Educational Reform category: 2687 books
by Dr Gillian Forrester, Professor Dean Garratt
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Education Policy Unravelled examines the nature of contemporary education policy, its purposes and political formation. This thoroughly revised edition charts the continuity of policy development along neo-liberal lines, taking a historical perspective broadly from the 19th century and towards the...
Schooling, Childhood, and Bureaucracy
Bureaucratizing the Child
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
In exploring the relationship between bureaucratic schooling and the individual child, Waters describes the persistence of educational inequality, child development, and the nature of bureaucracy. The conclusions point out how education bureaucracies frame both schooling and childhood as they relentlessly seek to create ever more perfect children.
Resilient Teachers, Resilient Schools
Building and sustaining quality in testing times
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
This book unpicks the complex, dynamic blend of individuals’ psychological and professional assets, workplace conditions and leadership support which enable teachers who stay in teaching to continue to make a difference in their careers, regardless of shifts in policy, workplace, professional and...
Standing for Reason
The University in a Dogmatic Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
A powerful case for the importance of universities as an antidote to the “secular dogmatism” that increasingly infects political discourse
John Sexton argues that over six decades, a “secular dogmatism,” impenetrable by dialogue or reason, has come to dominate political discourse in America....
Use Google forms for evaluation
Google forms and quizzes as effective educational tools
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Evaluate your learners with Google forms
Are you a teacher and are you feeling the need to put in place an alternative pedagogy to make your learners succeed?
Want to know how to set up quizzes easily accessible on smartphone, tablet or computer?
This little guide will help you!
Discover a simple,...
Marching Students
Chicana and Chicano Activism in Education, 1968 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
In 1968 over 10,000 Chicana/o high school students in East Los Angeles walked out of their schools in the first major protest against racism and educational inequality staged by Mexican Americans in the United States. They ignited the Mexican-American civil rights movement, which opened the doors...
Transition by Design
Improving Equity and Outcomes for Adolescents with Disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Transitions to adulthood for adolescents with disabilities are as diverse as the adolescents themselves. While there have been marked improvements for students with disabilities, there is still concern that employment education and independent living outcomes are not equitable across groups of students....
by Don Steely
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
To the consternation of popularized educational theories, Direct Instruction consistently and convincingly outperforms every theory, program, and procedure they espouse. Proponents of those theories continue to vilify and disparage Direct Instruction despite nearly 50 years of data that proves them...
Possible Futures of European Education
Numerical and System’s Forecast
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In "Plan Europe 2000," launched by the European Cultural Foundation, the first project is devoted to education. This project sets out to isolate the principal features, and to sketch the "image" of the educational system in the year 2000. It is not a matter of "forecasting,"...
Making a Difference in Urban Schools
Ideas, Politics, and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
What can be done to improve the educational experiences of students who live in cities with increasingly high levels of diversity and inequality? Making a Difference in Urban Schools evaluates how school and community leaders have worked to change urban education in Canada for the better over the...
Contextualizing Inclusive Education
Evaluating Old and New International Paradigms
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2005
Inclusive education is a complex and problematic concept that raises many questions. A team of prominent academics present fresh and critical perspectives on these issues, drawing upon their global resources and knowledge.
The over-arching theme of this book is that social, political, economic...
Teachers of the Foothills Province
The Story of The Alberta Teachers' Association
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
In 1967 the Alberta Teachers' Association published, in honour of Canada's Centennial, a history of the public school system in Alberta entitled Schools of the Foothills Province. This informative book published for the Association by University of Toronto Press is now followed by a companion volume...
by Myles Chilton, Angelica Maria DeAngelis, Oana Anca Fotache Dubălaru
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
The globalization of American style higher education is a field of study that is undergoing a significant phase with the current expansion of American branch campuses and curricula around the world. This volume contributes to the scholarship on the project of implementing and expanding U.S. influenced...
First in the World
Community Colleges and America's Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
From his unique vantage point as President and CEO of the Association of Community College Trustees, J. Noah Brown writes about the intersection between community colleges and America’s need to regain economic momentum and its position as first in the world with respect to college attainment. By...