Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Empowering Engagement
Creating Learning Opportunities for Students from Challenging Backgrounds
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
This book examines promoting engagement for children and adolescents from challenging contexts or who are dealing with challenging conditions. The volume concentrates on three vulnerable groups: marginalized youths who have experienced repeated exclusion and sought their second chance in alternative...
Outward and Upward Mobilities
International Students in Canada, Their Families, and Structuring Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
People move out to move up. Like other migrant groups, student mobility is a form of social mobility, and one that requires access from a host state. But there are multiple institutions with which students interact and that influence the processes of social mobility. Outward and Upward Mobilities...
by Miriam David
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
In The State, The Family and Education, first published in 1980, Miriam David provides an entirely new analysis of the relationship of the State to the family and education. David shows how the State, through its educational policies, regulates family relationships with, and within, schools. This...
Language Development across the Life Span
The Impact of English on Education and Work in Iceland
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This book offers insights from a seven-year study into the impact of English as an International Language at a national level, from the effect of rich English input on a previously monolingual people’s linguistic repertoire to its effect on the situated language use demanded of speakers who find...
by Zhu Yongxin
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
The founder of the New-Style Education Experiment of China provides Western readers with a rare inside look at the Chinese education system
The New-Style Education of China details the character and soul of modern education and educational ideals, how to conduct a “new education” experiment,...
by Zhu Yongxin
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
China’s top education thought leader provides a thorough examination of the state of China’s education system—what’s working, what’s not, and what’s to be done
Observations on the Education of China is a guide to the current status of education and educational thought in China,...
The Search for Better Educational Standards
A Cautionary Tale
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
This book deals with the development of New Zealand’s standards system for primary school achievement, ‘Kiwi Standards’, which took effect from 2010 onwards and is becoming increasingly embedded over time. The approach, where teachers make ‘Overall Teacher Judgements’ based on a range...
Schools, Pupils, and Teachers
Ontario's Educative Society, Volume III
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
Volume III explores the basic units in the educational system: student, teacher, and school. It examines the aims of education, historically and philosophically, and describes the development of various types of schools. The book provides an analysis of the use of educational media, a description...
Teacher Education Policy and Practice in Europe
Challenges and Opportunities for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Teacher Education Policy and Practice in Europe provides a critical overview of the current challenges facing teacher education policy and practice in Europe. Drawing on a wide range of contributions, the book demonstrates that in order for teachers to reassume their role as agents of change, it is...
Educational Paths to Mathematics
A C.I.E.A.E.M. Sourcebook
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
This book offers fresh insight and understanding of the many ways in which children, youth and adults may find their paths to mathematics. The chapters of the volume offer and analyse promising new ways into mathematics. The focus is on spaces and modalities of learning, dialogue and inquiry, embodiment...
The Multilingual Reality
Living with Languages
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
This book is a multidisciplinary analysis of the meaning and dynamics of multilingualism from the perspectives of multilingual societies and language communities in the margins, who are trapped in a vicious circle of disadvantage. It analyses the social, psychological and sociolinguistic processes...
How to Fix the Schools
Educational Errors That Hurt Students, Teachers, and Schools
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
The educational system in the United States is broken, and its time to do something about it! In this guide, author Clifford Bebell, EdD, who taught at several universities, exposes major flaws in our schools and shows what can be done to improve them. He offers solutions aimed at fixing the system...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
This book covers research topics in bilingual education, language policies, language contact, identity of bilingual speakers, early bilingualism, heritage languages, and more, and provides an overview of current theory, research and practice in the field of bilingualism. Each chapter is written by...
Stop Politically Driven Education
Subverting the System to Build a New School Model
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2019
On these pages is a call to action for teachers who have been shackled by the self-serving motives of agenda driven politicians. Here we present a new innovative process designed to prepare children to be productive members of their community. Students are empowered to take charge of their educational...