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The Pedagogy of the Social Sciences Curriculum (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Jamie P Halsall, Michael Snowden The Pedagogy of the Social Sciences Curriculum (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Jamie P Halsall, Michael Snowden
R2,793 R1,758 Discovery Miles 17 580 Save R1,035 (37%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This far-sighted volume describes emerging trends and challenges in university-level social sciences education in an era marked by globalization, austerity, and inequity. It spotlights solution-focused and interdisciplinary methods of teaching, developed to match influential academic ideas, such as self-directed learning and learning in communities, as students seek to engage with and improve conditions in their immediate environments. Chapters offer real-world applications of foundational concepts in the modern practice of teaching, learning, and curriculum development. Accordingly, the editors emphasize the relationship between pedagogy and curriculum, as both are critical in encouraging student autonomyand promoting optimum academic and societal outcomes. Included in the coverage: * Towards a concept of solution-focused teaching: learning in communities. * Heutagogy and the emerging curriculum. * Collaborative working in the statutory and voluntary sectors. * Delivering a community development curriculum to students with multiple identities. * Photography and teaching in community development. * A model for change: sharing ideas and strategies. The Pedagogy of the Social Sciences Curriculum will inspire sociologists, social workers, and health and sociology educators to take a deeper role in community well-being as students, faculty, and communities collaborate to make lasting contributions to society.

A New Perspective on Education in the Digital Age - Teaching, Media and Bildung (Hardcover): Jesper Taekke, Michael Paulsen A New Perspective on Education in the Digital Age - Teaching, Media and Bildung (Hardcover)
Jesper Taekke, Michael Paulsen
R3,139 Discovery Miles 31 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Drawing together action-based research with sociology of education, medium theory and the Bildung-tradition, the authors offer a new perspective on education in the digital age, exploring emancipation, edification, self-formation and democratic education. The authors draw on 15 years of action-based research and weave this with the theory to show how teachers and students might use new media for learning about interaction, searching, visualizing, constructing, storing, and retrieving. The authors show that education needs to be rethought, resituated and developed anew in the digital age. New norms and new ways of teaching need to be established. Building on the theory and case studies, they analyze and discuss different strategies, ideas and understandings, offering four promising ways to develop a new vision for education. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Aarhus University.

Dialogical Approaches and Tensions in Learning and Development - At the Frontiers of the Mind (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021):... Dialogical Approaches and Tensions in Learning and Development - At the Frontiers of the Mind (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Nathalie Muller Mirza, Marcelo Dos Santos Mamed
R3,497 Discovery Miles 34 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The book pursues the goal of exploring and strengthening a dialogical approach of communication and cognition. It brings together contributions from world-leading researchers related to the dialogical approach in education and psychology. It presents, among others, the place of language and materiality in the development of communication and thinking, as well as the role of the methods in the relationship between researchers and participants. This leads to an innovative definition of the dialogicality and how a dialogical approach can provide heuristic (conceptual and methodological) tools to better understand how people think, communicate and learn in a complex world. The authors hereby develop an epistemological framework inspired by scholars such as Michail Bakhtin, Lev Vygotsky and Herbert Mead under the assumption that dialogue, or dialogicality - and therefore the presence of the other - is fundamentally entangled into the human thinking and development. This book contributes to the understanding of human communication, cognition and mind, and participates in a scientific dialogue which helps to advance future research. It includes theoretical and empirical chapters and presents innovative methods of inquiry, which makes it a useful tool for both teaching and research.

Democracy and Education & Freedom and Culture (Hardcover): John Dewey Democracy and Education & Freedom and Culture (Hardcover)
John Dewey
R1,240 Discovery Miles 12 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Democracy and Education" is one of John Dewey's most famous classical works and is a landmark of progressive theory. He drove hard to develop strategies and methods for training students for social responsibility. Dewey is not only a giant of modern educational theory but of progressive humanitarian thought. He believed that democracy was both a means and an end to building a just society. In "Freedom and Culture" Dewey believed that humankind could keep a firm grip on it's destiny only if critical intelligence of the scientific method and it's democratic counterpart were emphasized and promoted. Freedom of inquiry, speech, cultural pluralism and a willingness to co-operate in the pursuit of shared values and ideals would be the springboard for social development. A Collector's Edition.

