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Islam in the School Curriculum explores the conceptualisation of school-based Islam on two levels: as a symbolic category in English religious education as a consequence of policy shifts, and as pedagogic discourse at the local community level in state...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954887138Author Douglas WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Canon PressPublisher Canon PressWeight(grams) 140g

This book focuses on the challenges of teaching in diversely multilingual classrooms, discussing how these challenges and complexities interact in the preparation of teachers (language & content areas) in and for multilingual settings, and how they...

This book analyses accountability and quality policies relating to learning standards and examines their implications for assessment in higher education. Whilst primarily focusing on the Australian setting, this analysis is located within a broader frame...

This book investigates how policy, family background, social class, gender and ethnicity influence young people's post-16 and post-18 employment and education access. It draws on existing literature, alongside new data gathered from a case study in a UK...

This open access book focuses on the dimensions of the discourse of 'The World Class University', its alleged characteristics, and its policy expressions. It offers a broad overview of the historical background and current trajectory of the...

This open access book provides the theoretical and pedagogical foundations for a promising new approach to civic education: using social media to teach civics. While many measures indicate that youth civic engagement has long been in decline, many of...

Higher education is increasingly unable to engage usefully with global emergencies, as its functions are repurposed for value. Discourses of entrepreneurship, impact and excellence, realised through competition and the market, mean that academics and...

This book examines the nexus between nation-building and history education globally and the implication for cultural diversity and social justice. It studies some of the major education reforms and policy issues in history education in a global culture,...

Previous critics have documented the damaging effects of the current exploitative sporting and education structures in the United States on Black males and the broader Black community. However, largely missing from scholarly literature and popular...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684940554Author Ashok BhattFormat PaperbackPage Count 22Imprint Notion Press Media Pvt LtdPublisher Notion Press Media Pvt LtdWeight(grams) 36g

This cutting-edge collection of essays presents to the reader leading voices within food justice, environmental justice, and school to prison pipeline movements. While many schools, community organizers, professors, politicians, unions, teachers,...

This publication analyzes how Uzbekistan can overhaul its technical and vocational education and training to build the digitally literate, skilled workforce needed to drive business and boost the economy.It offers a rundown of Uzbekistan's education...

The evaluation of teachers is at the forefront of national discussion, with the divide on the topic growing increasingly deeper. Teachers are under attack, in a war waged from the top down, complete with private entities, standardization, and a limited...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438533995Author Lyof TolstoiFormat PaperbackImprint Book JunglePublisher Book JungleWeight(grams) 367g

This collection of award-winning research in Learning and Teaching in Educational Leadership is sponsored by the Learning and Teaching in Educational Leadership Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association (LTEL SIG of AERA)...

This book discusses the identity construction of activist educators or, as one of the research participants poetically summarizes it, "how the dreamers are born." The dreamers, in the case of this research, are eleven women, activist educators who have...

This volume contributes to a better understanding of both psycho- and sociolinguistic levels of multilingualism and their interplay in development and use. The chapters stem from an international group of specialists in multilingualism with chapters from...

Education Reform proposes and defends an alternate paradigm of public education. It challenges 'secular education' as a failed educational model and proposes an alternate model with far-reaching potential. It reveals how secular schools have...

This volume will introduce the readers to an alternative nexus of education, equity and economy, pointing to economies and educations that promote a less stratified and exploitive world, and as the chapter authors demonstrate, this view has a wide range...

This book considers new developments in Critical Race Theory (CRT) in times of austerity and assesses both the impact of British CRT or 'BritCrit', and CRT's continuing growth in the US. Following transatlantic impact of the first and only book-length...

With chapters written by leading researchers and practitioners actively engaged in the work, this Edited Volume examines the role of the state education agency in school turnaround efforts. An emphasis is placed on practical application of research and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781464805400Author Birger FredriksenFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint World Bank PublicationsPublisher World Bank Publications

While Sweden is often viewed as a benchmark for equality within education, this book examines this assumption in greater depth. The author argues that Sweden's education system - even prior to the global spread of neoliberalism in education,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798822936492Author Penny M ClosserFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Palmetto PublishingPublisher Palmetto PublishingWeight(grams) 172g

Considering the evolution of Indian higher education policy from British colonial rule to modern day India, this pivot examines key policy issues in fields as diverse as language, nationalism and economic development. Focusing on India's relationship...

Over the past thirty years, Holt High School in central Michigan has engaged in a quiet revolution that has transformed mathematics teaching and learning in the district. From its roots as a rural high school housed in a single building in the 1980s, the...

Globalisation, Ideology and Education Policy Reforms, which is the 11th volume in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, presents scholarly research on major discourses concerning globalisation and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781464801600Author Michelle RiboudFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint World Bank PublicationsPublisher World Bank Publications

The book takes as its premise the argument that diverse learner groups are a fact of demographic change that should be considered foundational in the preparation of teachers rather than be problematized as a challenge. It promotes the idea of teacher...

Over three decades ago, international donors declared that there was a learning crisis in developing countries. In the years since, large investments have been made towards education, yet there has been an apparent relative lack of progress in student...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952685675Author Frank DixonFormat PaperbackPage Count 622Imprint Kitsap PublishingPublisher Kitsap PublishingWeight(grams) 739g

Norah Barongo-Muweke aims to reconstruct a theory of citizenship education for the postcolonial South. She works towards fostering scientific construction and mainstreaming of postcoloniality as analytical category, dimension of gender, policy,...

In its totality, this book explores subjects that are rarely available in primary literature publications and brings diverging fields together that are generally addressed separately in specialty journals. The book argues that past school failures are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581121827Author Michael F ReberFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Dissertation.comPublisher Dissertation.comWeight(grams) 599g

This book examines how young people can be re-engaged with schooling and their own learning beyond the school gates. Despite attempts by successive UK governments to promote engagement with education, there has been a substantial increase in formal and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416606253Author Nancy J MooneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint ASCDPublisher ASCDWeight(grams) 463g

Based on an in-depth, ten-year study, this novel book examines the reform of Kazakhstan's education system, from the initial plans and models of change, through to the implementation at all stages and places in the education system. Through an...

Since 1997 when Hong Kong became a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, a string of education reforms have been introduced to improve the quality of education and maintain Hong Kong's economic competitiveness in the age of...

This volume focuses on a case where community organizing, academic research and governmental responsibility were successfully mobilized and synchronized to bring about change in educational policy and practice. The focus of this book is the methodology...