stevenson (editor), Michael Brody (editor), Justin Dillon (editor), Arjen E.J. Wals (editor)
2012 | 592 Pages | ISBN: 0415892384 | PDF | 4 MB
The environment and contested notions of sustainability are increasingly topics of public interest, political debate, and legislation across the world. Environmental education journals now publish research from a wide variety of methodological traditions that show linkages between the environment, health, development, and education. The growth in scholarship makes this an opportune time to review andsynthesize the knowledge base of the environmental education (EE) field. The purpose of this 51-chapter handbook is not only to illuminate the most important concepts, findings and theories that have been developed by EE research, but also to critically examine the historical progression of the field, its current debates and controversies, what is still missing from the EE research agenda, and where that agenda might be headed. Published for the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

Digital Learning based Education: Transcending Physical Barriers by Amitava Choudhury, Arindam Biswas, Sadhan Chakraborti
English | PDF | 2023 | 139 Pages | ISBN : 9811989664 | 2.7 MB
This book presents the systematic evolution of digitized education: trends, advances, challenges encountered and their solutions toward the use of advanced technologies. The book mainly covers variety of areas such as blended learning in modern education, flipped classroom, ICT-based education, digital transformation of education. Explosion of information and communication technologies has transformed the way we live, learn, work and socialize. This heavy intervention of technologies in the modern world has triggered us to think how we engage and interact with each other and how we make use of these digital tools and communications channels. And consequent upon which societies are transforming into digitized education where datafication, platformization and algorithmic governance are a common vocabulary.

Nuraan Davids, "Democratic Education as Inclusion"
English | ISBN: 1793652368 | 2022 | 154 pages | EPUB | 308 KB
Political and social expectations are often stymied and distorted by individual and communal identities-creating vastly incongruent and unrelated lived experiences, often within the same context. Democratic Education as Inclusion explores how the existence and enactments of diversity continue to present ubiquitous epicenters of misreading, misrecognition, and missed opportunities for peaceful co-existence-whether in established, or nascent democracies. Nuraan Davids and Yusef Waghid study how the public sphere has never held the same meaning to all individuals or groups. As such, there are deep implications for differentiated experiences of citizenship, between those who are included in the center of the sphere, and those who are excluded on the margins. This book explains the dyadic relationship between inclusion and exclusion and how it is not limited to the public sphere, or to broader conceptions of democratic citizenship. It is as apparent in educational settings, presenting under-explored complexities not only for teaching and learning, but for the life experiences of participants in teaching-learning. Often the foundational norms put into place during educational initiations become the primary determinants of how young people conceive of themselves as citizens, and how they conceive of themselves in relation to others.

Elizabeth Buckner, "Degrees of Dignity: Arab Higher Education in the Global Era"
English | ISBN: 1487528949 | 2021 | 264 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Presenting an analysis of higher education in eight countries in the Arab Middle East and North Africa, Degrees of Dignity works to dismantle narratives of crisis and assert approaches to institutional reform. Drawing on policy documents, media narratives, interviews, and personal experiences, Elizabeth Buckner explores how apolitical external reform models become contested and modified by local actors in ways that are simultaneously complicated, surprising, and even inspiring.

Chetan Sinha, "Power Dynamics in Education"
English | ISBN: 1032136707 | 2023 | 220 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The educational domain provides a platform for social mobility and social change. This book investigates the new National Educational Policy (NEP) to understand how it can bring social justice and transform education in a meaningful way to match the imagination of students from diverse groups. The author discusses matters of emotion and authority in education and argues for the need for educational psychology which takes into account the self-conscious emotions of students and teachers. The book reflects on important topics such as critical pedagogy, dehumanization, power in education through bricolage, and legitimacy in education, all within the context of critical educational psychology. Through research and observations, it discusses the socialpsychological aspect of stereotyping, othering, and prejudices in the educational domain.

Donna Y. Ford, "Multicultural Gifted Education Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 1593636997 | 2011 | 358 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Each year, the United States witnesses significant changes in the demographics of its citizens. Accordingly, schools―and the students we teach―are also changing. With such changes come the need, responsibility, and obligation for educators to provide students with an education that is both rigorous and culturally responsive. This book bridges the gap that exists between educating advanced learners and educating culturally different learners.

Youth and Education in the Middle East: Shaping Identity and Politics in Jordan By Daniele Cantini
2016 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 1784532479 | PDF | 2 MB
The uprisings that were seen throughout the Middle East during 2010 and 2011, make it difficult to over-state the role of educated youth in the region s politics. Daniele Cantini combines an analysis of young people in Jordan, of its relevance and of its perceived crisis, with one which looks at education and the pursuit of knowledge. He thereby highlights the unprecedented rise in youth population and the growth in institutions of higher learning as a way to explore and explain the challenges Arab-majority societies are currently facing. It proposes an understanding of the university as an institution integral to the survival of the regime, discusses its fragile reforms, and crucial in the formation of young people s social and political identities. Youth and Education in the Middle East, offers vital first-hand accounts of the role of educational institutions and the impact they have in shaping transnational and local constituencies as well as in the micropolitics of everyday life."

Transformation of Higher Education in the Age of Society 5.0: Trends in International Higher Education
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031155262 | 258 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 8.4 MB
This book examines several emerging trends in higher education, including artificial intelligence and the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on higher education transformation over the past couple of years. All higher education leaders and policy makers are dealing with the aftermath and continuing battle they face regarding higher education within the context of COVID-19. AI and the 4IR are also areas that impact every aspect of higher education, especially as disciplines are forced to provide credentials and relevance aligned to the workforce and economic needs. The chapters provide regional and country case studies from within the Asia Pacific Region.