Education category: 70663 books
The Master's Degree in Education as Teacher Professional Development
Re-envisioning the Role of the Academy in the Development of Practicing Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Teacher education is under more scrutiny than ever as standards-based education is becoming more and more the norm. Although much literature is available that addresses developing teacher education, no one addresses how to create and develop a master’s level program. Gary R.Galluzzo, Joan PackerIsenberg,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Illuminates the multiple barriers that plague the education system and shows the way toward enlightened and inclusive educational policy and policymaking
This book showcases new scholarship in the broad field of education policy and governance. Authored by some of the field’s foremost scholars,...
University Access and Success
Capabilities, diversity and social justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
The challenge of widening access and participation in higher education in a manner that ensures students are successful in their studies is a major issue globally and a significant research-focus within higher education studies and higher education policy. Similarly, the challenge of under-preparedness...
Lee Kuan Yew’s Educational Legacy
The Challenges of Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
The late Mr Lee Kuan Yew (1923–2015) laid the foundations for the creation of a first-world education system in Singapore. Like many other issues concerning the country, his ideas for education were transported in a red box, which he took with him wherever he went, even up to his last days. Inside...
A School in Ren Village
A Historical-Ethnographical Study of China's Educational Changes
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
By adopting oral history and fieldwork methods and exploring historical data, this book chronologically depicts the development of the schools and education in a village in North China over a century. The book reveals how education and school life in the rural village are being impacted not only...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
This book offers historical, philosophical, and sociocultural perspectives on Chinese language education for speakers of other languages with a special focus on Chinese language education in the United States. It provides a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary look at changes in CFL/CSL education over...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Where is the value in higher education? How can higher education restore its relevance and trust with students and parents? Are there really any meaningful differences between public and private higher education? This volume probes those questions and more, exploring the myriad issues that have led...
The Struggle for Democracy in Education
Lessons from Social Realities
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
The Struggle for Democracy in Education extends the insightful arguments Michael W. Apple provided in Can Education Change Society? It provides detailed examinations of both local and system-wide struggles around conflicting versions of democracy. Grounded in a key set of ethical and political responsibilities...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Education cannot be understood today without recognizing that nearly all educational policies and practices are strongly influenced by an increasingly integrated international economy. Reforms in one country have significant effects in others, just as immigration and population tides from one area...
Researching Student Learning in Higher Education
A social realist approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Many contemporary concerns in higher education focus on the student experience of learning.With a larger and much more diverse intake than ever before, linked with a declining unit of resource, questions are being asked afresh around the purposes of higher education. Although much of the debate is...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
This book discusses how the Dutch vocational education system has undergone significant waves of reform driven by global imperatives, national concerns and governmental policy goals. Like elsewhere, the impetuses for these reforms are directed to generating a more industry-responsive, locally-accountable...
Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Education
Cross-Cultural Understandings
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Education: Cross-cultural, which is the sixth volume in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, presents scholarly research on major discourses of race, ethnicity and gender in education. It provides an easily accessible, practical...
Adult and Lifelong Education
Global, national and local perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Adult and Lifelong Education explores why politicians, researchers, and practitioners involved in educating post-school young people and adults have quietly abandoned the term ‘education’ in favour of ‘learning’. Bringing together contributions from experienced as well as younger scholars,...
A Vision for Science Education
Responding to Peter Fensham's Work
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
One of the most important and consistent voices in the reform of science education over the last thirty years has been that of Peter Fensham. His vision of a democratic and socially responsible science education for all has inspired change in schools and colleges throughout the world. Often moving...