Education and Learning offers an accessible introduction to the most recent evidence-based research results into teaching, learning, and our education system.

Olive Banks (1923-2006) was a professor at Leicester University who worked upon the sociology of education and the history of feminism.

EDU - January/February 2014

EDU, a platform that helps decision makers at higher education institutions govern their institutions smartly. With its strong connect and a nationwide reach EDU creates a channel for enterprises to develop business opportunities in the education sector.

Higher Education and Democracy: Essays on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement

Higher Education and Democracy is a collection of essays written over the last ten years on how civic engagement in higher education works to achieve what authors John Saltmarsh and Edward Zlotkowsi consider to be the academic and civic purposes of higher education. These include creating new modes of teaching and learning, fostering participation in American democracy, the development and respect for community and civic institutions, and encouraging the constant renewal all of these dimensions of American life.

Citizenship and Democracy in Further and Adult Education

This book addresses the questions why citizenship education is an important subject for students in further and adult education and why we need democratic colleges to support the study of citizenship education. It investigates the historical roots of further and adult education and identifies how the adoption of citizenship education in the post-compulsory sector can enrich vocational studies in further education and programmes in adult education.