Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Reforming Higher Education in Vietnam
Challenges and Priorities
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Vietnam is a dynamic member of the community of Southeast Asian nations. Consistent with aspirations across the region, it is seeking to develop its higher education system as rapidly as possible. Vietnam’s approach stands out, however, as being extremely ambitious. Indeed, it may be at risk of...
by Ben Kirshner
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Winner, 2016 Best Authored Book presented by the Society for Research on Adolescence
This is what democracy looks like: Youth organizers in Colorado negotiate new school discipline policies to end the school to jail track. Latino and African American students march to district headquarters...
From Data to Action
A Community Approach to Improving Youth Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
This book is a welcome guide for educators, civic leaders, and researchers looking for ways to leverage data to identify the most effective policies, interventions, and use of resources for their communities.
In the current era of reform, much has been made of the fact that there are many influences...
Placing Practitioner Knowledge at the Center of Teacher Education
Rethinking the Policies and Practices of the Education Doctorate
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Rethinking the Education Doctorate so that practitioner knowledge is at the center of programmatic concern in teacher education raises provocative education policy/practice considerations. Participants in the national Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) are doing just this. Their accounts...
Building for a Sustainable Future in Our Schools
Brick by Brick
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
This book explores how educators can transform improvements from the dynamic process of teaching into far-reaching, sustainable reforms that can secure a more prosperous future for students and the world they inhabit. It establishes the role of leadership in educational sustainability and highlights...
Educational Leaders Without Borders
Rising to Global Challenges to Educate All
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Building from the history of inequality in education up to current problems, this text posits viewpoints on how to cultivate humanistic leaders in education to best benefit underserved children around the world. Among perspectives examined are economic, cultural, and political circumstances that...
Understanding Teacher Education in Contentious Times
Political Cross-Currents and Conflicting Interests
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Understanding Teacher Education in Contentious Times examines how public, professional, and private orcorporate agencies operate to shape teacher education and possibilities for its improvement. Teacher education programs, particularly those leading to state certification or licensure, are influenced...
In Search of Deeper Learning
The Quest to Remake the American High School
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2019
An award-winning professor and an accomplished educator, Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine take us beyond the hype of reform and inside some of America’s most innovative classrooms to show what is working—and what isn’t. In a world where test scores have been king, this boldly humanistic book offers a rich account of what education can be at its best.
Knowledge, Control and Critical Thinking in Singapore
State ideology and the politics of pedagogic recontextualization
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
This book examines how critical thinking is regulated in Singapore through the process of what the influential sociologist of education Basil Bernstein termed "pedagogic recontextualization". The ability of critical thinking to speak to alternative possibilities and individual autonomy as...
Reforming Higher Education
Public Policy Design and Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
This book analyzes the reforms that led to a differentiated landscape of higher education systems after university practices and governance were considered poorly adapted to contemporary settings and to their new missions. This has led to a growing institutional differentiation in many higher education...
Asia's Educational Edge
Current Achievements in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, and India
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
The United States in the past half-century has consistently led the world in the strength of its economy and in scientific research and development. Now, this position at the forefront of industry and innovation is threatened. Asia's Educational Edge warns that the United States relies heavily on...
by Joel Westheimer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How can schools teach the skills required for a strong democracy to flourish? What Kind of Citizen? asks readers to imagine the kind of society they would like to live in—and then shows the ways in which schools can be used to make that vision a reality. Westheimer draws on groundbreaking...
A Common Wealth of Learning
Millennium Development Goals Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
A Common Wealth of Learning takes a look at the millennium development goals that were set out at the start of the century. Utilising a far reaching set of case studies from a large percentage of commonwealth countries, this book looks at what the colonial legacy has left us with; and what we can...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Formal ethical review of research proposals is now almost the default requirement for all – staff and students – planning research under the auspices of colleges and universities in many parts of the world. With notable exceptions, the extant literature discussing educational research ethics takes...