Educational Reform category: 2687 books
by Michael Gaffney
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The roads to school system improvement can be rocky. The nature of schools and school systems makes them very difficult to change. These are complex organisations, subject to a range of demands and opportunities from multiple stakeholders from parents and governments, from local communities and business,...
Changing Educational Contexts, Issues and Identities
40 Years of Comparative Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Documenting major intellectual and paradigmatic changes in the field of comparative education in the light of the history and development of the journal Comparative Education, this book compiles a selection of articles from forty years of the journal’s distinguished history. It illustrates how changing...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
This volume focuses on how family-school partnerships are conceptualized, defined, and operationalized as well as the research that is needed to advance these foundational issues. Each chapter integrates prevailing approaches into a research-based framework for supporting learning from pre-K through...
The Transformation of Women’s Collegiate Education
The Legacy of Virginia Gildersleeve
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This book examines the life of Virginia Gildersleeve, the dean of Barnard College from 1911 to 1947, who dedicated her life to expanding women’s collegiate opportunities to match those of men, and to allow women entry into professional and graduate programs. Gildersleeve was the first academic...
Schools for Ontario
Policy-making, Administration, and Finance in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
The governing and financing of public education is everywhere a complex undertaking. The 1960s was for Ontario a vital decade in education, when the structure of local school boards, provincial and federal financing and control, the provision of academic and vocational systems, and the Department...
by Abul Pitre
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
The purpose of this book is to describe critical success factors impacting students pursuing degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics at historically Black colleges and universities. The information in this book is designed to enhance strategies and research to improve students’ engagement experiences, graduation rates, and career development outcomes.
by Saran Kaur Gill
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Set in Malaysia, this book encompasses language and cultural policy challenges that many other multi-ethnic nations currently have to address. The people of Malaysia constitute a diverse ethnic, linguistic and cultural population and one of the continuing challenges is the development and establishment...
Politics, Policies and Pedagogies in Education
The selected works of Bob Lingard
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
In the World Library of Educationalists, international experts compile career long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces of work – extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions – so the world can read them in a single...
Achieving Coherence in District Improvement
Managing the Relationship Between the Central Office and Schools
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Achieving Coherence in District Improvement focuses on a problem of practice faced by educational leaders across the nation: how to effectively manage the relationship between the central office and schools. The book is based on a study of five large urban districts that have demonstrated improvement...
Political Agendas for Education
From Make America Great Again to Stronger Together
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Following the epic, contentious 2016 presidential election, Joel Spring’s ongoing documentation and analysis of political agendas for education reflect the major political issues since 2012. Here he examines the 2016 education planks of the Republican, Democratic, Libertarian, and Green Parties,...
Barriers to Excellence
The Changes Needed for Our Schools
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Barriers to Excellence: The Changes Needed for Our Schools brings a new and different viewpoint to our educational problems in the United States. The reasons behind the academic decline we have seen over the last several decades, the continued inequity in our schools, and the frustration with inconsistent...
The Subaltern Speak
Curriculum, Power, and Educational Struggles
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The question of whose perspective, experience and history is privileged in educational institutions has shaped curriculum debates for decades. In this insightful collection, Michael W. Apple and Kristen L. Buras interrogate the notion that some knowledge is worth more than others. The Subaltern Speak...
Doing Youth Participatory Action Research
Transforming Inquiry with Researchers, Educators, and Students
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Doing Youth Participatory Action Research offers an unprecedented, in-depth exploration of the pragmatics and possibilities of youth-driven research. Drawing upon multiple years of experience engaging youth in rigorous, critical inquiry about the conditions impacting their lives, the authors examine...
by Deborah P. Britzman
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
The concept of education—its dangers and promises and its illusions and revelations—threads throughout Sigmund Freud’s body of work. This introductory volume by psychoanalytic authority, Deborah P. Britzman, explores key controversies of education through a Freudian approach. It defines how...