Educational Reform category: 2687 books
The Pocket Guide to Every Child Matters
An At-a-Glance Overview for the Busy Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
The aim of this pocket guide is to provide an at-a-glance overview and insight into Every Child Matters for busy trainee, newly qualified and experienced teachers, working with pupils in a range of educational settings, who want a quick point of reference in order to know how:
the concept, aims...
Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment in Japan
Beyond lesson study
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the history and current status of policy, research and practices of curriculum, classroom instruction and assessment in Japan. It outlines the mechanism of curriculum organization and the history of the National Courses of Study, and assesses the theories...
The Administrative Structure
Ontario's Educative Society, Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
The development and functions of the Department of Education and local school systems, the financing of education, and the educational activities of provincial and federal governments are studied in this volume. The emphasis is on current issues and problems. Dr Fleming delves into the activities...
Teacher Education in Challenging Times
Lessons for professionalism, partnership and practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Teacher education is experiencing a period of dramatic and arguably irrevocable change within a wider context of turbulence in the English education system. With contributions from a range of teacher educators and academics in the field, Teacher Education in Challenging Times presents sustainable,...
The Learning Marketplace
East Meets West in Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
In Asia, we are witnessing an era where the pendulum of power seems to be swaying towards the East with the rising strength of China and India and Singapore is at the 'crossroads' between these populous nations. Although Singapore may appear to be the most westernized country in Asia, she is nevertheless...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Contemporary Approaches in Education presents papers of the Fifth European Conference on Social and Behavioral Sciences in St. Petersburg, Russia and the Sixth European Conference on Social and Behavioral Sciences in Selcuk, Izmir, Turkey. The contributions deal with a wide range of educational issues, namely teaching and learning, educational policy and school psychology.
Proud to be Different
Ethnocentric Niche Charter Schools in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
This is a book about ethnocentric niche charter schools. What are they? When did they first appear? From where did the term come? How do they differ from regular charter schools and from district-run traditional public schools? Each subject chapter was created by a team consisting of at least one...
Educational Resources in the British Empire
Examining Nineteenth Century Ireland and Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
This book explores the impact of the Lesson Books of the National Board of Education in Ireland in the nineteenth century. The author contextualizes the books used in national schools as well as across the wider British Empire: in doing so, he highlights the influence of the religious, social, political...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
This book examines the question of why ‘play’ is a happy and benevolent verb in childhood, yet a subjective label of behaviour in adulthood. It studies the transformation of the positively labelled term ‘child’s play’, used to refer to our early years, into an aberrance or deviation from...
Does Mathematical Study Develop Logical Thinking?
Testing the Theory of Formal Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
"The authors particularly attend to protecting positive correlations against the self-selection interpretation, merely that logical minds elect studying more mathematics. Here, one finds a stimulating survey of the systemic difficulties people have with basic syllogisms and deductions."
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019
This book provides readers with insights into how Singapore school leaders are actively engaged in the transformation of the Singapore education system. It brings to attention crucial elucidations of the increasing demand and complexity placed on school leaders through the use of case studies. Each...
Teacher Education for Inclusion
Changing Paradigms and Innovative Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
How teachers might best be prepared to work in schools with an increasingly diverse pupil population is of concern to educational academics, professionals and governments around the world. Changes that have taken place in legislation and practice often fail to taken into account how practitioners...
Does Compliance Matter in Special Education?
IDEA and the Hidden Inequities of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book asks a question that many educators may think, but won’t say out loud: Does compliance with IDEA legislation matter? The author acknowledges that, while compliance with IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) is important, it can also be an administrative burden that detracts...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
The role of English in the global arena has prompted official language-in-education policy makers to adopt language education policies to enable its citizens to be proficient in English and to access knowledge. Local educational contexts in different countries have implemented English education in...