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Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2014
This book describes the pedagogical foundations of the Roskilde Model of education and educational design. It presents knowledge about how principles of problem-oriented, interdisciplinary and participant-directed project work may serve as a basis for planning and applying educational activities at...
Rallying the Whole Village
The Comer Process for Reforming Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
For three decades now, the Yale School Development Program’s “whole village” approach has been transforming schools into places where students learn, develop, and thrive. Even students at risk become eminently successful in the same schools when SDP practices are established. With nearly 600...
Among School Teachers
Community, Autonomy and Ideology in Teachers' Work
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A compelling and thoroughly readable account of two middle schools—one urban and one suburban—that attempt to build communities which will foster student growth and learning. This book shatters prevailing beliefs and furthers our understanding of the ways in which teachers’ relationships impact...
Ain’t Nobody Be Learnin’ Nothin’
The Fraud and The Fix for High-Poverty Schools
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
America’s most challenged families are segregated into high-poverty schools. Despite a 20-year experiment in nationwide school reform, few students make it over the slippery bridge to the middle class. In this book you will meet the students, families, teachers, and administrators who struggle...
Policy Metamorphosis in China
A Case Study of Minban Education in Shanghai
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
China has been experiencing great economic and social changes since the late 1970s when the Reform and Opening-Up policies were accepted. While some Sinologists argue that such changes have made the Chinese structure of authority fragmented and discrepant, and have weakened the directive power of...
The Expansion of the Educational System
Ontario's Educative Society, Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
This volume contains a general introduction to the whole series, followed by seven chapters giving most of the quantitative information in compact form. The introduction discusses some current issues and problems in education: the economic value of education to the individual and to society, the effects...
Real Leaders, Real Schools
Stories of Success Against Enormous Odds
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Real Leaders, Real Schools tells the stories of five urban public school principals who led their schools through profound and transformative changes. In each of these cases, their efforts resulted in dramatic improvements in student achievement—improvements that occurred within the current environment...
Education and the Nation State
The selected works of S. Gopinathan
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions - so the world can read them in...
Transnational Influences on Values and Practices in Nordic Educational Leadership
Is there a Nordic Model?
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
This book explores to what extent transnational influences change national/local values and practices in the Nordic educational systems. It provides country cases and thematic chapters that give nuanced insights into the influence of transnational agencies on national governance and discourses. It...
Federalism and Education
Ongoing Challenges and Policy Strategies in Ten Countries
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Federalism has played a central role in charting educational progress in many countries. With an evolving balance between centralization and decentralization, federalism is designed to promote accountability standards without tempering regional and local preferences. Federalism facilitates negotiations...
Learning to Liberate
Community-Based Solutions to the Crisis in Urban Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Few problems in education are as pressing as the severe crisis in urban schools. Though educators have tried a wide range of remedies, dismal results persist. This is especially true for low-income youth of color, who drop out of school—and into incarceration—at extremely high rates. The dual...
Mathematics Education in East Africa
Towards Harmonization and Enhancement of Education Quality
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
This book is a valuable resource for policymakers and practitioners as it brings insights mainly from developing countries where relatively less research activity takes place. It is also a valuable resource for courses in mathematics education in the teacher education colleges, and departments of...
Reclaiming Discipline for Education
Knowledge, relationships and the birth of community
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Discipline is of profound educational importance, both inside educational institutions and outside of them in personal and social life. Reclaiming Discipline for Education revisits neglected philosophical ideas about discipline in education and uses these ideas to re-think practices and discourses...
Law & Education Inequality
Removing Barriers to Educational Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Over the past decade, No Child Left Behind, Common Core, Race to the Top, data mining initiatives, Title IX gender equity, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, and executive actions on immigration illustrate key federal initiatives that have redefined standards,...