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Scotland, James – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2020
This study explores whether collaboratively writing about local issues would enable learners to deepen their understanding of their relationship with their own social context. A discursive space within an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course at an institution of higher education in Qatar was created. This was accomplished by replacing the…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Local Issues, Undergraduate Students, Writing Instruction
Wilen-Daugenti, Tracey – Peter Lang New York, 2012
Higher education in the U.S. has traditionally prepared students for work and social success, but with families, work, and society itself undergoing revolutionary change, is this preparation sufficient to develop the 21st-century workforce? This book explores how evolving family structures, new ways of balancing work and personal lives, and rapid…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Industry, Influence of Technology, Social Change
OECD Publishing (NJ3), 2010
"Trends Shaping Education 2010" brings together evidence showing the effects on education of globalisation, social challenges, changes in the workplace, the transformation of childhood, and ICT. To make the content accessible, each trend is presented on a double page, containing an introduction, two charts with brief descriptive text and a set of…
Descriptors: Evidence, Charts, Foreign Countries, Internet