Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Creating a Useful Science of Education
Society’s Most Important and Challenging Task
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
Bausell provides a restrictive but defensible view of the purpose of educational research which is to produce instructional, curricular, or assessment products rather than seldom read and soon forgotten academic papers.This book poses and answers two questions: (a) whether it is possible for the science...
Making our Schools the Best in the World
Re-imagining Education Outside the Proverbial Box
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
This book answers the questions on what must be done to meet the educational goals required to maintain our democratic form of government, provide the knowledge and skills required for our free enterprise system, and to give each individual, as Lincoln said, “an unfettered start and fair change...
K–12 Education as a Hermeneutic Adventurous Endeavor
Toward an Educational Way of Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Considering the role of compulsory mass education and schooling in a democratic society, this book introduces an alternative vision for K-12 education as an "adventurous endeavour." Grounded in a strong theoretical framework, Yosef-Hassidim reveals the negative impact of instrumentalization...
The Road to Privatization of Higher Education in China
A New Cultural Revolution?
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
This book makes both empirical and conceptual contributions to the debate on privatization of higher education in China. Empirically, it aims to fill a gap in our knowledge of privatization of higher education in North China. To this end, Beijing was chosen as a case for analysis, and nine local higher...
Teacher Education
Innovation, Intervention and Impact
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
This book, an inaugural publication from the Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA), Teacher Education: Innovation, Intervention and Impact is both a product of, and seeks to contribute to, the changing global and political times in teacher education research. This book marks an historically...
The Great Reading Disaster
Reclaiming Our Educational Birthright
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
By the late 1980s half the nation’s children were receiving eleven years of progressivist schooling that failed to give them even the elementary basis of education that was completed by the age of seven in earlier days. This great reading disaster was caused by the ‘looksay’ method of teaching,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This book provides contemporary insights into learning outcomes arising from the use of learning platforms by pupils, students and teachers in schools. Most current research focuses on the implementation of learning platforms, and the ways in which practices are developing over time, or in specific...
The New American School
Breaking the Mold
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 1995
The New American School will emerge from the ashes of the old. An underlying premise of the present book is that such a rebirth will occur in the process of restructuring. Restructuring in education is the designing, staffing, programming, and building of the school around learning, the central function...
Redesigning Learning for Greater Social Impact
Taylor’s 9th Teaching and Learning Conference 2016 Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
These conference proceedings explore the design of pedagogical intervention and learning cultures, the inclusion of socio-emotional support in teaching and policy, transforming technology to support the social fabric of our institutions, and challenging established beliefs about learning. They clarify...
Policy Discourses, Gender, and Education
Constructing Women's Status
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Despite over thirty years of activism and legislation to eliminate discrimination, parity has yet to be achieved for women in academe. This book describes policy discourse analysis as a framework for considering how those involved in policy-making efforts may make use of discourses that inadvertently...
Democracy and Decency
What Does Education Have to Do With It?
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Democracy can mean a range of concepts, covering everything from freedoms, rights, elections, governments, processes, philosophies and a panoply of abstract and concrete notions that can be mediated by power, positionality, culture, time and space. Democracy can also be translated into brute force,...
by Barry Hymer, Karen Lockney, Tony Ewens
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
This bespoke ebook compilation is focused on important themes and issues in primary education, including assessment, planning, behaviour management, and inclusion. It has been produced in order to address workload concerns and to offer additional but focused support by presenting a collection of helpful...
Integrating Schools in a Changing Society
New Policies and Legal Options for a Multiracial Generation
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
In this comprehensive volume, a roster of leading scholars in educational policy and related fields offer eighteen essays seeking to illuminate new ways for American public education to counter persistent racial and socioeconomic inequality in our society. Contributors to Integrating Schools in a...
Punishing Schools
Fear and Citizenship in American Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
In a society increasingly dominated by zero-tolerance thinking, Punishing Schools argues that our educational system has become both the subject of legislative punishment and an instrument for the punishment of children. William Lyons and Julie Drew analyze the connections between state sanctions...