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  • Indonesian Education

    Teachers, Schools, and Central Bureaucracy

    by Christopher Bjork ...
    Series series East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
    Indonesian Education: Teachers, Schools, and Central**Authority, the first published study of life inside Indonesian schools, explores the role that classroom teachers' behavior and locates their actions within the broader cultures of education and government in Indonesia. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Japanese Education in an Era of Globalization

    Culture, Politics, and Equity

    by Gary DeCoker, Christopher Bjork ...
    This volume documents the significant changes that have occurred in Japanese schools since the collapse of that nation’s economic bubble. Before the recession, Japan was the country that most educational reformers sought to emulate due to its students’ performance on standardized tests. Now, however, a different and more complicated picture of the Japanese education system emerges. This book ... Read more

    $45.89 USD

  • Taking Teaching Seriously

    How Liberal Arts Colleges Prepare Teachers to Meet Today's Educational Challenges in Schools

    by Christopher Bjork, D. Kay Johnston, Heidi A. Ross ...
    Taking Teaching Seriously expands and enriches discussions about teacher preparation in the United States. Its authors describe the unique contexts for teacher preparation offered by liberal arts institutions and analyze the effects of these programs on their graduates and on K12 schools. They emphasize that the goals and conditions for teacher preparation differ from larger public institutions in ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • High-Stakes Schooling

    What We Can Learn from Japan's Experiences with Testing, Accountability, and Education Reform

    by Christopher Bjork ...
    If there is one thing that describes the trajectory of American education, it is this: more high-stakes testing. In the United States, the debates surrounding this trajectory can be so fierce that it feels like we are in uncharted waters. As Christopher Bjork reminds us in this study, however, we are not the first to make testing so central to education: Japan has been doing it for decades. ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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    Series Book 10 - Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education
    This groundbreaking book presents a new way of looking at leadership that is anchored in research on women leaders in education. The authors examine how successful women in education lead and offer suggestions and ideas for developing and honing these exemplary leadership practices.Women and Educational Leadership shows how the qualities that characterize women's approaches to leadership differ ... Read more

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  • Critical Perspectives on Service-Learning in Higher Education

    by S. Deeley ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Through innovative analysis of theory and practice, this book offers refreshing critical perspectives on service-learning in higher education. It constructs a theoretical paradigm for service-learning which extends to critical pedagogy, and investigates critical reflection and academic reflective writing, supported throughout by empirical evidence. ... Read more

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  • Transformative Learning in Practice

    Insights from Community, Workplace, and Higher Education

    Edited by Jack Mezirow, Edward W. Taylor ...
    The leading authorities in the field produced this comprehensive resource, which provides strategies and methods for fostering Transformative Learning (TL) practice in a wide variety of higher and adult education settings. The book answers relevant questions such as: What are effective practices for promoting TL in the classroom? What is it about TL that is most helpful in informing practice? How ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • Everyday Teacher Leadership

    Taking Action Where You Are

    by Michelle Collay ...
    Series Book 14 - Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education
    The essential guidelines for leading effective change in your schoolFrom an education expert comes a much-needed resource that gives teacher leaders the strategies and tools they need to improve their practice and assume new leadership roles in their schools. The author outlines the everyday acts of teacher leadership and shows how to lead effectively through collaboration. The book also contains ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

  • A Guide to Effective School Leadership Theories

    by Matthew Lynch ...
    Educational administrators know that leadership requires hundreds of judgments each day that require a sensitivity and understanding of various leadership strategies. Bridging the gap between the academic and practical world, A Guide to Effective School Leadership Theories provides an exploration of ten dominant leadership strategies to give school leaders a solid basis in theory and practical ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Advancing Youth Work

    Current Trends, Critical Questions

    Edited by Dana Fusco ...
    This path-breaking book brings together an international list of contributors to collectively articulate a vision for the field of youth work, sharing what they have learned from decades of experience in the training and education of youth workers. Carefully designed evaluation and research studies have legitimized the learning potential of youth programs and non-school organizations over the last ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Participatory Practices in Adult Education

    Edited by Pat Campbell, Barbara Burnaby ...
    Although there has been a great deal of rhetoric about learner empowerment in educational and community development circles, this book is the first to offer detailed examples of successful participatory practices in adult education spanning a wide range of program settings, such as schools, institutions, communities, and the workplace. The editors join with practitioner colleagues in the United ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Changing Educational Landscapes

    Educational Policies, Schooling Systems and Higher Education - a comparative perspective

    Edited by Dimitris Mattheou ...
    Analyzing educational landscapes – the fundamental values, principles and institutions of the sector – is a highly complex and demanding task for any researcher. Like shifting desert sands, these aspects of education are in a constant state of flux, changing according to the unpredictable economic, social, cultural and geo-political circumstances of late modernity. Key aspects of the intricate, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD