Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Curriculum as Spaces
Aesthetics, Community, and the Politics of Place
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
This book has won the «O.L. Davis, Jr. Outstanding Book Award» 2015 from the American Association for Teaching and Curriculum (AATC)
Curriculum as Spaces: Aesthetics, Community, and the Politics of Place can be viewed as a holistic approach to education, conservation, and community development...
A Brief History of the Future of Education
Learning in the Age of Disruption
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
The Future Tense of Teaching in the Digital Age
The digital environment has radically changed how and what students need and want to learn, but has educational delivery radically changed? Get ready to be challenged to accommodate today’s learners as opposed to allowing default classroom practices....
Fallacies in Education
Why Schools Are Mired in Mediocrity
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
This book argues for a complete reassessment of the ways schools are conceived, organized, operated and managed. Authors Trani and Irvine challenge traditional assumptions about grade levels, teachers, students and administrators in pursuit of higher student achievement and academic excellence. Building...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Sponsored by the Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP), the second edition of this groundbreaking handbook assembles in one place the existing research-based knowledge in education finance and policy, with particular attention to elementary and secondary education. Chapters from the...
Education State and Crisis
A Marxist Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
First published in 1982, this work is a critical survey of contemporary educational debates and themes which took on new urgency and importance at the time. In particular, it explores the problematic nature of ‘progressive education’ and ‘discipline’; the changes in the labour process and...
Lies, Damned Lies, and College Admissions
An Inquiry into Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Every year, Ivy League colleges tell prospective students that, "Here, you learn even more from other students than you do from your classes." What if that were just a roundabout way to say, "Our teaching is pretty mediocre "? What if, in addition to providing mediocre teaching, colleges were extracting...
Excellence and Equity in Literacy Education
The Case of New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2015
Literacy is arguably the most important goal of schooling as, to a large extent, it determines young children’s educational and life chances and is fundamental in achieving social justice. New Zealand’s literacy education programme has long been regarded as one of the world’s most successful...
Cyber-Bullying
Issues and Solutions for the School, the Classroom and the Home
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
This book looks in depth at the emerging issue of cyber-bullying. In this increasingly digital world cyber-bullying has emerged as an electronic form of bullying that is difficult to monitor or supervise because it often occurs outside the physical school setting and outside school hours on home computers...
Learning to Fail
How Society Lets Young People Down
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
During a decade of relative prosperity from the mid-1990s onward, governments across the developed world failed to crack one major issue – youth unemployment. Even when economic growth was strong, one young person in 10 in the United Kingdom was neither working nor learning. As the boom ended, the...
Quality of Secondary Education in India
Concepts, Indicators, and Measurement
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
This book provides useful insights into quality issues in secondary education in India and addresses the important questions of why there is need to improve the quality of education; how one can measure the quality of education; and the ways to improve quality. The analysis in this book is conceptually...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
This collection of essays invites readers to think through critical questions concerning anti-racism education, such as: How does anti-racism education centre race as an analytic and simultaneously work with multiple sites of oppression, without reifying hierarchies of difference? How can anti-racism...
by Cecil Lytle
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
This stirring memoir by the retired provost of Thurgood Marshall College at UCSD tells the story of his five-year struggle to establish a model college-preparatory public charter school for children from underrepresented backgrounds on the campus of a major state university. This effort was his response...
Critical Media Pedagogy
Teaching for Achievement in City Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“In this important new book the authors present a compelling case for broadening the way we think about literacy in relation to the ‘new media.’ Through compelling case studies, they examine the ways in which youth engage this medium both as active participants and producers of new,...
Adult Education in Neoliberal Times
Policies, Philosophies and Professionalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
This book explores the realities of adult education practice in the current political and economic climate. With a particular focus on examining the effect of the multitude of changes in policy and philosophy over the past 30 years, the book explores how the values and career expectations of adult...