Introduction.- Part I: Globalising Intercultural Education: Politics, Policy-making and Implementation -- Chapter 1. Theorising Globalisation in Education -- Chapter 2. Conceptions of Intercultural Education from around the Globe.- Chapter 3. Conceptions of Education Policy for Intercultural Education.- Chapter 4. The Influence of Supranational Institutions on Policy-development for Inter…
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Context of Partnerships -- Chapter 3. Creating Local Pathways in University Teacher Education: Planting the Seed -- Chapter 4. Making Sense of the Big Picture - What the Literature Says -- Chapter 5. Global Community Partnership Research -- Chapter 6. Global Insights and Support -- Chapter 7. Developing Local Partnerships in HPE (Win, Win, Win) -- Chapter 8…
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Epistemological Foundations -- Chapter 3. Perspectives of Sole Parents in Higher Education -- Chapter 4. The Case Study -- Chapter 5. Judith Butler's Gender Performativity and Recognition -- Chapter 6. Sole Parenting in Higher Education Spaces -- Chapter 7. Access and Attachment to Higher Education for Sole Parents -- Chapter 8. Policy: Performative Recogni…
The era of a 'slow-paced' academia characterized by leisurely tempos of research and pedagogy has gone. Academia is now an intensely social site, and the boundaries between capitalist dynamics and academic life have become blurred. Academic workloads are increasing as academics have to deal with an ever-growing number of tasks, information, obligations, texts, procedures and connections. Yet th…
Academic freedom is increasingly being threatened by a stifling culture of conformity in higher education that is restricting individual academics, the freedom of academic thought and the progress of knowledge – the very foundations upon which academia and universities are built. Once, scholars demanded academic freedom to critique existing knowledge and to pursue new truths. Today, while fon…
Foreword: Reclaiming the Space for Girls -- Chapter 1. Who Are Girls and Is There a Problem? -- Chapter 2. How We Know What We Know: Knowledge and Evidence -- Chapter 3. See How Far We've Come! Girls' Education in Recent History. And Where Does This Leave Girls Now? -- Chapter 4. The Balance Act -- Chapter 5. Girls at School: The Formation of Learning Identities -- Chapter 6. Post School Pathwa…
Introduction -- The Obstruction of Individual Creativity -- Re-evaluating Creativity: A Basic Map to Individual Qualities -- Re-evaluating Creativity: Ascending Further in the Process of Self-review -- Re-evaluating Creativity: A Higher State of Conscience -- Creativity in Education: A Transpersonal Approach (Part I) -- Creativity in Education: A Transpersonal Approach (part II) -- Auto-ethnogr…
Introduction -- Chapter 1. Misnomers -- Chapter 2. Imaginaries about Interculturality -- Discourses of Othering -- Chapter 3. Interculturality and the 'Fragilities' of Human Rights -- Chapter 4. Tools for Change – Dynamic and Realistic Intercultural Competences -- Conclusion. .This book explores the decades-long use of the notion of interculturality in education and other fields, arguing that…
Tracing the evolution of French sociology from the early twentieth century to the present day, this insightful book brings to the fore the renowned origins but relatively slow development of the discipline in France. Divided into four chronological sections it focuses on the social changes and institutional transformations that have impacted on the history of sociology in France as it relates t…
Chapter 1 Social Networking -- Social Networking -- Chapter 2– Social Networking in Asia-Pacific -- Australia - Social Networking in Australia: Opportunities and Risks -- Malaysia - Students’ Perception towards the Potential and Barriers of Social Network Sites in Higher Education -- India - Effect of Social Networking on Higher Education in India -- South Korea - Age and Gender Differences…