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Leadership in early education in times of change
The collection brings together the latest work of researchers from Australia, Africa, Asia, and Europe focusing on early childhood leadership matters. It covers different aspects of leadership in early education: professional education and development, identity and leadership strategies as well a...
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Digital teaching and learning in higher education
The international project Digital and International Virtual Academic Cooperation (DIVA) focuses on intercultural learning and online collaboration. Based on their findings, they show how digital arrangements can be used in higher education, how digital teaching can be theorized, and what potentia...
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Mindfulness and its discontents
Mindfulness, a way to alleviate suffering by realizing the impermanence of the self and our interdependence with others, has been severed from its Buddhist roots. In the late-stage-capitalist, neoliberal, solipsistic West, it becomes McMindfulness, a practice that instead shores up the privatized...
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Teaching japanese popular culture
Interest in Japanese popular culture is high among students at all levels, driving enrollment in Japanese Studies programs. However, there has been little reflection on the pedagogy of teaching Japanese popular culture. Now is the time for critical reflection on teaching practices related to teac...
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Digital feedback in higher education
An exploration of the dynamic domain of digital feedback, emphasizing current issues of curriculum design, social media and artificial intelligence.
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Growing people
This book paints a fresh portrait of John Dewey as not only a reformer of schooling but also a profound theorist of human development, whose vision of the centrality of education to democracy, philosophy, and flourishing can still inspire us today.
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Noncoercive threats to academic, political, and economic freedom
This book brings together a distinguished set of scholars to examine covert constraints on academic, political, and economic freedom from a variety of angles, developing surprising and timely new insights.
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Educating students with refugee and asylum seeker experiences
This book examines the educational systems into which students with refugee backgrounds are placed when relocated into their new homelands. The authors propose ways in which these students can be educated with policies and perspectives that respect diversity, using a primary school in Australia d...
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Managing challenging behaviour in schools
This book presents approaches and solutions for understanding and acting in difficult educational situations at school.
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Higher education in post-communist states
To what extent have universities in post-Communist states adopted the practices and habits of their branded and consumer-oriented equivalents in the English-speaking world? While not assuming that university education in those states reflects in any mechanistic way the regulated, business-led sys...
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Learning and sustainability in dangerous times
Stephen Sterling is a pioneer in sustainability education. This collection of his essential writings is freshly curated by the author and offers a new overview and chapter by chapter introductions that link together his thinking to inform the growing and urgent debate on the role and nature of ed...
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Lawrence kohlberg's approach to moral education
Lawrence Kohlberg's Approach to Moral Education presents what the late Lawrence Kohlberg regarded as the definitive statement of his educational theory. Addressing the sociology and social psychology of schooling, the authors propose that school culture become the center of moraleducation and res...
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Leveling the learning curve
Built on interviews with more than fifty leading practitioners from major universities and ed-tech firms, Leveling the Learning Curve is an indispensable guide to the inner workings of digital education.
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Translating student diversity within the german higher education system
Julia Mergner examines how differently universities translate the idea of student diversity into their local context.
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In search of an open mind
In Search of an Open Mind is a curated selection of Lee C. Bollinger’s speeches, articles, and opinion columns from throughout his twenty-one-year tenure as president of Columbia University.
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The multicultural classroom
This book presents findings from a research project that investigated the educational context of Indigenous Australian learners by shedding light on the incorporation of First Nations perspectives in teaching materials and methodology. The results reveal the complexities arising in connection wit...
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Perspectives on transitions in refugee education
This book covers how refugee transitions on an individual, social, and cultural level intersect with educational experiences.
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Lifewide learning in postdigital societies
This book engages with the cultural changes brought about by an intensified digitalization process in the context of formal education.
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The complete guide to children's drawings
This guide for parents and professionals offers ways to better understand the emotional world of children and what is important to them as represented by their drawings. It presents cases of children and adolescents coping with a variety of life challenges and clinical issues by way of over 250 r...
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A college of her own
A College of Her Own offers a comprehensive and lively narrative of Barnard from its beginnings to the present day. Through the stories of presidents and leading figures as well as students and faculty, Robert McCaughey recounts Barnard’s history and development.
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Teaching about asia in a time of pandemic
Teaching About Asia in a Time of Pandemic presents many lessons learned by educators during the COVID-19 outbreak. The volume consists of two sections, one discussing how to teach using examples and case studies emerging from the pandemic and the other focusing on pedagogical tools and methods be...
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Do not disturb! i’m drawing
Michal Bogin Feinberg presents a new way of perceiving children’s drawings. This book is an essential tool for every therapist, educator, or parent.
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Polishing your prose
A step-by-step guide to successful writing.
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Identity, power, and prestige in switzerland's multilingual education
This book investigates how Switzerland negotiates neoliberal forces with the growing necessity of English, a romanticized view on national languages, and the social justice perspective of institutionalizing heritage languages.
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Sustainability frontiers
Education for sustainable development, the educational offshoot of the concept of ‘sustainable development’, has rapidly become the predominant educational response to the global environmental crisis. The authors apply a critical lens to the field and find it wanting in many regards. Sustainabil...
