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Constructive Conflict Pedagogies for Building Peace: Teaching Strategies from around the World Dr Kathy Bickmore 9781350519718
RRP: $116.10Booksplease Price: $115.91This open access book shows what teaching for democratic citizenship and peace can look like in classrooms in violent and less-violent contexts around the world. It features chapters written by leading scholars and practitioners based in Canada, Chile,... -
High School Education Tracking and Educational Inequality: From International Rules to Chinese Experience Qian Zhao 9781041035411
RRP: $174.15Booksplease Price: $163.25The book focuses on educational tracking at the high school level and explores its impact on educational inequality.By constructing an analytical framework that combines macro and micro perspectives, the authors aim to provide a thorough analysis of the... -
Education in the Black Diaspora: Perspectives, Challenges, and Prospects Kassie Freeman 9781032927244
RRP: $50.30Booksplease Price: $44.58This volume gathers scholars from around the world in a comparative approach to the various educational struggles of people of African descent, advancing the search for solutions and bringing to light new facets of the experiences of black people in the... -
Education and Development in Central America and the Latin Caribbean: Global Forces and Local Responses Vanessa Pietras 9781529231724
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $35.26Rooted in an international political economy theoretical framework, this book provides unique insights into the global forces and local responses that are shaping education systems in Central America and the Latin Caribbean (CALC). The book covers all... -
How The New Education Establishment Betrayed The World’s Poorest Children: Broken Promises, Broken Schools Joanna Härmä 9781350469228
Booksplease Price: $97.02This book tells the real story of education in low-income countries and shows why ordinary people are making extreme sacrifices to reject free public schools in favor of low quality private schools, both legal and illegal. Based on the author's... -
SchoolWorks: Reinventing Public Schools to Create the Workplace of the Future by William E. Nothdurft 9780815762010
Booksplease Price: $22.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815762010Author William E. NothdurftFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & Littlefield -
Lessons Learned: What International Assessments Tell Us about Math Achievement by Tom Loveless 9780815753339
Booksplease Price: $37.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815753339Author Tom LovelessFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & Littlefield -
International Perspectives on Teaching Rival Histories: Pedagogical Responses to Contested Narratives and the History Wars by Henrik Astrom Elmersjo 9781137554314
Booksplease Price: $143.50This book presents a survey of approaches to dealing with 'rival histories' in the classroom, arguing that approaching this problem requires great sensitivity to differing national, educational and narrative contexts. Contested narratives and disputed... -
The Political Economy of Schooling in Cambodia: Issues of Quality and Equity by Yuto Kitamura 9781137455994
Booksplease Price: $143.50In the most in-depth look at education in Cambodia to date, scholars long engaged in research on Cambodia provide historical context and unpack key issues of high relevance to Cambodia and other developing countries as they expand and modernize their... -
Multiculturalism, Higher Education and Intercultural Communication: Developing Strengths-Based Narratives for Teaching and Learning by Damian Spiteri 9781137513663
Booksplease Price: $143.50This book explores how multiculturalism should be promoted throughout higher education due to its benefits for students. It adopts a strengths-based student-centred perspective and offers practical illustrations of how multicultural education can... -
Educational Equity in a Global Context: Cases and Conversations in Educational Ethics Professor Meira Levinson 9781350399617
Booksplease Price: $86.07How do we reconcile individual student needs with the demands of school, district, and national education programs? What are school-based professionals to do in situations where it is impossible to prioritize all students equally? A pair of new parents... -
Learning through Collective Memory Work: Troubling Testimonio in Post-war Peru Goya Wilson Vásquez 9781529237863
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $91.40This book traces the process of producing testimonio with the children of Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA), an insurgent group during Peru's internal war (1980-2000). It examines how the group navigates the postwar struggles over memory while... -
Education and Resilience in Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa Danielle Falk 9781529234695
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $52.59This book provides an important lens for understanding how interlocking humanitarian crises caused by armed conflict, natural disasters, forced displacement and, more recently, a global health pandemic have adversely impacted teaching and learning. It... -
Handbook of Comparative Education Law: Selected Asian Nations by Charles J. Russo 9781475839531
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $68.69Each of the four volumes in this set, as well as each volume independently, provide comparative analyses for researches, practitioners, and students of the law and education In examining law and education in various countries around the world. Designed... -
Critical Theories, Radical Pedagogies, and Global Conflicts by Gustavo E. Fischman 9780742530720
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $63.18We are living in a time of resurgent global conflicts and imperialistic tensions-a time in which many children are being left behind by school systems that appear more concerned with developing accountability schemes and standardized models of testing... -
Debating Single-Sex Education: Separate and Equal? by Frances R. Spielhagen 9781610488709
RRP: $55.47Booksplease Price: $49.96Debating 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... -
Native American Studies in Higher Education: Models for Collaboration between Universities and Indigenous Nations by Duane Champagne 9780759101258
RRP: $52.89Booksplease Price: $47.67In this collection, Champagne and Stauss demonstrate how the rise of Native studies in American and Canadian universities exists as an extraordinary achievement in higher education. In the face of historically assimilationist agendas, institutional... -
Why America's Public Schools Are the Best Place for Kids: Reality vs. Negative Perceptions by Dave F. Brown 9781610483582
RRP: $55.47Booksplease Price: $49.96The successes of America's public schools are unrivaled throughout the globe providing an opportunity for every American to graduate from high school. Graduation rates have soared, test scores are better than at anytime, and immigrants and African... -
High-Poverty, High-Performing Schools: Foundations for Real Student Success by Ovid K. Wong 9781607097907
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $35.35In 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... -
The Achievement Gap in U.S. Education: Canaries in the Mine by Mano Singham 9781578862177
RRP: $52.89Booksplease Price: $47.67There has been very little progress in closing the Black/White achievement gap in education. Here, author Mano Singham takes a look at this problem in the context of larger political realities and contends that in order to understand this gap, we must... -