Revolutionary Social Transformation - Democratic Hopes, Political Possibilities and Critical Education (Hardcover): Paula Allman Revolutionary Social Transformation - Democratic Hopes, Political Possibilities and Critical Education (Hardcover)
Paula Allman
R2,137 Discovery Miles 21 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Revolutionary Social Transformation" focuses on the visions and analysis culled from the writings of Karl Marx, Paulo Freire, and Antonio Gramsci. Marx's theory of critical praxis and his dialectical conceptualization of capitalism are discussed together with Freire's and Gramsci's ideas. The author suggests that these are necessary ingredients for authentic social transformation as well as a basis for rekindling hope for a veritable democratic future.

The author employs both a language of critique and a language of possibility to argue that the process of social transformation must be inherently educational. Social transformation begins in prefigurative, preparatory projects and continues even after the creation of a new social formation. She also argues that Marx's materialist theory of consciousness--his theory of critical praxis--informs the thinking of both Freire and Gramsci. The ideas of Freire and Gramsci together with Marx's dialectical conceptualization of capitalism provide essential ingredients for the type of critical theory of educational praxis necessary for authentic social transformation. These ingredients also indicate how local transformative efforts can be linked to the global project for social transformation and ultimately the ending of all oppression.

Knowledge, Creativity and Failure - A New Pedagogical Framework for Creative Arts (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Chris Hay Knowledge, Creativity and Failure - A New Pedagogical Framework for Creative Arts (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Chris Hay
R1,721 Discovery Miles 17 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book offers a new framework for the analysis of teaching and learning in the creative arts. It provides teachers with a vocabulary to describe what they teach and how they do this within the creative arts. Teaching and learning in this field, with its focus on the personal characteristics of the student and its insistence on intangible qualities like talent and creativity, has long resisted traditional models of pedagogy. In the brave new world of high-stakes assessment and examination-driven outcomes across the education system, this resistance has proven to be a severe weakness and driven creative arts teachers further into the margins. Instead of accepting this relegation teachers of creative arts must set out to capture the distinctiveness of their pedagogy. This book will allow teachers to transcend the opaque metaphors that proliferate in the creative arts, and instead to argue for the robustness and rigour of their practice.

The Politics and Processes of Scholarship (Hardcover, New): Lagretta Lenker, Joseph Moxley The Politics and Processes of Scholarship (Hardcover, New)
Lagretta Lenker, Joseph Moxley
R2,705 Discovery Miles 27 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Joining the debate about the role of scholarship and research at American universities, this book examines contemporary academic issues, such as the evolution of postmodern concepts of scholarship, scholarship in the late age of print, and incentives for promoting grant writing and scholarly publishing. Contributors, including provosts, faculty development professionals, administrators, editors, and scholars, debate the impact of the German system of research-based graduate study and its faith in the ideal of pure research on American scholarship. Several contributors contend that the legacy of privileging pure research over applied research and pedagogy provides an inadequate model today. Teaching, conducting applied research, and writing works for broad audiences are undervalued, they claim, at many universities. As scholarship becomes more specialized, scholarly writing has become so specialized that few outside the specific discipline can read or understand it.

This volume continues the challenge to the concept of pure research and atheoretical teaching. Contributors demonstrate how postmodern theories and social and economic problems are working to explode the myth of disinterested research. The book goes on to analyze how academics can grapple with the social, political, moral, and pedagogical issues confronting society. It also considers the impact of new technologies, such as online databases and electronic journals, on scholarship. Current research suggests that only 10 to 20 percent of the nation's faculty produce the scholarly literature. This volume explores the changes that could help faculty find their voices as scholars, researchers, and grant writers.

Resistance to Learning - Overcoming the Desire Not to Know in Classroom Teaching (Hardcover): M. Alcorn Resistance to Learning - Overcoming the Desire Not to Know in Classroom Teaching (Hardcover)
M. Alcorn
R2,813 R1,364 Discovery Miles 13 640 Save R1,449 (52%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Taking on the challenge to teaching the "desire-not-to-know" presents, Alcorn examines qualities of student resistance to new and uncomfortable information and proposes methods for teachers and professors to work productively with such resistance. Research in neuroscience, education, sociology, political science, and the humanities has contributed to a revisionary understanding of how emotion grounds human reason, interaction, and communication. Colleges and Universities produce and distribute information but do very little to ensure that information is effectively assimilated and employed as solutions to real problems. This book outlines an agenda that makes emotional experience central to educational practice.

