Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Moving the Rock
Seven Levers WE Can Press to Transform Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Advance Praise for Moving the Rock
“The future comes at us fast — which means school reformers don’t have time to wait. They need real tools in real time. That’s why Moving the Rock is so important. Grant Lichtman has guidance for anyone — teachers, parents, administrators, government...
Shift Ed
A Call to Action for Transforming K–12 Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
A comprehensive guide to transforming American schools
Futurist David Houle and educational strategist Jeff Cobb issue a “call to action” to everyone who is concerned about education in America. He argues that reinventing our system is inevitable and we already have the information and...
Earth in Mind
On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
In Earth in Mind, noted environmental educator David W. Orr focuses not on problems in education, but on the problem of education.
Much of what has gone wrong with the world, he argues, is the result of inadequate and misdirected education that: alienates us from life in the name of human...
Globalisation, Employment and Education in Sri Lanka
Opportunity and Division
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Since the late 1970s, Sri Lanka has undergone a socio-economic transformation, from protectionism towards economic liberalisation and increasing integration into the world economy. Through a systematic comparison of these periods of economic change (1956–1977, and 1977 to the present), Angela W....
Twenty-First-Century Jim Crow Schools
The Impact of Charters on Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
How charter schools have taken hold in three cities—and why parents, teachers, and community members are fighting back
Charter schools once promised a path towards educational equity, but as the authors of this powerful volume show, market-driven education reforms have instead boldly reestablished...
Faith, Mission and Challenge in Catholic Education
The selected works of Gerald Grace
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
In the World Library of Educationalists, international experts compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces – extracts from books, key article, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions – so the world can read them in a single manageable...
Why Public Schools?
Voices from the U.S. and Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
What is the purpose of public education? What is the value of taxpayer supported public schools? Who is invited to answer these questions? Except among policymakers, few publicly answer or debate these questions. Instead, the neoliberal forces of competition and deregulation seem to be driving education...
School Choice Tradeoffs
Liberty, Equity, and Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Educational policy in a democracy goes beyond teaching literacy and numeracy. It also supports teaching moral reasoning, political tolerance, respect for diversity, and citizenship. Education policy should encourage liberty and equality of opportunity, hold educational institutions accountable, and...
Innovations in Lifelong Learning
Critical Perspectives on Diversity, Participation and Vocational Learning
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
This book opens up ways to engage critically with what counts as innovatory practice in lifelong learning today, locating its discussion of innovations in lifelong learning within an international and comparative framework.
Innovations in Lifelong Learning engages first hand with issues and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
School Leadership in Diverse Contexts demonstrates the centrality of context to understanding school leadership. It offers varied portrayals of leadership in a diverse range of distinct settings. Each chapter highlights the prominence of context in understanding the realities of school leadership,...
by Paul Adams
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Written specifically for education studies students, this accessible text offers a clear introduction to education policy. It aims to help the reader understand what is meant by educational policy, how policy can be made and the main discourses that have driven education.
Capturing the essential...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
This Reader brings together selected papers from leading scholars to address the most significant recent development in educational policy and politics: the impact of globalisation. The papers discuss, document and analyse evidence of globalisation’s effects on the new direction of education policies...
Spatial Theories of Education
Policy and Geography Matters
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007
This collection of original work, within the sociology of education, draws on the 'spatial turn' in contemporary social theory.
The premise of this book is that drawing on theories of space allows for a more sophisticated understanding of the competing rationalities underlying educational policy...
Teaching for Success
Developing Your Teacher Identity in Today's Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Teaching For Success is a comprehensive guide for navigating the process of becoming an effective teacher in the wake of contemporary and systemic challenges. Focusing on the core concept of teacher identity in clear, invigorating prose, the book illuminates how teachers can arrange, adjust, and assemble...