: Learning Through Practice by Wendy Robinson highlights the importance of real teaching experience in developing effective and reflective educators. It argues that teaching is not just about content delivery but also about building professional identity and understanding the social context of learning. The book is a valuable resource for education students and teacher trainers.
This book examines how participation in education is evolving in the postdigital era—where digital technologies are deeply embedded in everyday life. It explores how learners, educators, and institutions navigate new forms of engagement, collaboration, and knowledge production beyond traditional digital divides.
This book explores the challenges of implementing intercultural education in the Ecuadorian Amazon. It examines how plurinationality and epistemic justice are addressed in schools, highlighting tensions between Indigenous knowledge systems and formal education practices. The book calls for more inclusive, culturally respectful educational approaches.
This open-access volume delves into peer review within academia and the scientific community. While peer review has a long-standing history, recent shifts in higher education’s evaluative culture have diversified its functions, formats, and purposes. The contributors provide both conceptual and empirical analyses of varied peer review practices relevant to scholars and institutions worldwide.
This book explores how newly qualified teachers in Nordic countries are supported through mentoring and induction. It examines the diverse practices and policies across Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, focusing on the ecological conditions that shape teacher support systems.
This book explores language education through a new materialist lens, emphasizing the role of non-human elements—such as objects, spaces, and bodies—in learning processes. It challenges traditional human-centered views and highlights how material environments actively shape language education experiences.
This book compares how mathematics is taught to engineering students across Europe, Russia, Georgia, and Armenia. It highlights two main teaching traditions, analyzes curriculum reforms, and promotes more practical, technology-supported learning methods in higher education.
This book is an excellent synthesis of the initial and continuing preparation for Mathematics Teaching in Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic and Venezuela, from which comparative analyses can be made that show similarities and differences, and highlight various perspectives.
Life Skills Education for Youth explores the essential competencies that young people need to thrive in an increasingly complex and fast-changing world. The book focuses on practical skills such as critical thinking, decision-making, communication, emotional regulation, and interpersonal relationships. Designed for educators, youth workers, and policy makers, it offers both theoretical foundati…