Imagination of Science in Education - From Epics to Novelization (Hardcover, 2013 ed.): Michiel van Eijck, Wolff-Michael Roth Imagination of Science in Education - From Epics to Novelization (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)
Michiel van Eijck, Wolff-Michael Roth
R4,204 R3,342 Discovery Miles 33 420 Save R862 (21%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Researchers agree that schools construct a "particular" image of science, in which some characteristics are featured while others end up in oblivion. The result is that although most children are likely to be familiar with images of heroic scientists such as Einstein and Darwin, they rarely learn about the messy, day-to-day practice of science in which scientists are ordinary humans. Surprisingly, the process by which this imagination of science in education occurs has rarely been theorized. This is all the more remarkable since great thinkers tend to agree that the formation of images imagination is at the root of how human beings modify their material world. Hence this process in school science is fundamental to the way in which scientists, being the successful agents in/of science education, actually create their own scientific enterprise once they take up their professional life.

One of the first to examine the topic, this book takes a theoretical approach to understanding the process of imagining science in education. The authors utilize a number of interpretive studies in both science and science education to describe and contrast two opposing forces in the imagination of science in education: epicization and novelization. Currently, they argue, the imagination of science in education is dominated by epicization, which provides an absolute past of scientific heroes and peak discoveries. This opens a distance between students and today s scientific enterprises, and contrasts sharply with the wider aim of science education to bring the actual world of science closer to students.

To better understand how to reach this aim, the authors offer a detailed look at novelization, which is a continuous renewal of narratives that derives from dialogical interaction. The book brings together two hitherto separate fields of research in science education: psychologically informed research on students images of science and semiotically informed research on images of science in textbooks. Drawing on a series of studies in which children participate in the imagination of science in and out of the classroom, the authors show how the process of novelization actually occurs in the practice of education and outline the various images of science this process ultimately yields."

Agony in Education - The Importance of Struggle in the Process of Learning (Hardcover): Edward Kuhlman Agony in Education - The Importance of Struggle in the Process of Learning (Hardcover)
Edward Kuhlman
R2,689 Discovery Miles 26 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Enchanted with novelty and obsessed with power, control, and efficiency, technocrats eagerly and imprudently plow under what they deem anachronistic relics. Utility and ease are their passwords, and the poor individual with sole recourse to personal resources and ingenuity is viewed as a waste of time and energy. What this means for education is that uniformity, predesigned programs, and abdication to an elite corps of experts have come to dominate and characterize our institutions. As antidotes for the technological age, Kuhlman suggests motifs and imagery from the classical world, such as agon, arete, and paideia. He reminds us of the agonies of the artist in the gestation of the great, soul-fulfilling creations of our past. He wonders if truly great accomplishments are possible without the pain and agony of individual struggle. He suggests that the individual psyche is withering on the vine because it is not expected to undergo the suffering necessary to transform it into an educated self.

Education Policy Research - Design and Practice at a Time of Rapid Reform (Hardcover): Helen M. Gunter, David Hall, Colin Mills Education Policy Research - Design and Practice at a Time of Rapid Reform (Hardcover)
Helen M. Gunter, David Hall, Colin Mills
R4,900 Discovery Miles 49 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In "Education Policy Research," Helen M. Gunter, David Hall and Colin Mills bring together contributions from a range of researchers, academics and practitioners. Each chapter draws on critical theoretical perspectives and showcases innovative research projects within educational settings to understand the current changes in schools, schooling and education, to explore critical questions. The varied accounts demonstrate the importance of partnerships between schools and higher education, and of putting educational research into context, specifically charting the ways in which schools and schooling have been reformed through government interventions. "Education Policy Research" presents new research findings on the realities of how educational practice can be understood and explained, so enabling researchers to take a reflexive stance towards their own work. The editors and contributors take seriously the need to rethink their data and consider the contribution of research dispositions and practices to ongoing change and development. At the same time, the chapters give recognition to what research and researchers can and cannot do, contributing to the ongoing debates about the value of - and the urgent ongoing need for - social science research.

