£75.99
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The global phenomenon of shadow education—private tutoring—is transforming learning worldwide. This book reveals how its innovative strategies, like personalized instruction, can improve mainstream schools, offering insights for understanding learning beyond formal boundaries.
This groundbreaking book explores the growing global phenomenon of private supplementary tutoring—commonly known as shadow education—and positions it as a central topic within contemporary learning research. Historically overlooked, shadow education has a significant influence on student achievement, learning culture, and the future of education worldwide. Drawing upon detailed studies from South Korea and beyond, the authors highlight how shadow education transforms traditional learning landscapes, offering innovative strategies like personalized learning, accelerated instruction, and mastery-based curricula that can inform and improve mainstream educational practices. Targeted at educators, policymakers, curriculum theorists, and learning researchers, the book provides fresh theoretical insights and practical recommendations, emphasizing the need for new frameworks to understand learning beyond formal school boundaries. Accessible yet scholarly, this work is essential for anyone interested in educational innovation, equity, and global learning trends, offering critical guidance for enhancing learning quality in diverse settings worldwide.
This collection approaches the current theory and practice of transgendering children. Essays are written against the grain of the popularised medical definition of ‘the transgender child’ as a young person whose ‘true’ gender lies in the brain, or pre-social ‘identity’.
The six chapters of this text tap into the best elements of Chinese traditional culture to show respect to the pioneers of Hebei women’s education and its contemporary potential, giving insights into social, cultural, economic and political movements throughout Chinese history.
De Sousa Santos considers the nature of the transformation that the university is undergoing today, arguing that some of the current reforms are so radical that the question of the future of the university may well become the question of whether the university has a future.
This volume highlights pivotal problems about our planet’s environment and ecology. It shows the importance of integrating expertise to foster sustainability and concludes with an ethical analysis of the multiple challenges that require urgent attention and long-term resolution.
Earth’s biodiversity is threatened, but conservation cannot be defined by political boundaries. These authors—experts from over 50 disciplines—share stories of crossing lines to take action, inspiring future practices for students and professionals alike.
The NNEST Lens invites you to re-examine TESOL and applied linguistics using multilingual, multicultural, and multinational perspectives. This volume’s original contributions question theory and share strategies, taking diversity as a starting point for all.
Writing chemical reactions correctly is a key indicator of chemical literacy. This book teaches the fundamentals: predicting products and balancing equations. It contains 93 problems with answers and is useful for high school and university students, teachers, and professionals.
This book presents a rich international perspective on social justice from educators worldwide. It offers practical classroom strategies and theoretical wisdom, uniquely combining local and global insights for teachers, researchers, and those in higher education.
Assessment is a major driver of the student tertiary experience. This book explores the rubric as the key tool in this experience, examining different models and providing data from students and academics on their efficacy for marking and providing feedback.
In an era of climate change and fake news, our future hangs in the balance. We can’t fall for easy answers. This book uses emerging insights from various fields to build evidence-based and wise solutions, challenging the flawed mental models that hold us back.
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