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  • 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

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  • Education, Indigenous Knowledges, and Development in the Global South

    Contesting Knowledges for a Sustainable Future

    by Anders Breidlid ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    The book's focus is the hegemonic role of so-called modernist, Western epistemology that spread in the wake of colonialism and the capitalist economic system, and its exclusion and othering of other epistemologies.Through a series of case studies the book discusses how the domination of Western epistemology has had a major impact on the epistemological foundation of the education systems across ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The New Plantation

    Black Athletes, College Sports, and Predominantly White NCAA Institutions

    by B. Hawkins ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The New Plantation examines the controversial relationship between predominantly White NCAA Division I Institutions (PWI s) and black athletes, utilizing an internal colonial model. It provides a much-needed in-depth analysis to fully comprehend the magnitude of the forces at work that impact black athletes experiences at PWI s. Hawkins provides a conceptual framework for understanding the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Contentious Curricula

    Afrocentrism and Creationism in American Public Schools

    by Amy Binder ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
    This book compares two challenges made to American public school curricula in the 1980s and 1990s. It identifies striking similarities between proponents of Afrocentrism and creationism, accounts for their differential outcomes, and draws important conclusions for the study of culture, organizations, and social movements.Amy Binder gives a brief history of both movements and then describes how ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • 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

    $49.49 USD

  • High-Poverty, High-Performing Schools

    Foundations for Real Student Success

    by Ovid K. Wong ...
    In a recent international comparative study, the United States public schools did not fare well with the rest of the world. To the disappointment of many, the No Child Left Behind law did little to improve student achievement. Nevertheless, a small pocket of poverty schools worked against the odds of limited resources and performed to new heights of academic excellence. These high-poverty, high ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Interculturality in Education

    A Theoretical and Methodological Toolbox

    by Fred Dervin ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book explores the decades-long use of the notion of interculturality in education and other fields, arguing that it is now time to move beyond certain assumptions towards a richer and more realistic understanding of the ‘intercultural’. Many concepts such as culture, identity and intercultural competence are discussed and revised. Myths about interculturality are also unpacked and dispelled. ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Being A Teacher in the 21st Century

    A Critical New Zealand Research Study

    by Leon Benade ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book provides scholars, teacher educators, as well as reflective school leaders and teachers with valuable insights into what it is to be a teacher in the 21st century. It does so by presenting original research based on a study of several New Zealand schools between 2013 and 2015, and in particular, a focussed study of four of those schools in 2015.The book draws on the findings to take ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • A Comparative Geography of China and the U.S.

    Edited by Tao Ye, Rudi Hartmann, Jing'ai Wang ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The book is the outcome of a unique venture: a team of Chinese geographers and a team of American geographers collaborated on a new Comparative Geography of China and the United States. The book meets a high demand for comparative information about China and the United States, as the home of the two leading economies in a globalizing world. Comparisons of the two countries include the similarities ... Read more

    $89.09 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

  • The Institutional Basis of Higher Education Research

    Experiences and Perspectives

    Edited by Stefanie Schwarz, Ulrich Teichler ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    In the US, the university administration runs its own office of “insti- tional research” in order to base its decisions on systematic information. Furthermore, higher education research can rely on a relatively stable academic basis if study programmes on higher education exist. Again, this is most frequently the case in the United States. Finally, governments and other macro-societal actors ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • International Research on Education for Sustainable Development in Early Childhood

    Edited by John Siraj-Blatchford, Cathy Mogharreban, Eunhye Park ...
    Series Book 14 - International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development
    This book offers a perspective on Education for Sustainable Development in Early Childhood (ESDEC) that is far removed from the ‘business as usual’ notion of an extended, predominantly environmental, educational curriculum for preschools. It presents a vision of sustainable development that has relevance to Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) from birth to school; it is relevant as much to ... Read more

    $143.09 USD