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  • Trends and Challenges in Science and Higher Education

    Building Capacity in Latin America

    Edited by Hugo Horta, Jamil Salmi, Manuel Heitor ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book discusses the role that integrated science and higher education policies may play in further democratizing and promoting social-economic development in Latin America. It suggests that such democratizing and development may be achieved in two complementary ways: i) broadening the access to knowledge through formal learning processes of higher education, and ii) promoting the advanced ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Schooling Internationally

    Globalisation, Internationalisation and the Future for International Schools

    Edited by Richard Bates ...
    The number of schools that call themselves international is growing exponentially. In addition many other schools are exploring the concept of international-mindedness and what that might mean in the contemporary world of globalisation. This book sets out to provide a critical perspective on current issues facing ‘international schooling’, particularly the conflict between ‘internationalising’ and ... Read more

    $59.99 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

    $32.39 USD

  • Reconsidering Canadian Curriculum Studies

    Provoking Historical, Present, and Future Perspectives

    by Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, Jennifer Rottmann ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Comprised of chapters written by established Canadian curriculum scholars as well as junior scholars and graduate students, this collection of essays provoke readers to imagine the different ways in which educational researchers can engage the narrative inquiry within the broader field of curriculum studies. ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Handbook of Practice and Research in Study Abroad

    Higher Education and the Quest for Global Citizenship

    Edited by Ross Lewin ...
    Co-published with the Association for American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)If we are all becoming global citizens, what then are our civic responsibilities? Colleges and universities across the United States have responded to this question by making the development of global citizens part of their core mission. A key strategy for realizing this goal is study abroad. After all, there may be no ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • Academic Work and Careers in Europe: Trends, Challenges, Perspectives

    Edited by Tatiana Fumasoli, Gaële Goastellec, Barbara M. Kehm ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book explores the perceptions of academic staff and representatives of institutional leadership about the changes in academic careers and academic work experienced in recent years. It emphasizes standardisation and differentiation of academic career paths, impacts of new forms of quality management on academic work, changes in recruitment, employment and working conditions, and academics’ ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Inquiry-Based Teaching and Learning across Disciplines

    Comparative Theory and Practice in Schools

    by Gillian Kidman, Niranjan Casinader ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This research-based book dissects and explores the meaning and nature of Inquiry in teaching and learning in schools, challenging existing concepts and practices. In particular, it explores and contests prevailing attitudes about the practice of inquiry-based learning across the Science, Geography and History disciplines, as well as focusing on the importance of the role of teacher in what is ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Quality and Inequality of Education

    Cross-National Perspectives

    Edited by Jaap Dronkers ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This cogent analysis of data on education and society from a variety of sources sets out to provide answers to scientific and policy questions on the quality of education and the way it relates to various forms of inequality in modern societies, particularly in Europe. The authors examine not only the well known cross-national PISA datasets, but also the European Social Survey and TIMSS, going ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • New Islamic Schools

    Tradition, Modernity, and Class in Urban Pakistan

    by S. Riaz ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The first ethnographic study of the trend toward religious, parochial schooling in urban Pakistan, this book provides data from over fifty-Karachi area schools to establish the complex reasons middle- and upper-class families enroll in religious Islamic schools. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Education in Mexico, Central America and the Latin Caribbean

    by Dr Colin Brock ...
    Series series Education Around the World
    Education in Mexico, Central America and the Latin Caribbean examines the development and practice of education in México, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panamá. The chapters, written by local experts, provide an overview of the structure, aims and purposes of education in each of these ten countries with very different socio ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • The Psychology of Asian Learners

    A Festschrift in Honor of David Watkins

    Edited by Ronnel B. King, Allan B. I. Bernardo ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book celebrates the scholarly achievements of Prof. David A. Watkins, who has pioneered research on the psychology of Asian learners, and helps readers grasp the cognitive, motivational, developmental, and socio-cultural aspects of Asian learners learning experiences. A wide range of empirical and review papers, which examine the characteristics of these experiences as they are shaped by both ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Comprehensive Public High School

    Historical Perspectives

    Edited by G. Sherington ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book traces the decline of the public comprehensive high school. New educational markets emphasized school diversity and parental choice rather than social equity through common schooling, and they were criticized for declining standards. The book also considers government education policies and their regional manifestations. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD