Filter by
Teacher thinking and professional action
Over the past twenty years the International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching (ISATT) has become world-renowned as an organisation dedicated to the discussion of current thinking in educational policy and practice. As such, the ideas aired at ISATT conferences are of the greatest significance to today's educational practitioners. This book satisfies the demand for a lasting record of …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780203012505
- Collation
- xvi, 263p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 371.0019 DEN t
Rethinking teacher education for the 21st Century : trends, challenges and ne…
This book focuses on current trends, potential challenges and further developments of teacher education and professional development from a theoretical, empirical and practical point of view. It intends to provide valuable and fresh insights from research studies and examples of best practices from Europe and all over the world. The authors deal with the strengths and limitations of different m…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783847422419
- Collation
- 402p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 370.711 RET r
International handbook of health literacy : research, practice and policy acr…
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Health literacy addresses a range of social dimensions of health, including knowledge, navigation and communication, as well as individual and organizational skills for accessing, understanding, evaluating and using information. Particularly over the past decade, health literacy has globally become a major public health concern as an asset for promo…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781447344537
- Collation
- xxiv, 740p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 610 INT i
Curriculum reform in the European schools : towards a 21st century vision
This open access book examines the modern role of the European School system within the European Union, at a time when the global economy demands a new vision for contemporary education. The European schools are currently in a state of crisis: their 60-year-old tradition of bilingual and multilingual education is being strained by rapid EU expansion and the removal of English speaking teachers …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783319714646
- Collation
- xv, 183p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 375 GRA c
25 years of transformations of higher education systems in post-Soviet countr…
This open access book is a result of the first ever study of the transformations of the higher education institutional landscape in fifteen former USSR countries after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores how the single Soviet model that developed across the vast and diverse territory of the Soviet Union over several decades has evolved into fifteen unique national systems, …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783319529806
- Collation
- xxviii, 482p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 378 TWE t
Digital technology and the practices of humanities research
How does technology impact research practices in the humanities? How does digitisation shape scholarly identity? How do we negotiate trust in the digital realm? What is scholarship, what forms can it take, and how does it acquire authority?This diverse set of essays demonstrate the importance of asking such questions, bringing together established and emerging scholars from a variety of discipl…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781783748419
- Collation
- XI, 276 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 303.4834 DIG d
Reforms, organizational change and performance in higher education : a compar…
This open access book investigates the effects of changes in leadership and managerial structures of Nordic universities resulting from reforms in the last decade. It builds on a rich, comparative dataset across a multiplicity of system-wide (macro) and organisational (meso and micro) dimensions, namely: reform or policy initiatives; drivers, aims, instruments and actors; structural changes wit…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030117382
- Collation
- xx, 326p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 320.6 REF r
Geographies of schooling
This open access book explores the complex relationship between schooling as a set of practices embedded in educational institutions and their specific spatial dimensions from different disciplinary perspectives. It presents innovative empirical and conceptual research by international scholars from the fields of social geography, pedagogy, educational and social sciences in Germany, the United…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030187996
- Collation
- xii, 359p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 306.43 GEO g
Developing writers in higher education : a longitudinal study
For undergraduates following any course of study, it is essential to develop the ability to write effectively. Yet the processes by which students become more capable and ready to meet the challenges of writing for employers, the wider public, and their own purposes remain largely invisible. Developing Writers in Higher Education shows how learning to write for various purposes in multiple disc…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780472037384
- Collation
- ix, 369p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 808.0420711 DEV d
Family, bullying and cyberbullying
Despite the significant decrease in bullying that has been reported in many countries during the last two decades, bullying continues to be a significant problem among young people. Given the increase of internet use among youth, researchers have started to pay attention to cyberspace, understanding that it may be a fertile ground for bullying behaviors, specifically, what is known as cyberbull…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783039210817
- Collation
- x, 167p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 302.343 FAM f
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography