Suchergebnisse

When speaking about innovation in education and teaching, people usually refer to changes fostered by innovation in technology for the purpose of learning, teaching, and curriculum development. The reason why this happens is obvious: technical / technological changes do happen fast and their effects are more spectacular than the effects induced by the slower, but longer lasting institutional innovation. One of the most important such innovation that occurred in Europe, in the last decades, is the Bologna Process. Its relevance is given, beneath encouraging mobility, mainly by opening the possibility of standardization and commensurability for the European national Higher Education systems. European nation-states do consider education one of the main territories of national sovereignty, sometimes even by raising artificial barriers in the way of rapprochement. In my paper, I intend to present the main advantages of the Bologna Process, the art it gained ground in Europe and the main dangers lurking on it, especially nationalist populism. As an illustration, I will use the case of Hungary, one of the member-states with the most ambiguous attitudes towards the EU and its integration process. This work is licensed under aCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

There is a widely held belief that we have entered a new age – an age defined by terms such as the global economy, the global village, and the information age. As the political and business world act and react to this new age, these sectors seek to influence higher education by demanding positivistic and pragmatic approaches to planning, pedagogy, and curriculum development. As institutions of higher education respond to the demands arising from the knowledge society and as the uncritical use of new technologies multiplies, it is incumbent upon teacher educators to clarify their purposes and procedures. The authors argue that exhilarating and empowering ways of thinking and doing in teacher education could arise out of the convergence of the metaphorical application of chaos theory and the type of historical thinking proposed by Robin George Collingwood. To demonstrate how these ways of thinking might come together to counteract the dominant mythologies of positivism, they provide brief outlines of the salient features of chaos theory and of Collingwoodian thought and then explore how these ways of thinking could be utilized to shape teacher education.

"This reference book presents a view of public health through an analysis of healthcare services and delivery; policies in terms of policymaking, ethics, and governance; as well as the way society is educated on public health affairs, covering a wide range of issues such as healthcare policy, health literacy, healthcare reform, accessibility, public welfare, and more"--

"The Role of ICT in Higher Education: Trends Problems and Prospects provides an informative collection of chapters on ICT and data analytics in education, helping to lead the digital revolution in higher education. The chapters emphasize skill development through ICT, artificial intelligence in education, policies for integrating ICT in higher education, and more. The volume looks at trends, problems, and prospects for ICT in education that emphasize the learning of computer applications. It focuses mainly on technological advancement for effective teaching learning that includes ICT in education, the perceived role of ICT in the teaching-learning transaction, pedagogy for teaching-learning in the 21st century, student-centered learning based on ICT, learning analytics, online technologies learning, tools for technology enhanced learning, distance education and learning, the effective use of ICT in management education, experiences in ICT for technology-enhanced learning, influence of ICT in research development in higher education, role of teachers in direct classroom teaching in web-based education system, and role of ICT in innovation capacity building. The case studies presented illustrate the ideas and concepts discussed in the chapters. Educators and administrators in higher education will find valuable information to apply to their own learning programs."--