Educational Reform category: 2687 books
From Socrates to Summerhill and Beyond
Towards a Philosophy of Education for Personal Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
In From Socrates to Summerhill and Beyond: Towards a Philosophy of Education for Personal Responsibility, Ronald Swartz offers an evolving development of fallible, liberal democratic, self?governing educational philosophies. He suggests that educators can benefit from having dialogues about questions...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
This volume addresses questions that lie at the core of research into education. It examines the way in which the institutional embeddedness and the social and ethnic composition of students affect educational performance, skill formation, and behavioral outcomes. It discusses the manner in which...
The Routledge International Handbook of Educational Effectiveness and Improvement
Research, policy, and practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
The International Handbook of Educational Effectiveness and Improvement draws together leading academics and researchers in the field to reflect on the history, traditions and the most recent developments in this dynamic and influential field. This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of:
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Education Matters
60 years of the British Journal of Educational Studies
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Education Matters draws together a selection of the most influential papers published in the British Journal of Educational Studies by many of the leading scholars in the field over the past sixty years. This unique collection of seminal articles published since the first issue of the Journal provides...
Race, Gender and Educational Desire
Why black women succeed and fail
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
'This book is a great genealogy of black women's unrecognised contributions within both education and the wide social context. I think it constitutes an important piece of work that is totally missing from the existing literature'
- Diane Reay, Professor of Education, Cambridge University
Race,...
by John Howlett
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Although considered a figure of great importance and influence by his contemporaries, Edmond Holmes has been consigned to relative obscurity in the progressive educational tradition. This book reinstates Holmes as a key figure in the history of progressive education, both as a school inspector and...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Ideologies in Educational Administration and Leadership explores ideological dimensions of educational administration in a number of Western and Central European contexts as they influence or shape the understanding, analysis, and practice in the field covering a broad range of topics, such as ethics,...
Studying Educational and Social Policy
Theoretical Concepts and Research Methods
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2004
The overall purpose of this text is to introduce beginning researchers to the study of educational and social policy, how it has been examined from a scholarly perspective, and the salient issues to consider in conceptualizing and conducting policy research. The emphasis is on "introduce,"...
The Global Educational Policy Environment in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Gated, Regulated and Governed
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
This volume focuses on the rise of educational regulation and educational governance in a post-2015 era. Across the globe, unfettered globalization is being curtailed and cooperation and collaboration at the regional level appears to be at an unprecedented high, yet there are still substantial disparities...
by Robert McCormick, Alison Fox, Patrick Carmichael
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
In the twenty-first century, what could be more important than networks? Such is the power of their influence and attendant technologies that it is unsurprising that our thinking about networks is permeated with images and metaphors from electronic networks. This orientation may equally influence...
The Conservative Case for Education
Against the Current
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
The Conservative Case for Education argues that educational thinking in English-speaking countries over the last fifty years has been massively influenced by a dominant liberal ideology based on unchallenged assumptions. Conservative voices pushing against the current of this ideology have been few,...
Ethical Educational Leadership in Turbulent Times
(Re) Solving Moral Dilemmas
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Educational leaders not only face moral and ethical decisions regarding their classrooms, schools, districts, and education institutions, but they also must consider the complexities and threats that impact their communities. In this unstable era of war, terrorism, natural disasters, accountability,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Educational policy controversies in the United States invariably implicate legal issues. Policy debates about testing and school choice, for example, cannot be disentangled from legal rights and mandates. The same is true for issues such as funding, campus safety, speech and religion rights, as well...
The Future of Educational Change
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
This timely book provides a systematic overview and critique of contemporary approaches to educational change from some of the best-known writers and scholars in the field, including Andy Hargreaves, Larry Cuban, Ivor Goodson, Jeannie Oakes, Milbrey McLaughlin, Judyth Sachs and Ann Liebermann.
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