Education category: 70663 books
The Anthropology of Education Policy
Ethnographic Inquiries into Policy as Sociocultural Process
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Advancing a rapidly growing field of social science inquiry—the anthropology of policy—this volume extends and solidifies this body of work, focusing on education policy. Its goal is to examine timely issues in education policy from a critical anthropological, ethnographic, and comparative perspective,...
Martin Heidegger
Challenge to Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
This book sets out to explore the challenge to education contained in Heidegger’s work. His direct remarks about education are examined and placed in the broader context of his philosophy to create an account of Heidegger’s challenge. Martin Heidegger is an undisputed giant of 20th Century thought....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Instead of segregating children with special needs from the rest, Diversity, Special Needs, and Inclusion in Early Years Education argues for inclusiveness in educational institutions, through changes in curriculum and teaching methods.
The book presents case studies from various countries...
Science Education in East Asia
Pedagogical Innovations and Research-informed Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
This book presents innovations in teaching and learning science, novel approaches to science curriculum, cultural and contextual factors in promoting science education and improving the standard and achievement of students in East Asian countries. The authors in this book discuss education reform...
Shaping of European Education
Interdisciplinary approaches
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
The range, speed and scale of Europeanizing effects in education, and their complexity, has produced a relatively new field of study. Using scholarship and research drawn from sociology, politics and education, this book examines the rise of international and transnational policy and the flow of data...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
As part of a long series of Vietnam’s policy objectives, English education has been identified as key to improving the quality of its rapidly expanding tertiary institutions and is crucial to the larger aim of modernising and internationalising its economy. Bringing together a wide range of Vietnamese...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
The International Handbook of Science Education is a two volume edition pertaining to the most significant issues in science education. It is a follow-up to the first Handbook, published in 1998, which is seen as the most authoritative resource ever produced in science education. The chapters in this...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Higher education is a high stakes process involving engagement with curricula and often entails coping with the onslaught of assessments and examinations. This process creates a level of intensity that impacts on the student experience in higher education. It is, therefore, important to consider not...
Mentoring Physical Education Teachers in the Secondary School
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Mentoring Physical Education Teachers in the Secondary School helps trainee and newly qualified mentors of physical education teachers in both developing their own mentoring skills and providing the essential guidance their beginning teachers need as they navigate the roller-coaster of the first years...
Urban Planning Education
Beginnings, Global Movement and Future Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
This book examines planning education provision and approaches globally, through a comparative and longitudinal perspective. It explores the emergence of planning education in the 20th century, with its rich variation and yet a remarkable degree of cross-fertilization. Each of the sections of the...
Private Education in China
Achievement and Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
This book takes an in-depth look at the development of the private education sector in modern China. Readers will find valuable data and materials never before presented in such an accessible and transparent way, together with analyses of the major changes and challenges in the course of this development....
Disaster Resilience of Education Systems
Experiences from Japan
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Education is regarded as a cross-cutting issue for disaster risk reduction (DRR) through reviewing the Sendai Framework for DRR (SFDRR) 2015–2030. Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in the education sector is one of the important efforts to enhance resilience in a community. DRR in the...
Diaspora Studies in Education
Toward a Framework for Understanding the Experiences of Transnational Communities
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
The Latino/a diaspora is undoubtedly transforming the demographics and cultural geographies of the United States. Diaspora Studies in Education advances an active use of the concept of «diaspora», focusing on processes that impact the diasporization of the Latino/a population, and more specifically,...
Education in China
Philosophy, Politics and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Throughout its history, education in China has played a pivotal role in the nation’s governance, civic society, and the social and cultural lives of its citizens. Today we see a nation grappling with how to modernize and internationalize its education system, while still retaining China’s intellectual...