Educational Commons

This open access book presents the final findings from the case studies developed within the Horizon 2020 SMOOTH project “Educational Spaces: Passing through Enclosures and Reversing Inequalities through Educational Commons.

Privacy and Safety in Online Learning

This book provides readers insight into the current state of privacy issues, describes the challenges and rewards of developing more privacy-focused learning environments, and presents several resources and tools that readers can bring to their own teaching practices.

Education and Development in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa

This open access edited volume offers an analysis of the entangled histories of education and development in twentieth-century Africa. It deals with the plurality of actors that competed and collaborated to formulate educational and developmental paradigms and projects: debating their utility and purpose, pondering their necessity and risk, and evaluating their intended and unintended consequen…

Physical Education at School and in Today’s Society

This book explores the evolving landscape of physical education in the modern era, addressing its challenges, uncovering new opportunities, and highlighting its indispensable contributions to society. Schools remain a primary space where young people develop motor skills and cultivate discipline, teamwork, and a sense of belonging— values that extend far beyond the gymnasium. Meanwhile, m…

Diversity and Inclusion in Global Higher Education

This open access book offers pioneering insights and practical methods for promoting diversity and inclusion in higher education classrooms and curricula

Philanthropy in Education Diverse Perspectives and Global Trends

The series aims to serve as a knowledge broker at the interface between research, analysis, policy and practice within the comparative, development and international education community

HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE ERA OF THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

This open access collection examines how higher education responds to the demands of the automation economy and the fourth industrial revolution. Considering significant trends in how people are learning, coupled with the ways in which different higher education institutions and education stakeholders are implementing adaptations, it looks at new programs and technological advances that are cha…

Creative Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Education

This open access book explores the synergy between AI and education, highlighting its potential impact on pedagogical practices. It navigates the evolving landscape of AI-powered educational technologies and suggests practical ways to personalise instruction, nurture human‑AI co‑creativity, and transform the learning experience. Spanning from primary to higher education, this short and enga…

Educational Theory in the 21st Century Science, Technology, Society and Educa…

This open access book reviews the effects of twenty-first‑century scientific‑technological and social developments on educational theory

SKIN COLOR AND IDENTITY FORMATION

This study focuses on how skin color influences perceptions of opportunities and academic orientation among 17 Mexican and Puerto Rican high school students. Specifically, it analyzes how students modify—or maintain—their racial/ethnic identification in response to others’ perceptions based on skin tone.

Remaking Political Institutions: Climate Change and Beyond

This Element develops an original analytical foundation for studying institutional remaking and its political dynamics. It explains how institutional remaking can be observed and provides a typology comprising five areas of institutional production involved in institutional remaking: novelty, uptake, dismantling, stability, and interplay.

Mobile Learning

Over the years, I have found that although ‘nothing much has changed, everything has also changed very much’. Technology has most certainly changed, but the overarching themes remain the same: ‘Why would we use mobile devices for learning?’ ‘Do mobile devices help or hinder learning?’ And ‘How do we evaluate mobile learning?’ The evolution of new technologies has certainly i…

Successful Global Collaborations in Higher Education Institutions

This open access book presents a deep investigation into the manifold topics pertaining to global university collaboration. It outlines the strategies King Abdulaziz University has employed to rise in global rankings, and the reasons chosen to collaborate with other academic and research institutes.

Media Education and Digital Literacy

The digital revolution is profoundly modifying our lifestyle habits and our means of understanding the world. It seems evident that we are aiding the birth of a new stage in our civilization. In particular, the digital revolution of ICT—which has brought with it the digitization of all information—is paving the way for a new era.

Teaching Under Pressure: Looking at primary teachers' stress

This text is based on the author's research into primary school teachers’ stress. The research has been linked with the author's belief in the need to understand ourselves, our personal and professional situations and how they relate. The resulting book is a practical text designed to address the reader in such a way that they can readily identify with what is being discussed. Furthermore, re…

Socioeconomic Inequality and Educational Outcomes

This book examines the complex and deeply rooted relationship between socioeconomic inequality and educational outcomes across various national contexts. Drawing on empirical data and cross-disciplinary research, it explores how disparities in income, wealth, and social capital shape access to quality education and influence student achievement, progression, and long-term success.

Peer Review, Peer Education, and Modeling in the Practice of Clinical Ethics …

This book presents The Zadeh Project, a structured initiative aimed at improving the practice of clinical ethics consultation (CEC) through peer review, peer education, and modeling.

The Change Laboratory for Teacher Training in Entrepreneurship Education

This book presents the Change Laboratory as an innovative method for teacher training in entrepreneurship education. Drawing on cultural-historical activity theory and participatory research, the Change Laboratory is used to design and implement teacher training processes that foster entrepreneurial thinking skills in various educational settings.

