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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... -
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... -
Comparative Education: Emergent Trends in the Dialectic of the Global and the Local by Lauren Ila Misiaszek 9781538145586
RRP: $50.31Booksplease Price: $44.76Comparative 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... -
Education in South-East Asia by Lorraine Symaco 9781474235471
Booksplease Price: $57.97Education 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... -
International Perspectives on Education, Religion and Law Charles Russo 9781138286887
RRP: $47.72Booksplease Price: $43.50This volume examines the legal status of religion in education, both public and non-public, in the United States and seven other nations. It will stimulate further interest, research, and debate on comparative analyses on the role of religion in schools... -
Teacher Education in Taiwan: State control vs marketization by Shen-Keng Yang 9780815360841
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $56.26Since the Teacher Education Act was in place in 1994, student teachers were educated through diverse educational institutions instead of the traditional normal schools (Taiwan's equivalent of teachers' colleges). But such market-based teacher education... -
Unequal Attainments: Ethnic educational inequalities in ten Western countries by Anthony Heath 9780197265741
Booksplease Price: $84.82The book provides a comprehensive and authoritative study of the patterns of ethnic educational inequality among the 'second generation' (that is of the children of migrants born in the country of destination) in secondary schools and higher education in... -
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modern Asian Educators: 1850-2000 by Gary McCulloch 9780367617240
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $47.82This handbook is a unique and major resource on modern educators of Asia and their contribution to Asian educational development through the 19th and 20th centuries when modernization started in Asia. In one comprehensive volume, this handbook covers a... -
Gracias, Finlandia: Que Podemos Aprender del Sistema Educativo de Mas Exito by Xavier Melgarejo
Booksplease Price: $21.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788415880400Author Xavier MelgarejoFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Plataforma EditorialPublisher Plataforma Editorial -
World Class: One Mother's Journey Halfway Around the Globe in Search of the Best Education for Her Children by Teru Clavel
RRP: $23.22Booksplease Price: $14.45"An upbeat chronicle of [Clavel's] children's school experiences in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Tokyo...[offering] advice about vetting schools and enriching children's education." -Kirkus Reviews "An intriguing volume on the differences in global education... -
Citizen Identity Formation of Domestic Students and Syrian Refugee Youth in Jordan: Centering Student Voice and Arab-Islamic Ontologies by Patricia K. Kubow
RRP: $174.15Booksplease Price: $152.28Moving beyond Western philosophical and political frameworks, this text engages with and centers Arab-Islamic ontologies, pupil voice, and gender to explore citizen identity formation and belonging among domestic students and Syrian refugees in Jordan... -
Education in Africa by A. Babs Fafunwa
RRP: $135.45Booksplease Price: $122.63First published in 1982, Education in Africa offers a comprehensive treatment of the development of education in Africa. Until now only scattered documents on educational growth in individual countries have been available; works devoted to Africa as a... -
Cuban Youth and Revolutionary Values: Educating the New Socialist Citizen by Denise F. Blum
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $27.12Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Havana's secondary schools, Cuban Youth and Revolutionary Values is a remarkable ethnography, charting the government's attempts to transform a future generation of citizens. While Cuba's high literacy rate is often... -
House Signs and Collegiate Fun: Sex, Race, and Faith in a College Town by Chaise LaDousa
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.56It's no secret that fun is important to American college students, but it is unusual for scholars to pay attention to how undergraduates represent and reflect on their partying. Linguist and anthropologist Chaise LaDousa explores the visual...