Educational Theory category: 17068 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
The monitoring of data within educational institutions is essential to ensure the success of its students and faculty. By continually analyzing data, educational leaders can increase quality and productivity in their institutions. Data Leadership for K-12 Schools in a Time of Accountability explores...
Lee Kuan Yew’s Educational Legacy
The Challenges of Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
The late Mr Lee Kuan Yew (1923–2015) laid the foundations for the creation of a first-world education system in Singapore. Like many other issues concerning the country, his ideas for education were transported in a red box, which he took with him wherever he went, even up to his last days. Inside...
A School in Ren Village
A Historical-Ethnographical Study of China's Educational Changes
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
By adopting oral history and fieldwork methods and exploring historical data, this book chronologically depicts the development of the schools and education in a village in North China over a century. The book reveals how education and school life in the rural village are being impacted not only...
Equity and Excellence in Education
Towards Maximal Learning Opportunities for All Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Throughout the world, equity and excellence in education is a major issue of concern. International comparative studies such as those carried out by OECD (PISA) have launched a worldwide debate on the effectiveness of educational systems (macro level), schools (meso level) and teachers (micro level)...
The Strong State and Curriculum Reform
Assessing the politics and possibilities of educational change in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
As Asian education systems increasingly take on a stronger presence on the global educational landscape, of special interest is an understanding of the ways in which many of these states direct their schools towards higher achievement. What is missing, however, are accounts that take seriously the...
by Lauren Resnick, Christa Asterhan, Sherice Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2015
Socializing Intelligence Through Academic Talk and Dialogue focuses on a fast-growing topic in education research. Over the course of 34 chapters, the contributors discuss theories and case studies that shed light on the effects of dialogic participation in and outside the classroom. This rich, interdisciplinary...
Opportunity to Learn, Curriculum Alignment and Test Preparation
A Research Review
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
This book provides a review of the effectiveness of Opportunity to Learn (OTL) operationalized as the association between OTL and student achievement. In addition, it presents an elaborate conceptual map in which OTL is regarded as part of a larger concept of curriculum alignment. Major components...
Making Sense of Education Policy
Studies in the Sociology and Politics of Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2002
`This book is a very worthwhile read for teachers, student teachers and teacher educators. It would be encouraging if politically based policy makers were to digest its contents also' - Citizenship, Social and Economics Education
`I recommend this book as an enjoyable, thought provoking and...
Gender Violence in Poverty Contexts
The educational challenge
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
This book is concerned with understanding the complex ways in which gender violence and poverty impact on young people’s lives, and the potential for education to challenge violence.
Although there has been a recent expansion of research on gender violence and schooling, the field of research...
New Public Management and the Reform of Education
European lessons for policy and practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
New Public Management and the Reform of Education addresses complex and dynamic changes to public services by focusing on new public management as a major shaper and influencer of educational reforms within, between and across European nation states and policy actors. The contributions to the book...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
As computers are increasingly integrated into the classroom, instructors must address a number of pressing ethical questions regarding online behavior, course design, cyberbullying, and student cyber behavior. Ethical Technology Use, Policy, and Reactions in Educational Settings provides state-of-the-art...
Educational Diversity
The Subject of Difference and Different Subjects
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
This collection explores the relationship between new equality regimes and continued societal inequalities, exploring change, ambivalence and resistance specifically in relation to compulsory and post-compulsory education, seeking to more fully situate the educational journeys and experiences of staff and students.
Raising the Achievement of All Pupils Within an Inclusive Setting
Practical Strategies for Developing Best Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Schools everywhere are concerned with raising standards according to government requirements, particularly for those pupils who could be termed 'more able'. The key challenges revolve around government initiatives such as Every Child Matters, independent learning, inclusion and differentiation, thus...
Educating Chinese–Heritage Students in the Global–Local Nexus
Identities, Challenges, and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Weaving together a richly diverse range of student voices, perspectives, and insights, this collection of studies from around the world offers the educational community a better understanding of K-12 and adult Chinese–heritage students’ languages, cultures, identities, motivations, achievements,...