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In this book the editors consider the resistance to change among teachers and learners despite all the evidence that science participation brings benefits for both individuals and nations. Beginning with biology, Stability and Change in Science...

In Navigating Uncertainty: Sensemaking for Educational Leaders, the authors introduce a 5-step sensemaking approach for managing the kinds of challenging problems, dilemmas and crises that occur daily in educational systems. Drawing on complexity...

This second volume of Language Issues in Comparative Education, following the tradition of the first, introduces the state of the field, re-establishes core terminology and concepts, and situates the chapters in terms of their contributions to...

This book provides a valuable contribution to our thinking about education in a modern metropolis. One of the strengths of this book is its diversity of topics which range from research with young children to adult learners, and compulsory schooling to...

In February 2018, 35,000 public school educators and staff walked off the job in West Virginia. More than 100,000 teachers in other states-both right-to-work states, like West Virginia, and those with a unionized workforce-followed them over the next...

In Research Concepts for the Practitioner of Educational Leadership, the author acquaints the reader with principles of educational research that are most applicable to today's educational leaders. Educational leaders are facing increasing demands to...

During his four years as the tenth Chancellor of Berkeley (2013–17), Nicholas B. Dirks was confronted by crises arguably more challenging than those faced by any other college administrator in the contemporary period. This thoughtfully candid book,...

Calling others in to lead for social justice has never been more important. In a world plagued by multiple and overlapping pandemics and other crises, the cost of leadership failures is constantly rising. Leadership education is responding to these...

A collection of first-person narratives by specialists in the field of education in South East Europe. The contributors are recognized leaders in civil society, government, academia and schools. Their works chronicle the profound effect armed conflict,...

School choice seeks to create a competitive arena in which public schools will attain academic excellence, encourage individual student performance, and achieve social balance. In debating the feasibility of this market approach to improving school...

Geneva Gay is renowned for her contributions to multicultural education, particularly as it relates to curriculum design, professional learning, and classroom instruction. Gay has made many important revisions to keep her foundational, award-winning text...

Leaving school, whether to move on to training, work or education, is a fundamental rite of passage the world over. This volume draws on a wealth of international sources and studies in its analysis of the 'transitions' young students make as they move...

Leaving school, whether to move on to training, work or education, is a fundamental rite of passage the world over. This volume draws on a wealth of international sources and studies in its analysis of the 'transitions' young students make as they move...

"This book Schooling for Sustainable Development: A Focus on Australia, New Zealand and the Oceanic Region, is the product of passionate interests of teachers, scholars and researchers located in diverse parts of the Australasian region. Working with...

This book is a novel and ambitious attempt to map the Muslim American nonprofit sector: its origins, growth and impact on American society. Using theories from the fields of philanthropy, public administration and data gathered from surveys and...

City Schools brings together a distinguished group of researchers and educators for an in-depth look at the nation's largest school system. Topics covered include the changing demographics of city schools, the impending teacher shortage, reading...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800648999Author Basem AdiFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Open Book PublishersPublisher Open Book PublishersWeight(grams) 449g

Based on a study of one secondary school located in a disadvantaged community in Australia, this book provides a different perspective on what it means to 'play the game' of schooling. Drawing on the perspectives of teachers, parents and students, this...

Former World Bank education specialist Bjorn Nordtveit argues in this groundbreaking study that a development project or policy should not be understood and analyzed as a linear system. Instead, he believes we should view it as a complex and dialectical...

Set in Malaysia, this book encompasses language and cultural policy challenges that many other multi-ethnic nations currently have to address. The people of Malaysia constitute a diverse ethnic, linguistic and cultural population and one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798886448009Author Michael FloydFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Covenant BooksPublisher Covenant BooksWeight(grams) 336g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788189005566Author A.K. PandeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Saurabh Publishing HousePublisher Saurabh Publishing House

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733320153Author Dr Bernard BullFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Birdhouse Learning LabsPublisher Birdhouse Learning LabsWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957705968Author Susan GalletlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

A new and timely collection compiled by one of America's most prominent urban educators. Young people and practicing teachers, poets and scholars, social critics and journalists offer unique takes on topics ranging from culturally relevant teaching and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781525596926Author Stephen YoungFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 152g

Global University Rankings explores the novel topic of global university rankings and their effects on higher education in Europe. The contributions in this volume outline different discourses on global university rankings and explore the related changes...

The progressive raising of the school-leaving age has had momentous repercussions for our understanding of childhood and youth, for secondary education, and for social and educational inequality. This book assesses secondary education and the raising of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798988238621Author Tim DaseyFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint Rejuvenate PublishingPublisher Rejuvenate PublishingWeight(grams) 535g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798891129740Author Tina TrentFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Sophia Institute PressPublisher Sophia Institute PressWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm)...

"This book Schooling for Sustainable Development: A Focus on Australia, New Zealand and the Oceanic Region, is the product of passionate interests of teachers, scholars and researchers located in diverse parts of the Australasian region. Working with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888511350Author Tina TrentFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Covenant BooksPublisher Covenant BooksWeight(grams) 186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887751320Author Dr Philip Antino Ph DFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Gotham BooksWeight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798869230065Author B VincentFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Quantumquill PressPublisher Quantumquill PressWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218042585Author Thomas BensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Wisdom House Books Inc.Publisher Wisdom House Books Inc.Weight(grams) 73g

This cogent analysis of data on education and society from a variety of sources sets out to provide answers to scientific and policy questions on the quality of education and the way it relates to various forms of inequality in modern societies,...

This collection of essays invites readers to think through critical questions concerning anti-racism education, such as: How does anti-racism education centre race as an analytic and simultaneously work with multiple sites of oppression, without reifying...

From antiquity to the present, schools of some form have, in one way or other, been involved in the material and symbolic reproduction of societies. Such diachronic resilience, along with the synchronic omnipresence of schooling often makes schools...

Directions and Prospects for Educational Linguistics explores innovations that have developed from the creative syntheses of diverse methodological and theoretical approaches used to explore a broad rang of issues and topics related to language (in)...

In this book, the author Joy Cumming draws on knowledge of law, assessment and measurement to provide an original analysis of the inclusion of students with impairment in educational accountability assessments in the U.S., England and Australia...