Pedagogics

An emerging interest in group guidance, collective forms, and integrative approaches is evident in Denmark and serves to contest a conventional individualistic mode of delivery. The latter being criticised for being both resource heavy and in risk of contributing to …

In the global culture of education, game-based learning needs to be an integrated part of formal education, and not just an 'exotic spice' for many educators, as it is today. The critical role of the educator as a facilitator, gatekeeper …

N.F.S. Grundtvig (1783-1872) produced a major body of work in the fields of theology, education, literature, politics, and history. He was also a poet, a hymn-writer, and a translator. In particular, however, it is his educational writings that over the …

Is the body a mere container of learning processes? Or can we, in a productive way, develop an approach to learning that includes learning as a bodily phenomenon?The authors all work with the development or refinement of theories of ‘learning …

Learning beyond Cognition goes beyond a merely cognitive understanding of learning. The concept denotes the ideological and mental formation of the individual as well as the individual's own shaping of an identity. Learning beyond Cognition expands on the notion of …

Guidance and counselling cover many different professional and research areas, all in relation to helping people finding directions in life, i.e. ways which are meaningful to each individual and fruitful in relation to the wider society. This anthology provides an …

"Teaching Teaching & Understanding Understanding" is a 19 minutes award winning short film about teaching at University and higher level educational institutions. The film looks at higher level education from three different perspectives; the student's perspective, the teacher's perspective and …

Education is one of the largest sectors in the global economy and it is expanding fast. Every year governments put billions into education - and into lifelong learning. Why is lifelong learning key? What is the …

This book brings together recent international scholarship on the links between education and health, and recent research evidence evaluating the processes and outcomes of health promoting schools initiatives. The book arises out of the Education and Health in Partnership conference, …

Professional Learning in Practice   This book examines teachers' and educators' first experiences in work. After two years in professional practice a big group of the newly educated teachers and educators were convinced that they would continue within the profession. …

Relearning is a book about learning and the process of relearning. How are the process of learning in all its complexity and the claim of surplus thinking to be understood and described?Tree pairs of conceptions is brought forward to highlight …

THE LIBERTINES NATURE is a book about the infamous Marquis de Sade. His works teem with uninhibited libertines who ruthlessly take advantage of others. The will to excess is also in evidence when the libertines raise the torch of philosophy …

Until recently the opinion shared by many people was that learning history had lost all significance. But today we discover that the sense of history has not disappeared, but is present both as a vision of a past that can …

Radical-Local Teaching and Learning presents a theoretical perspective for analyzing and planning educational programmes for schoolchildren.   The radical-local approach provides an integrated perspective for confronting the tension that arises between a universal goal to prepare all children for a …

What's the similarity between children, play, curiosity, learning, creativity, art, science, Life, and The Universe? One possible answer is that it all appears to emerge, maintain, and evolve spontaneously - as an expression of voluntary troble and effort the world …

Thomas Arnold was Headmaster of Rugby for about 15 years, and his name has become a household word in the history of the English public school.Yet he has not written a coherent account of his pedagogical ideas and teaching methods. …

Professions and professional development are on the agenda in educational policy. Teachers, social workers, and other educational professionals are required to become more professional. Governments, the professionals themselves, researchers, clients, and business represent different stakeholders that bring different interests into the …