Educational Policy & Reform

What was it like to command a T-34 tank on the Eastern Front during the Second World War? How were tank operations organized and carried out, what was the actual experience of combat, and what were the qualities that made the difference between success...

The public sector is going through a period of fundamental change. Service delivery, policy making and policy processes are being carried out by new actors and organisations with new interests, methods and discourses, related to the emergence of new...

In Districts That Succeed, long-time education writer Karin Chenoweth turns her attention from effective schools to effective districts. Leveraging new, cutting-edge national research on district performance as well as in-depth reporting, Chenoweth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916259003Author Graham HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Graham HarrisPublisher Graham Harris

Based on theories of economics, sociology, and education, the book aims to explore the role of government and the market in China's higher education investment.The authors comprehensively overview the characteristics of China's higher education...

Stimulated by late-1990s debate in the UK on quality, effectiveness and usefulness of educational research (reports by OFSTED, DFEE and NFER), this book shows how to improve research, combining principles and practice, and offers case studies from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992834135Author Shurville PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 211Imprint Shurville PublishingPublisher Shurville Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880104937Author Torin M. FinserFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher Anthroposophic Press IncWeight(grams) 272g

You can successfully develop your higher education research profile while balancing the demands of training teachers and administration. While teacher education is key to preparing qualified teachers who can educate pupils for the demands of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955604000Author Gary S StagerFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Constructing Modern Knowledge PressPublisher Constructing Modern Knowledge...

An inspiring account of teachers in ordinary circumstances doing extraordinary things, showing us how to transform educationWhat School Could Be offers an inspiring vision of what our teachers and students can accomplish if trusted with the challenge of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955983115Author Ken WebsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Terrapreta PublishingPublisher Terrapreta PublishingWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250280381Author Bettina L LoveFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780795353482Author Jamie MerisotisFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Rosetta BooksPublisher Rosetta BooksDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm

Important reforms are taking place in children's services in the UK, with a move towards greater integration. In England, Scotland and Sweden, early childhood education and care, childcare for older children, and schools are now the responsibility of...

Resistance is at the heart of the change process, yet it is often overlooked or perceived as a negative force. This book explores resistance as a natural, positive, and necessary component of change. Twenty discrete resistance factors_likely to be found...

After its golden age in the last decades of the 20th century, diagramming is still an experimental practice today, but it focuses on the synthesis of complexity and on new disciplinary territories on the edge between humanities, art, architecture,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912508532Author Gary PykittFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Critical Publishing LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 300g

Everyone agrees that a great teacher can have an enormous impact. Yet we still don't know what, precisely, makes a teacher great. Is it a matter of natural-born charisma? Or does exceptional teaching require something more? Building a Better Teacher...

Trereife, Tim Le Grice's historical Cornish residence, described by Pevsner as one of the most charming houses in Cornwall' has been home to a diverse range of characters over six generations of the author's ancestors. Brought together within this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916337312Author Leona StoreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint SRL PublishingPublisher SRL Publishing

Giving test results to an incoherent, badly run school doesn't automatically make it a better school. The work of turning a school around entails improving the knowledge and skills of teachers-changing their knowledge of content and how to teach it-and...

Yong Zhao shines a light on the long-ignored phenomenon of side effects of education policies and practices, bringing a fresh and perhaps surprising perspective to evidence-based practices and policies. Identifying the adverse effects of some of the...

The Parkland School Massacre did not have to happen. And the policies which made it inevitable are being forced into public schools across America. "After my sister Meadow was murdered on Valentine's Day at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the media...

A leading expert shows how, by learning from refugee teachers and students, we can create for displaced children-and indeed all children-better schooling and brighter futures.Half of the world's 26 million refugees are children. Their formal education is...

Not long ago, public education in Ontario, Canada, was in deep trouble. Student achievement was stagnating, labor disruptions were rampant, and public satisfaction with the schools was low. In 2003, a new provincial government initiated a series of...

"An Introduction to the Study of Education" considers the nature, aims and purposes of education. It introduces the new student of Education Studies, and related courses, to the key perspectives and contexts of education in order to prepare them for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913715755Author Holly ChantlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Law Brief PublishingPublisher Law Brief Publishing

Why is teacher education policy significant - politically, sociologically and educationally? While the importance of practice in teacher education has long been recognised, the significance of policy has only been fully appreciated more recently. Teacher...

Although many books have been written about naval actions during the Second World War - histories and memoirs in particular - few books have attempted to encompass the extraordinary variety of the experience of the war at sea. That is why James Goulty's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781975501853Author Alicia A. BroderickFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Myers Education PressPublisher Myers Education PressWeight(grams)...

This fascinating book focuses on those who are most affected by changes in education policy and systems-the pupils. It draws on empirical evidence from a number of research projects and distils this into a compelling account of contemporary schooling...

Online learning has become an increasing presence in higher education course design, with most courses combining physical real time engagement with asynchronous learning activity. Now, however, there is a greater need for this one-stop guide to critical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993064487Author Shurville PublishingFormat PaperbackImprint Shurville PublishingPublisher Shurville Publishing

This book builds upon the authors' recently published The Fourth Way by helping educators to focus on the nitty-gritty, boiler-room challenges of change leaders and the expected obstacles they must anticipate, engage, and overcome to enact fourth way...

Arrested in 1943 and deported to Auschwitz, Elsa survived because she had the 'opportunity' to join the women's orchestra. But Elsa kept her story a secret, even from her own family. Indeed, her son would only discover what had happened to his mother...

In a sea of troubling reporting about education, teaching, reading, and the wellbeing of teens, Ivey and Johnston bring some good news that shows what happens when we stop underestimating young people. This accessible book offers an engaging account of a...

Discover how education innovations can produce astonishing results in student success both in and out of school. The educators featured in this book were motivated by the conviction that even the best status quo education was not serving current student...

For over a century, Americans have translated their cultural anxieties and hopes into dramatic demands for educational reform. Although policy talk has sounded a millennial tone, the actual reforms have been gradual and incremental. Tinkering toward...

Prepare your students for the globalized world!In the new global economy, the jobs that exist now might not exist by the time today's students enter the workplace. To succeed in this ever-changing world, students need to be able to think like...