Education (26)

• Economics, Politics and Sociology
• Education

Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures

• Laura Czerniewicz
• Catherine Cronin

After decades of turbulence and acute crises in recent years, how can we build a better future for Higher Education? Thoughtfully edited by Laura Czerniewicz and Catherine Cronin, this rich and diverse collection by academics and professionals from across 17 countries and many disciplines offers a variety of answers to this question. It addresses the need to set new values for universities, trapped today in narratives dominated by financial incentives and performance indicators, and examines those “wicked” problems which need multiple solutions, resolutions, experiments, and imaginaries.

• Education
• Law: Intellectual Property
• Philosophy

The Predatory Paradox: Ethics, Politics, and Practices in Contemporary Scholarly Publishing

• Amy Koerber
• Jesse C. Starkey
• Karin Ardon-Dryer
• R. Glenn Cummins
• Lyombe Eko
• Kerk F. Kee

In today’s ‘publish or perish’ academic setting, the institutional prizing of quantity over quality has given rise to and perpetuated the dilemma of predatory publishing. Upon a close examination, however, the definition of ‘predatory’ itself becomes slippery, evading neat boxes or lists which might seek to easily define and guard against it. This volume serves to foreground a nuanced representation of this multifaceted issue. In such a rapidly evolving landscape, this book becomes a field guide to its historical, political, and economic aspects, presenting thoughtful interviews, legal analysis and original research. Case studies from both European-American and non-European-American stakeholders emphasize the worldwide nature of the challenge faced by researchers of all levels.

• Economics, Politics and Sociology
• Education

A Relational Realist Vision for Education Policy and Practice

• Basem Adi

This volume argues that relational realism can help us to make better educational policy that is more effective in practice. Basem Adi draws on critical realism to thoroughly re-examine fundamental assumptions about how government policymaking works, developing an ontological basis from which to examine existing government approaches and imagine an alternative approach based on a relational realist-informed critical pedagogy.

• Education

Research, Writing, and Creative Process in Open and Distance Education: Tales from the Field

• Dianne Conrad

This collection of reflective essays is a treasure trove of advice, reflection and hard-won experience from experts in the field of open and distance education. Each chapter offers tried-and-tested advice for nascent academic writers, delivered with personal, rich, and wonderful stories of the authors’ careers, their process, their research and their writing, and the struggles and triumphs they have encountered in the course of their careers.

• Anthropology, Archaeology and Religion
• Economics, Politics and Sociology
• Education

Play in a Covid Frame: Everyday Pandemic Creativity in a Time of Isolation

• Anna Beresin
• Julia Bishop

During the international coronavirus lockdowns of 2020–2021, millions of children, youth, and adults found their usual play areas out of bounds and their friends out of reach. How did the pandemic restrict everyday play and how did the pandemic offer new spaces and new content? This unique collection of essays documents the ways in which communities around the world harnessed play within the limiting frame of Covid-19.

• Economics, Politics and Sociology
• Education

Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe

• Olga Burlyuk
• Ladan Rahbari

This volume consists of narratives of migrant academics from the Global South within academia in the Global North. The autobiographic and autoethnographic contributions to this collection aim to decolonise the discourse around academic mobility by highlighting experiences of precarity, resilience, care and solidarity in the academic margins.

• Biography
• Education
• Women and Gender Studies

Susan Isaacs: A Life Freeing the Minds of Children

• Philip Graham

This revised and expanded edition of Susan Isaacs: A Life Freeing the Minds of Children by Philip Graham, provides a comprehensive biography of a highly influential educationist and psychoanalyst. The book covers Isaacs’ childhood through to the end of her life, making it of great interest to historians of British education and of psychoanalysis as well as to practicing early years teachers and psychoanalysts.

• Education

Dire Straits-Education Reforms: Ideology, Vested Interests and Evidence

• Montserrat Gomendio
• José Ignacio Wert

Responding to an ‘educational emergency’ generated largely by the difficulties of implementing education reforms, this book compares education policies around the world in order to understand what works where. To address the key question of why education reforms are so difficult, the authors take into account a broad range of relevant factors, such as governance, ideology, and stakeholder conflicts of interest, and their interactions with one another.

• Education
• Mathematics

Landscapes of Investigation: Contributions to Critical Mathematics Education

• Miriam Godoy Penteado
• Ole Skovsmose

Creating landscapes of investigation is a primary concern of critical mathematics education. It enables us to organise educational processes so that students and teachers are able to get involved in explorations guided by dialogical interactions. It attempts to address explicit or implicit forms of social injustice by means of mathematics, and also to promote a critical conception of mathematics, challenging the assumption that the subject represents objectivity and neutrality. Landscapes of Investigation provides many illustrations of how this can be done in primary, secondary, and university education. It also illustrates how exploring landscapes of investigation can contribute to mathematics teacher education programmes.

