Educational Reform category: 2687 books
The Courts, the Charter, and the Schools
The Impact of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms on Educational Policy and Practice, 1982-2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2010
The adoption of the Canadian Constitution Act in 1982, with its embedded Charter of Rights and Freedoms, ushered in an era of unprecedented judicial influence on Canada's public policy. The Courts, the Charter, and the Schools examines how the Constitution Act has affected educational policy during...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Steiner-Khamsi and her colleagues provide an in-depth empirical and critical examination of the practice of global educational policy. Contributors question the value of importing and exporting educational policies, analyze who benefits from these arrangements, and test the effectiveness of adapting...
Changing Educational Assessment
International Perspectives and Trends
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Assessment is a key area of interest and debate in education. Its increased use by governments as a powerful means of influencing educational practice are now features of the educational scene worldwide. This volume was the first major international review of such developments and it explores the...
by Ramon Flecha (Ed.)
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
This monograph analyses and describes successful educational actions with a specific focus on vulnerable groups (i.e. youth, migrants, cultural groups e.g. Roma, women, and people with disabilities). Concrete data that shows success in school performance in subject matters such as math or language...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Blended learning continues to emerge as a more proactive and high quality method of teaching and learning. Yet as the academic landscape shifts towards technology-based efforts, the lack of economic support in developing countries has hindered its educational growth. Advancing Technology and Educational...
Finnish Lessons 2.0
What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland?, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The first edition of Finnish Lessons won the prestigious Grawemeyer Award in Education in 2013. It was featured inThe New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, The Guardian, CNN, Education Week, The Huffington Post, and Dan Rather Reports and has been translated...
Quality and Inequality of Education
Cross-National Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2010
This cogent analysis of data on education and society from a variety of sources sets out to provide answers to scientific and policy questions on the quality of education and the way it relates to various forms of inequality in modern societies, particularly in Europe. The authors examine not only...
Educational Effectiveness and Ineffectiveness
A Critical Review of the Knowledge Base
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
This book is a critical assessment of the knowledge base on educational effectiveness, covering a period of five decades of research. It formulates a “lean” theory of good schooling, and identifies and explains instances of “ineffectiveness”, such as low effect sizes of malleable conditions,...
Educational Transitions in Post-Revolutionary Spaces
Islam, Security, and Social Movements in Tunisia
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Educational Transitions in Post-Revolutionary Spaces explores the transformation of the education system in Tunisia following the Jasmine Revolution, the first of a wave of revolutions known as the Arab Spring.
The authors provide a detailed account of how Tunisia's robust education system...
The Dynamics of Educational Effectiveness
A Contribution to Policy, Practice and Theory in Contemporary Schools
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
This book brings together the current thinking and research of two major investigators in the field of educational effectiveness. After defining educational effectiveness, the authors analyse the various theories and strands of research within educational effectiveness, especially with respect to...
Educational Choices, Transitions and Aspirations in Europe
Systemic, Institutional and Subjective Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Educational Choices, Transitions and Aspirations in Europe analyses educational choices and transitions in eight different European countries/regions and provides an engaging means of considering issues of inequality through international comparisons. The book is underpinned by explorations of theoretical...
Cultural and Educational Exchanges between Rival Societies
Cooperation and Competition in an Interdependent World
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2018
This book stimulates discussions on cultural and educational exchanges between rival states and societies, raises awareness of the potential positive and negative impacts of such exchanges, and serves as a basis for future research and program design. Cultural and educational exchanges in various...
Educational Binds of Poverty
The lives of school children
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Shortlisted for BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed's second Ethnography Awards in partnership with the British Sociological Association!
Educational Binds of Poverty tackles the assumptions made by many recent social and educational policy initiatives suggesting that the best way to improve educational...
Educational Courage
Resisting the Ambush of Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Lost amid the debate over educational policies are the stories of the educators, parents, and students who are most affected by legislation such as No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top. In Educational Courage, veteran educators and activists Nancy Schniedewind and Mara Sapon-Shevin bring together...