Adaptivity As A Transformative Disposition

Author : David Hung,Kenneth Y. T. Lim,Shu-Shing Lee
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789814560177

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Adaptivity as a Transformative Disposition by David Hung,Kenneth Y. T. Lim,Shu-Shing Lee Pdf

This volume introduces the concept of ‘adaptivity’ as occurring when, say, individuals cross boundaries. Through illustrations from both formal and informal learning, the book seeks to provide learning designs and frameworks for adaptivity. This book is unique as it ties together: a) social-individual dialectics; and b) adaptive learning as it relates to creativity and imagination. It highlights case studies from social / new media contexts, school learning milieux, and formal and informal situations. It approaches adaptive learning from the perspectives of students, teachers, school leaders, and participants in social media and other digitally mediated environments. The book is a valuable resource for practitioners and academics who are interested in adaptivity as a learning disposition.

Author : Thomas Leitch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780199331017

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The Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies by Thomas Leitch Pdf

This collection of forty new essays, written by the leading scholars in adaptation studies and distinguished contributors from outside the field, is the most comprehensive volume on adaptation ever published. Written to appeal alike to specialists in adaptation, scholars in allied fields, and general readers, it hearkens back to the foundations of adaptation studies a century and more ago, surveys its ferment of activity over the past twenty years, and looks forward to the future. It considers the very different problems in adapting the classics, from the Bible to Frankenstein to Philip Roth, and the commons, from online mashups and remixes to adult movies. It surveys a dizzying range of adaptations around the world, from Latin American telenovelas to Czech cinema, from Hong Kong comics to Classics Illustrated, from Bollywood to zombies, and explores the ways media as different as radio, opera, popular song, and videogames have handled adaptation. Going still further, it examines the relations between adaptation and such intertextual practices as translation, illustration, prequels, sequels, remakes, intermediality, and transmediality. The volume's contributors consider the similarities and differences between adaptation and history, adaptation and performance, adaptation and revision, and textual and biological adaptation, casting an appreciative but critical eye on the theory and practice of adaptation scholars--and, occasionally, each other. The Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies offers specific suggestions for how to read, teach, create, and write about adaptations in order to prepare for a world in which adaptation, already ubiquitous, is likely to become ever more important.

Author : Melvin Delgado
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317406310

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Community Practice and Urban Youth by Melvin Delgado Pdf

Community Practice and Urban Youth is for graduate level students in fields that offer youth studies and community practice courses. Practitioners in these fields, too, will find the book particularly useful in furthering the integration of social justice as a conceptual and philosophical foundation. The use of food, environmental justice, and immigrant-rights and the book’s focus on service-learning and civic engagement involving these three topics offers an innovative approach for courses.

Author : Liang See Tan,Letchmi Devi Ponnusamy,Chwee Geok Quek
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811026973

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Curriculum for High Ability Learners by Liang See Tan,Letchmi Devi Ponnusamy,Chwee Geok Quek Pdf

Given the increasing speed of change and the information explosion around the world, this book draws attention to the practice of teaching for conceptual understanding, which has been heralded as an effective approach within many curriculum frameworks. This book is pivotal in documenting and analyzing efforts in creating concept-based curriculum and pedagogies for high ability learners. Contributors of this book discuss key concepts and trends in their curriculum development efforts for high ability learners, as well as the challenges and solutions in their work. Drawing from a wide group of educators – practitioners, curriculum writers, administrators and researchers – this book has assembled together a range of perspectives on the processes, outcomes and implications of using concept-based curriculum and pedagogies in a dynamic educational landscape. These informed perspectives highlighted by the contributors will prove insightful and inspirational to practitioners, policy makers and other stakeholders alike.

Author : Brian J Caldwell
Publisher : ACER Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781742865034

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The Alignment Premium by Brian J Caldwell Pdf

It is time for a new narrative on schools in Australia. The Alignment Premium proposes its major features. Analysis of approaches in 13 countries, including most of the world's top-performers, provides 15 benchmarks against which Australia's performance is assessed. Findings include:

Author : Ruth Bridgstock,Neil Tippett
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : EDUCATION
ISBN : 9781788972611

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Higher Education and the Future of Graduate Employability by Ruth Bridgstock,Neil Tippett Pdf

This book challenges the dominant ‘employability skills’ discourse by exploring socially connected and networked perspectives to learning and teaching in higher education. Both learning and career development happen naturally and optimally in ecologies, informal communities and partnerships. In the digital age, they are also highly networked. This book presents ten empirical case studies of educational practice that investigate the development of learner capabilities, teaching approaches, and institutional strategies in higher education, to foster lifelong graduate employability through social connectedness.

