Education category: 70663 books
Rethinking Secondary Education
A Human-Centred Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
'This is a timely, accessible and engaging book of considerable intellectual stature, bold imagination and practical wisdom. Not only does it develop penetrating, elegant analyses of what is wrong with current state controlled and alternative approaches to contemporary education, it also offers imaginative,...
Expansion of Secondary Education in Tanzania
Policy Practices, Trends and Implications to Quality Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Pedagogy - School Pedagogics, grade: none, University of Dodoma, course: Foundations of Education, language: English, abstract: This paper reviews the trends of secondary education expansion in Tanzania. It is argued that various policy stances and approaches...
The Retreat from Public Education
Global and Israeli Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2009
In recent decades the pendulum is swinging away from the idea and ideals of public education, and a new ethos increasingly takes over the shrinking public space of education. In the 1980s markets were elevated to social and economic icons, becoming a new secular faith. Privatizing public education...
Learner-Centered Theory and Practice in Distance Education
Cases From Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
Learner-Centered Theory and Practice in Distance Education: Cases From Higher Education brings the voice of the learning sciences to the study and design of distance learning. The contributors examine critical issues in the design of theoretically and pedagogically based distance education programs.
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Re-envisioning Chinese Education
The meaning of person-making in a new age
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Maintaining education as a pedagogical space for human formation, this book is distinctive in looking at the crisis rather than the success of Chinese education. The editors and contributors, mostly overseas and mainland Chinese scholars, argue that modern Chinese education has been built upon a superficial...
International Education Hubs
Student, Talent, Knowledge-Innovation Models
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Education hubs are the newest development in the international higher education landscape. Countries, zones and cities are trying to position themselves as reputed centres for higher education and research.
But given higher education’s current preoccupation with competitiveness, branding,...
The Illusion of Education
How School Creates the Ability of the Citizen
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
In a book that was written in the everyday language of parents but acclaimed by academics, ‘The Illusion of Education’ goes deep into the education psyche to discover what is really wrong with school systems throughout the world. It examines the difficulties faced by teachers trying to bring order...
Religious Education
Educating for Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Religious Education: Educating for Diversity raises issues that are central to the theory and practice of education, and in particular religious education, in modern liberal democracies characterized by diversity in its different forms. What kind of religious education is best equipped both to challenge...
Languages in the Malaysian Education System
Monolingual strands in multilingual settings
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
This book provides an overview of language education in Malaysia, covering topics such as the evolution of the education system from pre-independence days to the present time, to the typology of schools, and the public philosophy behind every policy made in the teaching of languages. The book consists...
Education and Development in India
Critical Issues in Public Policy and Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Drawing on empirical, interdisciplinary research, this book presents a critical review of some of the major issues that are of interest to researchers, policymakers and planners in developing as well as advanced countries, including specifically in India. It provides an in-depth review of some...
Leading Change in Teacher Education
Lessons from Countries and Education Leaders around the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018
The international attempt to expand schooling despite dealing with an insufficient number of trained teachers has placed significant pressure on teacher education. Continued effort to change all aspects of teacher education, including ways of learning, methods of practice, institution interaction...
Policy and Practice in Science Education for the Gifted
Approaches from Diverse National Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Gifted education has come to be regarded as a key national programme in many coutnries, and gifted education in science disciplines is now being recognised to be of major importance for economic and technological development. Despite these initiatives and developments internationally, there are very...
Researching Catholic Education
Contemporary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
This book presents a range of perspectives on the current state of Catholic education in the opening decades of the twenty-first century. All of the chapters have their origin in an International Conference on Catholic Education, held at Heythrop College (University of London) in September 2016. The...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This book covers theoretical aspects of Catholic Religious Education in schools and examines them from multiple theoretical and contextual perspectives. It captures the contemporary academic and educational developments in the field of Religious Education while discussing in detail the challenges...