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  • Educating Young Giants

    What Kids Learn (And Don’t Learn) in China and America

    by N. Pine ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Carries readers into Chinese and American elementary and high school classrooms, and highlights the big differences between schooling in China and the United States. Nancy Pine reveals how these two countries need to extract themselves from outmoded practice and learn from each other's strengths. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Principles and Practices for Teaching English as an International Language

    Edited by Lubna Alsagoff, Sandra Lee Mckay, Guangwei Hu, Willy A. Renandya ...
    Series series ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series
    What general principles should inform a socioculturally sensitive pedagogy for teaching English as an International Language and what practices would be consistent with these principles?This text explores the pedagogical implications of the continuing spread of English and its role as an international language, highlighting the importance of socially sensitive pedagogy in contexts outside inner ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Power of Their Ideas

    Lessons for America from a Small School in Harlem

    by Deborah Meier ...
    Teaching the lessons of New York's most famous public school, Deborah Meier provides a widely acclaimed vision for the future of public education. With a new preface reflecting on the school's continuing success. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Education and Society in Post-Mao China

    by Edward Vickers, Zeng Xiaodong ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Education and Society in Asia
    The post-Mao period has witnessed rapid social and economic transformation in all walks of Chinese life – much of it fuelled by, or reflected in, changes to the country’s education system. This book analyses the development of that system since the abandonment of radical Maoism and the inauguration of ‘Reform and Opening’ in the late 1970s.The principal focus is on formal education in schools and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Rituals and Student Identity in Education

    Ritual Critique for a New Pedagogy

    by R. Quantz ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    An exploration of how the nonrational aspects of schooling, especially ritual(s), have been harnessed to construct a commonsense which serves the interests of transnational corporations, leaving those educators committed to democracy to develop a new pedagogy that rejects the technical solutions that present reforms demand. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Islamic Education in the Soviet Union and Its Successor States

    Edited by Michael Kemper, Raoul Motika ...
    Series series Central Asian Studies
    This book provides a comparative history of Islamic education in the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet countries. Case studies on Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan and on two regions of the Russian Federation, Tatarstan and Daghestan, highlight the importance which Muslim communities in all parts of the Soviet Union attached to their formal and informal institutions of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Transformative Approaches to New Technologies and Student Diversity in Futures Oriented Classrooms

    Future Proofing Education

    Edited by Leonie Rowan, Chris Bigum ...
    In this book we outline an optimistic, aspirational and unashamedly ambitious agenda for schooling. We make cautious use of the concept of ‘future proofing’ to signal the commitment of the various authors to re-thinking the purposes, content and processes of schooling with a view to ensuring that all children, from all backgrounds are prepared by their education to make a positive contribution to ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Education, Poverty, Malnutrition and Famine

    by Dr Colin Brock ...
    Series series Education as a Humanitarian Response
    Education, Poverty, Malnutrition and Famine provides an overview of education response – what it is and how it can be improved in relation to one of the more persistent issues globally. Poverty, famine and/or malnutrition exist in variant degrees among developing and developed nations and the issue figures prominently in international development. This book provides a global overview of education ... Read more

    $178.99 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

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  • 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

  • Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific

    Strategic Responses to Globalization

    Edited by Simon Marginson, Sarjit Kaur, Erlenawati Sawir ...
    Series Book 36 - Higher Education Dynamics
    This survey provides unprecedented scope and detail of analysis on higher education in the Asia-Pacific region. In this era of global integration, convergence and comparison, the balance of power in worldwide higher education is shifting. In less than two decades the Asia-Pacific region has come to possess the largest and fastest growing higher education sector on Earth. The countries of East and ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Higher Education Access in the Asia Pacific

    Privilege or Human Right?

    Edited by Christopher S. Collins, Prompilai Buasuwan ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This edited volume offers empirical, evaluative, and philosophical perspectives on the question of higher education as a human right in the Asia Pacific. Throughout the region, higher education has grown rapidly in a variety of ways. Price, accessibility, mobility, and government funding are all key areas of interest, which likely shape the degree to which higher education may be viewed as a human ... Read more

    $53.99 USD