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Roseanna Bourke; John O’Neill; Judith Loveridge – Emerald Publishing Limited, 2024
Learning and personal development are integral to being a person, and learning and teaching are integral to life as a social being. "Understanding Children's Informal Learning" presents children's informal learning out-of-school and explores how this knowledge can enhance teaching and learning practice in the classroom. The authors focus…
Descriptors: Children, Elementary School Students, Informal Education, After School Programs
Olav Eikeland Ed.; Hedvig Johannesen Ed. – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2024
This anthology discusses the necessity of an expanded notion of lifelong learning. Expanded lifelong learning means providing consistent and inter-connected preconditions for learning in all life contexts, both individually and collectively. Expanding the concept of lifelong learning means to provide conducive preconditions for learning,…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Learning Activities, Informal Education, Learning Processes
Lesley Powell, Editor; Adam Cooper, Editor; Trent Brown, Editor; Simon McGrath, Editor – Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education, 2024
This edited volume explores how youth and informal sector workers in the global south are pioneering learning and livelihoods that exist at the intersections of, and beyond, the boundaries of the state, market, and other formal institutions. Underpinned by research undertaken in the global south, this book discusses how we might better theorise,…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Vocational Education, Informal Education, Foreign Countries
Wetzel, Melissa Mosley; Holyoke, Erica; Alexander, Kerry H.; Dunham, Heather; Collins, Claire – Harvard Education Press, 2023
In "Coaching in Communities," researcher Melissa Mosley Wetzel and her coauthors distill the lessons of an eight-year study into a transformative educator training model, Coaching with CARE (critical and content-focused, appreciative, reflective, and experiential). They demonstrate how effective, contextual teacher training can be a…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Teacher Education, Program Effectiveness, Models
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Glenn S. Levine, Editor; David Mallows, Editor – Educational Linguistics, 2022
This volume focuses on the learning of host-country languages by migrants in Europe. It identifies, clarifies, and offers insights into issues and central questions related to the learning of host-country languages with an emphasis on adolescent and adult language learners in formal and informal settings. The book draws on data collected following…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Learning, Second Language Learning, Immigrants
Lytra, Vally, Ed.; Ros i Solé, Cristina, Ed.; Anderson, Jim, Ed.; Macleroy, Vicky, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2022
This book responds to a growing body of work in sociolinguistics and applied linguistics that places an emphasis on situated descriptions of language education practices and illuminates how these descriptions are enmeshed with local, institutional and wider social forces. It engages with new ways of understanding language that expand its meaning…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Applied Linguistics, Semiotics, Native Language Instruction
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Goller, Michael, Ed.; Kyndt, Eva, Ed.; Paloniemi, Susanna, Ed.; Damsa, Crina, Ed. – Professional and Practice-based Learning, 2022
This volume provides alternatives for tackling existing empirical, methodological, and analytical challenges. It does so by providing a broad overview of less established, as well as emerging methods, which are of great relevance for current research on professional learning and development. As such, it offers a comprehensive collection of…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Workplace Learning, Research Methodology, Educational Research
Kress, Gunther, Ed.; Selander, Staffan, Ed.; Säljö, Roger, Ed.; Wulf, Christoph, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021
This book studies learning as a social enterprise, contextually situated, organized and assessed. It gives a broad theoretic grounding for an understanding of learning which goes beyond a common reductionist approach. The book discusses four related approaches to learning which share a social perspective: social semiotics and multimodality; a…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Semiotics, Expertise, Problem Solving
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Achiam, Marianne, Ed.; Dillon, Justin, Ed.; Glackin, Melissa, Ed. – Contributions from Science Education Research, 2021
This book discusses a number of ways in which out-of-school science education can uniquely engage learners with 'wicked' global problems such as biodiversity loss and climate change. The idea for the volume originated in discussions among members of the ESERA special interest group on "Science Education in Out-of-School contexts". It…
Descriptors: Science Education, Informal Education, Climate, Learner Engagement
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M. Wade Mahon – Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
This book documents an informal system of education that emerged in Ireland between the late 1750s and the end of the century, a system that operated largely without funding or direction by church or state. In a society as divided as eighteenth-century Ireland, it is remarkable that such a system could succeed, paving the way for the more formal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Informal Education, Educational Change, Educational Finance
Irby, Decoteau J., Ed.; Anderson, Charity, Ed.; Payne, Charles M., Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2022
The word "dignity" is not typically used in education, yet it is at the core of strong pedagogy. This book names the concept and shows readers what education looks like when it is centered on students' dignity. By bringing together a collection of chapters written by authors with wide-ranging expertise, this volume presents a powerful…
Descriptors: Human Dignity, Social Justice, Individual Development, Social Emotional Learning
Pahl, Kate; Rowsell, Jennifer – MIT Press, 2020
This book approaches literacy as lived and experienced in the everyday. A living literacies approach draws not only on such official, schooled activities as reading, writing, speaking, and listening but also on such routine, tacit activities as scrolling through Instagram, watching news footage, and listening to music. It goes beyond well-worn…
Descriptors: Literacy, Social Change, Activism, Case Studies
Balme, Christopher B., Ed.; Hakib, Abdul Karim, Ed. – Online Submission, 2023
Theatre for Development is one of the most dynamic and controversial theatre movements on the global South. Emerging in Southern Africa in the 1970s to address social and economic problems using theatrical techniques, today it is taught in theatre departments across sub-Saharan Africa and employed in numerous contexts from health care to…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Financial Support
Mynard, Jo, Ed.; Shelton-Strong, Scott J., Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2022
Through the application of self-determination theory (SDT) to research and practice, this book deepens our understanding of how autonomous language learning can be supported and understood within environments outside of the classroom. Theoretical, empirical and practice-focused chapters examine autonomy support in a range of contexts and settings,…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Independent Study, Academic Advising, Second Language Learning
M. Dolores Ramírez-Verdugo Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024
This innovative collection explores transnational approaches to bilingual teacher education from different angles, unpacking the challenges and opportunities in contemporary global bilingual programs. The book offers a thorough account of transnational pedagogical research and best practice in bilingual and second language education to advance…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Bilingual Education, Foreign Countries, Content and Language Integrated Learning
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