Educational Theory category: 17068 books
The Demoralization of Teachers
Crisis in a Rural School in China
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
The educational system in China is marked by its dramatic inequality between rural and urban schools. The challenges facing rural schools are usually understood as disadvantages in funding, facilities, and staffing, which consequently result in undesirable student performance in general. This book,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
Fully revised and thoroughly updated, this second edition of this classic book brings together many leading international authors on educational leadership, with brand new chapters from leaders in the field Ken Leithwood, Paul Begley, Allan Walker and Alma Harris.
Providing an overview of essential...
Confronting Oppressive Assessments
How Parents, Educators, and Policymakers Are Rethinking Current Educational Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
This book is about doing what’s right for public education in the United States in this age of intensive curriculum convergence, planned instructional standardization, and oppressive accountability procedures. Information is presented about why and how educators, parents, students, community members,...
by Dr Colin Brock
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Education in South Asia and the Indian Ocean Islands is a critical reference guide to development of education in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Comoros Islands, Maldives, Mauritius, Seychelles and Zanzibar. The chapters provide an overview of the education system in each country, focusing...
by Dr Michael James Grenfell, Professor Richard Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
The French social theorist Pierre Bourdieu was a key thinker about education and educational processes in the second half of the twentieth century. He made his name in seminal texts such as The Inheritors and Reproduction in which he analysed academic discourse and showed how differences in cultural...
Cultural Education - Cultural Sustainability
Minority, Diaspora, Indigenous and Ethno-Religious Groups in Multicultural Societies
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2008
This volume is a path-breaking contribution to the study of efforts of diaspora, indigenous, and minority groups, broadly defined, to use education (formal and informal) to sustain cultural continuity while grappling with the influences and demands of wider globalizing, nationalizing, or other homogenizing...
African Mathematics
From Bones to Computers
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
This is the first comprehensive text on African Mathematics that can be used to address some of the problematic issues in this area. These issues include attitudes, curriculum development, educational change, academic achievement, standardized and other tests, performance factors, student characteristics,...
by Adam Howard, Brianne Wheeler, Aimee Polimeno
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Recent efforts emphasize the roles that privilege and elite education play in shaping affluent youths’ identities. Despite various backgrounds, the common qualities shared among the eight adolescents showcased in this book lead them to form particular understandings of self, others, and the world...
Paranoid Pedagogies
Education, Culture, and Paranoia
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
This edited book explores the under-analyzed significance and function of paranoia as a psychological habitus of the contemporary educational and social moment. The editors and contributors argue that the desire for epistemological truth beyond uncertainty characteristic of paranoia continues to profoundly...
Tolerance and Dissent within Education
On Cultivating Debate and Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
This book explores how the concept of tolerance might be understood, cultivated and enacted in and through educational encounters. It argues that by opening up educational encounters to allow for ‘dissent’ – that is, disagreement, criticism and open dialogue – our everyday social life experiences...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
The quality of students’ learning experiences is a critical concern for all educational institutions. With the assistance of modern technological advances, educational establishments have the capability to better understand the strengths and weaknesses of their learning programs. Impact of Learning...
Pan-African Education
A Must for the African Union
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
This book makes a critical contribution to the study of pan-Africanism and the education of African people for continental African citizenship. It is a unique endeavor in that it intersects the social history of pan-Africanism and the education of African people at a 'global' level and provides reflections...
Education, Ethics and Experience
Essays in honour of Richard Pring
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Education, Ethics and Experience is a collection of original philosophical essays celebrating the work of one of the most influential philosophers of education of the last 40 years. Richard Pring’s substantial body of work has addressed topics ranging from curriculum integration to the comprehensive...
Schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa
Policy, Practice and Patterns
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This book is a comprehensive text for those interested in formal education in sub-Saharan Africa. It provides a thought-provoking overview of the key educational ideas, themes and issues facing schooling in Africa today, by drawing on a wide literature to examine evidence concerning both educational...