Youth Work, Early Education, and Psychology re-examines the set of relations generally referred to as working with children and youth. It presents a series of propositions that highlight politicized strategies to working with young people under current conditions of late liberal capitalism.
Introduction by B. Gloria Guzman Johannessen -- Part I Mentoring Politics, Policies, and Practices in Higher Education -- Mentoring in and Outside Institutional Politics, Policies, and Practices by B. Gloria Guzman Johannessen and Laurette Bristol -- A Website Analysis of Mentoring Programs for Latina Faculty at the 25 Top-Rank National Universities by Beverly J. Irby, Detra Johnson, Nahed Abde…
Main Topics You Can Find in this “ICME-13 Topical Survey” -- Introduction -- Survey on the State-of-the-art -- Summary and Looking Ahead.Open AccessThis Topical Survey offers a brief overview of the current state of research on and activities for mathematically gifted students around the world. This is of interest to a broad readership, including educational researchers, research mathematic…
In his works on ethics, Foucault turned towards an examination of one's relationship with oneself and others. This differs from the modern approaches that explore the relationship between and the responsibilities of actors to each other by adopting criteria. Ethical criteria engender assumptions about the actors by focusing on their responsibilities. Instead of relying on criteria, Foucault's w…
Foreword -- Introduction. What ifs -- Worldview: sphere and worldview.-Part I: The general context of education -- 1. Education in a post-industrial world -- 2. Math education and culture: learning theories -- Part II: Epistemological questions on AM and EM -- 3. Foundational issues? Whitehead s Multiperspectivalness -- 4. Language and thought -- Part III: Ethnomathematics and education -- 5. M…
Introduction -- On the Path towards the Science of Creative Thinking -- Theoretical Aspects of Creativity -- The Defragmentation of Creativity: Future Directions with an Emphasis on Educational Applications -- A Review of Integrated Approaches to the Study of Creativity: A proposal for a Systems Framework for Creativity -- Creative processes: Art, Design and Science -- Distributing creativity: …
I. Introduction -- 1. Introduction to Methodological Advances in Research on Emotion and Education, Michalinos Zembylas and Paul A. Schutz -- II. Early Work and Reflections on Researching Emotions in Education -- 2. Interview with Megan Boler: From ‘Feminist Politics of Emotions’ to the ‘Affective Turn’, Megan Boler (with Michalinos Zembylas -- 3. The Emotional Dimension in Teachers’ …
This volume introduces the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein to the general field of education and traces her theories of mental life as an emotional situation, through to problems of self/other relations in our own time. The case is made for Klein’s relevance and the difficulties her theories pose to the activities of learning and pedagogical relation. Klein’s vocabulary—the paranoid/schizo…
Drawing on the role of individuals, education and training providers and countries' social policy actions, and borrowing insights from psychology, sociology and economics, this book works towards an interdisciplinary theory of adult lifelong learning participation. It explores the fragmented evidence of why adults do or do not participate in adult lifelong learning activities and focuses on the…
Gordon shows how we can use assessment to support teaching and develop students' competencies. Between 2011 and 2013, Gordon chaired an interdisciplinary commission of scholars and thinkers, who connected transformative research and ideas on learning, teaching, measurement, the nature of tests, intelligence, capability, technology, and policy.