Educational Theory category: 17068 books
World Yearbook of Education 2015
Elites, Privilege and Excellence: The National and Global Redefinition of Educational Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
This latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education Series focuses on educational elites and inequality, focusing particularly on the ways in which established and emergent groups located at the top of the social hierarchy and power structure reproduce, establish or redefine their position.
The...
Educational Policy Goes to School
Case Studies on the Limitations and Possibilities of Educational Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Educational policies explicitly implemented in order to reduce educational gaps and promote access and success for disenfranchised youth can backfire—and often have the unintended result of widening those gaps. In this interdisciplinary collection of case studies, contributors examine cases of policy...
by C.M. Mulcahy, D.E. Mulcahy, D.G. Mulcahy
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Recent years have shown the growth of federal legislation and programs having a profound impact on educational policy and practice, and a decline in reliance on broadly based educational justifications. Paralleling this development has been the emergence of well-endowed and influential private foundations,...
Educational Innovation in Economics and Business II
In Search of Quality
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume consists of the revised versions I of a selection of papers of the second EDINEB conference, held in Uppsala from 17-19 August 1995. As with the fIrst edition, the conference and these proceedings are rooted in the participant's involvement with 'EDucational INnovation in Economics and...
Educational Neuroscience
Initiatives and Emerging Issues
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Educational Neuroscience provides an overview of the wide range of recent initiatives in educational neuroscience, examining a variety of methodological concerns, issues, and directions.
Encourages interdisciplinary perspectives in educational neuroscience
Contributions from leading researchers...
The White House and Education through the Years
U.S. Presidents’ Views and Significant Educational Contributions
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
The book sets forth the early developments established by colonial leaders to place public education in the forefront of their new America. The ups and downs of the educational perspectives of the many national leaders demonstrate the important issues and problems that have faced and are facing the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an international achievement measure that assesses 15-year-old student performance in the areas of reading, mathematics, and science literacy in over 70 countries and economies triennially. By presenting an in-depth examination of PISA’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
This book provides a comprehensive overview of empirical studies based on various approaches devoted to examining the interpersonal argumentative processes involved in different contexts. It also identifies context-dependent similarities and differences in the ways in which argumentative interactions...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Early School Leaving in the European Union provides an analysis of early school leaving (ESL) in nine European Union countries, with a particular focus on young people who were previously enrolled in educational institutions inside and outside mainstream secondary education. The comparative approach...
The Learning Sciences in Educational Assessment
The Role of Cognitive Models
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
There is mounting hope in the United States that federal legislation in the form of No Child Left Behind will improve educational outcomes. As titanic as the challenge appears to be, however, the solution could be at our fingertips. This volume identifies visual types of cognitive models in reading,...
The Educational Leader's Guide to Improvement Science
Data, Design and Cases for Reflection
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
The Educational Leader’s Guide to Improvement Science: Data, Design and Cases for Reflection is a collection illustrating applied organizational problem-solving using methods of improvement science in educational leadership. Early chapters introduce improvement science and then the reader is led...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Teaching abroad is one promising pathway to educational diplomacy and positive international relations. As opportunities to teach internationally increase, educators need to develop skills and cultural understandings that will prepare them for the challenges they may face in diverse cultures. Cases...
Reform and Development of Educational System
History, Policy and Cases
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
In this book, the authors pursue quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods approaches, conducting hundreds of large-scale surveys and in-depth interviews in 679 schools, 67 counties and 13 provinces throughout China. They also conducted longitudinal case studies in five municipalities and provinces...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
The editors have compiled this critical and comparative study of changes which took place in the New Zealand education system in the second half of the twentieth century. For other Western societies who have felt the impact of New Right policies the New Zealand case is interesting because it provides...