RE-BECOMING UNIVERSITIES? - Higher Education Institutions in Networked Knowledge Societies (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): David M.... RE-BECOMING UNIVERSITIES? - Higher Education Institutions in Networked Knowledge Societies (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
David M. Hoffman, Jussi Valimaa
R4,329 R3,607 Discovery Miles 36 070 Save R722 (17%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book provides an overview of the major findings of the comparative research project, Changes in Networks, Higher Education and Knowledge Society (CINHEKS). The main aim of this international comparative research project is the analysis of how Higher education institutions are networked within distinct knowledge societies in two key regions of the world: Europe and the United States of America. This research project was carried out in four European countries (Finland, Germany, Portugal and the United Kingdom) and in two different states in the United States of America. In addition, during the course of the research, a team from the Russian Federation joined the CINHEKS study. The analysis is contextually grounded in a comparative policy analysis focused on the main developments and understandings of the ideas surrounding the term knowledge society, in all countries concerned. Empirical elaboration is established via a series of sequential studies, each building, incrementally, on the previous study. These studies include institutional profiles of higher education institutions, institutional case studies, and an international comparative survey that illuminates academics' social networks. The research findings broaden our understanding of the differences and similarities in how higher education institutions and individual academics are networked within and between societies that understand themselves as knowledge societies. The book introduces a novel analytical synthesis, which asserts contemporary societies have evolved into Networked Knowledge Societies. Methodologically, the book both challenges and raises the bar for previous approaches in comparative higher education, in terms of research design, execution and lays the groundwork for a new generation of international comparative higher education research.

Early Childhood Pedagogical Play - A Cultural-Historical Interpretation Using Visual Methodology (Hardcover, 2015 ed.): Avis... Early Childhood Pedagogical Play - A Cultural-Historical Interpretation Using Visual Methodology (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
Avis Ridgway, Gloria Quinones, Liang Li
R4,547 Discovery Miles 45 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book re-theorizes the relationship between pedagogy and play. The authors suggest that pedagogical play is characterized by conceptual reciprocity (a pedagogical approach for supporting children's academic learning through joint play) and agentic imagination (a concept that when present in play, affords the child's motives and imagination a critical role in learning and development). These new concepts are brought to life using a cultural-historical approach to the analysis of play, supported in each chapter by visual narratives used as a research method for re-theorising play as a pedagogical activity. Whenever a cultural-historical approach is applied to understanding pedagogical play, the whole context of the playful event is always included. Further, the child's cultural environment is taken into account in order to better understand their play. Children from different countries play differently for many reasons, which may include their resources, local cultural beliefs about play and specific pedagogical practices. The inclusion and acknowledgement of social, cultural and historical contexts gives credence and value to understanding play from both child and adult perspectives, which the authors believe is important for the child's learning and development. As such, the relationships that children and adults have with human and non-human others, as well as any connections with artefacts and the material environment, are included in all considerations of pedagogical play.

Experiential Learning - A Treatise on Education (Hardcover): Brian A Facemire Experiential Learning - A Treatise on Education (Hardcover)
Brian A Facemire
R505 Discovery Miles 5 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Educational Research: Material Culture and Its Representation (Hardcover, 2014): Paul Smeyers, Marc Depaepe Educational Research: Material Culture and Its Representation (Hardcover, 2014)
Paul Smeyers, Marc Depaepe
R3,302 Discovery Miles 33 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This collection discusses and illustrates how educational research is affected by the economic, institutional and physical contingencies of its time, and in our time even increasingly is driven by them. It is argued that the antidote to this is, however, not to aspire to 'thought itself', but instead to do justice to its own rootedness in the 'material', including textuality. From an historical point of view such an innovative approach can itself revamp the material scholarly culture and the way it is represented. The chapters address a variety of topics such as the cultural heritage of the school desk, the significance of images for research into long-term educational processes, the way iconic signs function, and how modes of enquiry relate to the materiality of education. Attention is also given to standards for reporting on educational research studies and how these limit the scope and communication and moreover shape researchers, to the forms of citation practices as substantially influencing methods and content, and to the centrality of conversation not just as the means to an end but as what matters; further to representational and to non-representational theories for educational research. Some examples are drawn from the area of arts-based educational research, from mathematics education, and from the discourse on universities.

The Tragedy of American School Reform - How Curriculum Politics and Entrenched Dilemmas Have Diverted Us from Democracy... The Tragedy of American School Reform - How Curriculum Politics and Entrenched Dilemmas Have Diverted Us from Democracy (Hardcover, 2011 ed.)
Ronald W. Evans
R1,303 R1,041 Discovery Miles 10 410 Save R262 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Two persistent dilemmas haunt school reform: curriculum politics and classroom constancy. Both undermined the 1960s' new social studies, a dynamic reform movement centered on inquiry, issues, and social activism. Dramatic academic freedom controversies ended reform and led to a conservative restoration. On one side were teachers and curriculum developers; on the other, conservative activists determined to undo the revolutions of the 1960s. The episode brought a return to traditional history, a turn away from questioning, and the re-imposition of authority. Engagingly written and thoroughly researched, "The Tragedy of American School Reform" offers a provocative perspective on current trends.

