Educational Theory category: 17068 books
Education and Political Subjectivities in Neoliberal Times and Places
Emergences of norms and possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Education and Political Subjectivities in Neoliberal Times and Places investigates the conditions and possibilities for political subjectivities to emerge in international educational contexts, where neoliberal norms are repeated, performed and transformed. Through demonstrating the possibility of...
Educational Leadership and Music
Lessons for Tomorrow’s School Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
In this book we considered new territory for educational leadership by looking to music for lessons and inspiration that may inform the next generation of schools leaders. Each chapter focuses on an artist or group whose work serves to refine, extend, and challenge our thinking in regards to educational...
Educational Media and Technology Yearbook
Volume 36, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
The Educational Media and Technology Yearbook is dedicated to theoretical, empirical and practical approaches to educational media development. All chapters are invited and selected based on a variety of strategies to determine current trends and issues in the field. The 2011 edition will highlight...
Teachers' Perspectives on Finnish School Education
Creating Learning Environments
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
This superbly researched study offers a chalk-face perspective on the secret of Finland’s educational success. Providing an intimate and revealing portrait of the Nordic nation’s schools and its teacher training system, it sets out to explain why Finland’s students consistently rank top, with...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
International students experience multiple and multi-dimensional educational and life transitions: moving to a new country, moving to a new educational system and moving to higher educational degree programmes. Within these transitions, they experience differences in the social and organisational...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
This book offers critical explorations of how the psy-disciplines, Michel Foucault’s collective term for psychiatry, psychology and psycho-analysis, play out in contemporary educational spaces. With a strong focus on Foucault’s theories, it critically investigates how the psy-disciplines continue...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
This book demonstrates the value of approaching education from a sociological and philosophical perspective. Specifically, it addresses current and long-standing educational issues in the Asia-Pacific region, integrating sociological and philosophical insights with practical applications in four key...
Alterity, Values, and Socialization
Human Development Within Educational Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
This book elaborates on issues regarding alterity, values, and human development in different educational contexts, serving from young children to adolescents to adults, and it claims for the need of educational contexts to consider their responsibilities regarding the development of the sociomoral...
Enhancing Educational Excellence, Equity and Efficiency
Evidence from evaluations of systems and schools in change
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Promoting high standards in education while striving for equal opportunities under the budget constraints - these are the new global objectives of education systems.
This book brings together research-based evidence on the effectiveness of major Australian, Dutch, and UK improvement efforts in education...
Explorations in Learning and the Brain
On the Potential of Cognitive Neuroscience for Educational Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
This volume presents a short review study of the potential relationships between cognitive neuroscience and educational science. Conducted by order of the Dutch Programme Council for Educational Research of the Netherlands Organization for Scienti c Research (NWO; cf. the American NSF), the review...
A Political Sociology of Educational Knowledge
Studies of Exclusions and Difference
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Bringing together the sociology of knowledge, cultural studies, and post-foundational and historical approaches, this book asks what schooling does, and what are its limits and dangers. The focus is on how the systems of reason that govern schooling embody historically generated rules and standards...
Market Movements
African American Involvement in School Voucher Reform
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Winner of the 2009 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA)
Through careful ethnographic research, Market Movements represents community leaders, school officials, and most importantly, African American working class families who have used vouchers as...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Directions and Prospects for Educational Linguistics explores innovations that have developed from the creative syntheses of diverse methodological and theoretical approaches used to explore a broad rang of issues and topics related to language (in) education. The volume provides unique insights into...
Comparing High-Performing Education Systems
Understanding Singapore, Shanghai, and Hong Kong
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Comparing High-Performing Education Systems provides original insights into the educational structures, ideologies, policies, and practices in Singapore, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. Taking as its basis their global reputation and consistently strong performance in formal assessments, the author provides...