Education category: 70663 books
Education Policy
Globalization, Citizenship and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2004
`Education policy is now a global matter and all the more complex for that. Mark Olssen, John Codd and Ann-Marie O'Neill do us an invaluable service in producing a carefully theorised guide to current issues and key concerns - this is an important, erudite and very practical book' - Stephen J Ball,...
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...
Global Education Reform
The Universe Is Governed by a Sequence of Realms; Hence, Global Education Reform Is a Dignified Path to Peace and Unity, a Promised Corridor for the Eradication of Lingering Human Prejudice, Discrimination, Injustice, and Language Barriers.
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Global Education Reform presents an opportunity to reorganize, transform, and recapture misplaced human potential. The book advocates a new culture of the education process through the establishment of Student Concerned Review Councils (SCRCs) as a vehicle for global education reform in college and...
Mass Higher Education Development in East Asia
Strategy, Quality, and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
This book discusses mass higher education development in East Asian countries by means of three main issues: the strategy for higher education development; the way professors and students in the region are experiencing the rapid developments; and the challenges imposed by mass higher education. These...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
This book, the seventeenth instalment in the 24-volume series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, explores the interrelationship between ideology, the state and human rights education reforms, setting it in a global context. The book examines major human rights education reforms...
by Dr. Robert E. Fugate
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Education can only be understood from the perspective of worldviews. God’s Mandate for Biblical Education briefly examines the components of worldviews (particularly epistemology), and then presents the Biblical worldview of education.Nine arguments (including the absolute lordship of Jesus Christ...
Teacher Education in Taiwan
State control vs marketization
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Since the Teacher Education Act was in place in 1994, student teachers were educated through diverse educational institutions instead of the traditional normal schools (Taiwan’s equivalent of teachers’ colleges). But such market-based teacher education has been altered by politics, society and...
by Zhu Yongxin
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
“The most important task of education is to teach children to be kind, to have a dream, and to possess the ability to learn.” --Zhu Yongxin
One of today’s leading education thinkers, Zhu Yongxin possesses a rare clarity about the purpose of education. Dialogues on the New Education is...
Global Networks, Local Actions
Rethinking adult education policy in the 21st century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Global Networks, Local Actions: Rethinking adult education policy in the 21st century examines public policy developments in adult education, exploring the policy framing of adult education practice in a range of socio-cultural contexts, and contributing to the development of policy research from...
by James Wm Maddock
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Sexuality Education in Postsecondary and Professional Training Settings keeps you up-to-date on the trends and issues in sexuality education in colleges, universities, and professional training institutions. A diverse group of authors, all experienced sexuality educators, offers summary information,...
Sustainable Futures for Higher Education
The Making of Knowledge Makers
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2018
This volume addresses the current situation in higher education and what creative action needs to be taken for the future development of the various systems of higher education. Higher education in the 21st centuries is under immense pressure from various sides. First, there is dramatic limitation...
Access to Education in Europe
A Framework and Agenda for System Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
This book identifies key elements of an international framework to develop systems-level change to promote access to education, including higher education, for socio-economically marginalized groups. It is based on interviews with senior government officials and senior management in universities,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Science Education: A Global Perspective is ‘global’ both in content and authorship. Its 17 chapters by an assemblage of seasoned and knowledgeable science educators from many parts of the world seek to bring to the fore current developments in science education and their implications. The book...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
In the coming decades, the general public will be required ever more often to understand complex environmental issues, evaluate proposed environmental plans, and understand how individual decisions affect the environment at local to global scales. Thus it is of fundamental importance to ensure that...