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Understanding Ubuntu for Enhancing Intercultural Communications
Given the importance of cross-cultural competence, it is important that scholars from different parts of the world describe the conceptual frameworks underlying their cultures to provide people with knowledge helpful for understanding and navigating cultural barriers and promoting harmony and productivity in places of work. The literature is replete with reference points for understanding Eurocentric worldviews. Little has been written about non-Eurocentric worldviews with respect to the subject of socio-cultural harmony and interpersonal relations such as Ubuntu, Africa’s indigenous philosophy and its relevancy. This philosophy teaches the importance of maintaining good human relations an...
Skills Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
This publication reviews recent developments within technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as future challenges in skills development in the region. Based upon 70 case studies covering 20 countries, it provides a good starting point for the development of country policies and programmes, of relevance to other African regions as well as countries in other regions facing similar challenges. Issues discussed include: the labour market context, reform of public training programmes, regulation of non-government training institutions, enterprise-based training, building skills for the informal economy, balancing cost-effectiveness with growth and equity, and financing.
African Pentecostal Theology
African Pentecostal Theology: Modality, Disciplinarity, and Decoloniality explores research methodology, theological disciplines, and contextualization as important aspects in the process of studying Pentecostal theology in an African context. Mookgo Solomon Kgatle outlines different data collection and data analysis methods, including the skills of interpreting and presenting research findings in a responsible manner. This book illustrates that Pentecostal theology, given its pneumatological approach, goes beyond conventional theological disciplines in transdisciplinary research. The development of knowledge in African Pentecostal Theology should recognize African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIKS), African oral and traditional cultures, and African indigenous languages to be relevant to Africans. Pentecostal theologians from different theological disciplines in Africa and globally will find this book a worthwhile read.
Handbook of Research on Driving Transformational Change in the Digital Built Environment
The construction industry is amidst a digital transformation that is focused on addressing well-documented issues and calls for significant improvements and changes through increased productivity, whole-life value, client focus, reduction of waste, and being more sustainable. The key aspect to driving change and transformation is the education and upskilling of the required workforce towards developing the required capacities. Various approaches can be taken to embed digital construction within education and through collaborative efforts in order to drive change and facilitate improvements. The Handbook of Research on Driving Transformational Change in the Digital Built Environment focuses o...
Global Higher Education and the COVID-19 Pandemic
This timely volume throws light on the challenges faced by the higher education industry during the disruption from the pandemic and offers solutions for the future of higher education. It discusses methodological approaches that look at how the pandemic fostered the rise of e-learning, blended and virtual learning, and teachers’ changing roles. The book examines the role of teaching-learning practices in the era of COVID-19, the impact of digital learning on students, and the psychological and emotional impact on students from digital learning and blended learning during the pandemic.
Cases on Global Competencies for Educational Diplomacy in International Settings
Teaching abroad is one promising pathway to educational diplomacy and positive international relations. As opportunities to teach internationally increase, educators need to develop skills and cultural understandings that will prepare them for the challenges they may face in diverse cultures. Cases on Global Competencies for Educational Diplomacy in International Settings is a pivotal academic resource that explores the development of cultural competency, knowledge, skills, and dispositions critical for teaching abroad. Featuring anecdotal vignettes that illustrate competency on topics, such as adaptability, educational diplomacy, and cultural fluency in educational ventures, this book is geared towards school administrators, university professors, curriculum developers, and researchers interested in teaching and leading abroad.
The Next Generation of STEM Teachers
STEM Teaching: An Interdisciplinary Approach breaks from the more historical idea of making knowledge within disciplines and seeks to engage the reader in a growing conversation that is gaining momentum and is focused on an ‘interdisciplinarity of STEM education’, which seeks to embrace and/or present emerging perspectives on the standards. Importantly, the conversation on STEM education and interdisciplinary approaches to teacher preparation may draw into specific relief the respective professional and/or disciplinary standards for each of the four STEM disciplines as each relates to fostering an interdisciplinary approach. The importance and relevance of this interdisciplinary perspective to teacher preparation lies in the realization that STEM literacy moves into everyday lives and thinking, and not just in STEM related disciplines. This means that faculty in teacher preparation need to extend the range of STEM literacy in pedagogical strategies so that STEM teaching is enriched with multimodal literacies into teaching and learning, which in turn makes STEM knowledge more relevant and engaging for its manifest connections to solving the problems that challenge society.
Tep Vol 30-N2
001 – Whither Teacher Education in an Era of the Neoliberal Social Imaginary? Patrick M. Jenlink 002 – Accountability as a Technology of Governmentality: Policy and Disruption on Teaching Practice Denise LaVoie La France 003 – The Master’s Tools: Revealing Doxic Foundations and (Re)Imagining Complexity to Position Future Teachers as Agentic Selves Mary Catherine Breen 004 – Neoliberalism, Critical Pedagogy and Forging the Next Revolution in Teacher Education Peter McLaren 005 – DIALOGUES OF TEACHER EDUCATION SECTION 005a – Jenlink.doc 005b – The Neoliberal Social Imaginary and Teacher Education Rebecca A. Goldstein 05c – Neoliberalism in Teacher Education: The Contradiction...
Tep Vol 30-N3
001 – Our Concern as Teachers Educators: The Hegemonic Forces of Dominant Ideology Patrick M. Jenlink 002 – The Challenges of Differentiating Instruction for ELLs: An Analysis of Content-Area Lesson Plans Produced by Preservice Language Arts and Social Studies Teachers Clara Lee Brown and Rachel Endo 003 – Prospective Teachers’ Beliefs in Factors Negatively Influencing African American, Low-income Anglo, and Hispanic Students’ Academic Achievement Maximo Plata, Alaric A. Williams, and Tracy B. Henley 004 – Teachers Matter: The Teacher’s Role in Increasing Working-Class Latina/o Youth’s College Access and Empowerment Leticia Rojas 005 – From “Blissfully Unaware” to “An...
Transforming Tertiary Agricultural Education in Africa
Enormous changes are affecting African production agriculture, urbanization, and food consumption patterns, requiring new approaches to training and knowledge generation and dissemination to achieve food security. Many agricultural universities and other tertiary agricultural education (TAE) organizations have been slow to respond, hindered by inadequate staffing and facilities and growing competition for funds. However, some African agricultural universities are transforming themselves and are achieving remarkable success. This book documents successful approaches to remaking TAE in Africa to inspire leaders, both formal and informal, of other TAE organizations. It emphasises adaptive strat...
