Contemporary Capacity-Building in Educational Contexts [electronic resource] /
Danaher, Patrick Alan.author.
Davies, Andy.author.
George-Walker, L. De.author.
Jones, Janice K.author.
Matthews, Karl J.author.
Midgley, Warren.author.
Arden, Catherine H.author.
De George-Walker, Linda.author.
Baguley, Margaret.author.
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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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyrights; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; List of Abbreviations; 1 Conceptualising and Contextualising Contemporary Capacity-Building; 2 Consciousness and Capacity-Building; 3 Creative Capacity-Building; 4 Disrupting Disempowerment: Agency 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 FuturesReferences; Index
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.
Educational psychology.
Consciousness.
Educational Psychology.
Sociology of Education.
Teaching and Teacher Education.
Sociology of Education.
Sociology, general.
Cognitive Psychology.