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  • The Impact of Academic Selection on Educational Effectiveness and Equity

    Synthesising International Evidence

    by Binwei Lu, Xin Shao, Fengju Chen ...
    Academic selection is the process of selecting students based on academic ability and then providing divergent educational routes depending on the results of the selection. Drawing on international evidence, this book provides detailed discussions on the influence of early-age academic selection on educational effectiveness and equity.Demonstrating its widespread implementation across England, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Equity, Teaching Practice and the Curriculum

    Exploring Differences in Access to Knowledge

    Edited by Ninni Wahlström ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    This book explores how different classroom discourses and concepts of knowledge permeate teaching in high- and low-performance classrooms. Drawing on empirical research from classrooms in Sweden, it presents a theory-based framework for classroom research.The book examines the central concepts of knowledge, curriculum, pedagogy and equity to discuss differences in access to knowledge and the ... Read more

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  • Childhood, Learning & Everyday Life in Three Asia-Pacific Cities

    Experiences from Melbourne, Hong Kong and Singapore

    Edited by I-Fang Lee, Sue Saltmarsh, Nicola Yelland ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book introduces findings from an international, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary study of children’s everyday experiences of growing up and going to school in the context of the three global cities of Hong Kong, Singapore and Melbourne. It takes the premise that children’s learning and orientations to educational success are shaped by everyday cultural practices at home and at school, by ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Social Exclusion in Later Life

    Interdisciplinary and Policy Perspectives

    Edited by Kieran Walsh, Thomas Scharf, Sofie Van Regenmortel, Anna Wanka ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Drawing on interdisciplinary, cross-national perspectives, this open access book contributes to the development of a coherent scientific discourse on social exclusion of older people. The book considers five domains of exclusion (services; economic; social relations; civic and socio-cultural; and community and spatial domains), with three chapters dedicated to analysing different dimensions of ... Read more

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  • Equity, Equality and Diversity in the Nordic Model of Education

    Edited by Tove Stjern Frønes, Andreas Pettersen, Jelena Radišić, Nils Buchholtz ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Does the Nordic model of education still stand by its original principles and safeguard education for all? This Open Access volume is a carefully crafted collection of chapters that investigate the different aspects of equity, equality and diversity across the education systems in the Nordic countries. Based on data from various national and international large-scale assessments, the volume ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Social Justice Theory and Research

    Edited by Manfred Schmitt, Clara Sabbagh ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The International Society for Justice Research (ISJR) aims to provide a platform for interdisciplinary justice scholars who are encouraged to present and exchange their ideas. This exchange has yielded a fruitful advance of theoretical and empirically-oriented justice research.This volume substantiates this academic legacy and the research prospects of the ISJR in the field of justice theory and ... Read more

    $287.09 USD

  • Culture and Group Processes

    Edited by Masaki Yuki, Marilynn Brewer ...
    Series series Frontiers in Culture and Pyschology
    Human beings are adapted for group living. Groups have a wide range of adaptive functions for individuals, including both material benefits of mutual aid and collective action, and subjective psychological benefits of affiliation and social identity. Recent development of cultural psychology, however, has uncovered that culture plays crucial roles in group processes: patterns of group behavior and ... Read more

    $57.59 USD

  • Social Background and the Demographic Life Course: Cross-National Comparisons

    Edited by Aart C. Liefbroer, Mioara Zoutewelle-Terovan ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This open access book examines how childhood social disadvantage influences young-adult demographic decision-making and later-life economic and well-being outcomes. This book in particular focuses on testing whether the consequences of childhood social disadvantage for adult outcomes differ across societies, and whether these differences are shaped by the “context of opportunities” that societies ... Read more

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  • The BERA-Sage Handbook of Research-Informed Education Practice and Policy

    Edited by Dominic Wyse, Vivienne Marie Baumfield, Nicole Mockler, R. Martin Reardon ...
    One of the most pressing topics worldwide is how we can improve education to enhance people’s life chances. The BERA-Sage Handbook of Research-Informed Education Practice and Policy, 2 Vol. offers an in-depth exploration of the ways in which education research intersects with and can lead to improvements in education. Through detailed examinations of educational policies, practices, values, and ... Read more

    $221.39 USD

  • Preparing Teachers for the 21st Century

    Edited by Xudong Zhu, Kenneth Zeichner ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book addresses two main questions, namely how to prepare high-quality teachers in the 21st century and how the East and the West can learn from each other. It addresses the different challenges and dilemmas that eastern countries, especially China, and western countries are facing with regard to teacher education. We explore the question by examining teacher education research, practice and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Older Workers and Labour Market Exclusion Processes

    A Life Course perspective

    Edited by Nathalie Burnay, Jim Ogg, Clary Krekula, Patricia Vendramin ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book addresses the important and neglected question of older workers who are excluded from the labour market. It challenges post-capitalist discourses of active ageing with a focus on restrictive end-of-career and retirement measures. The book demonstrates how a paradigm shift is generating real processes of exclusion for important sectors of the population. By providing strong ... Read more

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  • Journey to Adulthood

    East Asian Perspectives

    Edited by Chin-Chun Yi, Ming-Chang Tsai ...
    Series series SAGE Studies in International Sociology
    Young people in East Asia are increasingly experiencing a prolonged transition to adulthood. They are spending longer in school, entering the labour market later, and getting married later still.This protracted young adulthood interacts with forces of both tradition and modernization, as social and economic changes generate profound effects on the transition from school to work, on family ... Read more

    $28.79 USD