Educational Reform category: 2687 books
by Harold Entwistle
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This volume is a critical study of one of today’s most controversial topics in educational theory, setting the many arguments in perspective and clarifying the issues that arise when attention is focused on the learner. The author examines the problems of individual education, the distinctive demands...
Theory and Educational Research
Toward Critical Social Explanation
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Most empirical researchers avoid the use of theory in their studies, providing data but little or no social explanation. Theoreticians, on the other hand, rarely test their ideas with empirical projects. As this groundbreaking volume makes clear, however, neither data nor theory alone is adequate...
Educational Equity and Accountability
Paradigms, Policies, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2004
Despite the intense political attention that has been focused on accountability, on standardized testing, and on the equity effects of both accountability and testing, the great majority of recent debate in education policy circles has failed to attend to either the dynamism or complexity of these...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Equity, Opportunity and Education in Postcolonial Southeast Asia addresses the ways in which colonial histories, nationalist impulses and forces of globalization shape equity and access to education in Southeast Asia. Although increasingly identified as a regional grouping (ASEAN), Malaysia, Indonesia,...
by Kent Greenawalt
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Controversial Supreme Court decisions have barred organized school prayer, but neither the Court nor public policy exclude religion from schools altogether. In this book, one of America's leading constitutional scholars asks what role religion ought to play in public schools. Kent Greenawalt explores...
by Daniel L. Duke
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Despite the rising interest in school districts, there are relatively few comprehensive resources available for graduate students in educational leadership programs. The Challenges of School District Leadership takes the position that the best way to prepare the next generation of school district...
Participatory Action Research and Educational Development
South Asian Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
This volume brings together diverse thinkers and practitioners on Participatory Action Research (PAR) and educational development in South Asia. Contributors draw from their research and field experiences on how PAR is currently being understood, theorized, debated, and implemented for education of...
Educational Leadership Preparation
Innovation and Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Ed.D. and Graduate Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
This book explores the efficacy of innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to educational leadership preparation implemented at universities across the United States that serve K-12 populations in urban, rural, and suburban contexts.
Dynamics in Education Politics
Understanding and explaining the Finnish case
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Dynamics in Education Politics: Understanding and Explaining the Finnish Case introduces a new theoretical framework characterised as Comparative Analytics of Dynamics in Education Politics (CADEP). Albeit the topicality of comparative research is obvious in the current era of global large-scale assessment,...
Does Education Have a Future?
The Political Economy of Social and Educational Inequalities in European Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume has been prepared in the framework of Project 1: "Educating Man for the 21st Century" of Plan Europe 2000, sponsored by the European Cultural Foundation. While most of the studies launched under this Project deal with specific aspects or levels of education the present volume...
Geography of Education
Scale, Space and Location in the Study of Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Geography of Education sets out the scope of this emergent, interdisciplinary field. It illustrates the essential affinity of geographical and educational studies, by emphasising the geographical factors influencing formal education systems and other forms of knowledge transfer. Colin Brock begins...
The Testing Charade
Pretending to Make Schools Better
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
For decades we’ve been studying, experimenting with, and wrangling over different approaches to improving public education, and there’s still little consensus on what works, and what to do. The one thing people seem to agree on, however, is that schools need to be held accountable—we need...
Colonized Schooling Exposed
Progressive Voices for Transformative Educational and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
This book presents a novel perspective on neocolonialism, education and other related issues. It unveils the effects of neocolonialism on the learning and well-being of students and workers, including marginalized groups such as Native Americans, Latino/as, and African Americans. It is a collection...
Succeeding Together?
Schools, Child Welfare, and Uncertain Public Responsibility for Abused or Neglected Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Growing attention has focused on the education of children in the child welfare system, particularly those in foster care, but ninety-two percent of children in the child welfare system stay with their parents and their educational needs receive little attention.
Succeeding Together? is an...