Author : Sebastian Kot
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1034 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789819709960

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Corporate Practices: Policies, Methodologies, and Insights in Organizational Management by Sebastian Kot Pdf

Author : Chee-Kit Looi,Laik Woon Teh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789812875372

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Scaling Educational Innovations by Chee-Kit Looi,Laik Woon Teh Pdf

This volume stimulates critical discussions of the different variants of implementation, translation and scaling research approaches. It presents an integrated collection of different implementation and scaling studies that analyse the different facets of co-design, learning design, curriculum development, technology development, professional development and programme implementation. It also provides critical reflections on their impact and efficacies on transforming practices, informing policy-making, and theory derivation and improvement. The chapters in this volume will provide readers a deeper understanding of scaling of educational innovations in diverse socio-cultural contexts.

Author : David Hung,Shu-Shing Lee,Yancy Toh,Azilawati Jamaludin,Longkai Wu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811363306

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Innovations in Educational Change by David Hung,Shu-Shing Lee,Yancy Toh,Azilawati Jamaludin,Longkai Wu Pdf

This book offers an ecological perspective to understand the opportunities and complexities of spreading and sustaining educational innovations. It explores the imperatives underpinning educational reforms and identifies the role of schools in developing, disseminating, and sustaining changes in Singapore’s educational context. It also includes international case studies that examine the dialectical relationships between structure, people and culture and demonstrate that cultivating ecologies involves leveraging affordances and resources across the education system to create new contexts, synergies and capacities. Further, it argues that educational innovations and reforms also need to consider tacit knowledge and conditions of transfer, which may be ambiguous and challenging. Few books address the nuances and interactions of innovation and change across levels of the education ecology – from the micro (classroom), meso (organisation / school), exo (partners), macro (policy) and chrono (time scales) levels. The ecological perspective adopted in this book explores the dynamic tensions in order to understand the interplays of policy and school-level influences that contextualize school innovations. By presenting multiple voices and views, it allows impediments and affordances of innovation diffusion to be discussed holistically, which is an integral caveat for nurturing a sustainable ecology that enables innovations.

Author : Julianne Lynch,Julie Rowlands,Trevor Gale,Andrew Skourdoumbis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317277309

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Practice Theory and Education by Julianne Lynch,Julie Rowlands,Trevor Gale,Andrew Skourdoumbis Pdf

Practice Theory and Education challenges how we think about ‘practice’, examining what it means across different fields and sites. It is organised into four themes: discursive practices; practice, change and organisations; practising subjectivity; and professional practice, public policy and education. Contributors to the collection engage and extend practice theory by drawing on the legacies of diverse social and cultural theorists, including Bourdieu, de Certeau, Deleuze and Guattari, Dewey, Latour, Marx, and Vygotsky, and by building on the theoretical trajectories of contemporary authors such as Karen Barad, Yrjo Engestrom, Andreas Reckwitz, Theodore Schatzki, Dorothy Smith, and Charles Taylor. The proximity of ideas from different fields and theoretical traditions in the book highlight key matters of concern in contemporary practice thinking, including the historicity of practice; the nature of change in professional practices; the place of discursive material in practice; the efficacy of refiguring conventional understandings of subjectivity and agency; and the capacity for theories of practice to disrupt conventional understandings of asymmetries of power and resources. Their juxtaposition also points to areas of contestation and raises important questions for future research. Practice Theory and Education will appeal to postgraduate students, academics and researchers in professional practice and education, and scholars working with social theory. It will be of particular interest to those who wish to move beyond the limiting configurations of practice found in contemporary neoliberal, new managerialist and narrow representationalist discourses.