Constructing a Future Development Model for China's Basic Education (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Dina Pei, Dongming Bao Constructing a Future Development Model for China's Basic Education (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Dina Pei, Dongming Bao
R2,841 Discovery Miles 28 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Focusing on the future development of basic education in China, and on overcoming related issues, this book identifies key breakthroughs, priorities and important fields of basic education reform. In addition, it introduces the "Three Power Model" - decision-making, principals' leadership, and learning power - to help address the challenges of future development. Unlike much of the research on basic education reform, the book draws on a forward-thinking, realistic and comprehensive project: bringing together 15 universities and research institutes, 16 provincial administration departments, and 100 selected primary and secondary schools, it has also been strongly endorsed by the nation's leaders. After five years of practice and innovation, it has made significant breakthroughs in many provinces. Sharing unique insights into the project and its outcomes, the book offers an invaluable asset for education researchers, primary and secondary school teachers, and anyone interested in the evolution of basic education in China.

A Delicate Task - Teaching and Learning on a Montessori Path (Hardcover): Catherine McTamaney Edd A Delicate Task - Teaching and Learning on a Montessori Path (Hardcover)
Catherine McTamaney Edd
R759 Discovery Miles 7 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

There are, despite the loneliness of our classrooms and the heartache of having been called to teach, others on the path with us. Teaching is hard. Teaching in a Montessori path is even more so. Montessorians are asked to give up so much of ourselves, to make ourselves humble and lowly before the child, to be servants, to be scientists, to be saints. We often let ourselves down. There it is, then. We will let ourselves down. But there are others on the path with us. We can lean on each other. We can walk in each other's footsteps. Sometimes we're at the front of the path. Sometimes we're following another traveler. Sometimes we're resting. Sometimes the laughter of our group is so cacophonous that we forget how tired our feet are. Sometimes we're so far ahead or behind that we can't even see each other anymore. But we're not alone.

We are each other's navigational stars. Montessori's words, across generations, guide us. Our own words, whispered in each other's ears or passed in notes or published in books, they give us guidance, too. They remind us on the hardest days that we're not alone. We are not alone. We share certain tendencies, certain traits, common among humanity, common across decades. We are working in common toward a perfection we may never individually see. But we're on the path. And we're not alone.

Higher Teaching and Learning for Alternative Futures - A Renewed Focus on Critical Praxis (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Yusef... Higher Teaching and Learning for Alternative Futures - A Renewed Focus on Critical Praxis (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Yusef Waghid, Faiq Waghid, Judith Terblanche, Zayd Waghid
R1,829 Discovery Miles 18 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book analyses the narratives of four academics who consider themselves post-structuralist. Grounded in the work of major thinkers in post-structuralism, these narratives reflect on higher education as a community of scholars without community. The authors highlight what specifically motivates their pedagogical affirmations and orientations, analyse why they are concerned with social justice education, and what they envisage the alternative futures of higher education to be - that is, futures in which discrimination, oppression, violence and inequality are waning or have been eradicated. Through their own narratives, the authors tackle the educational matter of poststructuralist human encounters and expand upon the notion of social justice education. In doing so, they argue for higher education on the African continent as an alternative discourse that can be responsive to political, societal and environmental dystopias.

Understanding Geographical and Environmental Education (Hardcover): Michael C. Williams Understanding Geographical and Environmental Education (Hardcover)
Michael C. Williams
R6,517 Discovery Miles 65 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

These papers aim to provide a substantial review of the literature pertaining to a comprehensive range of traditional and contemporary research paradigms and research methods. The book is designed as a reference work for novice researchers in the fields of geographical and environmental education.

Epistemologies of Ignorance in Education (Hardcover, New): Erik Malewski, Nathalia Jaramillo Epistemologies of Ignorance in Education (Hardcover, New)
Erik Malewski, Nathalia Jaramillo
R2,703 Discovery Miles 27 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Epistemologies of Ignorance provide educators a distinct epistemological view on questions of marginalization, oppression, relations of power and dominance, difference, philosophy, and even death among our youth. The authors of this edited collection challenge the ambivalence - ignorance - found in the construction of curriculum, teaching practices, research guidelines, and policy mandates in our schools. Further, ignorance is also considered a necessary by-product of knowledge production. In this sense, the authors explore not only issues of complicity but also issues of oppression in spite of educators' liberatory intentions. While this is the first systematic effort to transfer epistemologies of ignorance to the educational scene, this movement has its roots in race, class, gender, and sexuality studies, particularly the work of Charles Mills, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Shannon Sullivan, and Nancy Tuana. It is our unequivocal belief that, while this is transformative and powerful scholarship, the study of ignorance remains understudied and under-theorized in education scholarship, from curriculum studies and cultural foundations to science education and educational psychology. This collection highlights without apology why this dangerous state of affairs cannot continue.

