Focusing on creating learning environments, this book explores what it means to be an innovative leader of learning and teaching in higher education. Providing practical tips and guidance to support those designing or redesigning higher education curricula, this book highlights approaches and solutions to leading change in learning and teaching. Covering all areas from an overview of external …
This book contributes to current debates about the importance of early literacy and the different ways that literacy resources offer support to parents with young children. It sheds light on the impact of policy discourse and austerity measures on community resources designed to support children’s early literacy learning. Based on an ethnographic study carried out in a small town in the Ea…
This book is a comprehensive guide on how to teach sustainable consumption in higher education. Teaching and Learning Sustainable Consumption: A Guidebook systematizes the themes, objectives, and theories that characterize sustainable consumption as an educational field. The first part of the book discusses approaches to teaching and learning sustainable consumption in higher education, incl…
Cyberbullying and Online Harms identifies online harms and their impact on young people, from communities to campuses, exploring current and future interventions to reduce and prevent online harassment and aggression. This important resource brings together eminent international researchers whose work shines a light on social issues such as bullying/cyberbullying, racism, homophobia, hate cr…
How should curriculum designers translate abstract learning outcomes into engaging learning experiences that get results? What is the right balance between depth and breadth or between content and skills? What methods should be used to continuously improve a curriculum over time? To answer these kinds of questions, the authors combined research from cutting-edge fields with their own first-hand…
Digital tools have a clear educational purpose, but how do we help students with the darker corners of the web? This book provides timely, much-needed advice for educators on how to teach students to handle the anger and divisiveness that pervades social media and that is impossible to ignore when using tech for other purposes. Author Andrew Marcinek provides strategies we can use to help st…
Theories of Early Childhood Education continues to provide a comprehensive overview of the various theoretical perspectives in early childhood education from developmental psychology to critical studies, Piaget to Freire. This revised and updated edition includes additional chapters on Michael Alexander Halliday’s view of language learning and the attachment theory work of John Bowlby and Mar…
Introducing Linguistics brings together the work of scholars working at the cutting-edge of the field of linguistics, creating an accessible and wide-ranging introductory level textbook for newcomers to this area of study. The textbook: • Provides broad coverage of the field, comprising five key areas: language structures, mind and society, applications, methods, and issues; • Present…
Situating strategic planning and budgeting within the organization and administration of higher education institutions, this text provides effective and proven strategies for today’s change-oriented leaders. Bringing together distinguished administrators from two-year, four-year, public, and private colleges and universities, this volume provides both practical and effective guidance on the i…
This book introduces theories of educational leadership and management and provides examples of their translation into practice. Many students studying education no longer go directly into teaching, but instead follow a diverse range of careers associated with the education sector more widely: local authorities, think tanks, charities, school trusts, administrative, and managerial roles. This b…
Teachers see the impact of pupils’ mental wellbeing on the experience of school every day. But often there is not enough practical advice on what can be done to support pupils who might need help and especially for pupils from diverse backgrounds, who might face unique challenges. This important book is a practice-facing, evidence-based guide for teachers, support staff, education students, a…
Understanding Religion and Popular Culture 2nd edition provides an accessible introduction to this exciting and rapidly evolving field. Divided into two parts, Issues in Religion and Genres in Popular Culture, it encourages readers to think critically about the ways in which popular cultural practices and products, especially those considered as forms of entertainment, are laden with religious …
This book is about human development-its universal features, its individual variations, its nature. Every life is distinct, a new biography in the world. Examining the shape of life-span development allows us to understand it better. Life-Span Development is about the rhythm and meaning of people's lives, about turning muystery into understanding, and about weaving a potrait of who each of us w…
Buku ini merupakan upaya penulis untuk memudahkan pembaca di Indonesia dalam memahami persoalan di Timur Tengah yang sangat kompleks. Gambaran Timur Tengah yang kompleks dibahas secara komprehensif dengan penekanan pada perspektif Indonesia dalam memandang setiap persoalan dan isu di Timur Tengah. Dengan mem- baca buku ini diharapkan pembaca dapat merangkaikan berbagai puzzle tentang isu-isu T…
Buku ini membahas konsep-konsep dasar semantik bahasa alami untuk kepentingan analisis makna bahasa tingkat lanjut, yaitu mahasiswa tingkat pascasarjana Program Linguistik, Psikologi, Filsafat, Antropologi, Sosiologi, Komunikasi, dan Pendidikan Bahasa. Rujukan utama buku ini adalah buku karya Keith Allan (2001), yang berjudul Natural Language Semantics. Keith Allan adalah seorang pakar lingu…
Buku berjudul Omnibus law (Teori dan Penerapannya) berisi latar belakang pembentukan omnibus law di Indonesia, khususnya pembentukan omnibus law pada masa setelah orde reformasi, termasuk mengulas dampak banyaknya peraturan perundang-undangan yang berlaku sejak masa penjajahan Belanda dan ketika Indonesia merdeka pada tahun 1945. Pada aturan tersebut, berdasarkan Pasal 2 Aturan Peralihan Undang…
Kumpulan tulisan dalam buku ini mengangkat isu-isu aktual sejak virus Covid-19 menerpa dunia. Dalam kurun waktu tersebut, termasuk persoalan ibadah, pendidikan, kelembagaan, politik, ekonomi, sosial-budaya, filsafat-pemikiran, globalisasi, wacana dakwah, dan habaib di Indonesia. Wacana-wacana kekinian itu oleh penulis dikaitakan dengan studi Islam agar pembaca mengetahui bahwa sebenarnya kajian…