Author : The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research
Publisher : Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9789948146957

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Information Technology and the Future of Education in the United Arab Emirates by The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research Pdf

The UAE has taken concerted steps in order to ensure economic diversification of its key sectors as a means to ensure it is not entirely dependent on an oil/petroleum-based economy. Underpinning this diversification has been the commitment to the creation of a competitive knowledge-based economy, which, unlike agricultural and industrial economies, is not one that relies on natural/physical resources, but instead on a greater reliance on intellectual capabilities. All these requirements are dependent upon an effective education system. Various countries around the world have had great success at matching their education system to the demands of industry and society as well as incorporating the latest technology to improve education. However, exploiting the digital revolution does not stop at secondary education, and the tertiary level of learning can benefit enormously from such digital developments. As technology develops there are new ways to undertake learning and research and more flexible delivery of learning or faster and more sophisticated academic processes. The ubiquitous nature of the internet means that the use of this technology is part and parcel of our everyday life both in our personal and working life; therefore, it is an inevitability in education. Digital infrastructure can be defined as including technical services, technical standards, software tools, supporting policies, practice and regulatory frameworks. It allows for the appropriate creation, management and exploitation of information, resources and services to enable effective and high quality research and education. While more and more people involved in the educational process accept the notion that ICT has become part of our everyday life, and recognize the value of ICT as an enhancer for teaching and learning, there is an increasing demand for educators to have expertise in both their specific subject areas and competence in ICT. The essence of digital information and services, such as the worldwide web, means a whole new mode of operation and production of information, learning and research. It means there are new possibilities and a lot still yet to be imagined. Digital information can be replicated perfectly many times; add a network to that and it can be shared and accessed the world over; add the web to that and it can be viewed, annotated and linked to by anyone anywhere. Information technology not only facilitates how information is imparted in the learning environment, but also alters the relationships between participants in schools, colleges and universities, whether they by teachers, technicians or parents. Not only can more exciting and innovative forms of learning be created, but also the inclusion of all stakeholders in the learning process can be encouraged, which leads to greater understanding, encouragement of other ideas to stimulate learning, and ultimately a more rounded and educated individual and society.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004465008

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Good Teachers for Tomorrow's Schools by Anonim Pdf

Good Teachers for Tomorrow’s Schools explores purpose of education, values in education and talents in education to map foundational, pedagogical and practical aspects of good teaching. It provides valuable research-based perspectives for scholars, teacher candidates, teacher educators and professional teachers.

Author : Hannele Niemi,Jari Multisilta,Lasse Lipponen,Marianna Vivitsou
Publisher : Springer
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789462097490

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Finnish Innovations and Technologies in Schools by Hannele Niemi,Jari Multisilta,Lasse Lipponen,Marianna Vivitsou Pdf

This book combines several perspectives on the steps the Finnish educational system has taken to provide students with the skills and competences needed for living in today’s society and in the future. The ecosystem is used as a metaphor for the educational system. The Finnish system aims to achieve sustainable education by ensuring that the system is simultaneously interconnected and open to transformations. The book describes how a flexible curriculum system is succeeding without the pressures of high-stake testing. It also illustrates how the ongoing curriculum reform of the basic education is working. The book brings together knowledge gained in schools through the cooperation of researchers, teachers, school principals, the public sector, and private companies. The book presents case studies of technology integration aimed at crossing boundaries in formal and informal learning settings, locally and globally. The contributors address 21st-century needs and requirements through learner-driven knowledge creation, collaboration, networking, and digital literacies. It opens new scenarios of how to apply digital storytelling and games connecting fun, motivation, and learning. The strong message is that, through collaboration and networking, we can create an educational ecosystem that supports different learners.

Author : Ariel Sarid
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000451658

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A Dilemmatic Approach to Education by Ariel Sarid Pdf

A Dilemmatic Approach to Education offers a unique approach to educational theorizing that enriches the way we think about education. Problematizing conventional education theory, it presents an unorthodox thesis that education is defined by an internal conflict between competing core values, which in turn produce core dilemmas. The book locates the theoretical foundations of a dilemmatic approach in the works of thinkers such as G. H. Mead, Gert Biesta, Luca Tateo, and Etienne Wenger. It then relates this dilemmatic approach to a general theory of education, partly defined as the realization of the 'good', conceived in terms of competing core values. The book uses Schwartz's theory of universal values as a framework for disclosing the core values competing in educational models. The dilemmatic nature of educational leadership (including social justice leadership) is set within the context of leading leadership theories and illustrated through exemplary leadership dilemmas. Lastly, the book identifies ethical self-understanding and communities-of-practice as practically affecting a dilemmatic approach to education. Presenting an innovative understanding of the nature and meaning of education, this book will be of great interest to academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the field of educational theory and educational research, as well as those interested in a deep engagement about the meaning of education.

Author : Rupert Ward
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781789731491

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Personalised Learning for the Learning Person by Rupert Ward Pdf

The learning environment must change if we are to encourage learners to engage with learning opportunities and develop effective learning solutions which meet all of our needs. This book considers policy, pedagogy and practice to address how we might achieve this critical transformation.