Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Education and Development in India
Critical Issues in Public Policy and Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Drawing on empirical, interdisciplinary research, this book presents a critical review of some of the major issues that are of interest to researchers, policymakers and planners in developing as well as advanced countries, including specifically in India. It provides an in-depth review of some...
Year-Round Education
Change and Choice for Schools and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2005
Over the last 20 years, many districts and schools have begun to explore year-round education or a modified calendar in response to student under-achievement in low performing schools. Here, the authors detail their two-year study of Title I, year-round, or modified calendar schools that switched...
International Perspectives on Contexts, Communities and Evaluated Innovative Practices
Family-School-Community Partnerships
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2009
Research and practice in the vast field of school-family-community relations have evolved dramatically over the last thirty years. Schools throughout the world face enormous challenges due to demographic changes and societal problems, making partnerships among schools, families and community groups...
Getting Serious About the System
A Fieldbook for District and School Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
A focused approach to raising student achievement
This fieldbook shows how to focus on the issues that have most impact upon student achievement. This multidimensional process also will increase the competencies of everyone involved while implementing solutions districtwide. The authors outline...
The Anthropology of Education Policy
Ethnographic Inquiries into Policy as Sociocultural Process
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Advancing a rapidly growing field of social science inquiry—the anthropology of policy—this volume extends and solidifies this body of work, focusing on education policy. Its goal is to examine timely issues in education policy from a critical anthropological, ethnographic, and comparative perspective,...
Two Decades of Basic Education in Rural China
Transitions and Challenges for Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
This book examines how educational change has progressed in three contrasting areas spread across China since 1990, exploring key issues concerning rural education in poor, rich and minority areas. Of the three areas covered in this book, the first is a rich one near Beijing; the second is in the...
Global to Local Curriculum Policy Processes
The Enactment of the International Baccalaureate in Remote International Schools
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
This book explores the dynamics of curriculum policy processes involved in the adoption, production and enactment of the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (IBPYP), accredited by the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO). It addresses deficits in current literature and provides...
Practice Theory Perspectives on Pedagogy and Education
Praxis, Diversity and Contestation
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
This book examines the way in which the “practice turn” in education and pedagogy offers unique perspectives on the nature of educational work. Through a plurality of “practice theories” deeper understandings emerge about a range of education and concepts, providing useful tools for advancing...
Researching Catholic Education
Contemporary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
This book presents a range of perspectives on the current state of Catholic education in the opening decades of the twenty-first century. All of the chapters have their origin in an International Conference on Catholic Education, held at Heythrop College (University of London) in September 2016. The...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
As part of a long series of Vietnam’s policy objectives, English education has been identified as key to improving the quality of its rapidly expanding tertiary institutions and is crucial to the larger aim of modernising and internationalising its economy. Bringing together a wide range of Vietnamese...
Equal Rights to the Curriculum
Many Languages, One Message
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2008
The parents of second language children are often seen but not heard in schools. This book is unique in addressing the many issues facing parents of children whose first language is different from that of the school classroom.
Drawing on teaching theory, the book provides these parents with...
A Critical Study of Thailand's Higher Education Reforms
The culture of borrowing
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
This book offers a critical examination of contemporary higher education reforms in Thailand situated in the broader historical, socio-economic and political changes. Through a qualitative case study with three methods of inquiry, this book explores why different 'global education policies' such quasi-privatisation,...
Education - An Anatomy of the Discipline
Rescuing the university project?
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Education – An Anatomy of the Discipline focuses on the development of the discipline of education, how it is understood and practised in contemporary universities, and the potential threats to its future. As the author, John Furlong argues, disciplines are not only intellectually coherent fields...
Teacher Quality, Professional Learning and Policy
Recognising, Rewarding and Developing Teacher Expertise
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
This book examines the significance of teacher expertise in the drive to improve quality and effectiveness. Scrutinising both key conceptual issues and current policy developments and approaches, the authors analyse educational systems from around the world and question how different cultural contexts...