Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Ready for Learning and Ready for Life
Bridging the Disconnects Between Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
The goal of this book is to provide the necessary lens through which we can see what is really hindering many children in schools today, along with possible approaches and interventions typically not seen as educational in nature, but what may be just the needed prescription for our ailing youth.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
This book is an edited collection introducing the Education Policy and Social Inequality series, and presents chapters from authors on the editorial board. It investigates relations between educational policy and social inequality, not simply in terms of policy solutions for inequalities but also...
Reconciliation and Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina
From Segregation to Sustainable Peace
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Two decades after the war, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) still faces a weak national identity and ethnic and religious divisions that are further preventing the country from reaching sustainable peace and development. The education system is also divided along ethnic and religious lines. This study...
The Changing Role of Schools in Asian Societies
Schools for the Knowledge Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2007
Walk into a classroom in Tokyo, New York, London or Rotterdam, and the similarities in structure, activity, purpose and style will outweigh differences in language, dress and ethnic characteristics. Learning is regulated and rationed, teaching is a process or one-way transmission of knowledge, students...
Re-Visioning Education in Africa
Ubuntu-Inspired Education for Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
This book presents the case for a conceptual and pragmatic revolution of Africa’s formal educational systems. Using the context of Ubuntu-inspired education, the authors explore innovative ways to tackle the challenges faced by governments from the local and national level and beyond. Along the...
Discrimination in Elite Public Schools
Investigating Buffalo
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
School choice is an increasingly important part of today’s educational landscape and this timely volume presents fresh research about the competitive admissions policies of choice systems. Based on their investigation of a unique civil rights challenge to school choice admissions policies in politically...
Teacher's Turn: Speaking Out
Hoping Common Sense Prevails
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Frustrated with the state of education, a high school teacher challenges you to explore whats actually happening in schools across America. Why are our students failing? Its a combination of many factors. Teachers are supposed to be classroom instructors, counselors, parents, and disciplinarians....
The Education System is Broken
Strategies to Rebuilding Hope, Lives, and Futures
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
The intent of this book is to look at our educational system as it currently works and to evaluate not only why this system is broken, but also how we might move forward, together, to fix it.So, how do we fix our failing schools? We begin by finally taking the educator out from behind the desk and...
The Nordic Education Model
'A School for All' Encounters Neo-Liberal Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
This book presents a detailed analysis of the educational model in Nordic European countries. It describes the traditional idea of education for all, which can be characterized by the right for every child to have an education of equal quality in a common school for all pupils regardless of social...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
This book offers a perspective on Education for Sustainable Development in Early Childhood (ESDEC) that is far removed from the ‘business as usual’ notion of an extended, predominantly environmental, educational curriculum for preschools. It presents a vision of sustainable development that has...
The Hostile Environment
Students Who Bully in School
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
The Hostile Environment examines the latest psychological and educational research providing evidence that anti-bullying programs and school-based interventions lack intensity and a strong behavioral focus. This book includes information on characteristics and risk factors of bully perpetrators and...
Narrowing the Achievement Gap
Parental Engagement with Children’s Learning
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Narrowing the Achievement Gap proposes a radical change to our conception of learning, education and schooling, arguing that parental engagement is the best lever we have for school improvement and closing the achievement gap. Unique in its focus on original research linking underachievement and parental...
The Educated Person
Toward a New Paradigm for Liberal Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2008
Liberal education has long been a fascination for scholars in a variety of disciplines and is closely associated with the idea of the educated person. Seen at one time as a matter for colleges and universities, over the years it has become central to the debate surrounding general education in high...
Teacher Education Yearbook XXVI Building upon Inspirations and Aspirations with Hope, Courage, and Strength
Teacher Educators' Commitment to Today's Teachers and Tomorrow's Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
The Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) Teacher Education Yearbook XXVI is a second volume dedicated to building upon inspirations and aspirations with hope, courage, and strength relative to teacher educators' commitment to today's teachers and tomorrow's leaders. While the first volume, Yearbook...