Educational Theory category: 17068 books
Burning Cash
How Costly Public School Failures have Charred the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
With the Common Core poised to markedly amplify the accountability stakes in public education, the pressure to post steep outcomes gains has never been fiercer. Unsurprisingly, flashy and expensive school improvement initiatives that promise quick fix solutions have become pervasively en vogue across...
by Anita Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
This book examines the effects of education exchange on educational sovereignty in Indonesia. Since independence, Indonesia has increasingly relied on the education programs of foreign providers. The author draws from critical education, dependency, and transnational and interdependence theories to...
by Yong Zhao
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Yong Zhao shines a light on the long-ignored phenomenon of side effects of education policies and practices, bringing a fresh and perhaps surprising perspective to evidence-based practices and policies. Identifying the adverse effects of some of the “best” educational interventions with examples...
Logics of Socialist Education
Engaging with Crisis, Insecurity and Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
For some, socialism is a potent way of achieving economic, political and social transformations in the twenty-first century, while others find the very term socialism outdated. This book engages readers in a discussion about the viability of socialist views on education and identifies the capacity...
The Age of STEM
Educational policy and practice across the world in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Across the world STEM (learning and work in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) has taken central importance in education and the economy in a way that few other disciplines have. STEM competence has become seen as key to higher productivity, technological adaptation and research-based...
by Edgar Stones
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This book introduces students of education to the elements of educational psychology. It also relates as closely as possible the findings of research to classroom practice. In order to make clear the fundamental processes involved in psychological development, the book starts with a study of the way...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This edited volume contributes to a burgeoning field of critical scholarship on the news media and education. This scholarship is based on an understanding that the news media has increasingly applied a neoliberal template that mediates knowledge and action about education. This book calls into question...
An Arena for Educational Ideologies
Current Practices in Teacher Education Programs
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Educational processes are shaped by societal ideas and values. Different ideologies shape the discourses, content, processes and pedagogies of teacher education processes. The book includes cases or illustrations of teacher education in the Montessori, Waldorf, Reggio Emilia and Pistoia traditions,...
Marketing Your Educational Leadership Skills
How to Land the Job You Want
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
In recent years, research that has identified instructional leadership as a key ingredient in effective schools has meant that attention has been directed increasingly at the ways in which future school administrators are being prepared. As a consequence, many universities have worked to develop administrator...
Educational Media and Technology Yearbook
Volume 34, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
The Educational Media and Technology Yearbook has become a standard reference in many libraries and professional collections. Examined in relation to its comp- ion volumes of the past, it provides a valuable historical record of current ideas and developments in the ?eld. Part I, “Trends and Issues,”...
Chinese Elementary Education System Reform in Rural, Pastoral, Ethnic, and Private Schools
Six Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
This book introduces Chinese educational reforms and developments rolled out in the year 2014, examining them from both macro and micro perspectives and pursuing a mixed-methods approach.
This book depicts the current landscape of the Chinese education system and institutions on different educational...
National Identity and Educational Reform
Contested Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
National identity in Moldova remains contested despite repeated attempts by governments, historians, and educators to cultivate a shared sense of national belonging through the development of history textbooks. Concern over professional status and distrust of the government’s motivations halted...
Education Policies and the Restructuring of the Educational Profession
Global and Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
The book analyzes worldwide changes in school organization and the teaching profession, and how the profession has been impacted by education policies that promote assessments and accountability. It also identifies some shifts in professional positions, statuses and profiles, and characterizes the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
The Educational Media and Technology Yearbook has become a standard reference in many libraries and professional collections. It provides a valuable historical record of current ideas and developments in the field. Part One of this updated volume, “Trends and Issues in Learning, Design, and Technology,”...