Educational Reform category: 2687 books
After the "At-Risk" Label
Reorienting Educational Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book examines how the use of the “at-risk” category and label creates problems for students and teachers. Drawing from research across various education sites, the author illustrates how educators recognize the label’s potential to redress issues of equity, but warns that it can...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
This book is the fifth in a series on research and theory dedicated to advancing our understanding of schools through empirical study and theoretical analysis. Scholars, both young and established, are invited to publish original analyses, but we especially encourage young scholars to contribute to...
Postfeminist Education?
Girls and the Sexual Politics of Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This book challenges a contemporary postfeminist sensibility grounded not only in assumptions that gender and sexual equality has been achieved in many Western contexts, but that feminism has gone ‘too far’ with women and girls now overtaking men and boys - positioned as the new victims of gender...
Reality and Education
A New Direction for Educational Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
A poorly designed system produces poor results. Problems with the public education system are reported every day in periodicals and books. Improving student achievement is too important a societal issue to continue stumbling along the same unending path of let’s try this educational fad and then...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Education cannot be understood today without recognizing that nearly all educational policies and practices are strongly influenced by an increasingly integrated international economy. Reforms in one country have significant effects in others, just as immigration and population tides from one area...
Reconstructing Policy in Higher Education
Feminist Poststructural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Reconstructing Policy in Higher Education highlights the work of accomplished and award-winning scholars and provides concrete examples of how feminist poststructuralism effectively informs research methods and can serve as a vital tool for policy makers, analysts, and practitioners. The research...
Critical Race Theory in Education
All God's Children Got a Song
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Appropriate for both students curious about Critical Race Theory (CRT) and established scholars, Critical Race Theory in Education is a valuable guide to how this theoretical lens can help better understand and seek solutions to educational inequity. While CRT has been established as a vital theoretical...
by Mark Rickinson, Judy Sebba, Anne Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
There are increasing calls for social science researchers to work more closely with research users. References to engaging users in and with research are now common in research funding requirements, national research strategies and large-scale research programmes. User engagement has therefore become...
Curriculum on the Edge of Survival
How Schools Fail to Prepare Students for Membership in a Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Typically, school curriculum has been viewed through the lens of preparation for the workplace or higher education, both worthy objectives. However, this is not the only lens, and perhaps not even the most powerful one to use, if the goal is to optimize the educational system. Curriculum on the Edge...
School Trouble
Identity, Power and Politics in Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
What is the trouble with schools and why should we want to make ‘school trouble’?
Schooling is implicated in the making of educational and social exclusions and inequalities as well as the making of particular sorts of students and teachers. For this reason schools are important sites of...
by Alexander W. Wiseman
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
The worldwide shift towards a knowledge society and information based economy requires educational policy makers to re-evaluate their understanding of the knowledge and skills students need in order to achieve national development goals. This shift has influenced curriculum development, teacher preparation,...
by Bongani Bantwini, Nolutho Diko, Ntombozuko Duku
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
This book examines the roles of power and politics, governance and management, as well as accountability and professionalism in transforming the educational systems inherited from apartheid colonialism in South Africa. With a focus on the Eastern Cape province, with its vast stretches of rural settlements...
Schooled for the Future?
Educational Policy and Everyday Life among Urban Squatters in Nepal
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
“Schooled for the future?” offers an ethnographically rich account about squatter families in Kathmandu and their struggles to improve their living conditions and create a better future through education. Examining how people children and adults experience and respond to policy initiatives aimed...
by Mary Gitau
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
After 70 years of direct rule by the British Colonialism, Kenyan became independent in 1963. Since independence from the British colonial rule, Kenyans had not only been alienated from one another based on ethnicity (Tribal boundaries) but also by leadership through divide and rule process. Kenya’s...