Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Aims & Objectives

One of the first formal works to address the burgeoning field of sound studies, this book attends not only to theoretical and empirical examinations but also to methodological and philosophical considerations at the intersection of sound and education. It theoretically advances the rapidly expanding field of sound studies and simultaneously deepens educational understandings across the educational sub fields of curriculum studies and foundations of education. This work also employs links to a novel use of audio files to document theoretical and methodological arguments central to the field...

The notion of thinking skills as a key component of a 21st century school education is now firmly entrenched in educational policy and curriculum frameworks in many parts of the world. However, there has been relatively little questioning of the manner in which educational globalisation has facilitated this diffusion of thinking skills, curriculum and pedagogy in a cultural context. This book will help to redress such an imbalance in its critical assessment of the cross-cultural validity of transplanting thinking skills programs from one educational system to another on an international...

This book brings together the academic fields of educational leadership, educational administration, strategic change management, and Indigenous education in order to provide a critical, multi-perspective, systems level analysis of the provision of education services to Indigenous people. It draws on a range of theorists across these fields internationally, mobilising social exchange and intelligent complex adaptive systems theories to address the key problematic of intergenerational, educational failure.

Ma Rhea establishes the basis for an Indigenous rights approach to the state...

You just received your college acceptance letter and you are thrilled as you celebrate with family and friends. You're ready to undergo a whirlwind of orientations, explore the beautiful campus and ride that matriculation wave toward your degree. When you started you were pumped "Bring it on" you said. You bought the paraphernalia, pens, book bags with the school logo. But, you never saw this coming - after a few semesters the novelty of this new venture began to wear off. What do you do when the courses become more-challenging? What do you do when you finally realize that instructors...

You just received your college acceptance letter and you are thrilled as you celebrate with family and friends. You're ready to undergo a whirlwind of orientations, explore the beautiful campus and ride that matriculation wave toward your degree. When you started you were pumped "Bring it on" you said. You bought the paraphernalia, pens, book bags with the school logo. But, you never saw this coming - after a few semesters the novelty of this new venture began to wear off. What do you do when the courses become more-challenging? What do you do when you finally realize that instructors...

College Media: Learning in Action is a unique resource for journalism educators and students, media advisors, student personnel administrators, and students at any level - undergraduate or graduate - interested in learning theory and practice. Sixteen original, scholarly and diverse chapters encompass a wide range of methodologies that detail how students involved in college media organizations have formative experiences in a variety of different forms of publication and electronic media broadcasting. In part, the volume is assembled to help students and educators alike justify...

How do schools protect young people and call on the youngest citizens to respond to violent conflict and division operating outside, and sometimes within, school walls? What kinds of curricular representations of conflict contribute to the construction of national identity, and what kinds of encounters challenge presumed boundaries between us and them? Through contemporary and historical case studies--drawn from Cambodia, Egypt, Northern Ireland, Peru, and Rwanda, among others--this collection explores how societies experiencing armed conflict and its...

How do schools protect young people and call on the youngest citizens to respond to violent conflict and division operating outside, and sometimes within, school walls? What kinds of curricular representations of conflict contribute to the construction of national identity, and what kinds of encounters challenge presumed boundaries between us and them? Through contemporary and historical case studies--drawn from Cambodia, Egypt, Northern Ireland, Peru, and Rwanda, among others--this collection explores how societies experiencing armed conflict and its...

How can education become a transformative experience for all learners and teachers? The contributors to this volume contend that the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) can provide a strong foundation for the role of education in promoting social justice. The collection features contributions by an array of educators and scholars, highlighting the various ways that learners and teachers can prepare for and engage with social justice concerns. The essays offer reflections on the value of SoTL in relation to educational ethics, marginalized groups, community service and activism,...