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A study that considers the many factors that influence quality in adult learning. It provides a detailed analysis of the following concepts - characteristics of adults as learners, adult learning theory and andragogy, the experiences of adult learners and what they bring to the learning environment, quality and teaching, and quality and learning.

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Considers the many factors that influence quality in adult learning. This book provides an analysis of the following concepts - characteristics of adults as learners; adult learning theory and andragogy; the experiences of adult learners and what they bring to the learning environment; quality and teaching; and quality and learning.

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The most important new idea in the book (which is in many ways a primer of psycho-biography) is the distinction made between biographical methods primarily based on an empathic approach to the data and what the authors call conceptual methods that rely on deduction from some theoretical schema.

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Perspectives on Diversity, Equity, and Social Justice in Educational Leadership provides educational leaders with practical steps for implementing multicultural education into schools.

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Perspectives on Diversity, Equity, and Social Justice in Educational Leadership provides educational leaders with practical steps for implementing multicultural education into schools.

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Aims to bring together a collection of Professor Les Bell's work on educational leadership and management. This book explores various areas in the leadership and management in education, including leading and managing professional development, staff and performance management, accountability, and the management of primary schools and strategy.

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Ethnic minority women in the U.S. education system often feel that they have two strikes against them. Perspectives on Minority Women in Higher Education will prove useful to scholars in education, women's studies, and minority/culture studies.

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Drawing on philosophical ideas and educational theories, practical examples and case studies in a wide variety of educational settings and styles, this textbook for education studies, discusses ideas such as 'otherness' and 'voice', freedom, belonging and well-being in education and the relational nature of learning.

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Helps make education engaging for both learners and educators, and achieving wider participation and more effective and meaningful inclusion. This book includes sections on voice and empowerment, and critical and alternative perspectives on inclusion in education. It is suitable for students of childhood studies and youth and community studies.

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Designed for aspiring teachers, administrators, and other educational practitioners, this work aims to show how the study of educational philosophy can be of practical value. The author advises a questioning method and presents a set of principles to support this. Case studies are included.

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Designed for aspiring teachers, administrators, and other educational practitioners, this work aims to show how the study of educational philosophy can be of practical value. The author advises a questioning method and presents a set of principles to support this. Case studies are included.

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Research in higher education could be more useful, and better designed if we were clearer about the philosophical and epistemological basis of the theories that underlie our research methods. This volume seeks to create a dialogue with the reader about issues relevant to the philosophy of research.

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Nuraan Davids and Yusef Waghid make the argument that philosophy and education are intertwined as action concepts with the potential to affect teacher education practices. This book addresses pertinent philosophical concepts in education and how these concepts impact teaching, learning, and management as classroom practices.

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Nuraan Davids and Yusef Waghid make the argument that philosophy and education are intertwined as action concepts with the potential to affect teacher education practices. This book addresses pertinent philosophical concepts in education and how these concepts impact teaching, learning, and management as classroom practices.