The Mathematics Education of Prospective Secondary Teachers Around the World

This book explores how prospective secondary mathematics teachers are educated across different countries around the world. Using a comparative international perspective, it presents case studies of teacher education systems to examine curricula, pedagogical approaches, program structures, as well as challenges and best practices in preparing secondary-level mathematics teachers.

Universities, Innovation and the Economy

Universities, Innovation and the Economy explores the growing importance of universities as key players in the innovation system and their evolving relationship with the economy. The book examines how universities contribute to economic development not only through the education of skilled labor but also through research, technological advancement, and knowledge transfer.

University and School Collaborations during a Pandemic

University and School Collaborations during a Pandemic examines how universities and schools around the world partnered to respond to the unprecedented educational challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The book presents a series of case studies from various countries, highlighting innovative collaborations that aimed to support students, teachers, and communities during the crisis.

Unsettling Responsibility in Science Education

Unsettling Responsibility in Science Education explores the shifting concepts of responsibility within science education in the context of contemporary societal and environmental challenges. The book critically examines how responsibility is conceptualized, taught, and enacted in science classrooms, moving beyond traditional notions of scientific neutrality and objectivity.

Using Social Theory in Higher Education

Using Social Theory in Higher Education offers an accessible introduction to key social theoretical frameworks that are used to explore and understand issues in higher education. The book brings together leading scholars to explain how a wide range of theoretical approaches – including Bourdieu, Foucault, Habermas, Butler, and others – can be applied to analyze the structures, practices, an…

Values and Valuing in Mathematics Education

This open access volume explores how a “values and valuing” perspective can enhance mathematics pedagogy by integrating cognitive, affective, and cultural dimensions. It demonstrates that teaching mathematics is not solely about reasoning, but also about emotions, cultural context, and peer interactions. Featuring contributions from global scholars, the book addresses topics such as uncover…

Vocational Teacher Education in Central Asia

This open-access volume presents a collection of papers focusing on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Central Asian countries. It explores themes including project-based learning; specialized laboratory didactics (e.g., in food technology); the integration of media and digital technologies in vocational training; competence evaluation, examinations, and labor-market alig…

World Class Universities

This open access volume delves into the multifaceted discourse surrounding “world class universities,” unpacking their purported characteristics and policy implications. The book presents a comprehensive historical survey and analysis of how the concept has evolved, highlighting its trajectories and tensions. It offers theoretical deepening by integrating perspectives from philosophy, media…

Youth Transitions among Descendants of Turkish Immigrants in Amsterdam and St…

On the other hand, she shows that transitions need not result in social reproduction when institutional conditions enable the development of resources essential for social mobility . Through analyzing how descendants of migrants build various forms of capital in their social trajectories relative to structural contexts, the book advances theoretical discussions informed by Bourdieu’s theory…

Women in STEM in Higher Education

This open access book addresses challenges related to women in STEM in higher education, presenting research, experiences, studies, and good practices associated with the engagement, access, and retention of women in the STEM disciplines. It also discusses strategies implemented by universities and policymakers to reduce the existing gender gap in these areas. The chapters provide an overview o…

The Prevent Duty in Education Impact, Enactment and Implications

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of how the UK government’s Prevent Duty—part of its counter-terrorism strategy—has been interpreted and enacted in educational settings. Drawing on empirical research across schools, colleges, and universities, the book explores how educators have understood and responded to the duty to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism.

The Lecturer's Guide to Quality and Standards in Colleges and Universities

This guide serves as a practical handbook for lecturers in post-compulsory higher education, combining an entrepreneurial mindset with a strong educational philosophy based on reflective practice. The authors address key components of academic quality and standards, including teaching and learning, student support, assessment and evaluation, curriculum design, resource management, and marketing.

Vocabulary Development

Vocabulary knowledge has long been correlated with reading proficiency; however, national surveys show that student vocabulary growth has, at best, stagnated. This volume provides new insights into vocabulary knowledge and vocabulary teaching

Scaling-up Higher Order Thinking

This open access book addresses the evasive problem of why truly effective educational innovation on a wide scale is so difficult to achieve, and what leaders may do about this. Examining the case of system-wide reform processes centering on teaching a thinking-rich curriculum, it discusses general issues pertaining to implementing deep, large-scale changes in the core of learning and instructi…

Teachers' Work in a Globalizing Economy

Extended critical case studies provide a tangible working expression of the labour process of teaching, showing how teachers are simultaneously experiencing significant changes to their work, as well as responding in ways that actively shape these processes. For teachers and researchers, this book reveals which processes in the global economy impact and sometimes control the role of the teacher.

