Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Excluded From School
Systemic Practice for Mental Health and Education Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Excluded From School exposes the reasons why, despite many national and local initiatives, large numbers of children continue to tax the education system to such a degree that they become permanently excluded from school.
Sue Rendall and Morag Stuart draw on their experience in psychology and...
Wildflowers
A School Superintendent's Challenge to America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Wildflowers* *is both one man's journey into the joys and sorrows of leading a large urban school district in the 21st century, and a gripping, highly informative guide to transforming America's public schools. Every child, Jonathan Raymond believes, is as exceptional and unique as a wildflower,...
Beyond Dropping Out
Overcoming the Pitfalls of School Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
The failure of alternative and continuation schools to educate our most vulnerable adolescent populations is slowly eliminating them from our educational landscapes. Millions of struggling teens, lacking options, are being set adrift without the necessary capabilities and without hope. But recent...
Inequality in Public School Admission in Urban China
Discourses, Practices and New Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
This book explores and interprets discourses and practices in school admissions to public lower secondary education in urban China by utilizing a discourse analysis approach and a case study method. It identifies continuities and changes in discourses shaped by diverse forces in public lower secondary...
Dialogic Pedagogy
The Importance of Dialogue in Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
This book provides a wide-ranging and in-depth theoretical perspective on dialogue in teaching. It explores the philosophy of dialogism as a social theory of language and explains its importance in teaching and learning. Departing from the more traditional teacher-led mode of teacher–student communication,...
The Good University
What Universities Actually Do and Why Its Time for Radical Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
The higher education industry might seem like it’s booming, with over 200 million students in universities and colleges worldwide and funds flowing in like never before. But the truth is that these institutions have never been unhappier places to work. Corporate-style management, cost-cutting governments,...
by Liam Gearon, Joseph Prud'homme
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
This book explores recent calls to increase instruction of the Bible in American public schools. The work develops a distinctive philosophical and trans-Atlantic assessment of these proposals by critiquing European approaches to religious education and by reviewing the role of religion in contemporary...
Choosing Diversity
How Charter Schools Promote Diverse Learning Models and Meet the Diverse Needs of Parents and Children
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019
In Choosing Diversity, Lance Izumi writes that one of the key traits that distinguishes charter schools from traditional public schools is the diversity of educational experiences promoted by the ability to choose.
He profiles charter schools that are as different from each other as one could...
Visible Learning
A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This unique and ground-breaking book is the result of 15 years research and synthesises over 800 meta-analyses on the influences on achievement in school-aged students. It builds a story about the power of teachers, feedback, and a model of learning and understanding. The research involves many millions...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Cheating in educational institutions and society not only threatens the overall quality of the education, as well as its dissemination of knowledge, but it also affects the current social fabric. With the ever-evolving realm of the internet, the scope of plagiarism has now expanded and presents new...
Wellbeing, Equity and Education
A Critical Analysis of Policy Discourses of Wellbeing in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This book critically examines multiple discourses of wellbeing in relation to the composite aims of schooling. Drawing from a Scottish study, the book disentangles the discursive complexity, to better understand what can happen in the name of wellbeing, and in particular, how wellbeing is linked to...
by Tiffany Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
This book addresses policy research on homophobic and transphobic bullying in schools. It covers quantitative and qualitative research into policy impacts for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex students. It draws on a large-scale Australian study of the impacts of different kinds of...
Politics of Quality in Education
A Comparative Study of Brazil, China, and Russia
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
The question of quality has become one of the most important framing factors in education and has been of growing interest to international organisations and national policymakers for decades. Politics of Quality in Education focuses on Brazil, China, and Russia, part of the so-called emerging nations’...
The Achievement Gap in Reading
Complex Causes, Persistent Issues, Possible Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
In this volume prominent scholars, experts in their respective fields and highly skilled in the research they conduct, address educational and reading research from varied perspectives and address what it will take to close the achievement gap—with specific attention to reading. The achievement...