Empowering Teachers and Democratising Schooling
Empowering Teachers and Democratising Schooling

Author: Keith Heggart

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-09-13

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9811944644

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This edited book brings together teachers and education academics who are committed to education about, for and through democracy. It presents a diverse range of viewpoints about the challenges facing educators working across different sectors and discusses ways to challenge issues like neoliberalism, excessive managerialism and accountability and privatisation. It also engages with the times that education has, and continues, to fail students. This book outlines both logistical and ideological challenges which educators committed to democracy face and describes innovative approaches they have adopted, including networking, the use of social media and digital tools and extending their reach beyond their local communities to international audiences. It encourages conversations about how educators and academics might re-commit to education for democracy and generate further avenues for discussion and action by educators and academics.

Middle Leadership in Schools
Middle Leadership in Schools

Author: Elizabeth Benson

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2024-02-05

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1837530823

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Based on research and consultations with influential school middle leaders, Middle Leadership in Schools presents ideas and actions designed specifically to stimulate and enhance educators leading from the middle, as a catalyst to enable them to do what they do with greater influence and impact.

Schooling for Democracy in a Time of Global Crisis
Schooling for Democracy in a Time of Global Crisis

Author: Stewart Riddle

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-04-21

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 100057167X

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Schooling for Democracy in a Time of Global Crisis combines democratic theory with education practice to address the problem of a schooling that is for democracy, and points to the possibilities, limits and tensions of attempting to re-imagine education in more inclusive, collective and sustainable ways through democratic action. Contemporary liberal–democratic societies are faced with multiple complex global crises, which demand a range of responses, including how education can produce critical and engaged young people with a collective commitment to tackling the effects of the global climate crisis, growing social and economic inequalities, political instability, insecurity, fear and hate. This book examines how more critically democratic educational policies and practices, and the daily actions of learners, educators, leaders, communities and societies can work towards collective well-being, increased civic participation and commitment to an ecologically sustainable engagement with the planet. In addition to being a work of critical scholarly analysis, this book provides a manifesto for the possibilities of contemporary democratic education in a time of global crisis. This book will be of great interest to researchers, postgraduate students and policymakers in education.

Democratising English Language Research Education in the Face of Eurocentric Knowledge Transfer
Democratising English Language Research Education in the Face of Eurocentric Knowledge Transfer

Author: Meng Hui

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2015-06-15

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 149696716X

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The number of Chinese research students studying in Australian universities is growing (Bradley, 2008). They are supposed to adapt to the new academic culture and their own intellectual assets are marginalised or even ignored (Singh, 2009, 2010; Singh & Han, 2009, 2010). Being situated in an academic environment which is Eurocentric, hierarchical, and largely dominated by the Western or Euro-American theory, in most cases, these students have to keep their own intellectual assets silent. This is another representation of Eurocentric knowledge diffusion (Alatas, 2006; Connell, 2007). However, despite all these unfavourable situations, some Chinese international research students have used some Chinese intellectual assets while doing research in Australia (Han, 2006; Han & Zhao, 2008; Singh & Han, 2009, 2010). Informed by Rancieres concepts of democracy (1991, 2006a, 2007b, 2009c) and mute speech (1999, 2007b, 2010a), this study makes original contribution to knowledge through (i) advancing a claim for, and an approach to democratising Australian research education and (ii) developing the mute speech pedagogy which might help engaging non-Western theoretical knowledge in this process.

Contesting and Constructing International Perspectives in Global Education
Contesting and Constructing International Perspectives in Global Education

Author: R. Reynolds

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-02-27

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9462099898

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This volume addresses the need for an international perspective on global education, and provides alternate voices to the theme of global education. The editors asked international educators in different contexts to indicate how their own experience of global education addresses the broad and contested concepts associated with this notion. Following the lead of the internationally acknowledged authors from North America, Europe, Africa, Australia, and Asia, perspectives were provided on a wide variety of contexts including tertiary education, and teacher education; various pedagogies for global education, including digital pedagogies; and curriculum development at school, tertiary and community levels. Contesting and Constructing International Perspectives in Global Education explores the tensions inherent in discussions of global education from a number of facets including spatial, pedagogical, temporal, social and cultural; and provides critical, descriptive and values-laden interpretations. The book is divided into five sections, “Temporal and Spatial Views of Global Education”; “Telling National Stories of Global Education”; “Empowering Citizens for Global Education”; “Deconstructing Global Education”; and “Transforming Curricula for Global Education”. It is envisaged as a starting point for a stronger international conception of global education and a way to build a conversation for the future of global education in a neo-liberal and less internationally confident time.

EdTech Revolution: Transforming Education through Technology
EdTech Revolution: Transforming Education through Technology

Author: Amit Sharma

Publisher: BFC Publications

Published: 2024-02-09

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 9359926817

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EdTech, is a transformative approach to education that offers an immersive and interactive learning experience. It allows students to access high-quality educational content from anywhere, at any time, and connect with expert teachers. It also empowers teachers by guiding students through personalised learning journeys tailored to their unique needs and interests. Colleges and universities are also embracing its transformative power by offering online courses and virtual classrooms, reaching a global audience. However, EdTech faces challenges, such as the digital divide, which needs to be bridged to ensure no one is left behind. Additionally, concerns about content quality and digital literacy must be addressed. Students must be equipped with critical thinking skills to navigate the vast ocean of knowledge and be active participants in the digital world. It is a revolution in the making, reshaping education, breaking boundaries, and democratising knowledge. As we embark on this journey, we will witness education in the 21st century unfold before our very eyes, embracing the era of EdTech and embracing the power of technology and education to create a brighter future for all.

Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress on Mathematical Education
Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress on Mathematical Education

Author: Hiroshi Fujita

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-05-08

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 1402079109

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Mathematics as a discipline has a long history, emerging from many cultures, with a truly universal character. Mathematicians throughout the world have a fundamentally common understanding of the nature of mathematics and of its central problems and methods. Research mathematicians in any part of the world are part of a cohesive intellectual community that communicates fluently. Among organizations devoted to mathematics education, The International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) is distinctive because of its close ties to the mathematics community. The great challenges now facing mathematics education around the world demand a deeper and more sensitive involvement of disciplinary mathematicians than we now have, both in the work of educational improvements and in research on the nature of teaching and learning.

Higher Teaching and Learning for Alternative Futures
Higher Teaching and Learning for Alternative Futures

Author: Yusef Waghid

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-05-29

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 3030754294

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This book analyses the narratives of four academics who consider themselves post-structuralist. Grounded in the work of major thinkers in post-structuralism, these narratives reflect on higher education as a community of scholars without community. The authors highlight what specifically motivates their pedagogical affirmations and orientations, analyse why they are concerned with social justice education, and what they envisage the alternative futures of higher education to be – that is, futures in which discrimination, oppression, violence and inequality are waning or have been eradicated. Through their own narratives, the authors tackle the educational matter of poststructuralist human encounters and expand upon the notion of social justice education. In doing so, they argue for higher education on the African continent as an alternative discourse that can be responsive to political, societal and environmental dystopias.