... education. Her writings and teaching on international social work, emphasising human rights, are significant. Experience included child welfare, work for the social work professional association and the Council on Social Work Education. Later international work includes work with the United Nations...

...This chapter considers some of the main actors that go to make up a university, concentrating on the roles of the built environment, academics, technicians, contract research staff, postgraduates and administrators. There is a substantial digression on the growing role of online teaching. Robbins...

...This chapter inspects what a critical-creative pedagogical approach to teaching social science students about economic challenges could look like. It presents the neoclassical orthodoxies against which demands for more pluralist and heterodox teaching have been made. The chapter particularly looks...

..., and learning or self-teaching entirely separate from institutions. This chapter shows how relatively formal activities seemingly unrelated to attainment can benefit attainment at school. However, they do not seem to be able to reduce the poverty gradient in attainment. Moreover, using parents more...

... analysis has become part of programs teaching political science at universities in Germany. The finding is that two thirds of the BA-programs in political science do contain modules on policy analysis, roughly a quarter of all programs have some focus on policy analysis and almost 9 per cent have a strong...

...This chapter focuses on three categories of narratives: stories about teaching a social research course; student's stories about their practice as researchers; and the stories of forty-two women and men working for the community. These stories emerged from a teaching programme in which final-year...

.... They trace the recent history of teacher education including in particular the ‘universitisation’ of provision as the colleges of education were each merged with universities. The General Teaching Council for Scotland has played a very significant role in teacher education policy since its formation in 1966...

...In this chapter Teresa O'Doherty distinguishes two particular key periods of reform in teacher education. The first is from 1965 to 1975 and saw the creation of colleges of education and the establishment of the BEd degree as a major route into teaching. The second period is from 1991 to 2006 where...

...What opportunities do digital technologies present? How do developments in digital media support scholarship and teaching yet further social justice? Written by two experts in the field, this accessible book is the first to look at scholarly practice in the digital era and consider how it can...

... perspective, schools are “affective enterprises” in which both teaching and learning are deeply intertwined with relational, ethical, and affective dimensions of care and interdependence in ways that challenge an individualized and unidirectional concept of care. Moreover, the children express a critical...

...This chapter addresses the role of religion and belief in university teaching and learning. In some subjects, of course, religion is simply a topic of relevance, as in history and in religious studies itself. In others, it is a cultural legacy to be decoded and understood. In others again...

... research, teaching and activism. critical animal geographies human exceptionalism multispecies justice MSJ vegan geographies children vegan climate change ‘justice for all’ meat industry speciesism animal agriculture anthroprivilege autoethnography companion animals environmentalism and animal...

... stories of transformative teaching and learning: educational experiences that have brought positive change to people’s lives and a huge range of wider social benefits. These stories assert the transformative power of education, its important role in bringing about social justice and as a space...

...This chapter presents a possible approach to teaching comparative public administration (CPA), based on the experiences of a teacher of this subject in Latin American universities. Training on CPA is quite familiar in master’s programs of the region, in which one course of the curricula is usually...

... explores what queer theory could bring to science communication when taught as a subject in tertiary education and outside of that context. It considers the possibilities of teaching science communication queerly. heteronormativity pedagogy queer theory ableism misogyny positionality racism and ‘race...

...This chapter discusses what the women shared concerning generativity – both action and desires. The chapter expounds on the concept of generativity, which encompasses teaching, mentoring, and encouraging the next generation. It offers a critique of the concept of generativity as based...

... partnerships and obstructing the flow of knowledge, books and teaching materials. Critical, creative and localised pedagogies enabled UK-based researchers and pre-service, secondary school English teachers based in the Gaza Strip to jointly develop, trial and evaluate teaching materials and lesson plans. Gaza...

...This chapter describes and analyses co-teaching in tandem in both Belgium and the Netherlands, focusing on values, objectives, programmes, and actions, evaluation, and organisational conditions. It looks at a collaborative practice in social work education that is applied in a similar way...

...This chapter examines the curious disappearance of the academic voice, and its implications for those teaching in Higher Education institutions. Current policy on Higher Education constructs academics as providers of a service to the student consume via mechanisms which explicitly incorporate...