Debating Single-Sex Education: Separate and Equal? by Frances R. Spielhagen 9781610488693
RRP: $98.04Booksplease Price: $88.00Debating 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... -
Handbook of Comparative Education Law: Selected Nations from Africa and the Americas by Charles J. Russo 9781475851427
RRP: $98.04Booksplease Price: $88.00Each of the four volumes in this set, as well as each volume independently, provide comparative analyses for researches, practitioners, and students of the law and education in examining law and education in various countries around the world. Designed... -
Handbook of Comparative Education Law: Selected Asian Nations by Charles J. Russo 9781475839548
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $34.92Each of the four volumes in this set, as well as each volume independently, provide comparative analyses for researches, practitioners, and students of the law and education In examining law and education in various countries around the world. Designed... -
History Education in the Formation of Social Identity: Toward a Culture of Peace by Karina V. Korostelina 9781137380784
RRP: $141.89Booksplease Price: $93.16In order to determine how history education can be harnessed to reduce conflict attitudes and intentions and create a culture of peace, this book examines how history curricula and textbooks shape the identities of their students through their portrayals... -
Surpassing Shanghai: An Agenda for American Education Built on the World's Leading Systems by Marc S. Tucker 9781612501048
RRP: $55.47Booksplease Price: $54.36This book answers a simple question: How would one redesign the American education system if the aim was to take advantage of everything that has been learned by countries with the world's best education systems?With a growing number of countries... -
Memory in the Mekong: Regional Identity, Schools, and Politics in Southeast Asia by Will Brehm 9780807766361
RRP: $56.76Booksplease Price: $53.16This edited collection explores the possibilities, perils, and politics of constructing a regional identity. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a multinational institution comprised of 10 member states, is dedicated to building a... -
Japanese Education in an Era of Globalization: Culture, Politics and Equity by Gary DeCoker 9780807754238
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $54.36This 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 others sought to emulate due to its students' performance on... -
Comparative Education: Emergent Trends in the Dialectic of the Global and the Local by Lauren Ila Misiaszek 9781538145579
RRP: $99.33Booksplease Price: $87.81Comparative Education Emergent Trends: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local addresses the changes and multiple new topics that intervene in education vis a vis processes of globalization, social transformation, and the challenges to education. As... -
The SAGE Handbook of Comparative Studies in Education by Larry E. Suter 9781526419460
RRP: $193.50Booksplease Price: $159.62Educational practices have rapidly changed in the last few decades, especially in how exchanges of information and learning are delivered and processed. Yet, while the field of international comparative studies has grown, there has not been an extensive... -
Handbook of Comparative Education Law: Selected European Nations by Charles J. Russo 9781475821710
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $40.94Each of the four volumes in this set, as well as each volume independently, provide comparative analyses for researches, practitioners, and students of the law and education in examining law and education in various countries around the world. Designed... -
Policy Transfer and Educational Change by David Scott 9781473913318
RRP: $47.72Booksplease Price: $39.67Improving education through policy learning is an important notion for countries in need of educational reform. However, identifying a successful set of practices and transferring them from one national setting to another is a complex exercise. Drawing... -
Native American Studies in Higher Education: Models for Collaboration between Universities and Indigenous Nations by Duane Champagne 9780759101241
RRP: $131.58Booksplease Price: $114.96In this collection, Champagne and Stauss demonstrate how the rise of Native studies in American and Canadian universities exists as an extraordinary achievement in higher education. In the face of historically assimilationist agendas, institutional... -
China's Mongols at University: Contesting Cultural Recognition by Zhenzhou Zhao 9780739134689
RRP: $141.90Booksplease Price: $123.78Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Schooling Selves: Autonomy, Interdependence, and Reform in Japanese Junior High Education by Peter Cave 9780226367729
Booksplease Price: $135.27Balancing the development of autonomy with that of social interdependence is a crucial aim of education in any society, but nowhere has it been more hotly debated than in Japan, where controversial education reforms over the past twenty years have... -
An Introduction to the Internationalization of Higher Education: Essential Topics by Ali Arabkheradmand 9780761864707
Booksplease Price: $40.39Internationalization of higher education is a concept that is currently making its way to every corner of the globe. An Introduction to the Internationalization of Higher Education aims to provide the reader with an introduction to this subject and... -
Handbook of Comparative Education Law: Selected European Nations by Charles J. Russo 9781475821703
RRP: $79.98Booksplease Price: $71.18Each of the four volumes in this set, as well as each volume independently, provide comparative analyses for researches, practitioners, and students of the law and education in examining law and education in various countries around the world. Designed... -
Policy Transfer and Educational Change by David Scott 9781473913301
RRP: $147.06Booksplease Price: $119.21Improving education through policy learning is an important notion for countries in need of educational reform. However, identifying a successful set of practices and transferring them from one national setting to another is a complex exercise. Drawing... -
At School in the World: Developing Globally Engaged Teachers by Carine E. Ullom 9781538153826
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $112.76The first resource to combine the theory of globalizing education preparation programs (EPP) with practice collected from all regions of the world, At School in the World: Developing Globally Engaged Teachers makes the case for the importance of and... -
Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local by Carlos Alberto Torres 9781538145555
RRP: $60.63Booksplease Price: $54.37Now in its 5th edition, Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local has established itself as the state-of-the art, comprehensive as well as complex framework for taking into the dynamic interactions of local, national, regional, and... -
Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local by Carlos Alberto Torres 9781538145548
RRP: $131.58Booksplease Price: $114.96Now in its 5th edition, Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local has established itself as the state-of-the art, comprehensive as well as complex framework for taking into the dynamic interactions of local, national, regional, and...