• Education
• Performing Arts

The Power of Music: An Exploration of the Evidence

• Susan Hallam
• Evangelos Himonides

Building on her earlier work, 'The Power of Music: A Research Synthesis of the Impact of Actively Making Music on the Intellectual, Social and Personal Development of Children and Young People', this volume by Susan Hallam and Evangelos Himonides is an important new resource in the field of music education, practice, and psychology.

• Economics, Politics and Sociology
• Education

Learning, Marginalization, and Improving the Quality of Education in Low-income Countries

• Daniel A. Wagner
• Nathan M. Castillo
• Suzanne Grant Lewis

Improving learning evidence and outcomes for those most in need in developing countries is at the heart of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal on Education (SDG4). This timely volume brings together contributions on current empirical research and analysis of emerging trends that focus on improving the quality of education through better policy and practice, particularly for those who need improved 'learning at the bottom of the pyramid' (LBOP).

• Economics, Politics and Sociology
• Education
• Other languages
• Performing Arts

Replanteando la acción social por la música: la búsqueda de la convivencia y la ciudadanía en la Red de Escuelas de Música de Medellín

• Geoffrey Baker
• Claudia García

Este libro pionero examina el desarrollo de La Red de Escuelas de Música de Medellín, una red de 27 escuelas fundada en 1996 en la segunda ciudad principal de Colombia como respuesta a su reputación como la ciudad más peligrosa en la Tierra. Inspirada en El Sistema, el programa venezolano fundacional de educación musical, La Red es, no obstante, notablemente diferente: su historia es una de múltiples reinvenciones y de una búsqueda continua para mejorar su oferta educativa y alcanzar mejor sus objetivos sociales. Sus reflexiones internas e intentos de transformación arrojan luz valiosa sobre el pasado, el presente y el futuro de ASPM.

• Biography
• Education
• European Studies
• European Studies: English and Irish Studies
• Women and Gender Studies

Mary Warnock: Ethics, Education and Public Policy in Post-War Britain

• Philip Graham

This biography illuminates the life and thought of Baroness Mary Warnock, whose active years spanned the second half of the twentieth century, a period during which opportunities for middle-class women rapidly and vastly improved.

• Education
• Reference Books
• Textbooks and Learning Guides

Writing and Publishing Scientific Papers: A Primer for the Non-English Speaker

• Gábor L. Lövei

Writing and Publishing Scientific Papers stands out from its field by targeting scientists whose first language is not English. While also touching on matters of style and grammar, the book’s main goal is to advise on first principles of communication.

• Education
• Media Studies and Journalism

Shaping the Digital Dissertation: Knowledge Production in the Arts and Humanities

• Virginia Kuhn
• Anke Finger

Shaping the Digital Dissertation aims to provide insights, precedents and best practices to graduate students, doctoral advisors, institutional agents, and dissertation committees. This edited collection will be a useful resource for the wider academic community and anyone interested in the future of doctoral studies.

• Economics, Politics and Sociology
• Education
• Performing Arts

Rethinking Social Action through Music: The Search for Coexistence and Citizenship in Medellín’s Music Schools

• Geoffrey Baker

How can we better understand the past, present and future of Social Action through Music (SATM)? This ground-breaking book examines the development of the Red de Escuelas de Música de Medellín (the Network of Music Schools of Medellín), a network of 27 schools founded in Colombia’s second city in 1996 as a response to its reputation as the most dangerous city on Earth.

• Business and Management
• Economics, Politics and Sociology
• Education

Like Nobody's Business: An Insider's Guide to How US University Finances Really Work

• Andrew C. Comrie

Grounded in hard data, original analyses, and the practical experience of a seasoned administrator, this book provides refreshingly clear answers and comprehensive insights for anyone on or off campus who is interested in the business of the university: how it earns its money, how it spends it, and how it all works.

• Education
• Linguistics

Simplified Signs: A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special Populations, Volume 1.

• John D. Bonvillian
• Nicole Kissane Lee
• Tracy T. Dooley
• Filip T. Loncke

Simplified Signs presents a system of manual sign communication intended for special populations who have had limited success mastering spoken or full sign languages. It is the culmination of over twenty years of research and development by the authors. The Simplified Sign System has been developed and tested for ease of sign comprehension, memorization, and formation by limiting the complexity of the motor skills required to form each sign, and by ensuring that each sign visually resembles the meaning it conveys. Lucid and comprehensive, this work constitutes a valuable resource that will enhance the communicative interactions of many different people, and will be of great interest to researchers and educators alike.

