Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Standard Setting in Education
The Nordic Countries in an International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
This book summarizes the international evidence on methodological issues in standard setting in education. By critically discussing the standard-setting practices implemented in the Nordic countries and by presenting new methodological approaches, it offers fresh perspectives on the current research.
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School Integration Matters
Research-Based Strategies to Advance Equity
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
More than 60 years after the Brown v. Board of Education decision declared segregated schooling inherently unequal, this timely book sheds light on how and why U.S. schools are experiencing increasing segregation along racial, socioeconomic, and linguistic lines. It offers policy and programmatic...
Social Justice and Transformative Learning
Culture and Identity in the United States and South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
The similarities between the United States and South Africa with respect to race, power, oppression and economic inequities are striking, and a better understanding of these parallels can provide educational gains for students and educators in both countries. Through shared experiences and perspectives,...
The Great American Education-Industrial Complex
Ideology, Technology, and Profit
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
The Great American Education-Industrial Complex examines the structure and nature of national networks and enterprises that seek to influence public education policy in accord with their own goals and objectives. In the past twenty years, significant changes have taken place in the way various interest...
The Business of Education
Networks of Power and Wealth in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
The Business of Education—a comprehensive view of how education policy is made in the US and, in some cases, globally—analyzes and critiques the influence of educational policy networks in a wide range of contexts and from a variety of perspectives, including testing, college preparation, juvenile...
by David Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2007
Building on an increasingly sophisticated body of research on policy �borrowing� in education, this collection explores ways in which the foreign example in education has been and is being used by policy makers in a variety of settings, its principal aim being to assess the usefulness of �foreign� experience in �home� contexts.
Education Technology Policies in the Middle East
Globalisation, Neoliberalism and the Knowledge Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
This book explores the potential educational technologies have for transforming education in the Middle East. Although technology has increasingly become a part of classrooms around the globe over recent decades, its application in classrooms in the MENA region remains underused and this book draws...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This book is concerned with the social and political aspects of regional groupings, particularly how citizenship education fares in regional contexts. The European Union (EU) has revolutionised its political and economic aims into more encompassing social and political goals. The Association of Southeast...
Education Policy, Space and the City
Markets and the (In)visibility of Race
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Drawing on three case studies of K-12 public schooling in London, Sydney and Vancouver, this book examines the geographies of neoliberal education policy in the inner city. Gulson uses an innovative and critical spatial approach to explore how the processes and practices of neoliberal education policy,...
Living with Moral Disagreement
The Enduring Controversy about Affirmative Action
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
How to handle affirmative action is one of the most intractable policy problems of our era, touching on controversial issues such as race-consciousness and social justice. Much has been written both for and against affirmative action policies—especially within the realm of educational opportunity....
Latino Immigrant Youth and Interrupted Schooling
Dropouts, Dreamers and Alternative Pathways to College
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
This book offers an innovative look at the pre- and post-migration educational experiences of immigrant young adults with a particular focus on members of the Latino community. Combining quantitative data with original interviews, this book provides an engaging and nuanced look at a population that...
Life Learning Is for Everyone
The True Story of How South Carolina Came to Be a Leader in Providing Opportunities for Postsecondary Education to Young Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Anyone interested in disability, in education, in helping broaden the horizon of opportunities for young people exiting special education will be the wiser for having read this book. Readable, fast-paced, well written, and instructivethis book provides fascinating and important insight into the brilliant...
Leading on Inclusion
Dilemmas, debates and new perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Leading on Inclusion: Dilemmas, debates and new perspectives critically examines the current theory and legislative context of special educational needs and disability, and explores the enduring issues and opportunities that will affect future practice in all schools.
The central theme throughout...
by Kaustuv Roy
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
This book engages with the dynamic intersection of several domains such as philosophy, psychology, sociology, and pedagogy, in order to critically analyze and reinvent our understanding of curriculum. The chapters raise important questions such as: what are the conditions of possibility for a living...