
Contemporary Capacity-Building in Educational Contexts
Palgrave Pivot (Publisher)
Published on 26. February 2014
Book
Hardback
XIV, 170 pages
978-1-137-37456-1 (ISBN)
Description
Education is generally supposed to help learners to develop new capacities and to be able to apply them in work and life - yet we still know very little about how to build useful capacities. This book investigates nine research projects, exploring why particular capacities are successful in some situations but not in others.
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Edition
2014 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Palgrave Macmillan
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
XIV, 170 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
386 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-37456-1 (9781137374561)
DOI
10.1057/9781137374578
Schweitzer Classification
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Patrick Alan Danaher | Andy Davies | L. De George-Walker
Contemporary Capacity-Building in Educational Contexts
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Persons
Patrick Alan Danaher is Professor in Educational Research at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
Andy Davies is Research Supervisor for the Simulation Department at the Sidra Medical and Research Centre in Doha, Qatar.
Linda De George-Walker is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Central Queensland University, Australia.
Janice K. Jones is Senior Lecturer in Arts Education at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
Karl J. Matthews is a Researcher at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
Warren Midgley is Head of the School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
Catherine H. Arden is Lecturer in Adult and Vocational Education and Training/Senior Schooling at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
Margaret Baguley is Associate Professor at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
Andy Davies is Research Supervisor for the Simulation Department at the Sidra Medical and Research Centre in Doha, Qatar.
Linda De George-Walker is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Central Queensland University, Australia.
Janice K. Jones is Senior Lecturer in Arts Education at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
Karl J. Matthews is a Researcher at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
Warren Midgley is Head of the School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
Catherine H. Arden is Lecturer in Adult and Vocational Education and Training/Senior Schooling at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
Margaret Baguley is Associate Professor at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
Content
1. Conceptualising and Contextualising Contemporary Capacity-Building 2. Consciousness and Capacity-Building 3. Creative Capacity-Building 4. Disrupting Disempowerment: Agency in Education 5. Diversity and Identity 6. Forms of Capital and Currencies 7. Knowledge Sharing Practices and Capacity-Building 8. Regionality, Rurality and Capacity-Building 9. Resilience and Capacity-Building 10. Capacity-Building for New and Transformative Educational Futures