Chapter 1. MOOCs and Educational Value -- Chapter 2. The Economic Crisis and the Rise of MOOCs -- Chapter 3. What are MOOCs? -- Chapter 4. The Primary Educational Value of MOOCs -- Chapter 5. MOOCs and Career Qualifications: Certificates, Credits, Diplomas and Beyond -- Chapter 6. Three Contributions of MOOCs. .This book offers a re-assessment of the educational and occupational value of MOOCs …
The Educational Significance of Human and Non-Human Animal Interactions explores human animal/non-human animal interactions from different disciplinary perspectives, from education policy to philosophy of education and ecopedagogy. The authors refute the idea of anthropocentrism (the belief that human beings are the central or most significant species on the planet) through an ethical investiga…
Examining cases in educational technology from computer assisted instruction to MOOCs, this volume shows how social interests frame reform programs and realign organizational and pedagogical strategies around them to produce a particular environment for change in higher education. Technology is a contingent product rather than a driver of such changes, suggesting that the politics of reform in …
Preface by Jane Erricker and Clive Erricker -- 1. Introduction: Contemporary understandings and applications of spirituality: An introduction; Marian de Souza -- Section 1: Mysticism and Secularism -- 2. Christian spirituality and religious mysticism: Adjunct, parallel or embedded concepts?; Bernadette Flanagan -- 3. Spirituality and mysticism literature from Iran; Haleh Rafi -- 4. Contemporary…
Chapter 1: Science Education as a Site of Struggle -- Chapter 2: The Constitution of Subjectivities: Discourse, Practices, and Repetition -- Chapter 3: The ‘Ethical Subject’ of Science Education -- Chapter 4: Science Education and Subjectivity in (Bio)political Context -- Chapter 5: Egalitarian Politics and the Dimensions of An Ethical Self -- Afterword: Different concepts and tools to brin…
Preface; Part I: Ethics, Islam and Education -- Chapter 1. Qurānic Conceptual Framework of Ethics -- Chapter 2. The Qurān and the Espousal of Ethics -- Chapter 3. Qurānic Conceptions of being Muslim -- Chapter 4. Qurānic Conceptions of Education -- Part II. Participants in Muslim Education -- Chapter 5. The Qurān and Individual Autonomy -- Chapter 6. Qurānic Conceptions of Community -- Ch…
Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Pierre Bourdieu -- Chapter 3: Jacques Lacan -- Chapter 4: Michel Foucault -- Chapter 5: Gilles Deleuze -- Chapter 6: Bruno Latour -- Chapter 7: Rosi Braidotti -- Chapter 8: Concluding Narratives.This book explicates some of the fundamental philosophical tenets underpinning key theoretical frameworks, and demonstrates how these tenets inform particular kinds…
The image of the university is tarnished: economists argue that modern universities foster 'meritocratic extremism'; educationalists say they perpetuate inequality; novelists describe for us the 'barbaric rituals' of academics and philosophers say universities are engaged in 'practices of barbarism'. This book examines how these aspects of the modern university have transformed its educational …
Chapter One: A Relational Approach to Israel Education -- Chapter Two: Making Israel Education Happen -- Chapter Three: A Culture of Israel Education -- Chapter Four: Epilogue. .Open AccessThis book develops a new philosophy of Israel education. “Person-centered” Israel education is concerned with developing in individual learners the ability to understand and make rational, emotional, and …
The Globalizers -- ICT-in-Education Policies and Implementation in Singapore and Other Asian Countries -- Confronting the Challenge of the Information and Knowledge Society in Developing Countries -- The Reformists -- The Turtle Stands on an Emerging Educational Paradigm -- Portable Computing Challenges Schooling -- Thus Spake Venitia -- Professional Development for Teachers and Quality in Scho…