Research Anthology on Instilling Social Justice in the Classroom, VOL 3 (Hardcover): Information Reso Management Association Research Anthology on Instilling Social Justice in the Classroom, VOL 3 (Hardcover)
Information Reso Management Association
R9,263 Discovery Miles 92 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The University Becoming - Perspectives from Philosophy and Social Theory (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Soren S. E. Bengtsen, Sarah... The University Becoming - Perspectives from Philosophy and Social Theory (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Soren S. E. Bengtsen, Sarah Robinson, Wesley Shumar
R4,261 Discovery Miles 42 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume wholeheartedly engages with the current climate in higher education and provides not only a thorough analysis of the foundational elements constituting higher education but also a critical discussion of possible connections to societal and cultural domains and policy debates. Today, higher education institutions and programs are beset with multiple, and often conflicting, pressures and demands. Higher education is regarded by societies in general, and at the political level in particular, as a pathway to securing continued economic growth and ensuring cultural growth in surrounding societal contexts. Future academics are expected to become experts within their disciplines and at the same time to acquire and develop generic competences and transferable skills directly translatable into job market and professional contexts. These conflicting and fragmented policy approaches to higher education leaves academic leaders, teacher, researchers, and students with an incoherent curriculum and a confused and eroded academic identity and societal outlook. Much literature within higher education research that engages with similar topics are dominated by a backwards-looking and heavy critique of current political and educational conditions for the university and higher education. This volume suggests a new tack that is defined by openness and optimism towards possibilities for a transformative higher education curriculum - that at the same time stays firmly rooted within the foundational academic soil. By drawing on, and contributing to, the emerging research field the philosophy and theory of higher education, the book combines critique with a constructive and future-oriented approach and outlook on higher education. Further, it combines and links philosophical discussions on the idea of the future university with societal responsibility and a curricular and formational awareness.

Multidisciplinary Research on Teaching and Learning (Hardcover): W. Schnotz, A. Kauertz, H. Ludwig, A. Muller, J. Pretsch Multidisciplinary Research on Teaching and Learning (Hardcover)
W. Schnotz, A. Kauertz, H. Ludwig, A. Muller, J. Pretsch
R2,218 R1,887 Discovery Miles 18 870 Save R331 (15%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This collection indicates how research on teaching and learning from multiple scientific disciplines such as educational science and psychology can be successfully pursued by a co-operation between researchers and school teachers. The contributors adopt different methodological approaches, ranging from field research to laboratory experiments.

The Interdependence of Teaching and Learning (Hardcover, New): Bryant Griffith, Douglas J. Loveless The Interdependence of Teaching and Learning (Hardcover, New)
Bryant Griffith, Douglas J. Loveless
R2,690 Discovery Miles 26 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The varied chapters of this book seek to capture the complexities of teaching and learning in today's schools, and they share an interest in exploring the influences of knowledge construction in the moment and over time. Teaching and learning are human processes, interrelated and dynamic. We assembled this collection to unpack what it means to teach and to learn, teasing out some of the implications and challenges of such complicated educational processes that are often misconstrued as causal or linear. As educators currently residing in the United States, we find this a particularly pressing agenda, given the current focus on common core standards and reducing teaching and learning to conceptual and pedagogical stepby-step procedures. Our primary concern in putting together this book was to provide a conceptual and political foundation from which to construct and defend understandings and practices of teaching and learning that embody the complexity of educational endeavors and relationships. The isolation of teaching from learning, and the othering of both teachers and students, one from the other, suggests that knowledge is synonymous with information. This book challenges such assumptions. The project underlying this text can be seen as a means of rethinking how teachers' and students' perspectives of practice and curriculum influence what learning opportunities are provided to students. Chapters written by established and new thinkers in the field of education demonstrate the ways in which teachers reformulate relationships between teaching and learning in school settings. Our second objective is to examine local constructions of knowledge over time and how those constructions are consequential for teacher and student learning. By examining patterns of practice and processes of knowledge construction in elementary, secondary, and undergraduate classrooms, the authors of these chapters lay a foundation for examining commonalities and differences in the construction of knowledge and practices across educational levels, disciplines, and in-school and outof-school settings.

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