Early Education and Development Special Issue

Special Issue on Ict and Education

Information and communication technology (ICT) is a principal driver of economic development and social change, worldwide. In many countries, the need for economic and social development is used to justify investments in educational reform and in educational ICT. Yet the connections between national development goals and ICT-based education reform are often more rhetorical than programmatic. Th...

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Guest Editorial Special Issue on Robotics Education

O VER the centuries, the engineering profession has evolved to meet the growing needs of society, resulting in demand for and creation of new engineering disciplines. Biomedical, environmental, aeronautical, and computer engineering are four examples of engineering branches that emerged to educate rising generations of engineers to find solutions to new challenges requiring a diverse set of kno...

Plant development: a Special Issue.

I am very pleased to introduce this Special Issue focusing on plant developmental biology, published in honour of a founding father of the field, Ian Sussex. At its core, developmental biology is about understanding how a single cell, the zygote, becomes a complex multicellular organism with specialised cell types organised into coherent functional patterns. Evolution has provided two particula...

Special issue on knowledge management for education

Davenport (1994) defines KM as “the process of capturing, distributing, and effectively using knowledge” (p. 119). As knowledge workers use and learn from this knowledge, both individual and organizational performance and productivity are expected to increase. The challenges are not insignificant and are influenced by a variety of human, cultural, and technological factors. Knowledge management...