Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Alternatives to Privatizing Public Education and Curriculum
Festschrift in Honor of Dale D. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Through conversations in honor of Dale D. Johnson, this booktakes a critical view of the monoculture in curriculum and policy that has developed in education with the increase of federal funding and privatization of services for public education, and examines the shift from public interest and control...
Aboriginal Student Engagement and Achievement
Educational Practices and Cultural Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Aboriginal people in Canada want an education that reflects their cultural values and linguistic heritages. They want an education that will foster their children’s sense of engagement and identity, putting them on the path to success. When students enter public school systems, however, they encounter...
Education, Science and Knowledge Capitalism
Creativity and the Promise of Openness
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
We live in the age of global science – but not, primarily, in the sense of ‘universal knowledge’ that has characterized the liberal metanarrative of ‘free’ science and the ‘free society’ since its early development in the Enlightenment. Today, an economic logic links science to national...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
The first book in the series Policy and Pedagogy with Under-three year olds: Cross Disciplinary insights and innovations establishes a path for the much-needed examination of the experiences of infants and toddlers in contemporary educational settings across the globe. Bringing together internationally...
Routledge Revivals: The Universities and Education Today (1962)
The Lindsay Memorial Lectures given at the University College of North Staffordshire
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
First published in 1962, this book comprises lectures given in November 1961 to what was then the University College of North Staffordshire. It deals with the aims, rather than the administrative problems of the Universities, to put at the forefront of the reader’s mind the fundamentals of University...
by M. Victoria Costa
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
This book develops and applies a unified interpretation of John Rawls’ theory of justice as fairness in order to clarify the account of citizenship that Rawls relies upon, and the kind of educational policies that the state can legitimately pursue to promote social justice. Costa examines the role...
The New Significance of Learning
Imagination's Heartwork
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Should education be understood mainly as a practice in its own right, or is it essentially a subordinate affair to be shaped and controlled by a society’s powers-that-be?
What difference does it make if students are chiefly viewed as recipients of a set of skills and knowledge, or as active...
An Introduction to the Foundation Phase
Early Years Curriculum in Wales
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
An Introduction to the Foundation Phase provides a practical guide to understanding and implementing the Foundation Phase in any early years setting in Wales. The experienced author team discuss and reflect upon a play based approach to learning and the importance of collaboration between various...
World Yearbook of Education 2011
Curriculum in Today’s World: Configuring Knowledge, Identities, Work and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
How do curriculum, conceptions of knowledge and the schooling experiences of young people engage the great issues of this tumultuous time? Curriculum is always influenced by the events that shape our world, but when testing and bench-marking preoccupy us, we can forget the world that is both the foundation...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
Globalisation, Ideology and Education Policy Reforms, which is the 11th volume in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, presents scholarly research on major discourses concerning globalisation and the politics of education reforms. It reviews some of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
The Second Vatican Council (Vatican II), called by Pope John XXIII in 1959, produced sixteen documents that outlined the Church’s attempts to meet increasing calls for modernization in the wake of social and cultural changes that were taking place in the twentieth century.
Catholic Education...
by Hugh Lytton
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
The author gives a lucid account of creativity and its educational context. He discusses the creative process, the character of different kinds of creativity, creative people, developing creativity, and the creative child at school, to give his readers an understanding of the issues that home or school...
International Perspectives on Teaching Rival Histories
Pedagogical Responses to Contested Narratives and the History Wars
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
This book presents a survey of approaches to dealing with ‘rival histories’ in the classroom, arguing that approaching this problem requires great sensitivity to differing national, educational and narrative contexts. Contested narratives and disputed histories have long been an important issue...
The Challenge For the Comprehensive School
Culture, Curriculum and Community
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
By 1982 the ambitious claims made for newly established comprehensive schools were being put to the test. How effectively does the comprehensive meet the needs of all young people? Do urban, working-class students enjoy more success than in the secondary modern schools? Are they more engaged in their...