This book examines the difficult and wide-ranging issues relating to how we understand our
environment, our place in it, and how we choose to act. This comprehensive text provides an …

The idea of work based learning in higher education might sound like a contradiction in
terms. Work based learning is surely in the the workplace. The senses in which it might also …

Assessment practices in higher education institutions tend not to equip students well for the
processes of effective learning in a learning society. The purposes of assessment should be …

In this paper the primary emphasis is upon the general and common elements in
contemporary, international education policy, but nonetheless the discussion also considers …

Bringing together twenty years of research and writing, this book provides an overview of
Stephen Ball's career and shows not only the development of his most important ideas but …

This book critically assesses the learning that is required and provided within a learning
society and gives a detailed sociological analysis of the emerging role of lifelong learning …

La estructuración de las escuelas como organizaciones que aprenden constituye una
estrategia importante de cambio en la erapostrmdema, pero (...) para que el aprendizaje …

Quality and Power in Higher Education covers a wide range of issues including: the policy
contexts, new managerialism, the costs of quality assurance, collegiality, peer review …

As adults, we are all continually involved in learning, with increasing numbers of us
engaged in more formalized forms of learning; that is, in education or training. All those …

This article addresses employability as a performance indicator in higher education.
Questions are raised about the values behind seemingly neutral indicators of value, and …