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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
In this groundbreaking critique of neoliberalism in schooling and education, an international cast of education policy analysts, educational activists and scholars deftly analyze the ideologies underlying the global, national and local neoliberalisation of schooling and education. The thrilling scholarship...
Indigenous Education
Language, Culture and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Indigenous Education is a compilation of conceptual chapters and national case studies that includes empirical research based on a series of data collection methods. The book provides up-to-date scholarly research on global trends on three issues of paramount importance with indigenous education—language,...
The Universal Right to Education
Justification, Definition, and Guidelines
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
In this book, Joel Spring offers a powerful and closely reasoned justification and definition for the universal right to education--applicable to all cultures--as provided for in Article 26 of the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
One sixth of the world's population, nearly...
Inclusive Education
International Policy & Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2009
What does inclusion really mean and what impact have inclusive approaches to education had on practice?
Bringing together issues of theory, research, policy and practice from both the countries of the South and the North, this ground-breaking book provides a critical discussion of recent developments...
by Professor Stephen Ward, Ms Christine E Eden
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
'Ward and Eden have produced a useful and elegant text which deserves a place on the reading list of any education degree. I certainly hope that its readership goes beyond the most obvious target audience, as anyone involved in education would do well to read and enjoy this text' - ESCalate
'Education...
Critical Social Issues in American Education
Democracy and Meaning in a Globalizing World
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2004
This text-reader brings together powerful readings that critically situate issues of education in the context of the major cultural, moral, political, economic, ecological, and spiritual crises that confront us as a nation and a global community. It provides a focus and a conceptual framework for...
The Future of Physical Education
Building a New Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Anthony Laker leads an outstanding international team of educational theorists in critically examining the theoretical underpinnings of physical education, and in challenging the rhetoric, the practices and the pedagogies that prevail in our schools. There has been a great deal of discussion surrounding...
Religious Education for Plural Societies
The Selected Works of Robert Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts themselves 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...
English Education at the Tertiary Level in Asia
From Policy to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
This is the third volume of a trilogy on English Language education in Asia within the Routledge Critical Studies in Asian Education. Put together by editors and contributors selected by Asia TEFL, this book provides a timely and critical review of the current trends in tertiary level English education...
Creating Space
My Life and Work in Indigenous Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Verna J. Kirkness grew up on the Fisher River Indian reserve in Manitoba. Her childhood dream to be a teacher set her on a lifelong journey in education as a teacher, counsellor, consultant, and professor. Her simple quest to teach "in a Native way" revolutionized Canadian education policy...
Hans-Georg Gadamer
The Hermeneutical Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
This book provides an introduction to Hans-Georg Gadamer’s thinking and shows how it might inform our own thinking about education as a lifelong process of engaging with one another and with the wider world. He insisted on the supreme importance of prior learning, but also on the unpredictability...
by Bruce Bond, Jim Johnson, Mr Mark Patmore
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Lecturers, why waste time waiting for the post to arrive? Request your e-inspection copy today! If you are applying to teacher training in England, you must pass your Professional Skills Tests for Trainee Teachers before you can start your training. This is your guide to how to prepare...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
An Administrator’s Guide to Online Education is an essential resource for the higher education administrator. Unlike most books regarding online education, this book is not about teaching; it is about effectively administrating an online education program. Grounded in existing distance education theory,...
Elite Education and Internationalisation
From the Early Years to Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
This book offers both a theoretical and empirical examination of elite education, at all stages from the early years to university level. The book explores the various manifestations of internationalisation of education; the implications of these for national education systems; the formation and re-articulation...