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World Yearbook of Education 2010
Education and the Arab 'World': Political Projects, Struggles, and Geometries of Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
The World Yearbook of Education 2010: Education and the Arab 'World': Political Projects, Struggles, and Geometries of Power, strives to do justice to the complex processes and dynamics behind the world of Arab education. Western interest in all things ‘Arab’ has greatly increased over the course...
Shadow Education and Social Inequalities in Japan
Evolving Patterns and Conceptual Implications
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
This book examines why Japan has one of the highest enrolment rates in cram schools and private tutoring worldwide. It sheds light on the causes of this high dependence on ‘shadow education’ and its implications for social inequalities. The book provides a deep and extensive understanding of the...
Risk-Taking in Higher Education
The Importance of Negotiating Intellectual Challenge in the College Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Risk-taking is foundational to the structure and goals of higher education. Encouraging students to consider new, diverse, even uncomfortable ideas is needed to develop a critically informed view of the world and establish one’s own values and beliefs. Yet, students and parents are increasingly...
Young People's Views on Sex Education
Education, Attitudes and Behaviour
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Based on observation of sex education programmes and in-depth interviews with young people, the authors aim to understand more about adolescent's attitudes to sexuality and their sexual behaviour in order to develop policies which will meet their needs more appropriately and effectively.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
This authoritative, state-of-the-art Handbook provides an authoritative overview of issues within sexuality education, coupled with ground-breaking discussion of emerging and unconventional insights in the field. With 32 contributions from 12 countries it definitively traces the landscape of issues,...
Changing Pedagogical Spaces in Higher Education
Diversity, inequalities and misrecognition
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Higher education is in a current state of flux and uncertainty, with profound changes being shaped largely by the imperatives of global neoliberalism. Changing Pedagogical Spaces in Higher Education forms a unique addition to the literature and includes significant practical pointers in developing...
Looking into Special Education
A synthesis of key themes and concepts
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Contemporary and stimulating, Looking into Special Education provides an engaging overview of the key areas of special education, with each chapterproviding valuable insight into the nature and practice of special education today. Aiding understanding and acting as a framework for further study, thought...
by Marta P. Baltodano
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
In recent years there have been strong movements of reforms in teacher education. The most common are intended to adjust teacher preparation to the standardization demands of NCLB, Race to the Top, and CAEP to make teacher education more accountable. These reforms—carried out in the name of excellence,...
Ethnographies of Science Education
Situated Practices of Science Learning for Social/Political Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Researchers who conduct ethnography in science education tend to have a deep commitment for transforming science to improve the lives of people in underserved communities. This edited volume explores how contemporary ethnographers in science education bring to light the local production of scientific...
by Tegegn B. Geribo
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Pedagogy - School System, Educational and School Politics, grade: A, Atlantic International University (School of Human and Social Studies), course: Education and Law, language: English, abstract: For many of education managers the phrase 'law' immediately...
The Order of Learning
Essays on the Contemporary University
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The Order of Learning considers the problems facing higher education by focusing on main underlying factors: the relationship of higher education to government, academic freedom, and the responsibilities of the academic profession, among others. Edward Shils argues that higher education has a central...
by SHAPE America - Society of Health and Physical Educators
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Focused on physical literacy and measurable outcomes, empowering physical educators to help students meet the Common Core standards, and coming from a recently renamed but longstanding organization intent on shaping a standard of excellence in physical education, National Standards & Grade-Level...
Democratizing Higher Education
International Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Higher education systems around the world are undergoing fundamental change and reform due to external pressures—including internationalization of higher education, increased international competition for students, less reliance on public funding, and calls to create greater access opportunities...
The Minoritisation of Higher Education Students
An Examination of Contemporary Policies and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Research into ethnic attainment differences in British higher education and elsewhere tends to depict students from minority ethnic backgrounds as disadvantaged, marginalised, discriminated against and excluded. In The Minoritisation of Higher Education, Mieschbuehler demonstrates that this idea is...