Educational Theory category: 17068 books
Unifying Educational Systems
Leadership and Policy Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Unifying Educational Systems encourages leaders to move beyond the traditional forms and rituals of leadership for special education that are caught within traditional definitions of a continuum of services. Grounded in public policy debates, research on teaching and learning, and an emerging consensus...
International Mobility and Educational Desire
Chinese Foreign Talent Students in Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
This book examines the Singapore government’s controversial practice of recruiting students from China and granting them full scholarships on the condition of a service “bond”. It offers detailed ethnographic accounts of the Chinese “foreign talent” students’ educational and cross-cultural...
Systems of Reason and the Politics of Schooling
School Reform and Sciences of Education in the Tradition of Thomas S. Popkewitz
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
The 1980s were an important decade for educational inquiry. It was the moment of the “linguistic turn,” with its emphasis on the role of language as a constructor of reality, a structuring agent for institutions such as schools, and a medium for translating knowledge into elements of power for...
Globalization and Japanese Exceptionalism in Education
Insiders' Views into a Changing System
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Globalization is the most common overriding characteristic of our time, with societies all over the world struggling to change their educational systems to meet what are perceived to be the needs of globalization. This book provides an insider's account of how the Japanese educational system is trying...
Bridge Leadership
Connecting Educational Leadership and Social Justice to Improve Schools
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This is the first chronicle of the history of social justice as a line of inquiry within the field of educational administration. Editors Tooms and Boske have amassed a collective voice of leaders in the field of Educational Administration who have broken barriers and expanded the field through their...
Educational Equity and Accountability
Paradigms, Policies, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2004
Despite the intense political attention that has been focused on accountability, on standardized testing, and on the equity effects of both accountability and testing, the great majority of recent debate in education policy circles has failed to attend to either the dynamism or complexity of these...
Pedagogy, Policy, and the Privatized City
Stories of Dispossession and Defiance from New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In cities across the nation, communities of color find themselves resisting state disinvestment and the politics of dispossession. Students at the Center—a writing initiative based in several New Orleans high schools—takes on this struggle through a close examination of race and schools....
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
This volume explores conceptualizations of indigeneity and the ways that indigenous philosophies can and should inform educational policy and practice. Beginning with questions and philosophies of indigeneity itself, the volume then covers the indigenous philosophies and practices of a range of communities—including...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
High stakes tests are the gatekeepers to many educational and professional goals. As such, the incentive to cheat is high. This Handbook is the first to offer insights from experts within the testing community, psychometricians, and policymakers to identify and develop best practice guidelines for...
by Kent Greenawalt
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Controversial Supreme Court decisions have barred organized school prayer, but neither the Court nor public policy exclude religion from schools altogether. In this book, one of America's leading constitutional scholars asks what role religion ought to play in public schools. Kent Greenawalt explores...
Encountering Education in the Global
The selected works of Fazal Rizvi
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
In the World Library of Educationalists, international experts compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces – extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions – so the world can read them in a single manageable...
by Ann Lutz Fernandez, Catherine Lutz
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This beautifully written book highlights working teachers speaking on many key educational problems under debate as well as many of the controversial solutions put forth, including revamped teacher evaluations, curricular standardization, and increased testing and data collection. Anthropologist Catherine...
by Zhu Yongxin
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
“In this book, I try my best to contribute my observations and reflections on Chinese educational issues, to raise awareness and inspire confidence and hope.” —Zhu Yongxin
As one of China’s leading experts on education, Professor Zhu Yongxin has seen schools change and grow by leaps...
Designing Teaching Strategies
An Applied Behavior Analysis Systems Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2002
The US Dept. of Education, in conjunction with the US Dept. of Health and Human Services, recently unveiled a $50 million effort to expand research on early childhood cognitive development. A key issue identified requiring more information and research was the education and professional development...