Sustainable Technology and Elderly Life

The coming years will see an exponential increase in the proportion of elderly people in our society. This accelerated growth brings with it major challenges in relation to the sustainability of the system. There are different aspects where these changes will have a special incidence: health systems and their monitoring; the development of a framework in which the elderly can develop their dail…

Protecting the Rights of People with Autism in the Fields of Education and Em…

Fundamental rights to education and employment are essential pathways for the social inclusion of people with autism. This book begins with an overview of international and European legal frameworks that protect these rights—most notably the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Articles 24 & 27)—and then offers a detailed examination of domestic legislation, case law,…

Play-Responsive Teaching in Early Childhood Education

This open access book develops a theoretical concept of teaching that is relevant to early childhood education and grounded in children’s learning and development through play. It discusses theoretical premises and research on playing and learning, and proposes the development of play‑responsive didaktik. The book examines the processes and products of learning and development, the phylogen…

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Mathematics Teacher Preparation in Central America and the Caribbean

This book is an excellent synthesis of the initial and continuing preparation for Mathematics Teaching in Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic and Venezuela, from which comparative analyses can be made that show similarities and differences, and highlight various perspectives.

Mathematics Teacher Education in the Andean Region and Paraguay

This Open Access book is an excellent synthesis of the initial and continuing preparation for Mathematics Teaching in Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru, from which comparative analyses can be made that show similarities and differences, and highlight various perspectives.

Instructional Scaffolding in STEM Education

This book uses meta-analysis to synthesize research on scaffolding and scaffolding-related interventions in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education. Specifically, the volume examines the extent to which study quality, assessment type, and scaffolding characteristics (strategy, intended outcome, fading schedule, scaffolding intervention, and paired intervention) influe…

Indigenous Knowledge and Education in Africa

This open access book presents a strong philosophical, theoretical and practical argument for the mainstreaming of indigenous knowledge in curricula development, and in teaching and learning across the African continent.

In Defense of Free Speech in Universities

In this book, Amy Lai examines the current free speech crisis in Western universities. She studies the origin, history, and importance of freedom of speech in the university setting, and addresses the relevance and pitfalls of political correctness and microaggressions on campuses, where laws on harassment, discrimination, and hate speech are already in place, along with other concepts that hav…

Measuring and Evaluating the Effectiveness of Active Citizenship Education Pr…

The current Special Issue has been inspired by the Seventh Annual Conference on Citizenship Education that was held in Roehampton University London, on 26–27 September 2019. This conference explored how citizenship education can promote young people’s civic and political engagement, particularly those of disadvantaged backgrounds. Discussions focused on the effectiveness of diverse form…

Making Universities Matter

Universities have long been integral to society, fulfilling a vital role as institutions for knowledge development, exchange, and diffusion. Even though universities have only in recent decades been portrayed as bridging the gap between academia and society through interdisciplinary collaboration and engagement, they have always been founded on societal needs and thereby have also recognize…

Leadership for Sustainable and Educational Advancement Advancing Great Leader…

If the COVID-19 pandemic affirmed anything to the educational community, it was that professional lives are incredibly connected, and a disruption across the globe has real and tangible effects on the ability to deliver education, the core business of universities and schools alike. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced rapid restructuring of education to enable educational continuity, and insti…

Assessment Framework

This book introduces a comprehensive assessment framework designed to guide professionals in evaluating the needs of children and their families in a structured and evidence-based manner.

Leadership Approaches to Negotiate Challenges in a Changing Education Landscape

This volume was inspired by research on leadership in topperforming schools conducted by a research team in which two of the volume editors were involved. That research was in three articles published in a peer-reviewed scholarly journal in 2018.

Knowledge Production and Contradictory Functions in African Higher Education

The book Knowledge Production and Contradictory Functions in African Higher Education examines the complex roles of African universities in knowledge production, development, and socio-economic transformation.

Iota Reliability Concept of the Second Generation

Content analysis, often the measure of choice, is required to meet quality criteria such as objectivity, reliability and validity. However, some of the reliability measures most frequently used have lately been discussed controversially, indicating that there is room for improvement. The first generation of the Iota concept caters to the idea of improved reliability measures for content analysi…

Handbook of Teaching Competency Development in Higher Education

The increasing affordances of new technologies provide both new opportunities and challenges for teaching in higher education. Equipping instructors with the necessary teaching competencies to overcome these challenges in the digital era is imperative. This handbook serves as a reference for higher education stakeholders. It aims to cultivate high-quality instructors, improve higher education q…