Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Cross-Cultural Schooling Experiences of Chinese Immigrant Families
In Search of Home in Times of Transition
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
This book introduces the concept of reciprocal educational learning among cultures with very different historical and philosophical origins. The concept of reciprocal learning grows out of a four year study of immigrant Chinese family narrative experiences in a Western context. This book captures...
UNESCO’s Utopia of Lifelong Learning
An Intellectual History
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
With a focus on lifelong learning, this book examines the shifts that UNESCO’s educational concepts have undergone in reaction to historical pressures and dilemmas since the founding of the organization in 1945. The tensions between UNESCO’s humanistic worldview and the pressures placed on the...
by Alison E. Hatch
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
From the assault of a high school girl by a multitude of her peers in Steubenville, Ohio, to the alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia, the ongoing and serious problem of sexual violence at U.S. educational institutions is well established. These horrific attacks continue in spite of the...
Beyond Inclusion
The Practice of Equal Access in Indian Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
In India, two critical aspects of public policy — social justice and higher education — have witnessed unprecedented expansion in recent years. While several programmes have been designed by the State to equalise access to higher education and implement formal inclusion, discrimination based on...
by Wayne Au
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
This book will appeal to the growing movement for educational justice in the Trump era; Build connections to anti-standardized testing groups; Rethinking Schools has built a profile among activist educators; Wayne Au has an established profile as an educator, author and editor
An Educator's GPS
Fending Off the Free Market of Schooling for America's Students
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2019
The time has come to focus on teaching and learning that all American students deserve. Quality instruction that engages all students with thinking skills that create successful intelligence for the future of all students is offered throughout traditional public education in the US. But, an adult-centered...
Can America's Schools Be Saved
How the Ideology of American Education Is Destroying It
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Other than students, no group of people has been more affected by the failure of American education than teachers. Tens of thousands of dedicated, hard-working, and intelligent teachers walk into their schools every day with the intention of helping children learn. Usually, those intentions are unrealized,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
This book analyses the superintendent position and relations and shows how the well-known policy umbrella, the New Public Management (NPM), is being adapted to national contexts. School superintendents are civil servants at the heart of the governance of municipal education. Educational governance...
British Universities
Purpose and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1969
Since the last war there have been enormous increases in the numbers of universities and of students. Yet it tends to be assumed that the concepts which were valid for the dozen or so universities and the tens of thousands of students of the 1900's are still valid for the fifty universities and the...
by Bruce Hookway
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
For the most part, education in Australia is controlled by a state system, operating from state capitals. The majority of schools are in metropolitan areas or centres of about 20,000. But there are many small towns with schools and many are reasonably remote. I have spent time in these regions both...
Education and Disability in the Global South
New Perspectives from Africa and Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Education and Disability in the Global South brings together new and established researchers from a variety of disciplines to explore the complexities and dilemmas encountered in providing education to children and young people with disabilities in countries in South Asia and Africa.
Applying...
For Our Babies
Ending the Invisible Neglect of America's Infants
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
For the last forty years, J. Ronald Lally has worked with state and federal agencies to improve services for infants and toddlers in the United States and abroad. In this new book, Lally paints a stark picture of how our babies have been forced to shoulder the fallout of massive societal changes over...
Education and Empowerment in India
Policies and practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This book explores the critical linkages between education and empowerment of women, marginalized groups and other disadvantaged sections of society. It:
Provides an overview of educational policies and practices from India’s independence to the present day, and tracks relevant changes and...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
This book analyses the experiences of multicultural education in nine very different international settings uncovering insights from a vast variety of educational contexts. Taking a multi-critical approach in reporting and discussing problems faced by increasingly multicultural and multilingual...