• Education
• Linguistics

Simplified Signs: A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special Populations, Volume 2.

• John D. Bonvillian
• Nicole Kissane Lee
• Tracy T. Dooley
• Filip T. Loncke

Simplified Signs presents a system of manual sign communication intended for special populations who have had limited success mastering spoken or full sign languages. It is the culmination of over twenty years of research and development by the authors. The Simplified Sign System has been developed and tested for ease of sign comprehension, memorization, and formation by limiting the complexity of the motor skills required to form each sign, and by ensuring that each sign visually resembles the meaning it conveys. Lucid and comprehensive, this work constitutes a valuable resource that will enhance the communicative interactions of many different people, and will be of great interest to researchers and educators alike.

• Economics, Politics and Sociology
• Education

Discourses We Live By: Narratives of Educational and Social Endeavour

• Hazel R. Wright
• Marianne Høyen

This book is a rich and multifaceted collection of twenty-eight chapters that use varied lenses to examine the discourses that shape people’s lives. The contributors are themselves from many backgrounds – different academic disciplines within the humanities and social sciences, diverse professional practices and a range of countries and cultures. They represent a broad spectrum of age, status and outlook, and variously apply their research methods – but share a common interest in people, their lives, thoughts and actions.

• Education
• Linguistics

Creative Multilingualism: A Manifesto

• Katrin Kohl
• Rajinder Dudrah
• Andrew Gosler
• Suzanne Graham
• Martin Maiden
• Wen-chin Ouyang

Creative Multilingualism: A Manifesto is a welcome contribution to the field of modern languages, highlighting the intricate relationship between multilingualism and creativity, and, crucially, reaching beyond an Anglo-centric view of the world. Intended to spark further research and discussion, this book appeals to young people interested in languages, language learning and cultural exchange. It will be a valuable resource for academics, educators, policy makers and parents of bilingual or multilingual children.

• Digital Humanities
• Education
• Information Technology and Computer Science

Digital Technology and the Practices of Humanities Research

• Jennifer Edmond

This timely volume illuminates the different forces underlying the shifting practices in humanities research today, with especial focus on how humanists take ownership of, and are empowered by, technology in unexpected ways. Digital Technology and the Practices of Humanities Research is essential reading for scholars, students, and general readers interested in the changing culture of research practices in the humanities, and in the future of the digital humanities on the whole.

• Education
• Information Technology and Computer Science
• Media Studies and Journalism

Social Media in Higher Education: Case Studies, Reflections and Analysis

• Chris Rowell

How does social media affect working life in Higher Education? How are universities harnessing its power to aid student learning? This innovative collection brings together academics and those working in professional services to examine these questions and more. The diverse and expert contributors analyse the many ways social media can be used to enhance teaching and learning, research, professional practice, leadership, networking and career development. The impact of social media is evaluated critically, with an eye both to the benefits and the problems of using these new forms of digital communication.

• Education

Delivering on the Promise of Democracy: Visual Case Studies in Educational Equity and Transformation

• Sukhwant Jhaj

Delivering on the Promise of Democracy pulls back the curtain on seven high-performing universities to reveal which daily decisions, including listening to the community, embracing conflict, and implementing effective strategies through routine, guide administrators in achieving exceptional results. Through in-depth interviews that offer a close look at these seven universities, Jhaj traces a new trajectory for higher education: a call to question a university's effectiveness through its accessibility to the community it serves.

• Education

Open Education: International Perspectives in Higher Education

• Patrick Blessinger
• TJ Bliss

Global in perspective, this book argues strongly for the value of open education in both the developed and developing worlds. Through a mixture of theoretical and practical approaches, it demonstrates that open education promotes ideals of inclusion, diversity, and social justice to achieve the vision of education as a fundamental human right. A must-read for practitioners, policy-makers, scholars and students in the field of education.

• Digital Humanities
• Education

Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles and Politics

• Brett D. Hirsch

The essays in this collection offer a timely intervention in digital humanities scholarship. Bringing together established and emerging scholars from a variety of humanities disciplines, the book offers views on the practical realities of teaching digital humanities at undergraduate and graduate level, proposes strategies for teaching foundational digital humanities methods across a variety of disciplines, and engages with wider debates about the place of digital humanities in the academy. Broadening the ways in which both scholars and practitioners can think about this emerging discipline, this book makes an important contribution to its ongoing development, vitality and long-term sustainability.