Educational Policy & Reform

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992834128Author Shurville PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Shurville PublishingPublisher Shurville Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944503840Author Tom GarfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Logos PressPublisher Logos PressWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm * 20mm

Validation is the recognition and acceptance that a person's feelings and thoughts are true and real for him or her, regardless of whether or not those feelings make logical sense. This seemingly simple concept can determine whether a child has...

School Wars tells the story of the struggle for Britain's education system. Established during the 1960s and based on the progressive ideal of good schools for all, the comprehensive system has over the past decades come under sustained attack from...

What will the schools of the future look like? What will guide their design, and what is happening now to create them? As we enter the age of disruption and hyperchange, it has become increasingly clear that our education systems are not adequate to the...

How much have teachers and their pupils benefitted from the top-down Westminster-led control of policy held in place by a powerful national inspection regime?A Generation of Radical Educational Change: Stories from the Field is an exploration of the...

Leadership, Capacity Building and School Improvement provides a fresh and original perspective on the most important issues confronting today's practitioners and academics in the field of educational leadership. New and exciting concepts are introduced...

bVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b Four o'clock in the morning, and the lights are on and still there's no way we're going to sleep, not after the film we just saw. The book we just read. Fear is one of the most primal human...

Helle Heckmann describes a delightful Danish Waldorf childcare facility for children ages 1-7.Nokken is a wonderful example of a healthy child-care facility which accepts children from the age of one. This extended case study explores what places like...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401324278Author Todd RoseFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 348g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648765131Author Dr. Gina M. RileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Callisto Media Inc.Publisher Callisto Media Inc.Weight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 1mm...

The widespread adoption of college- and career-readiness standards, including the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, presents a historic opportunity to improve mathematics education. What will it take to turn this opportunity into reality in...

The aim of this book is to inspire a better politics: one that will enable future generations to be happier. Greater well-being and better health should be the goals - rather than wealth maximization. We need to value health-care more than hedge-funds,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994604422Author John G CorriganFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Castleflag Pty LtdPublisher Castleflag Pty LtdWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Children and young people in care rarely match the academic achievements of their peers and policy and procedures to address this inequality have not yet remedied the problem. Drawing on ideas from social pedagogy, the authors present a new approach -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915080165Author Colin HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Critical Publishing LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 164g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783952561102Author Andreas HjermFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Lars Andreas HjermPublisher Lars Andreas HjermWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Further Education is the most diverse of all the education sectors. Managing diversity and promoting equality, a legislative requirement of the 2010 Equalities Act, brings significant challenges for practitioners who are tasked with making the rhetoric...

A reissue of a classic text, Norms and Nobility is a provocative reappraisal of classical education that offers a workable program for contemporary school reform. David Hicks contends that the classical tradition promotes a spirit of inquiry that is...

No study of Caribbean history can be complete without an examination and appreciation of the topic of reparation. The opposition to reparation by former colonial powers and others, though, means that the demand for it is an ongoing struggle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789980929Author David BedfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint The Secret Book CompanyPublisher The Secret Book Company

What do we really want from schools? Only everything, in all its contradictions. Most of all, we want access and opportunity for all children-but all possible advantages for our own. So argues historian David Labaree in this provocative look at the way...

Furedi turns his attention to the education system, skilfully analysing current processes and providing a way forward. Never has so much attention been devoted to education. Everyone - government ministers, social commentators and parents obsess about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578668086Author Jane MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Truth Be Told PublishingPublisher Truth Be Told PublishingWeight(grams)...

Organised around the groundbreaking principles of 8 Keys to End Bullying, the two-book 8 Keys to End Bullying Activity Program for Kids & Tweens builds key social-emotional skills in readers ages 8-12, empowering them to cope with conflict and end...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735213562Author Natalie WexleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press

This book guides PreK-12 educators and school-based clinicians on how to embed socially just practices into their day-to-day roles to achieve more equitable outcomes. Social Justice in Schools uses vivid vignettes and personal reflections to demystify...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909979529Author Guy ClaxtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Crux PublishingPublisher Crux PublishingWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

A reflective guide for all those studying for the range of professional disciplines within the area of children and families. Written by a multi-disciplinary team, this book provides students and practitioners with opportunities to reflect upon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993064401Author Shurville PublishingFormat PaperbackImprint Shurville PublishingPublisher Shurville Publishing

In The Global Achievement Gap , education expert Tony Wagner situates our school problems in the larger context of the demands of the global knowledge economy. He illustrates that even in our best schools, we don't teach or test the skills that matter...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909979017Author David PriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Crux PublishingPublisher Crux PublishingDimensions(mm) 234mm * 155mm * 12mm

The higher education industry might seem like it's booming, with over 200 million students in universities and colleges worldwide and funds flowing in like never before. But the truth is that these institutions have never been unhappier places to work...

Key factors that impact upon children's educational motivation and engagement are here considered from an international and comparative perspective. Based upon a major programme of research undertaken in sites in England, the USA and Russia, the authors...

This book offers comprehensive guidance to support those involved in primary education in developing the curriculum to meet the requirements of the new Ofsted (2019) framework.It addresses key issues such as the purposes of the curriculum, how to...

Black Rood tells the fascinating story of one of Scotland's oldest and most significant crown jewels. Once as famous as the Stone of Scone, the Black Rood was a gold and jewel-studded reliquary for a piece of the True Cross. This profound and holy...

Population mobility is at an all-time high in human history. One result of this unprecedented movement of peoples around the world is that in many school systems monolingual and monocultural students are the exception rather than the rule, particularly...

The field of education policy research is a dense, crowded space owing to its complicated relationship to different intellectual histories and the influence of various ontologies or ‘turns’. To aid comprehension and clarity, this book describes the...

In Educational Entrepreneurship Today, Frederick M. Hess and Michael Q. McShane assemble a diverse lineup of high-profile contributors to examine the contexts in which new initiatives in education are taking shape. They inquire into the impact of...

At the beginning of 1916, as the world entered the second full year of global conflict, the cities, towns and villages of Britain continued to lay vulnerable to aerial bombardment. Throughout that period German Zeppelin airships and seaplanes had come...