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Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education
What happens to teaching when you consider the whole body (and not
just "brains on sticks")? Starting from new research on the
body--aptly summarized as "sitting is the new smoking"--Minding
Bodies aims to help instructors improve their students' knowledge
and skills through physical movement, attention to the spatial
environment, and sensitivity to humans as more than "brains on
sticks." It shifts the focus of adult learning from an exclusively
mental effort toward an embodied, sensory-rich experience, offering
new strategies to maximize the effectiveness of time spent learning
together on campus as well as remotely. Minding Bodies draws from a
wide range of body/mind research in cognitive psychology,
kinesiology, and phenomenology to bring a holistic perspective to
teaching and learning. The embodied learning approaches described
by Susan Hrach are inclusive, low-tech, low-cost strategies that
deepen the development of disciplinary knowledge and skills. Campus
change-makers will also find recommendations for supporting a
transformational mission through an attention to students' embodied
learning experiences.
Education is a social practice that poses ethical questions of
policy and practice at every level and at almost every turn - what
we teach, how we teach, how we organise educational provision, how
we research it, who controls it, and what principles drive policy
nationally and internationally. This collection is rooted in the
author's experience in the education system nationally and
internationally over half a century, and reflects both the
educational history of this period and the author's experience as a
teacher, parent, school governor, teacher trainer, educational
researcher, senior leader in higher education, and advisor to
governments in many parts of the world. It is, then, historically
located, but the approach to ethical questions is primarily in the
tradition of analytic philosophy, and applied and situated ethics.
Based on recognition, evaluation, and exploitation of
opportunities, entrepreneurship is a process that stimulates
economic growth, provides us with new products and services, and
serves as a solution to low unemployment rates. Hence, many
governments encourage their citizens to embrace entrepreneurship as
a strategy to mitigate unemployment, particularly youth and
graduate unemployment. While studies show that entrepreneurship
education has yielded positive results in Western countries, in
other parts of the world it seems that most students still prefer
to seek paid employment in their career of choice. Promoting
Entrepreneurship to Reduce Graduate Unemployment seeks to expand
understanding of the barriers that face graduates in becoming
entrepreneurs in various countries, examining the role of
educational institutions in promoting graduate entrepreneurship and
evaluating governments as well as other schemes that promote
graduate entrepreneurship. Although it will not be a panacea for
all the obstacles that impede graduate entrepreneurship, it is
hoped that this book will illuminate the entrepreneurship career
path, serve as a platform for further diagnosis for reducing
graduate unemployment, and highlight areas in need of further
research. Covering topics such as entrepreneurial self-efficacy,
career choice, and educated unemployment, it serves as a dynamic
resource for educators, educational administration and faculty,
government institutions, graduate students, student organizations,
professionals, researchers, and academicians.
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