This book examines how time shapes the global transfer of education policies. It introduces seven temporal dimensions—such as timing, pacing, and historical layering—that influence how reforms are adopted, adapted, or resisted across different countries.
This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of how the UK government’s Prevent Duty—part of its counter-terrorism strategy—has been interpreted and enacted in educational settings. Drawing on empirical research across schools, colleges, and universities, the book explores how educators have understood and responded to the duty to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism.
This guide serves as a practical handbook for lecturers in post-compulsory higher education, combining an entrepreneurial mindset with a strong educational philosophy based on reflective practice. The authors address key components of academic quality and standards, including teaching and learning, student support, assessment and evaluation, curriculum design, resource management, and marketing.
This book explores how 21st century skills—such as critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and creativity—are interpreted and applied across various educational contexts worldwide. It highlights the importance of adapting these skills to local cultural, social, and economic settings, emphasizing that a one-size-fits-all approach is ineffective
This text is based on the author's research into primary school teachers’ stress. The research has been linked with the author's belief in the need to understand ourselves, our personal and professional situations and how they relate. The resulting book is a practical text designed to address the reader in such a way that they can readily identify with what is being discussed. Furthermore, re…
This book examines effective methods for teaching mathematical modelling, a key skill that links mathematics to real-world problems. It explores instructional strategies, classroom practices, and challenges in helping students develop modelling competencies. Aimed at educators and researchers, the book offers practical insights and theoretical perspectives to improve mathematics teaching throug…
Extended critical case studies provide a tangible working expression of the labour process of teaching, showing how teachers are simultaneously experiencing significant changes to their work, as well as responding in ways that actively shape these processes. For teachers and researchers, this book reveals which processes in the global economy impact and sometimes control the role of the teacher.
The coming years will see an exponential increase in the proportion of elderly people in our society. This accelerated growth brings with it major challenges in relation to the sustainability of the system. There are different aspects where these changes will have a special incidence: health systems and their monitoring; the development of a framework in which the elderly can develop their dail…
This open access book presents a deep investigation into the manifold topics pertaining to global university collaboration. It outlines the strategies King Abdulaziz University has employed to rise in global rankings, and the reasons chosen to collaborate with other academic and research institutes.
On behalf of the Baltic Society of Sport Sciences (BSSS), Vytautas Magnus University Education Academy, the Lithuanian National Olympic Committee, and the Lithuanian Olympic Academy, we are honored to invite you to participate in the 12th Baltic States Sport Science Conference, titled “Sport Science for Sports Practice, Teacher Training and Health Promotion”, held on April 25–26, 2019, in…