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Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
The Annual Review of Comparative and International Education (ARCIE) is a forum for stakeholders and scholars to examine current trends and identify future directions in comparative and international education. The goal of the ARCIE volume is to examine current perspectives and future directions for...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This book is concerned with the social and political aspects of regional groupings, particularly how citizenship education fares in regional contexts. The European Union (EU) has revolutionised its political and economic aims into more encompassing social and political goals. The Association of Southeast...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The primary purpose of this book is to serve as a resource in teacher preparation programs. It is also intended to serve as an instructional resource in P?12 education. The book will be especially useful in methods of teaching and foundational courses both at the elementary and secondary education...
How Educational Ideologies Are Shaping Global Society
Intergovernmental Organizations, NGOs, and the Decline of the Nation-State
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
In this book Joel Spring explores three major international educational ideologies that are shaping global society: neo-liberal educational ideology, human rights education, and environmentalism.
Neo-liberal ideology reflects a rethinking of nationalist forms of education as the nation-state...
Present Successes and Future Challenges in Honors Education
Present Successes and Future Challenges in Honors Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Present Successes and Future Challenges in Honors Education is the first volume in an edited series examining the proliferation of honors programs and colleges in American higher education. While honors education has become ubiquitous in American higher education, this transformation has happened...
Philosophy in Education
Questioning and Dialogue in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Philosophy in Education: Questioning and Dialog in K-12 Classrooms is a textbook in the fields of pre-college philosophy and philosophy of education, intended for philosophers and philosophy students, K-12 classroom teachers, administrators and educators, policymakers, and pre-college practitioners...
Internationalizing Teaching and Teacher Education for Equity
Engaging Alternative Knowledges Across Ideological Borders
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
In Internationalizing Teaching and Teacher Education for Equity: Engaging Alternative Knowledges Across Ideological Borders, editors Jubin Rahatzad, Hannah Dockrill, JoAnn Phillion, and Suniti Sharma, present a collection of teacher educators’ cross?cultural perspectives on the formation of knowledge...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
This book provides a comprehensive overview of navigating the on-going systemic challenges, hardships, and problems facing many indigenous teacher education programs today, helping to foster a commitment to developing quality indigenous teacher education programs that are sustainable, distinctive...
The Future Agenda for Internationalization in Higher Education
Next Generation Insights into Research, Policy, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
The internationalization of higher education is a world-wide phenomenon, subject to multiple interpretations at national, institutional and individual levels. Still, much of the mainstream literature on this topic is concentrated on a small number of countries and a narrow range of key topics.
To...
Taking Education Really Seriously
Four Years Hard Labour
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Michael Fielding looks at what the Labour Government has achieved in the last four years with its policy of 'education, education, education'.
There has been widespread disappointment in New Labour's education policies, which on the whole have not steered too far wide of those put in place by Margaret...
Early Childhood Education for Muslim Children
Rationales and practices in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Early Childhood Education for Muslim Children foregrounds the marginalised perspective of Muslim children aged three to five and examines how they are cared for and educated in centre-based provision in two provinces in post-apartheid South Africa. Both theological and social science perspectives...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
While adult and vocational education may be viewed as separate, the training and development in education and the workplace is essential to keeping up with the current page of technologies and information. As technologies, individuals, and the workplace continue to advance, adult learning continues to...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The goal of this volume of Research in Science Education is to examine the relationship between science education policy and practice and the special role that science education researchers play in influencing policy. It has been suggested that the science education research community is isolated...
Who Benefits From Special Education?
Remediating (Fixing) Other People's Children
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
Who Benefits From Special Education?: Remediating (Fixing) Other People's Children addresses the negative consequences of labeling and separating education for students with "disabilities," the cultural biases inherent in the way that we view children's learning difficulties, the social...