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Books > Social sciences > Education > Philosophy of education
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.
Many people, whether educators or not, will agree that an education
that does not inspire wonder is barren. Wonder is commonly
perceived as akin to curiosity, as stimulating inquiry, and as
something that enhances pleasure in learning, but there are many
experiences of wonder that do not have an obvious place in
education. In Wonder and Education, Anders Schinkel theorises a
kind of wonder with less obvious yet fundamental educational
importance which he calls 'contemplative wonder'. Contemplative
wonder disrupts frameworks of understanding that are taken for
granted and perceived as natural and draws our attention to the
world behind our constructions, sparking our interest in the world
as something worth attending to for its own sake rather than for
our purposes. It opens up space for the consideration of (radical)
alternatives wherever it occurs, and in many cases is linked with
deep experiences of value; therefore, it is not just important for
education in general, but also, more specifically, for moral and
political education.
This book is intended for prospective secondary teachers,
university education and human development faculty and students,
and in-service secondary school teachers. The text focuses on the
current environment of adolescents. Physical growth, sexuality,
nutrition, exercise, and substance abuse receive attention. Social
development depends on consideration of advice given by peers and
adults. Neuroscience insights are reported on information
processing, attention and distraction. Detection of cheating, cyber
abuse, and parental concerns are considered. Career exploration
issues are discussed. Visual intelligence, creative thinking, and
Internet learning are presented with ways to help students gauge
risks, manage stress, and acquire resilience. Peers become the most
prominent influence on social development during adolescence, and
they recognize the Internet as their greatest resource for locating
information. Teachers want to know how to unite these powerful
sources of learning, peers and the Internet, to help adolescents
acquire teamwork skills employers will expect of them. This goal is
achieved by implementing Collaboration Integration Theory. Ten
Cooperative Learning Exercises and Roles (CLEAR) at the end of
chapters allow each student to choose one role per chapter.
Insights gained from these roles are shared with teammates before
work is submitted to the teacher. This approach enables students to
select assignments, expands group learning, and makes everyone
accountable for instruction. The adult teacher role becomes more
creative as they design exercises and roles that differentiate team
learning. Using Zoom or other platforms a teacher can observe or
record cooperative team sharing. Involvement with CLEAR can enable
prospective teachers to apply this system to empower their
secondary students.
Critical Education in International Perspective presents new
perspectives on critical education from Latin America, Southern
Europe and Africa. While recognising the valuable work in critical
education emerging from North America and the Northern hemisphere,
testimony to Paulo Freire's influence there, this book sheds light
on parts of the world that are not given prominence. The book
highlights the complementary work of Lorenzo Milani, Amilcar
Cabral, exponents of Italian feminism, Ada Gobetti, the Landless
Workers Movement (MST) in Brazil, Antonio Gramsci, Gabriela Mistral
and Julius Nyerere. It also focuses on a range of struggles such as
education in the context of landlessness, independence, renewal and
cognitive justice, social creation and against neoliberalism and
decolonization.
Teacher-pupil planning means teachers and students working in a
partnership to articulate a problem/concern, develop objectives,
locate materials/resources, and evaluate progress. The intent of
this volume of Middle Level Education and the Self-Enhancing School
titled, "School is Life, Not a Preparation for Life"-John Dewey:
Democratic Practices in Middle Grades Education, is to take the
thoughts about the middle grades school curriculum presented in
volume one (Middle Grades Curriculum: Voices and Visions of the
Self-Enhancing School) and demonstrate the efforts taking place in
teacher education programs and middle grades classrooms today.
Volume two is organized into two parts, efforts within teacher
education programs and efforts of practitioners in the middle
grades classrooms. We asked authors in both contexts to address the
following questions: 1. Antecedents: What knowledge, skills and
dispositions must be in place in all stakeholders to have
teacherpupil planning serve a central role in the middle grades
teacher education program or middle grades classroom? 2.
Implementation: What does the teacher-pupil planning process look
like within your teacher education program or middle grades
classroom? 3. Outcomes: What benefits (knowledge, skills, and
dispositions) are derived from the implementation of teacher-pupil
planning in your teacher education program or your middle grades
classroom?
