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Open and Distance Education in Australia, Europe and the Americas: National Perspectives in a Digital Age. SpringerBriefs in Open and Distance Education
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Qayyum, Adnan, Ed.; Zawacki-Richter, Olaf, Ed. – SpringerBriefs in Open and Distance Education, 2018
This book describes the history, structure and institutions of open and distance education in six countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, the UK and the US. It discusses how open and distance education is evolving in a digital age to reflect the needs and circumstances of national higher education systems in these countries, and explores…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Education, Distance Education, Higher Education
Using Social Theory in Higher Education
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Remy Y. S. Low Ed.; Suzanne Egan Ed.; Amani Bell Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2023
This open access book offers a unique and refreshing view on working with social theory in higher education. Using engaging first-person accounts coupled with critical intellectual analysis, the authors demonstrate how theory is grappled with as part of an ongoing practice rather than a momentary disembodied encounter. In a structure that creates…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Decolonization
Education Policy and the Political Right: The Burning Fuse beneath Schooling in the US, UK and Australia. Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics
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Rodwell, Grant – Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics, 2021
This work attempts a comparative description and analysis, focusing on the US, the UK, and Australia on the topic of the Right, educational policy, and schooling. It adopts as its underlying theme the burning fuse in tracing the topic back to Joseph de Maistre a Rightist who fled revolutionary France to seek safety in the company of Tsar Alexander…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
Open and Distance Education in Australia, Europe and the Americas: National Perspectives in a Digital Age. SpringerBriefs in Open and Distance Education
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Qayyum, Adnan, Ed.; Zawacki-Richter, Olaf, Ed. – SpringerBriefs in Education, 2018
This book describes the history, structure and institutions of open and distance education in six countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, the UK and the US. It discusses how open and distance education is evolving in a digital age to reflect the needs and circumstances of national higher education systems in these countries, and explores…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Open Education, Distance Education
Harnessing Linguistic Variation to Improve Education. Rethinking Education. Volume 5
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Yiakoumetti, Androula, Ed. – Peter Lang Oxford, 2012
This volume brings together research carried out in a variety of geographic and linguistic contexts including Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, Europe and the United States and explores efforts to incorporate linguistic diversity into education and to "harness" this diversity for learners' benefit. It challenges the largely…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Language Planning, Pidgins, Creoles
International Dictionary of Adult and Continuing Education. Revised Edition.
Jarvis, Peter – 2002
This dictionary defines approximately 3,500 terms related to adult, continuing, higher, and lifelong learning. It provides detailed references to the main historical and contemporary figures, organizations, and concepts involved in adult and further education around the world with a distinct focus on the core issues in this rapidly changing field.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy