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From pilots to policies: Challenges for implementing intercultural bilingual education in Latin America
For the past four decades, intercultural bilingual education (IBE) has been a common policy prescription to address Indigenous/non-Indigenous...
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Negotiating Capabilities: A New School Design for Transition to Work
Across Australia tens of thousands of young people find themselves in a range of alternative education programmes to address their lack of success in...
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When theory meets reality- a mismatch in communication: a qualitative study of clinical transition from communication skills training to the surgical ward
BackgroundCommunication skills training in patient centered communication is an integral part of the medical undergraduate education and has been...
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Work and the future as represented by French adolescents: the role of secondary school type and anticipated duration of post-secondary education
This study, conducted in France, sought to describe the organization of the content of the social representations that high school students in...
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Rethinking Adolescents’ Work Experiences as Education: The Education Work Model (EWM)
The job site provides a rich environment for education on the job for adolescents. The chapter begins by offering a brief review of two traditional...
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Crisis Leadership in Cambodian Higher Education
The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic had a profound global impact, necessitating swift and effective responses to mitigate its consequences. This...
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From Preschool to Vocational Training and Tertiary Education—Study Design of the BiKS-3-18 Study
The educational development and achievements of children depend on individual prerequisites as well as on familial and institutional learning...
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Freire’s hope in radically changing times: a dialogue for curriculum integration from science education to face the climate crisis
This article advances a dialogue for understanding curriculum integration as a form of radical pedagogy, starting from science education in times of...
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The Transition to Law School: A Case Study
The transition to higher education for any student is a very important step. This case study will consider how students are supported and established...
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Effects of supplementary and mainstream education on the secondary–tertiary transitional challenges in English medium higher education
Despite the rapid growth of English medium instruction (EMI) in higher education, little research has been conducted to pinpoint the challenges faced...
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Medical Education in Costa Rica. From Flexner to COVID-19: Integrative Answers for Old and New Challenges
This monograph describes key aspects of medical education in a middle-income country such as Costa Rica, with an emphasis on public education. The...
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Effort expectancy mediate the relationship between instructors’ digital competence and their work engagement: evidence from universities in China
In a very short time, higher education transitioned to online and blended learning, in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Although research...
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Science Education: From an Ideology of Greed to an Ideology of Thriving
Life in the Anthropocene is heavily impacted by a small group of humans who, despite falling into a statistical anomaly, have an inordinate amount of...
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Background on Continuities and Discontinuities in the Transition from Early Childhood Education to Primary: The Chilean Case
This chapter analyses how early childhood and primary education are articulated to facilitate children’s transition in Chile in terms of...
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Upper secondary school tracking and major choices in higher education: to switch or not to switch
This study aims to investigate the characteristics of students who switch versus those who do not switch when they transition from upper secondary to...
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Thinking Complexity in Social Work Education and Professional Practice
In this chapter, we begin by revisiting what we know about CT, CAS and pragmatism in order to highlight some of the key issues emerging from these...
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Further Education in Transition: Historical Background
This chapter sets the scene by providing an overview of the history of FE. This involves outlining the process of educational planning at different...
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Local community development and higher education institutions: Moving from the triple helix to the quadruple helix model
This article examines issues of local community development in Rwanda, building on the triple helix model proposed by Henry Etzkowitz and Loet...
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Right to Education in Spain
The Spanish Constitution (1978) in its first article identifies equality, liberty, and political pluralism as fundamental values of the...
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Lessons Learnt on the Transition from Preschool to Primary School in Mexico
This chapter showcases some of the pioneering studies conducted in Mexico that explored how transition from preschool to primary school is...