Educational Policy & Reform

This timely volume addresses current debates surrounding the transition from the teaching of religious education (RE) to the more holistic subject of Religion and Worldviews (R&W) in England, and posits criteria for best practice among educators in...

In this personal account, Jean Anyon provides evidence that the economic and political devastation of America's inner cities has robbed schools and teachers of the capacity to successfully implement current strategies of educational reform. She argues...

Analysis of education policy often follows a particular orientation, such as conservative or neo-liberal. Yet, readers are often left to wonder the true meaning and conceptual framing behind these orientations. Without this knowledge, the policy analysis...

Launched with a hugely popular New York Times Magazine cover story, Building a Better Teacher sparked a national conversation about teacher quality and established Elizabeth Green as a leading voice in education. Green's fascinating and accessible...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993243158Author The Department for EducationFormat PaperbackImprint TheNationalCurriculum.comPublisher Shurville Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904859833Author Matt HernFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 360g

Threshold Concepts in Problem-based Learning provides a critical discussion and guidance for educational researchers, teachers, innovators and policy makers wanting to explore the interrelationship of PBL and threshold concepts. Beginning with an...

In this insightful look at school reform, Robert Evans examines the real-life hurdles to implementing innovation and explains how the best-intended efforts can be stalled by educators who too often feel burdened and conflicted by the change process. He...

This book introduces the insights of contemporary relational psychoanalysis to educational thought and uses them as the foundation for a comprehensive model for understanding and informing teaching and learning practice. The model integrates what we know...

A research-based, practical guide helps educators understand, evaluate, and facilitate the change process Implementing Change continues to examine on-the-ground change processes and practical strategies while adding new features, new material and...

Arts Programming for the Anthropocene argues for a role for the arts as an engaged, professional practice in contemporary culture, charting the evolution of arts over the previous half century from a primarily solitary practice involved with its own...

Three best friends. One late-night lifeline.Meet Aisha, Sophy and Mel. Three new mums. All absolutely shattered.For her social media fans, influencer Sophy has the picture-perfect life. But why does she feel so lonely all the time?Older mum Mel wasn't...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815735700Author Rebecca WinthropFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm)...

For courses in Educational Policy and Educational Leadership; For potential and current K-12 administrators From a leader in the field-a comprehensive text covering education policy and the policy process that encourages future educational leaders...

This compelling book introduces Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's capability approach and explores its significance for theory, policy and practice in education. The book looks particularly at questions concerning the education of children, gender equality,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345803627Author Dana GoldsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

This book examines educational policy at primary, secondary and university level in Ireland from the foundation of the State to the present day. Primarily an attempt to set policy within a historical context, the book draws together compelling research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780770435684Author Jonathan KozolFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)...

This book explains how school organization by age (grade) alone, sets schools on a factory course that is harmful and ultimately self-defeating to all involved and to ecology. It returns us to three systems thinking concepts; purpose, measures, and...

Radical Pedagogy articulates a new theory of identity based on recent research in psychoanalysis, social psychology and cognitive science. It explains how developing identity is a prerequisite for developing intelligence, personal well being, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956306354Author Allyson ApseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Dave Burgess ConsultingPublisher Dave Burgess ConsultingWeight(grams)...

This report argues for a fundamental reassessment of the significance of informal learning. Formal education and training represent only a small part of all the learning done in schools, colleges, at work, at home and in the community. Yet it is formal...

This book is rooted in the principle that every child and young person has a fundamental entitlement to equal educational opportunities. Human relationships are fundamental to educational and social development and increasing importance is being attached...

A step-by-step guide to transforming student learning with value-added analysis Value-added analysis is the most robust, statistically significant method available for helping educators quantify student progress over time. This powerful tool also reveals...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940447254Author Stephen RoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Riverhouse LLCPublisher Riverhouse LLCWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Is lifelong learning the big idea which will deliver economic prosperity and social justice? Or will it prove to be another transient phenomenon? Picture lifelong learning, the editor suggests, as making its way through three overlapping stages -...

At a time when education is considered crucial to a country's economic success, recent UK governments have insisted their reforms are the only way to make England's system world class. Yet pupils are tested rather than educated, teachers bullied rather...

This book focuses on the topic of the multiple-stakeholders that comprise the education community across the P-20 continuum. In various ways and forms, the authors of the chapters found within this book promote the importance of engaging with the diverse...

This book responds to recent criticisms that the research and theorization of multilingualism on the part of applied linguists are in collusion with neoliberal policies and economic interests. While acknowledging that neoliberal agencies can appropriate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987895486Author Frances WiddowsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Frontier Centre for Public PolicyPublisher Frontier Centre for Public...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942146049Author Ken GoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Garn PressPublisher Garn PressWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm

Featuring forthright testimonials by women who are or have been mothers as undergraduates, graduate students, academic staff, administrators, and professors, Mothers in Academia intimately portrays the experiences of women at various stages of motherhood...

In many countries the school curriculum oscillates between focusing on traditional subjects and focusing on skills that are linked to the needs of the 21st-century digital age. Rosamund Sutherland argues against such a skills-based curriculum,...

Look Again is a new series of short books from Tate Publishing, opening up the conversation about British art over the last 500 years, and exploring what art has to tell us about our lives today. Written by leading voices from the worlds of literature,...

Policy Patrons offers a rare behind-the-scenes view of decision making inside four influential education philanthropies: the Ford Foundation, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781292315874Format PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint PearsonPublisher PearsonWeight(grams) 108gDimensions(mm) 276mm * 221mm * 3mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781436333337Author Phylicia NtrelleFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 162mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788131910412Author PegasusFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint B Jain Publishers Pvt LtdPublisher B Jain Publishers Pvt LtdWeight(grams) 82g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983104001Author Lyn DevincenzoFormat PaperbackImprint My Millionaire Kids, LLCPublisher My Millionaire Kids, LLCWeight(grams) 122g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989309806Author Mindi Jo FurbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint KingswyndPublisher KingswyndWeight(grams) 118g