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Index; 1962
(Hardcover)
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
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Written by scholars and educators based in Canada and the USA, this
book articulates and implements a new cutting-edge theoretical
framework entitled the disruptive learning narrative (DLN). The
contributing authors analyze their experiences with international
service learning students using DLN to uncover important lessons
about race relations, power and privilege. They offer fresh insight
on how DLN is useful in understanding and unpacking controversial
teaching moments abroad and provide further reflections on how
others can adapt the DLN framework to meet the contextual needs of
their international educational experience. The chapters offer case
studies and learning from international service learning and study
abroad programs in Canada, China, Columbia, Cuba, Kenya, Tanzania,
and the USA. The book provides essential knowledge and insights for
educators who wish to address the inherent messiness and complexity
of international experiences. It will help educators and
researchers to better understand the controversial and sensitive
issues of race relations, power and privilege dynamics.
Higher education has changed significantly over time. In
particular, traditional face-to-face degrees are being revamped in
a bid to ensure they stay relevant in the 21st century and are now
offered online. The transition for many universities to online
learning has been painful-only exacerbated by the COVID-19
pandemic, forcing many in-person students to join their virtual
peers and professors to learn new technologies and techniques to
educate. Moreover, work has also changed with little doubt as to
the impact of digital communication, remote work, and societal
change on the nature of work itself. There are arguments to be made
for organizations to become more agile, flexible, entrepreneurial,
and creative. As such, work and education are both traversing a
path of immense changes, adapting to global trends and consumer
preferences. The Handbook of Research on Future of Work and
Education: Implications for Curriculum Delivery and Work Design is
a comprehensive reference book that analyzes the realities of
higher education today, strategies that ensure the success of
academic institutions, and factors that lead to student success. In
particular, the book addresses essentials of online learning,
strategies to ensure the success of online degrees and courses,
effective course development practices, key support mechanisms for
students, and ensuring student success in online degree programs.
Furthermore, the book addresses the future of work, preferences of
employees, and how work can be re-designed to create further
employee satisfaction, engagement, and increase productivity. In
particular, the book covers insights that ensure that remote
employees feel valued, included, and are being provided relevant
support to thrive in their roles. Covering topics such as course
development, motivating online learners, and virtual environments,
this text is essential for academicians, faculty, researchers, and
students globally.
This book creatively redefines how teacher educators and faculty in
secondary and post-secondary language education can become
designers with intercultural education in mind. The author aligns
theoretical frameworks with practical features for revising the
modern language curriculum via themes and novel tasks that transfer
language learning from classroom to community, developing
communicative competence for mediation and learner autonomy along
the way. For novice and experienced instructors alike, this book
empowers them to: - design curriculum from transferable concepts
that are worthy of understanding and have value within the
culture(s) and to the learner; - develop assessments that ask the
learner to solve problems, and create products that transfer
concepts or address needs of various audiences that they will
encounter in community, life, and work; - direct language learners
through a spiral, articulated program that supports academic,
career and personal goals. Pedagogical features include a glossary
of key terms, research-to-practice boxes, scaffolded design tasks,
reflection questions and template samples representing language
exemplars from the following languages and cultures: Arabic,
Chinese, Ede Yoruba, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese,
Korean, Ladino, Nahuatl, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Te Reo Maori
and Urdu. The accompanying online resources offer blank templates,
PowerPoints and guides for designing bespoke curricula with key
performance assessments.
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