Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Applied Critical Leadership in Education
Choosing Change
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Educational leaders are seeing the increasing need for practical transformative models and theories to address academic, cultural, and socio-economic gaps separating learners at all levels of the educational system. Applied Critical Leadership in Education explores a leadership model arising from...
Achieving Equity for Latino Students
Expanding the Pathway to Higher Education Through Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Despite their numbers, Latinos continue to lack full and equal participation in all facets of American life, including education. This book provides a critical discussion of the role that select K–12 educational policies have and continue to play in failing Latino students. The author draws...
by Ivor Morrish
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
In recent years teachers have realized that change has become a permanent factor on the educational scene and therefore its operation or mechanism must not just be accepted, or even rejected, but above all understood. This book presents an approach towards some real understanding of educational changes...
by Grant Rodwell
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
How do the moral panics that have plagued school education since it’s nineteenth-century beginnings impact current school education policy? Research has shown young people to be particularly vulnerable to moral panics and, with the rise of social media, the impact of moral panics on school education...
World Yearbook of Education 2015
Elites, Privilege and Excellence: The National and Global Redefinition of Educational Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
This latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education Series focuses on educational elites and inequality, focusing particularly on the ways in which established and emergent groups located at the top of the social hierarchy and power structure reproduce, establish or redefine their position.
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by C.M. Mulcahy, D.E. Mulcahy, D.G. Mulcahy
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Recent years have shown the growth of federal legislation and programs having a profound impact on educational policy and practice, and a decline in reliance on broadly based educational justifications. Paralleling this development has been the emergence of well-endowed and influential private foundations,...
Critical Approaches to Education Policy Analysis
Moving Beyond Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
This volume informs the growing number of educational policy scholars on the use of critical theoretical frameworks in their analyses. It offers insights on which theories are appropriate within the area of critical educational policy research and how theory and method interact and are applied in...
The White House and Education through the Years
U.S. Presidents’ Views and Significant Educational Contributions
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
The book sets forth the early developments established by colonial leaders to place public education in the forefront of their new America. The ups and downs of the educational perspectives of the many national leaders demonstrate the important issues and problems that have faced and are facing the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Early School Leaving in the European Union provides an analysis of early school leaving (ESL) in nine European Union countries, with a particular focus on young people who were previously enrolled in educational institutions inside and outside mainstream secondary education. The comparative approach...
Education and Political Subjectivities in Neoliberal Times and Places
Emergences of norms and possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Education and Political Subjectivities in Neoliberal Times and Places investigates the conditions and possibilities for political subjectivities to emerge in international educational contexts, where neoliberal norms are repeated, performed and transformed. Through demonstrating the possibility of...
Teachers' Perspectives on Finnish School Education
Creating Learning Environments
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
This superbly researched study offers a chalk-face perspective on the secret of Finland’s educational success. Providing an intimate and revealing portrait of the Nordic nation’s schools and its teacher training system, it sets out to explain why Finland’s students consistently rank top, with...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Directions and Prospects for Educational Linguistics explores innovations that have developed from the creative syntheses of diverse methodological and theoretical approaches used to explore a broad rang of issues and topics related to language (in) education. The volume provides unique insights into...
Comparing High-Performing Education Systems
Understanding Singapore, Shanghai, and Hong Kong
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Comparing High-Performing Education Systems provides original insights into the educational structures, ideologies, policies, and practices in Singapore, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. Taking as its basis their global reputation and consistently strong performance in formal assessments, the author provides...
Pedagogies of Educational Transitions
European and Antipodean Research
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This book presents the latest research on educational transitions from a variety of research traditions and practical contexts set in Australia, New Zealand, and several European countries. It examines, critically questions, and reshapes ideas and notions about children’s transitions to school....