Jennifer Randles, "Proposing Prosperity?: Marriage Education Policy and Inequality in America"
English | ISBN: 0231170300 | 2016 | 280 pages | EPUB | 416 KB
"Fragile families"―unmarried parents who struggle emotionally and financially―are one of the primary targets of the Healthy Marriage Initiative, a federal policy that has funded marriage education programs in nearly every state. These programs, which encourage marriage by teaching relationship skills, are predicated on the hope that married couples can provide a more emotionally and financially stable home for their children.

Conversation Analytic Language Teacher Education in Digital Spaces
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031191269 | 376 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 11 MB
This book presents original research into language teacher education (LTE) activities in digital spaces, making use of a multimodal Conversation Analysis (CA) approach to examine multiple datasets and bring new insights into the theory, research, and practice of second/foreign language teacher education. The author conceptualizes a model of Conversation Analytic Language Teacher Education (CALTE), proposing a new knowledge base for LTE, identifying research-informed defining features, mapping the scope of an original praxis base, and providing research evidence from the implementation of this approach in and for digital spaces. The result is an argument for wide implementation and on-going improvement of the CALTE approach, and the book will be of interest to language teacher education professionals, multimodal CA researchers, and applied linguists.

Science Education and International Cross-Cultural Reciprocal Learning:
Perspectives from the Nature Notes Program
English | 2023 | ISBN: 303117156X | 237 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 49 MB

Gordon Wells, "Pedagogy in Higher Education: A Cultural Historical Approach"
English | ISBN: 1107014654 | 2013 | 261 pages | PDF | 2 MB
What can Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) contribute to the solution of the problems facing higher education today? This edited volume brings together the work of an international group of scholars and researchers to address this important question. Drawing on contemporary interpretations of CHAT, the contributors take on a wide range of issues, ranging from pedagogy to administration and from teacher preparation to university outreach. An introduction presents the key principles of CHAT. Subsequent chapters address such issues as effective ways of teaching large undergraduate classes, providing support for struggling writers or for students with disabilities, opening up opportunities for students from historically underserved communities, preparing students for the professions, and building bridges between higher education and the wider community. Readers with an interest in higher education will encounter ideas in these chapters that will prompt them to rethink their role in preparing today's students for tomorrow's challenges.

Music Education Research
by Miksza, Peter;Shaw, Julia T.;Kapalka Richerme, Lauren;Hash, Phillip M.;Hodges, Donald A.;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0197639755 | 488 pages | True EPUB | 9.31 MB

Financing of Higher Education: Traditional Approaches and Innovative Strategies
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811973903 | 439 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 6 MB
This book reviews and analyses higher education financing and explores the innovative ways by both public higher education and private higher education institutes in the context of globalization, with India, Russia and Tanzania as a case study. It examines the diverse policy discourses which greatly influence the higher education systems based on evidence-based research. This book is arranged into four major themes. Part 1 deals with the various possible modes of financing of higher education, such as the credit market and voucher system. Part 2 deals with strategies to mobilize the resources. Part 3 deals with innovative and sustainable approaches to financing private higher education institutions. Part 4 discusses the policies and limitations with external financing of higher education. It is an interesting collection of various themes in different chapters by serious researchers. It is an excellent read for students, educators and policymakers interested in alternative and innovative practices in higher education financing. It is a highly informative book for researchers providing insights on how social and political dynamics impact higher education financing.

Education beyond Europe: Models and Traditions before Modernities By Cristiano Casalini, Edward Choi, Ayenachew A. Woldegiyorgis
2021 | 372 Pages | ISBN: 9004446494 | PDF | 3 MB
The focus of this volume is on illuminating how local educational traditions developed in particular contexts around the world before or during the encounter with European early modern culture. In this vein, this volume breaks from the common narrative of educational historiography privileging the imposition of European structures and its consequences on local educational traditions. Such a narrative lends to historiographical prejudice that fosters a distorted image of indigenous educational cultures as "historyless," as if history was brought to them merely through the influence of European models. Fifteen multi-disciplinary scholars globally have contributed with surveys and perspectives on the history of local traditions in countries from around the globe before their own modernities. Contributors include: Guochang Shen, Yongyan Wang, Xia Shen, Gaétan Rappo, Sunghwan Hwang, Jan S. Aritonang, Mere Skerrett, Saiyid Zaheer Husain Jafri, Zackery M. Heern, Judith Francis Zeitlin, Layla Jorge Teixeira Cesar, Mustafa Gündüz, Igor Fedyukin, Edit Szegedi, Inese Runce, Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon, and Davíð Ólafsson.

Art Education in a Postmodern World By Tom Hardy
2006 | 166 Pages | ISBN: 1841501468 | PDF | 8 MB
Many of the essays pinpoint the stagnancy of teaching methods today and discuss the reductive parameters enforced by the current curriculum. The radical tone that echoes through the entire series of papers is unmistakable. Throughout the book, postmodern theory informs the polemical debate concerning new directions in educative practice. Contributors shed new light on a postmodern view of art in education with emphasis upon difference, plurality and independence of mind. Ultimately, the paper provides a detailed insight into the various concepts that shape and drive the contemporary art world and expands the debate regarding the impression of postmodern thinking in art education.

Trends and Prospects of the Education System and Educators' Professional Training Development By Mariia Oliinyk, Małgorzata Stawiak-Ososińska, Otilia Clipa (editor)
2021 | 536 Pages | ISBN: 9731665897 | PDF | 9 MB
The monograph presents the results of international research activities on the pedagogical education and professional training development in the modern socio-cultural environment. Theoretical and methodological principles of the professional training for future specialists in the field of pedagogy and educational policy strategy during socio-economic changes in Ukraine and EU countries are studied, common conceptual trajectories of the preschool education modernization are offered. Psychological, pedagogical and social aspects of education for children of different age categories and children with special educational needs are substantiated. Particular attention is paid to the use of innovative technologies in the educational process. The progressive ideas of Vasyl Sukhomlynsky's pedagogical heritage in the practice of a modern educational institution are highlighted.The work is intended for research and scientific-pedagogical workers in the field of education, graduate students, students, as well as professionals who are interested in modern approaches to pedagogical education and professional training.

Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska, "Non-Inclusive Education in Central and Eastern Europe: Comparative Studies of Teaching Ethnicity, Religion and Gender"
English | ISBN: 1350325260 | 2022 | 248 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book presents research into inclusive education in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), written by scholars based in CEE. Inclusive education has become a framework for understanding and embracing diversity but most of the research in this area has been carried out in intercultural or culturally diverse settings within a relatively inclusive and open framework of democratic/liberal and multicultural Western societies. Unlike many Western societies, the realities of CEE countries are often much less diverse and connected with different fragile historical and political processes, which puts tackling sensitive topics in a different context. The editors and contributors address the dominant Western ways of looking at inclusive and global education in CEE. They argue that Western leveraged pedagogy has been imposed on CEE and outline the context-specific problems of teaching global education in CEE. Collectively, the chapters offer critical responses to the issues of exclusion and exclusionary practices of 'silenced' minorities in CEE. Written by academics based in Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary Poland, Romania and Russia, the book cover topics including Roma genocide in Poland, teaching about Islam and teaching about LGBTQ+ issues. The book includes a preface written by Jacqueline Bhabha, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, USA.