Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Beyond Leadership
A Relational Approach to Organizational Theory in Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
This book systematically elaborates Scott Eacott’s “relational” approach to organizational theory in education. Contributing to the relational trend in the social sciences, it first surveys relational scholarship across disciplines before providing a nuanced articulation of the relational research...
Helping Parents Understand Schools
A Different Perspective on Education and Schooling in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
There is a great deal of misunderstanding about how schools in America function and what goes on in the typical classroom. Parents, even relatively young parents, perceive that public schools are just like when they attended. This faulty perception is held by a large portion of the general public. In...
Assessing Contexts of Learning
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This volume brings together educational effectiveness research and international large-scale assessments, demonstrating how the two fields can be applied to inspire and improve each other, and providing readers direct links to instruments that cover a broad range of topics and have been shown to work...
by Kenneth M. Zeichner
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009
"… Clear, articulate, and cogent….[Zeichner] exhibits a commitment to a vision of social justice that rightly demands the very best both from society and from those of us who work in schools, communities, and teacher education institutions." -- Michael W. Apple, From the Foreword
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Teaching with Joy
Educational Practices for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2006
This edited collection addresses the growing need for ideas and methods conducive to holistic educational practices and aims to encourage more personal growth in students too often distracted by the background noise of war, violence, racism, and environmental deterioration. The contributors are working...
Have a Little Faith
Religion, Democracy, and the American Public School
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
It isn’t just in recent arguments over the teaching of intelligent design or reciting the pledge of allegiance that religion and education have butted heads: since their beginnings nearly two centuries ago, public schools have been embroiled in heated controversies over religion’s place in the...
Strategic Curriculum Change in Universities
Global Trends
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
The curriculum is a live issue in universities across the world. Many stakeholders – governments, employers, professional and disciplinary groups and parents – express strong and often conflicting views about what higher education should achieve for its students.
Many universities are reviewing...
Educational Research and Policy-Making
Exploring the Border Country Between Research and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
This book provides a fascinating insight into the sometimes troubled relationship between ‘research’ and ‘policy-making’ in education. It shows how each of these areas of social and intellectual endeavour is in a state of dynamic change and how, as a result, they are becoming more mutually...
The Education of Migrant Children and China's Future
The Urban Left Behind
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
There are more than 225 million rural-to-urban migrant workers, and some 20 million migrant children in Chinese cities. Because of policies related to the household registration (hukou) system, migrant students are not allowed a public high school education in the cities, so their urban education...
Elusive Justice
Wrestling with Difference and Educational Equity in Everyday Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Elusive Justice addresses how educators think about and act upon, differences in schools - be they based on race, gender, class, or disability - and how discourse and practice about such differences are intimately bound up with educational justice. Rather than skip over contentious or uncomfortable...
by Carlos Alberto Torres
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
This volume by noted critical education scholar Carlos Alberto Torres takes up the question of how structural changes in schooling and the growing impacts of neoliberalism and globalization affect social change, national development, and democratic educational systems throughout the world. The first...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
This book is a comparative study of educational policies over the past two decades in Latin America. These policies, enacted through constitutional reforms, sought to protect the right of Indigenous peoples to a culturally inclusive education. The book assesses the impact of these policies on educational...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
For the first time, researchers, policymakers and practitioners across the world will have access to a comprehensive mapping of research evidence and policy strategies about education and poverty in affluent countries. Although there is widespread agreement that poverty and poor educational outcomes...
Higher Education Access and Choice for Latino Students
Critical Findings and Theoretical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Now the largest and fastest-growing ethnic population in the U.S., Latino students face many challenges and complexities when it comes to college choice and access. This edited volume provides much needed theoretical and empirical data on how the schooling experiences of Latino students shape their...