When 'Frames of Mind' was first published in 1984 it was acclaimed as 'a most important contribution to cognitive psychology'. In it Howard Gardner demonstrates that there exist many human 'intelligences', common to all cultures – each with its own patterns of development and brain activity, and each different in kind from the others. These potentials include linguistic, musical, and logical/mathematical capacities, as well as spatial and bodily intelligences, and the ability to arrive at an emotional and mental sense of self and other people. Rather than reducing an individual's potential to a single score on an IQ test, it is the fostering and education of all these intellingences that should be our concern. Gardner's controversial argument has resounding implications for the ways in which we think about intelligence and education. "For those of us who suspect that intelligence is too complex a phenomenon to be measured by the single number derived from an 'intelligence test', Gardner's book is a refreshing experience and an open door into a whole new way of looking at human beings." ISAAC ASIMOV "Gardner makes his theory stick more firmly than any other before him, and I cannot help wondering what the effects of this book will be on the education of this country. What, for instance, might happen to IQ testing? Or to streaming?" DAILY TELEGRAPH "Offers a cogent, multi-dimensional answer to the IQ testing fanatics… a real alternative to the blind empiricism of the IQ testers. How refreshing to see it justified in scholarly terms." OBSERVER
This is the first book to explicitly link healing and wellness
practices with critical pedagogy. Bringing together scholars from
Brazil, Canada, Malta and the USA, the chapters combine critical
pedagogy and social justice education to reorient the conversation
around wellness in teaching and learning. Working against white
Eurocentric narratives of wellness in schools which focus on the
symptoms, not the causes, of society's sickness, the authors argues
for a "soul revival" of education which tackles, head on, the
causes of dis-ease in society, from institutional racism,
colonialism, xenophobia and patriarchy. The contributors provide
fresh perspectives that address short-term goals of wellness
alongside long-term goals of healing in schools and society by
attending to underlying causes of social sickness. The chapters
bridge theory and practice, bringing diverse historical and
contemporary philosophical discussions around wellness into contact
with concrete examples of the interconnections between wellness,
education, and social justice. Examples of topics covered include:
Buddhist practices for healing, Black liberation theology, hip hop
pedagogy, anxiety and vulnerability, art therapy and story-telling.
In educational institutions, outcome-based education (OBE) remains
crucial in measuring how certain teaching techniques are impacting
the students' ability to learn. Currently, these changes in
students are mapped by analyzing the objectives and outcomes of
certain learning processes. International accreditation agencies
and quality assessment networks are all focusing on mapping between
outcomes and objectives. The need of assessment tools arises that
can provide a genuine mapping in the global context so that
students or learners can achieve expected objectives. Assessment
Tools for Mapping Learning Outcomes With Learning Objectives is a
pivotal reference source that provides vital research on the
implementation of quality assessment methods for measuring the
outcomes of select learning processes on students. While
highlighting topics such as quality assessment, effective
employability, and student learning objectives, this book is
ideally designed for students, administrators, policymakers,
researchers, academicians, practitioners, managers, executives,
strategists, and educators seeking current research on the
application of modern mapping tools for assessing student learning
outcomes in higher education.
It Takes an Ecosystem explores the idea and potential of the Allied
Youth Fields-an aspirational term that suggests increased
connection across the multiple systems in which adults engage with
young people. Recent research and initiatives make a strong case
for what developmentalists have argued for decades: A young
person's learning and development is shaped in positive and
negative ways by the interactions they have with all the adults in
their life. Now is the time to reshape our systems to support this
scientific understanding. The chapters in this book provide ideas,
tools, examples, and visions for a more connected, more equitable
world for young people and the adults in their lives.
Peopled Leadership is a new dynamic model aimed at creating new
leaders and new futures. It is people centric and people oriented
with a focus on developing and empowering others, serving with
humility, and expressing gratitude. Peopled Leadership provides the
much-needed shift from accountability and outcomes focused driven
leadership behaviors to behaviors that focus on people, while
assuring accountability and organizational improvement. Peopled
Leadership is a model which orients a leader's focus on people and
their commitment to the people, organizations, communities, and
institutions they serve. This new model empowers others to lead, be
innovative, engage in collaboration, solve complex problems, and
further outcomes. The result of Peopled Leadership is the
transformation of people and the transformation of practices that
mitigate the complexities intrinsic to peopled organizations.
There is only one place where social education can occur and
flourish: through the voices that create a pedagogy of change. And
it is these voices where the most exciting and provocative moments
can occur for those of us who are passionate about education,
teaching, social justice, equity, and love. As such, social
education is a journey-an endeavor that makes us savor the
experience of the journey more than the destination. And social
education is a journey that ins enhanced through educator and
student voices because it occurs in the most important spaces of
our personal and professional lives. It occurs in the hallways of
the schools we teach, in the staff meetings we attend, in the
mountain villages we venture to visit, in the places we work, and
in the spaces we occupy. Moreover, social education is a unique
kind of journey because it is a human experience that seldom occurs
alone. It happens with our colleagues and our loved ones. It
happens with our students, administrators, and other professionals
who are fighting for the same things that we so fervently believe.
In the end, social education occurs and flourishes in the trenches
because it is the active pursuit of getting our hands dirty in our
endless pursuit for a better and more just world. Social education
is also a narrative, which takes on a different meaning for each
one of us. This is because sooner or later each person that embarks
into the journey of social education develops its own personal
definition of what social education entails through his or her own
personal landscape and knowledge. This personal landscape has been
evolving since we were very young with some of the best examples of
human courage and tenacity in the fight for social justice. Voices
of Social Education: A Pedagogy for Change is a collection of
personal stories. In this volume, academics, teachers, students,
activists, and artists share their personal stories of triumph,
tribulations, and courage in their daily fight for social justice
and equality. The term social education is not defined as a set
number of guidelines or a specific definition; we give the term an
organic fluency to stress that social education is a point of
encounter-a common space-where we can share with each other our
experiences, values, and culture to form a more genuine and just
social experience.
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