Medical Education Reform in China
Practical Lessons from Wuhan University
Due to the rapid pace of scientific progress in medicine, there is a global movement to improve medical education. This unique book describes the Wuhan University Medical School reform initiative, a successful example of medical education reform in China that may offer inspiration, motivation, and new ideas to medical school leaders both in China and abroad. Beginning in 2008, Wuhan University and the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine collaborated to build a state-of-the-art, world-class curriculum and pedagogy with high levels of student and faculty satisfaction and improved student…
Due to the rapid pace of scientific progress in medicine, there is a global movement to improve medical education. This unique book describes a novel and successful example of medical education reform that may inspire medical school leaders both in China and abroad.
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In education, sorting students according to attainment is common. Such sorting clearly sets up the potential for exclusion, based on the attainment ideals and on the modes of selection. Ideals of inclusion suggest diversity, and those of equity, by reference to impartiality, suggest freedom from bias. Honors education, which celebrates excellence, and references “honor” and all that word and concept infers, heightens and promotes the principled recognition of attainment, giving rise to questions of diversity, equity and inclusion. The Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), in its Ten Steps…
Honors education celebrates excellence, but sorting students by attainment raises questions of diversity, equity, and inclusion. How can honors programs be fair and inclusive? This book, born from a National Society for Minorities in Honors conference, explores solutions.
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What are the effects of recent public policies for reducing educational inequalities? How do privatization and other market-based education measures influence schooling in poverty contexts and teacher training programs? In what ways, and to what extent, can these programs take responsibility for improving low-income students’ learning? How do ethnic and cultural differences relate to socioeconomic differences at school? This collection of essays serves to improve the reader’s understanding of the complex relations between education and poverty. While it does this mainly by delving into problems and challenges of the Chilean…
Authored by leading scholars, this collection of essays explores the complex relations between education and poverty. Using the Chilean system as a case study for issues of international concern, it presents research on social equality, schooling, and teacher education.
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Guide to Early Childhood Education
Development – Design – Diversity
Guide to Early Childhood Education: Development – Design – Diversity is a textbook of articles and essays exclusively written to provide a resource for educationalists working in the field of Early Childhood Education (ECE), and programmes from around the world. The text has been formally prepared in three significant parts to offer encouraging insights, early learning ideas, classroom environmental changes and pertinent information and internet resources to assist in guiding successful learning. This textbook is primarily suited for ECE administrators, directors, students, teachers, instructors, professors, and additional personnel that will…
This textbook represents a resource for educationalists working in the field of Early Childhood Education. Its three main parts offer insights, early learning ideas, classroom environmental changes and pertinent information and internet resources to help guide successful learning
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Tackling Online Education
Implications of Responses to COVID-19 in Higher Education Globally
This volume brings together leading experts from eight countries (the USA, Canada, China, Japan, Sweden, India, Azerbaijan and Nigeria) to discuss how national conditions and institutions have shaped initial policy responses to COVID-19. These decisions and actions will have lasting effects on higher education in different national contexts. The book offers solutions to common pedagogical problems such as Zoom fatigue, compassion fatigue and lack of student engagement. It also addresses techniques and support for online teaching and learning including methods to most efficiently utilize technology. The combination of timeliness…
Leading experts from eight countries discuss how national policy responses to COVID-19 shaped higher education. This book offers solutions to common problems like Zoom fatigue and lack of student engagement, and provides techniques for effective online teaching and learning.
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Untold Stories of Black Leadership in Higher Education
Learned, Gifted, and Black
Higher education leadership continues to shift as new individuals move into positions of authority and management within the ranks of academia. These new leaders that come from within the academic and teaching ranks share their stories, experiences, and challenges of not only being black, gifted, and educated, but they speak very candidly about their journey to becoming more seasoned, proficient, and skilled. The narratives and encounters they share provide meaningful insight into the realm of black leadership at the college level, and constitute a guide and tool for handling conflict…
Black leaders from within academia share candid stories of their journey to becoming skilled leaders. Their narratives provide meaningful insight into leadership at the college level and offer a guide for handling conflict and change.
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This book examines the social and emotional challenges faced by autistic students as they pursue their goals at colleges and universities. It explores the nature of autism, with its unique set of challenges and benefits. It views autism from the inside, through the lens of neurodiversity, a point of view from which autism and other conditions are seen as variations of a complex human nervous system, rather than disorders to be cured. Topics covered in this book include cognition and social interaction, identity development, gender, intersectionality, controversies, the challenges of…
This book examines the social and emotional challenges faced by autistic students in college. Viewing autism from the inside through the lens of neurodiversity—as a human variation, not a disorder—it offers practical advice for those who work with autistic students.
