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How Educational Ideologies Are Shaping Global Society
Intergovernmental Organizations, NGOs, and the Decline of the Nation-State
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
In this book Joel Spring explores three major international educational ideologies that are shaping global society: neo-liberal educational ideology, human rights education, and environmentalism.
Neo-liberal ideology reflects a rethinking of nationalist forms of education as the nation-state...
Performance
The Dynamic of Results in Postsecondary Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Understanding performance requires asking fundamental questions about the nature and purpose of an organization: What is its business? Whom does it serve? What do stakeholders want and expect? What do they get? How does the organization conceive of and measure results? How do stakeholders feel about...
Present Successes and Future Challenges in Honors Education
Present Successes and Future Challenges in Honors Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Present Successes and Future Challenges in Honors Education is the first volume in an edited series examining the proliferation of honors programs and colleges in American higher education. While honors education has become ubiquitous in American higher education, this transformation has happened...
Teacher Evaluation Policies and Practices in Japan
How performativity works in schools
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
This book explores the impacts of the introduction of new teacher evaluation policies on teachers and head teachers in Japan, particularly that of producing and reinforcing mutual policing relations among teachers and the destabilisation of their identities. It is timely given the big surge of interest...
Using Video to Assess Teaching Performance
A Resource Guide for edTPA
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Recent performance-based teacher assessments have challenged teacher educators to rethink the ways that candidates are prepared in education programs. edTPA (formerly the Teacher Performance Assessment) requires teacher candidates to demonstrate knowledge and skills through authentic teaching artifacts,...
Starting Strong
A Different Look at Children, School, and Standards
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In an elegant affirmation of human capacity and creativity, Patricia Carini counters high-stakes testing, the pathologizing of children, and the unrelenting critique of the public schools with a persuasive account of how children, all children, actively make sense of the world and their experience...
The Globalisation Challenge for European Higher Education
Convergence and Diversity, Centres and Peripheries
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
The last decade has marked European higher education with particular dynamics. Today, after a decade of «connected» policy, national systems look much more convergent but new questions and dilemmas are emerging: about the nature and quality of higher education, about the real impact of recent reforms...
Classroom Record Keeping Made Simple
Tips for Time-Strapped Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
It’s no secret that even the most successful teachers struggle to make the best use of their time. This enlightening text provides tips, strategies, and best practices for how all teachers—from novices to veterans—can find additional daily time while also improving documentation through better...
by Belinda Bustos Flores, Lorena Claeys, Conra D. Gist
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Crafting Culturally Efficacious Pedagogies and Practices is based on cultural efficaciousness derived from the work of the nationally recognized Academy for Teacher Excellence at The University of Texas at San Antonio. The book is grounded in a research-based model, situated within the needs of the...
Reconceptualizing Curriculum Development
Inspiring and Informing Action
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Reconceptualizing Curriculum Development provides accessible, clear guidance on curriculum problem solving and educational leadership through the practice of a synoptic curriculum study. This practice integrates three influential interpretations of curriculum—curriculum as deliberative artistry,...
Fixing Truancy Now
Inviting Students Back to Class
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Truancy is a complex issue that continues to plague schools, and many blame truancy problems on students, parents, and socioeconomic factors. However, truancy is more than juvenile delinquents skipping school to have fun or be with friends.
In Fixing Truancy Now: Inviting Students Back to Class,...
Killing Public Higher Education
The Arms Race for Research Prestige
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
This is an opinion piece from a highly qualified professor of science who has served in administration highlights the need for reform in our public higher education research institutions. In this well-researched reference, Dr. Stocum illustrates how the competition among the public flagship universities...
Respect for Teachers
The Rhetoric Gap and How Research on Schools is Laying the Ground for New Business Models in Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
For over 30 years we have been in the midst of a paradox. Following a questionable logic that sees education as a means to economic ends, efforts to reform education have focused on keeping the US from slipping in international economic competition. Relying on testing as a standard, in the end we...
Working with Multiracial Students
Critical Perspectives on Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Working with Mixed Heritage Students offers a collection of writings that bridges the social science and educational literature related to mixed heritage identity development and schooling in diverse contexts. As such, it is the first book of its kind to provide a direct focus on multiracial/ethnic...