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  • 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

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  • Transitions to Early Care and Education

    International Perspectives on Making Schools Ready for Young Children

    Edited by DeAnna M. Laverick, Mary Renck Jalongo ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Transitions to new educational experiences are a universal rite of passage encountered by children worldwide. This volume in the Educating the Young Child: Advances in Theory and Research, Implications for Practice series provides early childhood educators with a resource that focuses on the transitions that young children make to early care and education settings, along with the issues that ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Education in South-East Asia

    by Dr Colin Brock ...
    Series series Education Around the World
    Education in South-East Asia is a comprehensive critical reference guide to education in South East Asia. With chapters written by an international team of leading regional education experts, the book explores the education systems of Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste and Vietnam. The diverse range and forms of ... Read more

    $49.39 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

  • Globalization and the Singapore Curriculum

    From Policy to Classroom

    Edited by Zongyi Deng, Christine Kim-Eng Lee, S Gopinathan ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This volume provides a multi-faceted and critical analysis of the Singapore curriculum in relation to globalization. First, it details reform initiatives established by the Singapore government to meet the challenges posed by globalization. Next, Globalization and the Singapore Curriculum presents how these reforms have been translated into programs, school subjects and operational frameworks and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Research in Mathematics Education in Australasia 2012-2015

    Edited by Katie Makar, Shelley Dole, Jana Visnovska, Merrilyn Goos, Anne Bennison, Kym Fry ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    With the ninth edition of the four-yearly review of mathematics education research in Australasia, the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA) discusses the Australasian research in mathematics education in the four years from 2012-2015. This review aims to critically promote quality research and focus on the building of research capacity in Australasia. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Educating for Cosmopolitanism: Lessons from Cognitive Science and Literature

    by M. Bracher ...
    Drawing on developments in cognitive science, Bracher formulates pedagogical strategies for teaching literature in ways that develop students' cognitive capabilities for cosmopolitanism, the pursuit of global equality and justice. Several staple classroom texts, such as Things Fall Apart, provide detailed examples for teaching practices. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Action Research, Innovation and Change

    International perspectives across disciplines

    Edited by Thomas Stern, Andrew Townsend, Franz Rauch, Angela Schuster ...
    Action research continues to see a growth in interest both internationally and across disciplines. This book demonstrates the diversity in settings and focus for action research and provides a guide to its core aspiration: to achieve principled change. Written by authors from a range of countries and range of disciplines (including education, health care, palliative care, social work and community ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • International Handbook of Protestant Education

    Edited by William Jeynes, David W. Robinson ...
    Series Book 6 - International Handbooks of Religion and Education
    Since their earliest days, institutions providing a Protestant education have always been respected and sought-after for their rigor and relative freedom from dogma—and despite today’s secularism and plurality, they remain so. This international handbook is the ultimate companion to protestant schooling worldwide. Its 39 chapters form the most comprehensive and wide-ranging treatment of the ... Read more

    $386.99 USD

  • Managing International Connectivity, Diversity of Learning and Changing Labour Markets

    East Asian Perspectives

    Edited by Ka Ho Mok ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book examines how major Asian cities have enhanced their global competitiveness by transforming their higher education systems to equip their graduates with global competence. It primarily focuses on policy implications and urban governance, especially comparing how governments are responding to the growing challenges of international connectivity and are managing the diversity of populations ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Mass Higher Education Development in East Asia

    Strategy, Quality, and Challenges

    Edited by Jung Cheol Shin, Gerard A. Postiglione, Futao Huang ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book discusses mass higher education development in East Asian countries by means of three main issues: the strategy for higher education development; the way professors and students in the region are experiencing the rapid developments; and the challenges imposed by mass higher education. These challenges include the quality of education as well as structural changes in the rapidly ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Constructing Educational Achievement

    A sociocultural perspective

    Edited by Sivanes Phillipson, Kelly Ku, Shane Phillipson ...
    International interest focuses on why pupils from East-Asia tend to outperform pupils from the West and scholars have proposed a number of possible explanations to account for these international trends. Using Vygotsky's theory (1978) as a conceptual framework to "construct" school achievement, this book puts forward culturally relevant context for understanding developmental aspects of children’s ... Read more

    $81.99 USD