This open access book focuses on how the design and use of innovative learning environments can evolve as teaching practices and education policies change. It addresses how these new environments are used, how teachers are adapting their practices, the challenges that these chan…
This book describes and analyses the organisation, functions and development of national educational authorities and agencies and the influence they have on local schools in 20 countries around the world. It examines the governing chain in the respective countries from both a th…
1. Introduction: Governing Chains - Support, Control and Intervention for Local Schools -- Part I: The Nordic Countries -- 2. Denmark: Contracts in Danish Educational Governance -- 3. Finland: Changing Operational Environment Changing Finnish Educational Governance,- 4. Iceland:…
1. Introduction to Africa's Educational Wealth -- 2. Ancient Africa Education: Egypt and Nubia -- 3. East Africa Indigenous Education before the Era of Islam -- 4. Anglophone Africa: Education, Religion, and Nation Building, 1960s-1990s -- 5. Conduit and Gatekeeper: Practices an…
This handbook explores the evolution of African education in historical perspectives as well as the development within its three systems?Indigenous, Islamic, and Western education models and how African societies have maintained and changed their approaches to education within a…
This book presents the status quo of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Education, with a focus on China and the 17 Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs), including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, H…
PEDAGOGY, EDUCATION, AND PRAXIS IN CRITICAL TIMES
This book critically explores urgent questions that researchers, educators, and policy makers need to consider and address in order to better our understanding and capacity to transform education. Focusing on areas that underpin the empirical, theoretical, and strategic research…
This open access book takes a critical and international perspective to the mainstreaming of the Global Citizenship Concept and analyses the key issues regarding global citizenship education across the world. In that respect, it addresses a pressing need to provide further conce…
This open access book takes a critical and international perspective to the mainstreaming of the Global Citizenship Concept and analyses the key issues regarding global citizenship education across the world. In that respect, it addresses a pressing need to provide further conce…
This book examines teachers' conceptions and practices of assessment in Tanzania. Adopting a sociocultural perspective, it reveals how Tanzanian teachers understand the role of assessment in relation to their classroom practices, community and other factors. The book determines …
With increasing global challenges, the Belt and Road initiative seems to offer one possible platform to think about different possibilities and pathways to promote international collaboration and development covering Asia, Europe, Africa, and other countries. Information and Com…
This book presents strategies and practices for facilitating effective learning for mainland Chinese students in western based education - regarding e.g. the choice of instructional techniques, attention to students' cultural dislocation aspects, comfort, familiarity, and ease o…
This book discusses the perspectives and practices of teacher education programs in order to shed new light on the national priorities, policies, curriculum inputs, delivery mechanisms, challenges and future trends in 20 selected countries. It examines and compares the complexit…
This book presents a comparative study of the history and development of indigenous and ethnic higher education in the US and China. The author focuses on institutions serving American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIANs) and Chinese Ethnic Minorities (CEMs), such as Tribal Colleg…
This book presents a comparative study of the history and development of indigenous and ethnic higher education in the US and China. The author focuses on institutions serving American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIANs) and Chinese Ethnic Minorities (CEMs), such as Tribal Colleg…
This book offers a rich collection of international research narratives that reveal the qualities and value of peer play. It presents new understandings of peer play and relationships in chapters drawn from richly varied contexts that involve sibling play, collaborative peer pla…
This book offers a rich collection of international research narratives that reveal the qualities and value of peer play. It presents new understandings of peer play and relationships in chapters drawn from richly varied contexts that involve sibling play, collaborative peer pla…