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  • The Nordic Education Model

    'A School for All' Encounters Neo-Liberal Policy

    Edited by Ulf Blossing, Gunn Imsen, Lejf Moos ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book presents a detailed analysis of the educational model in Nordic European countries. It describes the traditional idea of education for all, which can be characterized by the right for every child to have an education of equal quality in a common school for all pupils regardless of social class, abilities, gender, or ethnicity.Against this background, The Nordic Education Model traces the ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Local Drivers for Improvement Capacity

    Six Types of School Organisations

    by Ulf Blossing, Torgeir Nyen, Åsa Söderström, Anna Hagen Tønder ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book presents systematically six types of schools, with different improvement capacities. Different schools have different capacities for school improvement, depending on the school infrastructure, norms and routines for the improvement process, improvement roles, and improvement history. The organisation of the improvement capacity is understood on the basis of sensemaking processes among ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • Gendered Paradoxes

    Educating Jordanian Women in Nation, Faith, and Progress

    by Fida J. Adely ...
    In 2005 the World Bank released a gender assessment of the nation of Jordan, a country that, like many in the Middle East, has undergone dramatic social and gender transformations, in part by encouraging equal access to education for men and women. The resulting demographic picture there—highly educated women who still largely stay at home as mothers and caregivers— prompted the World Bank to ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The English Language Teacher in Global Civil Society

    by Barbara M. Birch ...
    Series series ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series
    How can English language teachers contribute to peace locally and globally?English language teachers and learners are located in the global civil society – an international network of civil organizations and NGOs related to human rights, the environment, and sustainable peace. English, with its special role as an international language, is a major tool for communication within this network.On the ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Visual Art and Education in an Era of Designer Capitalism

    Deconstructing the Oral Eye

    by Palgrave Macmillan ...
    This book offers a unique perspective of art and its education in designer capitalism. It will contribute to the debate as to possibilities art and design hold for the future. It also questions the broad technologization of art that is taking place. ... Read more

    $40.49 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

  • Debating Single-Sex Education

    Separate and Equal?

    by Frances R. Spielhagen ...
    Debating Single Sex Education: Separate and Equal, 2nd edition, provides a balanced summary of the context, concerns, and findings about single sex education in 21st Century United States.Few school reforms have engendered as much controversy as single sex public education.This book examines the history of single-sex classes and legislation that has over time evolved to render the reform legal, ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Computer Science and Educational Software Design

    A Resource for Multidisciplinary Work in Technology Enhanced Learning

    by Pierre Tchounikine ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Developing educational software requires thinking, problematizing, representing, modeling, implementing and analyzing pedagogical objectives and issues, as well as conceptual models and software architectures. Computer scientists face the difficulty of understanding the particular issues and phenomena to be taken into account in educational software projects and of avoiding a naïve technocentered ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Lee Kuan Yew’s Educational Legacy

    The Challenges of Success

    Edited by Oon Seng Tan, Ee Ling Low, David Hung ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The late Mr Lee Kuan Yew (1923–2015) laid the foundations for the creation of a first-world education system in Singapore. Like many other issues concerning the country, his ideas for education were transported in a red box, which he took with him wherever he went, even up to his last days. Inside it was always something designed to help create a better life for all Singaporeans.The editors of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Multicultural Education in Glocal Perspectives

    Policy and Institutionalization

    Edited by Yun-Kyung Cha, Jagdish Gundara, Seung-Hwan Ham, Moosung Lee ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This conceptually rich and empirically grounded book draws upon expertise from a panel of emerging and established international scholars to explore the institutionalization and effect of multicultural education on a global scale. Previous studies of multicultural education have largely ignored the significance of understanding the combination of multiple sociopolitical influences on multicultural ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • The Global Education Race

    Taking the Measure of PISA and International Testing

    by Sam Sellar, Greg Thompson, David Rutkowski ...
    A global education race now pits countries, regions, and school systems against one another. The racecourse has been created by a small number of influential international testing programs, and the popular media announces winners and losers. Fear of falling behind haunts policy-makers and shapes educational priorities around the world. But are we running in the right direction? We all have a stake ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Indigenous Education and the Metaphysics of Presence

    A Worlded Philosophy

    by Carl Mika ...
    Series series New Directions in the Philosophy of Education
    Indigenous Education and the Metaphysics of Presence: A worlded philosophy explores a notion of education called ‘worldedness’ that sits at the core of indigenous philosophy. This is the idea that any one thing is constituted by all others and is, therefore, educational to the extent that it is formational. A suggested opposite of this indigenous philosophy is the metaphysics of presence, which ... Read more

    $59.99 USD