Education category: 70663 books
Inside Education
Exploring the art of good learning
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
To learn more about learning – what it is and how it works – it is necessary to look inside education. Inside Education takes the reader on a journey of four ‘live’ education projects: the first all-Irish speaking, mixed-gendered, multi-faith primary school in the Republic of Ireland ideally...
by Tony Kelbrat
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2014
The education industry is a huge industry. Governments spend loads of money on it. Everybody goes to school to try to better their lives. There are loads of educational products on the market all the way from software to essays for sale. There are some miscellaneous education ideas like clip art, educational...
Peace Education
Exploring Ethical and Philosophical Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Peace education is now well recognized within international legal instruments and within critical educational literature as an important aspect of education. Despite this, little attention has been given in the critical literature to the philosophical foundations for peace education and the rationale...
Education That Matters
How Strong Moral Principles, Literacy and Patriotism Will Save Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Free public education has long been a core American value and privilege. Yet, teachers are burning out, families are fleeing the public schools and students, who cannot read and write are graduating from high school. The government constantly and consistently strives for quality education through...
by Liam Gearon
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Religion has had notable and renewed prominence in contemporary public and political life. Religious questions have also been freshly examined in philosophy and theology, the natural sciences, the social sciences, psychology, phenomenology, politics and the arts. These fields reflect complex, multi-disciplinary...
Diversity and Education
A Critical Multicultural Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In his new book, Michael Vavrus helps readers better understand why issues of diversity and difference are so highly contested in the United States and across the globe. Vavrus incorporates specific education examples throughout the text to examine six contested areas: race and ethnicity; socioeconomic...
A Sociology of Special and Inclusive Education
Exploring the manufacture of inability
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
A Sociology of Special and Inclusive Education brings sociological perspectives to bear on the social, political and economic policies and practices that comprise special and inclusive education, and the education of lower attainers. Increasingly governments have accepted the premise that education...
Internationalization of Higher Education in East Asia
Trends of student mobility and impact on education governance
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
The rise in demand for higher education in the Asia-Pacific region is an undeniable reflection of the growing pace of globalization and the subsequent pressures imposed by it. Aspiring to become globally competitive and to position favourably in the global university league tables, governments in...
Education Quality and Social Justice in the Global South
Challenges for policy, practice and research
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
How we understand education quality is inextricably linked with perspectives on social justice. Questions of inclusion, relevance and democracy in education are increasingly contested, most especially in the global South, and improving the quality of education, particularly for the most disadvantaged,...
Education Studies
Essential Issues
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2003
**`**The essays are thematically well organized and lucidly presented. In terms of design, contents and presentation, this is undoubtedly an excellent textbook' - Journal of Educational Planning and Administration
`Education Studies: Essential Issues' is a book similar in style to the editor's...
by Sing Ong Yu
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
As Higher Education becomes increasingly important in the world, so does the task of Higher Education Management. This book serves as a practical guide to administrators and leaders who are actively involved in setting the direction of their Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). It covers relevant...
Handbook of Research on Teacher Education
Enduring Questions in Changing Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
Co-Published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group and the Association of Teacher Educators.
The Handbook of Research on Teacher Education was initiated to ferment change in education based on solid evidence. The publication of the First Edition was a signal event in 1990. While the preparation...
Global Values Education
Teaching Democracy and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
Global Values Education: Teaching Democracy and Peace , which is the seventh volume in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, presents scholarly research on major discourses in v alues edu- tion globally. It provides an easily accessible, practical yet...
Multilingual Education and Sustainable Diversity Work
From Periphery to Center
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This very original, inspirational book globalises our understanding of languages in education and changes our understanding of bilingual and multilingual education from something mostly western to being truly transnational: it spotlights the small, celebrates African and Asian cases of multilingual...