Good education changes lives. It is therefore unsurprising that improved schooling plays a central part in most development strategies. At the same time, the expansion of school attainment alone is not sufficient to guarantee improved welfare. This open access book focuses on on…
Esta obra se concentra en cuatro temas cruciales de la formación de docentes, tanto antes como durante el servicio y en la enseñanza en diferentes áreas y niveles educativos. En primer lugar, se aborda el asunto de las creencias que los docentes tienen sobre el proceso educativo…
This book is concerned with understanding the complex ways in which gender violence and poverty impact on young people's lives, and the potential for education to challenge violence. Although there has been a recent expansion of research on gender violence and schooling, the fie…
The decolonisation of the curriculum project
by Mentz, Elsa, de Beer, Josef, Bailey, Roxanne, van Wyk, Ben-Erik, Jagals, Divan, Laubscher, Dorothy, Mdakane, Marry, Petersen, Neal, Olivier, Jako, van der Westhuizen, Christo, Sebotsa, Tswakae, Dudu, Washington T., White, Lounell, van der Walt, Marthie, Speight Vaughn, Melissa, Potgieter, Erika, Le Grange, Lesley, Havenga, Marietjie, Golightly, Aubrey, Bester, Susan
This book is the result of a longitudinal research project (2016-2018) funded by the National Research Foundation and the Fuchs Foundation, and it disseminates original research. The project researched the affordances of indigenous knowledge in the school science, technology and…
This open access book, inspired by the ICME 13 topic study group “Affect, beliefs and identity in mathematics education”, presents the latest trends in research in the area. Following an introduction and a survey chapter providing a concise overview of the state-of-art in the fi…
Imke Buß weist in ihrem Open-Access-Buch nach, dass Hochschulen durch die strategische Gestaltung ihrer Studienstrukturen die Vereinbarkeit von Studium, Familie und Beruf ermöglichen können. Die Autorin entwickelt ein empirisch geprüftes Modell struktureller Studierbarkeit, welc…
This open access book investigates the effects of changes in leadership and managerial structures of Nordic universities resulting from reforms in the last decade. It builds on a rich, comparative dataset across a multiplicity of system-wide (macro) and organisational (meso and …
Essa coletânea de textos produzidos por professores e alunos da linha de pesquisa Teorias Pedagógicas, Trabalho Educativo e Sociedade, do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Escolar, da Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), campus de Araraquara, traz uma contribuição origina…
"The current higher education policy and practice landscape is simultaneously marked by uncertainty and hope, and nowhere are these tensions more present than in discussions and actions around general education. This volume uses an anthropological approach to contemplate ways of…
"The current higher education policy and practice landscape is simultaneously marked by uncertainty and hope, and nowhere are these tensions more present than in discussions and actions around general education. This volume uses an anthropological approach to contemplate ways of…
"The current higher education policy and practice landscape is simultaneously marked by uncertainty and hope, and nowhere are these tensions more present than in discussions and actions around general education. This volume uses an anthropological approach to contemplate ways of…