Educational Reform category: 2687 books
American Indian Education
Counternarratives in Racism, Struggle, and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
America Indian culture and traditions have survived an unusual amount of oppressive federal and state educational policies intended to assimilate Indian people and destroy their cultures and languages. Yet, Indian culture, traditions, and people often continue to be treated as objects in the classroom...
Christianity in Education
The Hibbert Lectures 1965
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
The Christian churches have frequently pioneered educational advances – from the seventh century down to the nineteenth. Schools, universities and colleges of education stand as tangible evidence of these efforts. Do all these ventures belong merely to educational history – relics of the days...
Special Educational Needs and School Improvement
Practical Strategies for Raising Standards
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Providing a practical guide to strategic management in the field of special educational needs, this text gives the reader a framework for raising achievement throughout the school.
by Dr Colin Brock
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Education in South Asia and the Indian Ocean Islands is a critical reference guide to development of education in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Comoros Islands, Maldives, Mauritius, Seychelles and Zanzibar. The chapters provide an overview of the education system in each country, focusing...
Tolerance and Dissent within Education
On Cultivating Debate and Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
This book explores how the concept of tolerance might be understood, cultivated and enacted in and through educational encounters. It argues that by opening up educational encounters to allow for ‘dissent’ – that is, disagreement, criticism and open dialogue – our everyday social life experiences...
Pan-African Education
A Must for the African Union
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
This book makes a critical contribution to the study of pan-Africanism and the education of African people for continental African citizenship. It is a unique endeavor in that it intersects the social history of pan-Africanism and the education of African people at a 'global' level and provides reflections...
by Christine Skelton, Becky Francis
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Feminism and ‘The Schooling Scandal’ brings together feminist contributions from two generations of educational researchers, evaluating and celebrating the field of gender and education. The focus throughout is on the years of compulsory schooling, examining key concepts in gender and education...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
This collection brings together many of the world’s leading sociologists of education to explore and address key issues and concerns within the discipline. The thirty-seven newly commissioned chapters draw upon theory and research to provide new accounts of contemporary educational processes, global...
Education, Ethics and Experience
Essays in honour of Richard Pring
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Education, Ethics and Experience is a collection of original philosophical essays celebrating the work of one of the most influential philosophers of education of the last 40 years. Richard Pring’s substantial body of work has addressed topics ranging from curriculum integration to the comprehensive...
Schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa
Policy, Practice and Patterns
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This book is a comprehensive text for those interested in formal education in sub-Saharan Africa. It provides a thought-provoking overview of the key educational ideas, themes and issues facing schooling in Africa today, by drawing on a wide literature to examine evidence concerning both educational...
The Global Education Race
Taking the Measure of PISA and International Testing
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
A global education race now pits countries, regions, and school systems against one another. The racecourse has been created by a small number of influential international testing programs, and the popular media announces winners and losers. Fear of falling behind haunts policy-makers and shapes educational...
Young People's Educational Careers in England and Germany
Integrating Survey and Interview Analysis via Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
In this comparative study of young people's educational careers in England and Germany, individual factors, social class, school and country characteristics are shown jointly to shape these careers through mutually reinforcing processes. Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) is combined with interview analysis to explore generative mechanisms.
by Rolf Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
This text is a call to action. The title Escape from Teaching may sound a bit like an imperative. However, much of the recent findings from educational and brain research, especially regarding the potential benefits of informal and self-structured learning, are never realized in educational practice....
by Torin M. Finser
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Society debates, legislates, and regulates education more than it does any other profession. It has become popular to think that democracy gives everyone an equal say in educational matters, while those in other professions are relatively free to work according to standards set by their professional...