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International developments in research on extended education
From childhood to adolescence, young people are enrolled in various public or private forms of educational arrangements outside regular school lessons. This volume provides an overview of extended education in nations around the world. Different models, policies, methods, and research findings ar...
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Knowledge, power, and academic freedom
This book presents a series of essays by the renowned historian Joan Wallach Scott that explore the history and theory of academic freedom and the value of critical inquiry today. Scott gives a nuanced reflection on the tensions within one of academia’s cherished concepts.
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Regulating transitions from school to work
How are activation programs for the young unemployed implemented? Stephan Dahmen explores the practical regulation of biographical transitions in activation programs for the young unemployed by focusing on the interactive accomplishment of activation work.
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Education and development in afghanistan
After years of military interventions, the current situation in Afghanistan is highly ambivalent and partially contradictory – especially regarding the interplay of development, peace, security, education, and economy. Despite numerous initiatives, Afghanistan is still confronted with a poor secu...
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The vignette as an exercise in perception / η βινιέτα ως άσκηση αντίληψης
This book offers a gentle approach to important steps towards professionalization in the teaching profession, in Greek and English.
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Wild children — domesticated dreams
An anthropological analysis of education, this book is the first to examine the root cause of contemporary pedagogical systems from a truly comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. This confluence of ethology and anthropology reveals that the very category “human” is a requirement of civili...
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Workforce profiles in early childhood education and care
This book offers a systematic insight into the development of early childhood professionals in Europe.
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Nonnative english speaker teachers’ stories
In this handy book, Icy Lee and Paul Sze share openly about their careers as nonnative English speaker educators in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) and reflect on their teaching by recollecting their own experiences as learners, teachers and teacher educators. Also include...
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Teaching ir in wartime
This book explores the experiences of Ukrainian and non-Ukrainian academics who have taught IR courses during the Russian war against Ukraine.
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The elephant in the room
This book offers a long overdue account of the vast corruption and cheating practices in Russian higher education, including bribery, financial fraud, clientelism, plagiarism, and exam cheating. Serghei Golunov ruthlessly uncovers the recent social trends that have created a favorable ground for ...
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The great civilized conversation
The world-renowned scholar suggests a new approach to education that can sustain humanistic learning in a globalized culture.
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Mediating social challenges
This book uses critical pedagogies to reflect on art, literature, storytelling, and digital methods as a means to mediating social challenges in teaching practices.
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Stand, columbia
Stand, Columbia! Alma MaterThrough the storms of Time abideStand, Columbia! Alma MaterThrough the storms of Time abide."Stand, Columbia!" by Gilbert Oakley Ward, Columbia College 1902 (1904)Marking the 250th anniversary of one of America's oldest and most formidable educational institutions, this...
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Mobile schools
How can children from nomadic communities go to school, when they are permanently on the move? This publication deals with the necessity and the development of a mobile school system for pastoralists in Northern Kenya. The underlying system Ladders of Learning guides pupils and teachers with a re...
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Survival through bildung
Heinz-Joachim Heydorn’s 1974 essay “Survival Through Education: Outline of a Prospect” remains a powerful text, recently translated into English for the first time. In this book, scholars from different theoretical perspectives question the text and its contemporary relevance and put their interp...
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My columbia
During its 250-year history, Columbia University has been home to and has produced a remarkable array of writers, poets, scholars, scientists, and statesmen-many of whom have written eloquently about their experiences at the university. Excerpting memoirs, novels, and poems, My Columbia collects ...
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Interventions against child abuse and violence against women
This book offers insights from a study of cultural encounters in intervention against violence in four EU countries. Seeking a deeper understanding of the underpinnings of intervention practices, this study explored variations in institutional structures and traditions of law, policing, and socia...
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Rethinking teacher education for the 21st century
This book focuses on current trends, potential challenges, and further developments in teacher education and professional development from theoretical, empirical, and practical points of view. It provides fresh insights and examples of best practices from all over the world on the strengths and l...
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Early childhood education leadership in times of crisis
Authors from twelve countries present empirical findings gaining information on different crisis management mechanisms in early childhood education and care ECE systems around the world.
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Economic competence and financial literacy of young adults
The authors take a detailed look at the economic competence and financial literacy of young adults, especially of those who start an apprenticeship or who take up their studies at a university. Economic competence and financial literacy are of special interest within this group, because these you...
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Handbook transdisciplinary learning
This handbook unpacks key terms and concepts to describe the range of transdisciplinary learning in the context of academic education.
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Sustainable development, education and learning
Victoria Thoresen considers the goals and challenges iterated in the SDG.
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Teaching civics
Around the world, teaching civics is our most practical tool for learning about democracy. In Germany, the art of civics education is constantly being reconsidered and revised, in part because of the country’s history and the widespread awareness in German society of the dangers posed by educatio...
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Higher education research – what else?
The founder of higher education research in Germany, Ulrich Teichler, looks back on more than five decades of higher education research.
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