Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Tracing Education Policy
Selections from the Oxford Review of Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This book brings together key articles that trace the development of British education policy since 1975 and provides a valuable route map to developments within education policy during this period. It includes twenty-six seminal articles from the Oxford Review of Education written by many of the...
The Color of Mind
Why the Origins of the Achievement Gap Matter for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
American students vary in educational achievement, but white students in general typically have better test scores and grades than black students. Why is this the case, and what can school leaders do about it? In The Color of Mind, Derrick Darby and John L. Rury answer these pressing questions and...
Collaboration and the Future of Education
Preserving the Right to Think and Teach Historically
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Current educational reforms have given rise to various types of "educational Taylorism," which encourage the creation of efficiency models in pursuit of a unified way to teach. In history education curricula, this has been introduced through scripted textbook-based programs such as Teacher...
Black British Intellectuals and Education
Multiculturalism’s hidden history
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Ask any moderately interested Briton to name a black intellectual and chances are the response will be an American name: Malcolm X or Barack Obama, Toni Morrison or Cornel West. Yet Britain has its own robust black intellectual traditions and its own master teachers, among them C.L.R. James, Claudia...
Education and the State
International perspectives on a changing relationship
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
In most countries in the world, school education is the business of the state. Even if forms and functions differ, the imparting of elementary knowledge is universally regarded as a public function. Yet this is neither self-evident nor self-explanatory. The degree of involvement of state agencies...
The Politicization of Parenthood
Shifting private and public responsibilities in education and child rearing
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Currently, families are being subjected to increasing public attention. Interest is focussing on their potential strengths and weaknesses in determining how well children do at school. Alongside such human-development oriented expectations, families are also becoming a focus of attention as a resource...
Neo-liberal Educational Reforms
A Critical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
This volume gathers a cast of eminent scholars for a critical and comparitive analysis of how neoliberal education policies have functioned in a range of countries in different stages of economic development. Treating case studies from Europe, Asia, the Americas and the Middle East, the volume shows how globalization operates differently in different societal contexts.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
The creation of a sustainable and accessible higher education systems is a pivotal goal in modern society. Adopting strategic frameworks and innovative techniques allows institutions to achieve this objective. The Handbook of Research on Administration, Policy, and Leadership in Higher Education is an...
University of the World
A Case for a World University System
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2015
In this book, Dieter Lenzen analyzes the world's three major educational systems: the Continental-European, the Atlantic (Anglo-American) and the East Asian. Distancing himself from the current trend towards the economically driven Anglo-American system of education, the author proposes an alternative...
Teachers and Academic Partners in Urban Schools
Threats to professional practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
'Showing how critical thinking and local democracy can be a spur to very real educational development within schools that are facing severe challenges, this book provides us with one very valuable contemporary resource of hope.'
Ian Menter, Professor of Teacher Education, University of Oxford, UK
Teachers...
Blended Learning in Practice
A Guide for Practitioners and Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
A guide to both theory and practice of blended learning offering rigorous research, case studies, and methods for the assessment of educational effectiveness.
Blended learning combines traditional in-person learning with technology-enabled education. Its pedagogical aim is to merge the scale,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
How and what to teach about religion is controversial in every country. The Routledge International Handbook of Religious Education is the first book to comprehensively address the range of ways that major countries around the world teach religion in public and private educational institutions.
It...
Muslim Students, Education and Neoliberalism
Schooling a 'Suspect Community'
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
This edited collection brings together international leading scholars to explore why the education of Muslim students is globally associated with radicalisation, extremism and securitisation. The chapters address a wide range of topics, including neoliberal education policy and globalization; faith-based...
by Chris Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
The potential for research evidence to improve educational policy and practice is immense. Yet internationally, research used by teachers and governments is currently sporadic rather than systematic. In response, this book brings together seven chapters that encompass a range of research projects...