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  • Learning in Morocco

    Language Politics and the Abandoned Educational Dream

    by Charis Boutieri ...
    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    Learning in Morocco offers a rare look inside public education in the Middle East. While policymakers see a crisis in education based on demographics and financing, Moroccan high school students point to the effects of a highly politicized Arabization policy that has never been implemented coherently. In recent years, national policies to promote the use of Arabic have come into conflict with the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    by Chris Bonner, Jane Caro ...
    School choice has become one of the most agonizing issues of parenthood; while schools boast of unsurpassed facilities, genius teachers, and stellar academic achievement, parents wonder whether the marketing hype is actually true. Drawing on the authors' experiences and knowledge—one as a school principal and both as parents and advocates—this account compares public, Catholic, private, selective, ... Read more

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  • University Governance and Reform

    Policy, Fads, and Experience in International Perspective

    Edited by H. Schuetze, W. Bruneau, G. Grosjean ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The fascination with the commercial value of research, coupled with the rise of neo-liberal 'new public management' in the public sector, has led to the rise of a managerial class in the university. These essays focus on the widespread use of business models and market principles that have undermined the autonomy of the professoriate. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Education and State Formation

    Europe, East Asia and the USA

    by A. Green ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Education has always been a key instrument of nation-building in new states. National education systems have typically been used to assimilate immigrants; to promote established religious doctrines; to spread the standard form of national languages; and to forge national identities and national cultures. They helped construct the very subjectivities of citizenship, justifying the ways of the state ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Education Reform in China

    Changing concepts, contexts and practices

    Edited by Janette Ryan ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    Over the past decade there has been radical reform at all levels of China’s education system as it attempts to meet changing economic and social needs and aspirations. Changes have been made to pedagogy and teacher professional learning and also to the curriculum - both at the basic education level, from kindergarten to year 12, and at the higher education level. This book focuses on reform at the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Schooling, Society and Curriculum

    Edited by Alex Moore ...
    Series series Foundations and Futures of Education
    Schooling, Society and Curriculum offers a much needed reassessment and realignment of curriculum studies in the UK and international contexts. Comprising a collection of eleven original chapters by prominent, nationally and internationally known experts in the field of curriculum studies, the book leads and fosters critical, generic debates about formal education and its relationships to wider ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Cuba’s Academic Advantage

    Why Students in Cuba Do Better in School

    by Martin Carnoy ...
    In this book, Martin Carnoy explores the surprising success of the Cuban educational system, where the average elementary school student learns much more than her Latin American peers. In developing the case for Cuba's supportive social context and centralized management of education, Carnoy asks important questions about educational systems in general. How responsible should government be for ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The English Language Teacher in Global Civil Society

    by Barbara M. Birch ...
    Series series ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series
    How can English language teachers contribute to peace locally and globally?English language teachers and learners are located in the global civil society – an international network of civil organizations and NGOs related to human rights, the environment, and sustainable peace. English, with its special role as an international language, is a major tool for communication within this network.On the ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Practical Knowledge in Teacher Education

    Approaches to teacher internship programmes

    Edited by Javier Calvo de Mora, Keith Wood ...
    Series series Asia-Europe Education Dialogue
    In Practical Knowledge in Teacher Education, expert contributors from across Asia and Europe explore and reflect upon the innovation and creativity in teacher education programs. Specific focus is given to the internships that provide students an opportunity for intensive, hands-on experience in schools. Different approaches to internship provide comprehensive information on a diversity of ways of ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Indigenous Education and the Metaphysics of Presence

    A Worlded Philosophy

    by Carl Mika ...
    Series series New Directions in the Philosophy of Education
    Indigenous Education and the Metaphysics of Presence: A worlded philosophy explores a notion of education called ‘worldedness’ that sits at the core of indigenous philosophy. This is the idea that any one thing is constituted by all others and is, therefore, educational to the extent that it is formational. A suggested opposite of this indigenous philosophy is the metaphysics of presence, which ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Critical Race, Feminism, and Education

    A Social Justice Model

    by M. Pratt-Clarke ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Critical Race, Feminism, and Education provides a transformative next step in the evolution of critical race and Black feminist scholarship. Focusing on praxis, the relationship between the construction of race, class, and gender categories and social justice outcomes is analyzed. An applied transdisciplinary model - integrating law, sociology, history, and social movement theory - demonstrates ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Debating Single-Sex Education

    Separate and Equal?

    by Frances R. Spielhagen ...
    Debating Single Sex Education: Separate and Equal, 2nd edition, provides a balanced summary of the context, concerns, and findings about single sex education in 21st Century United States.Few school reforms have engendered as much controversy as single sex public education.This book examines the history of single-sex classes and legislation that has over time evolved to render the reform legal, ... Read more

    $46.99 USD