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Emotion is one of the most important aspects of the human personality. This book deals with the role of emotional intelligence in teacher trainees across the globe. It emphasizes how emotional intelligence affects the level of aspiration and self-concept of teacher trainees, and shows that emotional intelligence is an important aspect in understanding the behavior of students. The school teacher should observe the students’ emotions and adopt a specific strategy to manage them for specific learning.
This book deals with emotional intelligence in teacher trainees, showing how it affects their aspiration and self-concept. It demonstrates how teachers should observe and manage students’ emotions to adopt specific strategies for effective learning.
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This book offers research-based evidence for considering the next generation of trans*+ individuals and for making classrooms, healthcare facilities, and clinics affirming spaces for people of all genders. Brazenly challenging what once may have seemed standard, it presents the findings of a large-scale mixed-methods research project. The text offers a deep dive into the literature surrounding trans*+ topics and controversies in media, medicine, and mental health. Introducing a new addition to ‘LGBTQIA’, ‘Thisgender’, the book approaches trans*+ studies with provocative questions and illuminating answers.
Based on large-scale research, this book challenges standard views to help create affirming spaces for trans*+ individuals in healthcare and education. It dives into controversies in media, medicine, and mental health, offering provocative questions and illuminating answers.
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To be a good teacher, one must acquire a large set of different kinds of interdisciplinary knowledge. Education for teachers and trainers consists, in part, of learning the language of education and the appropriate associated skills. A deeper understanding of judgments and choices also requires a richer vocabulary than is available in everyday language. On a systemic level, the education system needs to consider the individual as the basic building block of society, and further take into consideration the individual’s consciousness related to their emotional intelligence. Because a person’s consciousness…
This innovative volume will serve to provoke cognitive dissonance and intellectual unease, as it explores cognitive theories and inspires researchers and teachers to update and invigorate some of the theories that have been embedded in their minds since their own school years.
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The edTPA Assessment for Special Education Pre-Service Teachers
Creating a Successful Portfolio
This book is designed to assist the Special Education pre-service teacher plan and prepare a successful edTPA portfolio assessment. Creation of this portfolio requires the candidate to plan, implement, and assess a series of three to five lessons designed specifically for one student with a disability. In total, the portfolio amounts to the writing of up to fifty pages of commentary and analysis of their pedagogical skills. The need for pre-service teachers in special education to receive a passing score on the edTPA portfolio assessment has become a…
This book assists the Special Education pre-service teacher in preparing a successful edTPA portfolio, a requirement for teacher certification in most states. It provides detailed guidance, best practices, and proven strategies for creating a high-quality portfolio.
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This volume brings together articles and narratives exclusively written to encourage and assist a variety of educational professionals in the disciplines of preschool education, elementary education, higher education, arts, teacher development and leadership. It also touches on areas of multicultural studies in the humanities and the social sciences. The material and information provided here serves as an excellent resource for university coursework and as a supplemental reading tool for journal reviews, response reports and additional groupwork and online course assignments. This text will be of particular interest to educators, principals,…
This volume assists educational professionals in disciplines from preschool to higher education, leadership, and multicultural studies. An excellent resource for university coursework, this text is of particular interest to educators, administrators, psychologists, and students.
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Who doesn’t want to improve teaching and learning? A lot of people continue to ask searching questions like: Will I ever use this in real life? Why waste time learning all this stuff? Such questions are never-ending. This book provides answers to these and many other queries. Repeatedly, we hear sayings like, ‘No pain, no gain’; ‘You’ll know it when you feel it’; ‘You have to experience it to know about it’; ‘Experience teaches!’; and ‘Experience is the best teacher!’ Such commonly heard adages appear to underscore the importance of…
Answering questions like “Will I ever use this?,” this book shows why learning is most effective through experience. It provides the tools needed to make better use of experiences to improve teaching and learning.
