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  • Transfer of Learning in Professional and Vocationalby Viviene Cree; Cathlin Macaulay

    Routledge 2001; US$ 55.95

    In this book the authors unpack the concept of transfer of learning, examine it in relation to current debates in education and show how it can be used most effectively to benefit students. more...

  • Quality Assurance in Continuing Professional Educationby Philip Tovey

    Routledge 1994; US$ 61.95

    Based on research conducted in and around UK Universities, this book provides an examination of what quality assurance means for continuing professional education whilst exploring the range of existing practice within it. more...

  • Developing Professional Knowledge And Competenceby Michael Eraut

    RoutledgeFalmer 1994; US$ 56.95

    This volume analyzes different types of knowledge and know-how used by practising professionals in their work and how these different kinds of knowledge are acquired by a combination of learning from books, learning from people and learning from personal experience. more...

  • Professional Experience and the Investigative Imaginationby Richard Winter; Paula Sobiechowska; Alyson Buck

    RoutledgeFalmer 1999; US$ 55.95

    This book explains how creative writing can be used successfully in the context of professional education. It argues that there is a role for this imaginative style in an area that has traditionally favoured a more distanced approach. more...

  • Professional Competence And Higher Educationby Richard Winter; Maire Maisch

    Taylor & Francis 1996; US$ 57.50

    Based on lessons learned from the ASSET programme, a national project to develop a competence-based model of curriculum and assessment, this text presents a research based description of a possible future for higher education and for education of the prof more...

  • Practitioner Research and Professional Development in Educationby A. Campbell; O. McNamara; P. Gilroy

    Sage Publications Ltd. 2004; US$ 39.00

    Drawing directly on the work of teachers and other professional trainers concerned with programmes for continuing professional development, Research for Professional Development promotes action research for practitioners so as to develop qualities of critical appraisal and analysis of practice, appropriate to professional contexts. more...

  • One-Party Classroomby David Horowitz; Jacob Laksin

    Crown Publishing Group 2009; US$ 14.99

    “David Horowitz has single-handedly exposed the intellectual corruption that exists within the classrooms of American colleges. Like all forms of corruption, indoctrination flourishes when kept in the dark. Here, Horowitz turns on the bright lights to expose what has become profoundly wrong with our colleges and universities. We are all in his debt.” –Ward Connerly, former regent, University of California David Horowitz and coauthor Jacob Laksin take us inside twelve major universities where radical agendas have been institutionalized and scholarly standards abandoned. The schools they examine are not the easily avoided bottom of the barrel. Rather, they are an all-too-representative sampling of American higher education... more...

  • The Challenges of Educating People to Lead in a Challenging Worldby Michael K. Mccuddy; Herman Van Den Bosch; Wm. Benjamin Martz

    Springer 2007; US$ 265.00

    Aims to help educators and the educational enterprise become more innovative, efficient, and effective in addressing the teaching/learning challenges associated with helping students prepare to face their own challenges as leaders and followers in an increasingly complex, uncertain, and global economy. more...

  • Towards Integration of Work and Learningby Päivi Tynjälä

    Springer 2008; US$ 129.00

    Examines learning taking place on the interface between education and working life at three levels: the individual learning processes; the organisational learning processes in educational institutions and work organisations; and, the education system. This book provides a comprehensive review of the integration of work and learning. more...

  • Faith Schools and Societyby Jo Cairns

    Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 140.00

    This is an engaging and insightful monograph that examines the fit between personal, spiritual and academic goals in contemporary educational experience and individual school cultures. Do faith schools have a place in a plural society? Which types of school contribute most effectively to a plural society? This fascinating monograph seeks to answer these questions and more by exploring the fit between personal, spiritual and academic goals in contemporary educational experience and individual school cultures. Jo Cairns, a well-respected authority on faith schools, argues that educational ideology in plural societies has to find a way of recognizing and responding to the 'predicament' of pluralism as it is experienced by individuals and... more...