Dilemmas of the Modern Educational Discourse

Dilemmas of the Modern Educational Discourse
Author: Irina Surina
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2014
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3643905122

This book discusses the dilemmas of modern education, with the first section presenting the whole of the system of higher education in its diversity and discussing selected aspects of higher education's functioning. The second section is devoted to considerations concerning a teacher and a student in the expanse of the modern school. Education is displayed as a complex, multi-faceted, and mosaic reality which encompasses various subjects and relations between them. (Series: Erziehungswissenschaft - Vol. 70)

Moral Dilemmas of Modern War

Moral Dilemmas of Modern War
Author: Michael L. Gross
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521866154

A practical guide for policy makers, military officers, students, and anyone else interested in asymmetric conflicts.

Discourse on Rights in India

Discourse on Rights in India
Author: Bijayalaxmi Nanda
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2018-09-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0429827148

This book is a compelling examination of the theoretical discourse on rights and its relationship with ideas, institutions and practices in the Indian context. By engaging with the crucial categories of class, caste, gender, region and religion, it draws attention to the contradictions and contestations in the arena of rights and entitlements. The essays by eminent experts provide deep and nuanced insights on the intersecting issues and concerns of individual and group identities as well as their connection with the State along with its multifarious institutions and practices. The volume not only engages with the dilemmas emerging out of the rights discourse, but also sets out to recognize the significance of a shared commitment to a rights-based framework towards the promotion of justice and democracy in society. The book will be useful to academics, social scientists, researchers and policymakers. It will be of special interest to teachers and students in the fields of politics, development studies, philosophy, ethics, sociology, gender/women’s studies and social movements.

The Good Teacher

The Good Teacher
Author: Alex Moore
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780415335645

This book helps teachers, student-teachers, teacher trainers and others interested in the sociology and psychology of education to explore and make better sense of professional practice by examining that practice in the context of popular views.

Assessing and Evaluating Early Childhood Education Systems

Assessing and Evaluating Early Childhood Education Systems
Author: Susanne Garvis
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2022-07-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030999106

This book provides global perspectives on assessment and evaluation practices with young children in contemporary times within early childhood education systems. It critiques and evaluates current evaluation and assessment goals and tools in early childhood settings. The book also compares the different approaches to educational evaluations from different countries in early childhood education and care. It provides insights into different approaches, techniques as well as perspectives of micro and macro-levels of analysis. This book aims to create an international understanding about the thematic conceptions of assessment for early childhood education and care.

The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education

The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education
Author: Kathryn Ecclestone
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2009-05-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135266166

The silent ascendancy of a therapeutic ethos across the education system and into the workplace demands a book that serves as a wake up call to everyone. Kathryn Ecclestone and Dennis Hayes' controversial and compelling book uses a wealth of examples across the education system, from primary schools to university, and the workplace to show how therapeutic education is turning children, young people and adults into anxious and self-preoccupied individuals rather than aspiring, optimistic and resilient learners who want to know everything about the world. The chapters address a variety of thought-provoking themes, including how therapeutic ideas from popular culture dominate social thought and social policies and offer a diminished view of human potential how schools undermine parental confidence and authority by fostering dependence and compulsory participation in therapeutic activities based on disclosing emotions to others how higher education has adopted therapeutic forms of teacher training because many academics have lost faith in the pursuit of knowledge how such developments are propelled by a deluge of political initiatives in areas such as emotional literacy, emotional well-being and the 'soft outcomes' of learning The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education is eye-opening reading for every teacher, student teacher and parent who retains any belief in the power of knowledge to transform people's lives. Its insistent call for a serious public debate about the emotional state of education should also be at the forefront of the minds of every agent of change in society... from parent to policy maker.

Teaching: Dilemmas, Challenges and Opportunities

Teaching: Dilemmas, Challenges and Opportunities
Author: Robyn Ewing
Publisher: Cengage AU
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2023-10-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0170458962

How does a teacher deal with a student’s challenging behaviour in the classroom? Is it fair to adopt information and communication technologies that favour students who have access to sophisticated devices such as tablets in their own home? How, during the professional experience, is an education student to act when their beliefs about learning are not congruent with those of the supervising teacher? Should students be grouped in terms of their ability? These and many more issues arise daily in our early childhood, primary and secondary learning environments. Teaching, 7e takes a holistic approach to classroom teaching and learning. Using student-friendly language it considers the complexities and opportunities embedded in meeting learners’ needs in diverse and ever-changing contexts. It encourages pre-service teachers to become active learners of teaching, how to think like teachers and to consider the fundamental aspects of teaching. It directs pre-service teachers to useful teaching resources – in text, in references and online – as well as plenty of resources for the instructor to help guide students including lesson plans and PowerPoints. Case studies and reflection opportunities encourage pre-service teachers to consider their own strengths and issues, the diversity of learning styles in their students, their school and wider community as well as government and ethical requirements. It raises student awareness of what it really means to teach and how they can do it. Students will continue to refer to this concise, well-researched and easy-to-use text throughout their qualification, in their professional placement and into their teaching career. Premium online teaching and learning tools are available on the MindTap platform. Learn more about the online tools au.cengage.com/mindtap

Encyclopedia of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education

Encyclopedia of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education
Author: Colin Baker
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 776
Release: 1998
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781853593628

This encyclopedia is divided into three sections: individual bilingualism; bilingualism in society and bilingual education. It includes many pictures, graphs, maps and diagrams. The book concludes with a comprehensive bibliography on bilingualism.

Education Policy

Education Policy
Author: Paul Trowler
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2003
Genre: Education and state
ISBN: 0415275547

In this up-to-date introduction to a key policy area, Paul Trowler puts current education policy into context by showing how it has evolved over time and in response to different political ideals. He examines what education policy is, how it is formulated and, crucially, how implementation processes affect outcomes. He looks at the key issues facing the government today and at how the research process feeds into policy-making. This concise guide, suitable for student or professional, features: * policy landmark tables * illustrative case studies * summaries of key points * guides to further reading * useful websites and addresses * a glossary of key terms.

Between Self and Community

Between Self and Community
Author: Junehui Ahn
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2023-07-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1978831404

Between Self and Community investigates the early childhood socialization process in a rapidly changing, globalizing South Korea. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in a South Korean preschool, it shows how both children and teachers interactively navigate, construct, and reconstruct their own multifaceted and sometimes conflicting models of what makes “a good child” amid Korea’s shifting educational and social contexts. Junehui Ahn details the conflicting and competing ways in which the ideologies of new personhood are enacted in actual everyday socialization contexts and reveals the confusions, dilemmas, and ruptures that occur when globally dominant ideals of childhood development are superimposed onto local experiences. Between Self and Community pays special attention to the way children, as active agents of socialization, create, construe, and sustain their own meanings of their personhood, thereby highlighting the dynamism children and their culturally rich peer world create in South Korea’s shifting socialization terrain.