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This book discusses modern, user-friendly radiometric practices that make it possible to convert from traditional source-based optical radiation measurements to the more efficient and higher accuracy detector-based applications and calibrations. It considers improved performance optical detector and radiometer standards including photometers and tristimulus colorimeters, and describes research-based design considerations, measurement of radiometric, optical, and electronic characteristics, and comparison of absolute-, transfer-, and working-standard detectors and radiometers from the ultraviolet (UV) to the infrared (IR) range. The book will serve to guide the optical radiation measurement community, researchers, manufacturers, calibration laboratories,…
This book guides the switch from traditional source-based optical radiation measurements to more efficient, higher-accuracy detector-based applications. It covers improved standards from the UV to the IR range, enabling low-uncertainty radiometric and photometric measurements.
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Pastoral Care in Education
New Directions for New Times
This book is both a celebration of 40 years of the National Association for Pastoral Care in Education (NAPCE) and a forward-thinking volume examining the key pastoral issues of our time. Bringing together a range of expert contributors from a variety of educational settings, the book offers fresh insights and evidence-based strategies which will be of immediate relevance for all educators. This unique volume considers a wide range of themes, from charting the early days of pastoral care in education in the UK and the establishment of NAPCE through to…
A celebration of 40 years of NAPCE and a forward-thinking volume on today’s key pastoral issues. Bringing together expert contributors, it offers fresh insights and evidence-based strategies for all educators, making the case for the centrality of pastoral care in education.
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Education from a Whiteheadian Point of View
Process, Rhythm, and Poiesis
The basic aims of contemporary thinking in education are to cultivate a proper comprehension of the meaning and purpose of education and the role of the teacher, and to develop adequate theoretical and methodological frameworks that combine some of the positive sides of the leading theories, while avoiding their disadvantages. Toward these ends, one excellent candidate for consideration is Alfred North Whitehead’s (1861-1947) process-relational philosophy of education, as set forth in The Aims of Education (1929) and elsewhere. The contributors to this volume analyze Whitehead’s philosophy of education in a…
In this insightful and pertinent collection, the basic aims of contemporary thinking in education are critically analysed through the lens of Alfred North Whitehead’s (1861-1947) process-relational philosophy of education, as set forth in The Aims of Education and elsewhere.
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The Professional Doctorate in Education
Activism, Transformation and Practice
The book explores and analyses, from a variety of conceptual perspectives, the encounters with self and others that professional doctorate programmes in education both necessitate and enable. It documents the ways in which professional identities, bodies of knowledge and practices are thereby challenged, renegotiated and strengthened. It comprises 14 chapters written by academic staff engaged in professional doctorate programmes in education and by professional practitioners who have undertaken doctoral study. The volume is both useful and provocative, offering insights to colleagues who design and deliver EdD programmes in thinking through…
This book explores how professional doctorate programmes in education challenge and strengthen professional identities, knowledge, and practices. It offers useful and provocative insights for EdD students and for the colleagues who design and deliver these programmes.
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Voices from Far Away Lands
From Divergent to Convergent
This collection of essays highlights the power of the story, especially as told by those living an international life. What compels them to share their experiences? What have they experienced? What have they learned? In this time of tensions across the globe, rapid technological change and extensive migration, there is compelling value in learning through storied experiences. This volume explores the concepts of identity, change, equality, ethics, citizenship, family, feminism, community, faiths and values, advocacy and charity, systems, and languages. These movements are contextualized through a storied approach, adopting social…
In an era of global tension, stories from international lives offer vital insights. These compelling essays explore our search for identity, community, and belonging in a changing world.
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This is a unique book that covers innovative grammar teaching approaches and techniques for a modern generation of EFL/ESL students. It juxtaposes traditional grammar teaching methods with newer ones, and reveals the advantages and disadvantages of each. Moreover, it provides free and controlled grammar activities which offer instructors an ample variety of tasks that facilitate EFL/ESL teachers’ work to practice certain grammatical patterns.
This book covers innovative grammar teaching for modern EFL/ESL students. It compares traditional and new methods, revealing their advantages and disadvantages, and provides a variety of activities to help teachers practice key grammatical patterns.
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Universal design has traditionally focused on learning spaces—that is, the physical buildings and areas that support teaching and learning. This book takes a broad interpretation of this concept to include a specific focus on teaching and learning practice in higher education. It draws from the expertise of a range of professionals working in higher education across three countries (the UK, China and Malaysia), thus giving voice to rarely explored debates around teaching and learning, but also drawing from different cultural perspectives. The volume also explores challenges that arise…
This book expands universal design beyond physical spaces to focus on teaching and learning practice in higher education. Drawing on international expertise, it offers practical solutions for practitioners keen to enhance their practice and, as a consequence, student outcomes.
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