Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Effectiveness of Time Investments in Education
Insights from a review and meta-analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
This book analyzes the productivity and effectiveness of a variety of time investments in education. It explores the methods used in education to optimize the time that students are exposed to learning content. Such methods include expanding official school time, optimizing “time on task”, providing...
Critical Curriculum Leadership
A Framework for Progressive Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
Although traditional curriculum and instructional leadership frameworks have dominated educational administration training for almost thirty years, it has become increasingly clear that even the most recent frameworks have failed today’s leaders who struggle with the politics of curriculum decisions...
Political Pressures on Educational and Social Research
International perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Political Pressures on Educational and Social Research draws upon a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to consider the problems that can arise when research findings diverge from political directions for policy. Chapters explore the impacts this can have on the researchers, as well...
Improving Educational Gender Equality in Religious Societies
Human Rights and Modernization Pre-Arab Spring
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
In this book, Al-Kohlani examines fifty-five Muslim and non-Muslim countries from 1960 to 2010 in response to “religious theory” that associates certain religions with gender inequality and “modernization theory” which downplays the role of religion on gender inequity and associates gender...
Logics of Socialist Education
Engaging with Crisis, Insecurity and Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
For some, socialism is a potent way of achieving economic, political and social transformations in the twenty-first century, while others find the very term socialism outdated. This book engages readers in a discussion about the viability of socialist views on education and identifies the capacity...
The Age of STEM
Educational policy and practice across the world in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Across the world STEM (learning and work in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) has taken central importance in education and the economy in a way that few other disciplines have. STEM competence has become seen as key to higher productivity, technological adaptation and research-based...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This edited volume contributes to a burgeoning field of critical scholarship on the news media and education. This scholarship is based on an understanding that the news media has increasingly applied a neoliberal template that mediates knowledge and action about education. This book calls into question...
An Arena for Educational Ideologies
Current Practices in Teacher Education Programs
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Educational processes are shaped by societal ideas and values. Different ideologies shape the discourses, content, processes and pedagogies of teacher education processes. The book includes cases or illustrations of teacher education in the Montessori, Waldorf, Reggio Emilia and Pistoia traditions,...
Education Policies and the Restructuring of the Educational Profession
Global and Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
The book analyzes worldwide changes in school organization and the teaching profession, and how the profession has been impacted by education policies that promote assessments and accountability. It also identifies some shifts in professional positions, statuses and profiles, and characterizes the...
Youth in Education
The necessity of valuing ethnocultural diversity
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Youth in Education explores the multiple, interrelated social contexts that young people inhabit and navigate, and how educational institutions cope with increasing ethnic, cultural and ideological diversity. Schools, families and communities represent important settings in which young people must...
The Equality Act for Educational Professionals
A simple guide to disability inclusion in schools
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
"A definite must for SENCOS." -- Urmston Junior School
"A good insight into process of tribunal and what the Equality Act means." -- Team Leader, St Paul's CE Primary School
'A much needed resource in supporting schools, centres, day nurseries and community childcare provision to understand...
Besieged by Behavior Analysis for Autism Spectrum Disorder
A Treatise for Comprehensive Educational Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Beginning with the claim that the field of educating individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder is hyper focused on behavior analytic methodologies, Eric Shyman proffers a polemic in support of comprehensive educational approaches including relationship-based, sensory, and behavioral components. By...
The Changing Face of Special Educational Needs
Impact and implications for SENCOs, teachers and their schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Fully revised with the requirements of the 2014 new SEN Code of Practice, this second edition of The Changing Face of Special Educational Needs shows teachers, SENCOs and students in teacher training how to respond to the rapidly changing context of special education. This highly practical and accessible...
by Ann M. Aviles de Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Students experiencing homelessness often face overwhelming obstacles that limit both their access to education and their prospects for success in life. The McKinney-Vento Act (1987) was created to ensure that schools provide services that support students in unstable housing situations but, unfortunately,...