Educational Reform category: 2687 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Handbook of Prosocial Education is the definitive theoretical, practical, and policy guide to the prosocial side of education, the necessary second side of the educational coin. Academic teaching and learning are the first side of education; however, academic success depends upon the structures and...
by Marilyn Fleer
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Child Development in Educational Settings provides a comprehensive introduction to traditional and contemporary theories of development and learning in the contexts of early childhood and primary education. Drawing upon the experiences and perspectives of children, families, educators and Aboriginal...
School Effectiveness and Educational Management
Towards a South-Eastern Europe Research and Public Policy Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
This book analyzes educational management in the context of developing effective schools in South-Eastern European countries and situates the discussion within ongoing education debates in EU countries. The book revolves around the specific role and practices of school principals, who are positioned...
Governance of Educational Trajectories in Europe
Pathways, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Drawing on findings from a large EU-funded research project that took place over three years, this book analyses educational trajectories of young people in eight European countries: Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia and the United Kingdom.
Contributors explore...
Persistent Inequality
Contemporary Realities in the Education of Undocumented Latina/o Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
The children of undocumented migrants in the U.S. are trapped at the intersection of two systems in crisis: the public education system and the immigration law system. Based on a long tradition of scholarship in Latino education and on newer critical race theory ideas, Persistent Inequality answers...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
This book focuses on the language of educational research as well as on the language of education. It conceives both as social practices and investigates how rhetoric plays a part in the complex process of historically situated argumentation. The book aims to answer such questions as: ‘What is the...
by K. K. Kuriakose
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The industrial monoculture spreading across the globe is highly competitive, greedy and egotistical; in the shaping of educational policy, global communities have accepted a model based on science and technology, which lacks aspects that should be addressed in the goal of education. The book Timeless...
by Zhu Yongxin
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
An authoritative look at recent developments in China’s approach to educating its young--and what it means for the rest of the world
Covering psychological ideology, moral education, and current reforms, The History of Chinese Modern Educational Thought summarizes recent developments in Chinese...
Marxism and Educational Theory
Origins and Issues
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
We live in a world where thousands make massive profits out of the labours of others, while those others exist as wage slaves, millions of whom die of starvation and poverty-related illness every year. The fundamental aim of Marxism is the overthrow of the anarchic, exploitative and eco-destructive...
The Colour of Class
The educational strategies of the Black middle classes
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
How do race and class intersect to shape the identities and experiences of Black middle-class parents and their children? What are Black middle-class parents’ strategies for supporting their children through school? What role do the educational histories of Black middle-class parents play in their...
Disrupting Qualitative Inquiry
Possibilities and Tensions in Educational Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Disrupting Qualitative Inquiry is an edited volume that examines the possibilities and tensions encountered by scholars who adopt disruptive qualitative approaches to the study of educational contexts, issues, and phenomena. It presents a collection of innovative and intellectually stimulating chapters...
Organizational Citizenship Behavior in Schools
Examining the impact and opportunities within educational systems
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
This book extends our understanding of the attitudes and behaviors of teachers who improve their schools consistently and considerably. It sets out to critically analyze and examine organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB) in schools from a contextual perspective and to display the uniqueness of...
Improving Quality in Education
Dynamic Approaches to School Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
This book explores an approach to school improvement that merges the traditions of educational effectiveness research and school improvement efforts. It displays how the dynamic model, which is theoretical and empirically validated, can be used in both traditions. Each chapter integrates evidence...
Knowledge Production
Research Work in Interesting Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
This collection from a highly impressive international group of educational researchers explores epistemological, methodological, and ethical-political issues in the production of knowledge about educational phenomena in contemporary society. The book is organized in two sections. The first focuses...