Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Edu.net
Globalisation and Education Policy Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Edu.net builds upon, and extends, a series of research studies of education policy networks and global policy mobilities. It draws on comprehensive data resulting from a Leverhulme Trust research study focused on Africa, and a study funded by the British Academy focused on India, which explored the...
Improving Schools
Productive Tensions Between the Local, the Systemic and the Global
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
This unique book explores school improvement policy – from its translation into national contexts and school networks to its implementation in leader and teacher practices in individual schools and classrooms within this network of schools and its impact on students’ learning. It draws on multiple...
Early Career Teachers
Stories of Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
This book addresses one of the most persistent issues confronting governments, educations systems and schools today: the attraction, preparation, and retention of early career teachers. It draws on the stories of sixty graduate teachers from Australia to identify the key barriers, interferences and...
Relating to Ancient Learning
As it influences the 21st century
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Hieroglyphs to Virtual Classrooms: Have We Really Progressed?
How are we learning? In recent decades, children have learned through many sources outside family, including daycare, schools, and after-school activities. Learning is in great contrast with centuries past where most things were taught...
The Children Left Behind
America's Struggle to Improve Its Lowest Performing Schools
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Between 2002 and 2016, the federal government, state governments, and school districts undertook unprecedented measures to improve the lowest-performing schools. This book draws on dozens of actual examples to illustrate the wide range of interventions adopted over this time period. Among the initiatives...
When Research Matters
How Scholarship Influences Education Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
When Research Matters considers the complex and crucially important relationship between education research and policy.
In examining how and under what conditions research affects education policy, the book focuses on a number of critical issues: the history of the federal role in education...
Teaching Harry Potter
The Power of Imagination in Multicultural Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Given the current educational climate of high stakes testing, standardized curriculum, and 'approved' reading lists, incorporating unauthorized, popular literature into the classroom becomes a political choice. The authors examine why teachers choose to read Harry Potter , how they use the books, and the resulting teacher-student interactions.
Exploring the School Leadership Landscape
Changing Demands, Changing Realities
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
In a rapidly changing educational climate, leadership is more crucial than ever to school performance. Internal capacity and effective partnerships are essential to navigate through change and meet the ever-growing and changing demands of stakeholders, including policy-makers and children.
Drawing...
Leave No Child Behind
Preparing Today's Youth for Tomorrow's World
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
The call-to-arms to leave no child behind” in America has become popularly associated with the Bush administration’s education plan-a plan that actually diverges greatly from the ideals of the Children’s Defense Fund, which originated the concept. Here, in a bold and engaging new book, Dr. James...
Equity in Excellence
Experiences of East Asian High-Performing Education Systems
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
This book offers a comprehensive picture of high-performing East Asian education systems, beyond their outstanding achievements in international assessments, such as PISA and TIMSS. Situating “excellence” within discussions of “equity”, it contextualises the conceptions and pursuits of equity...
by Derek Birley
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
First published in 1970, this book tackles the topic of education and its structure and administration processes at the time of the early 1970s. This book broke new ground at the time, giving insight into an unfamiliar world, as Birley examines the system from nursery class to Polytechnic. Birley...
Teacher Education Yearbook XXIV
Establishing a Sense of Place for All Learners in 21st Century Classrooms and Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
The Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) Yearbook XXIV offers 16 captivating chapters related to establishing a sense of place or belonging for P-12 students, classroom teachers, teacher candidates, and teacher educators. The chapters include theory, research, concepts, principles, practices, and...
Responding to Poverty and Disadvantage in Schools
A Reader for Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
This book explores a range of challenges teachers face in dealing with situations of disadvantage, and explores different ways of thinking about these situations. Starting with a variety of incidents written by teachers in schools in disadvantaged settings, the book provides a range of ways of thinking...
The Inclusion Delusion?
Reflections on Democracy, Ethos and Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
It may seem self-evident that a democratic society ought to develop inclusive institutions and an inclusive educational system, yet when we try to define what we understand by inclusion, its complexity becomes apparent. This book does not seek to diminish that complexity but aims to deepen our understanding...