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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772281378Author Michaelis LaitmanasFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Laitman Kabbalah PublishersPublisher Laitman Kabbalah PublishersWeight(grams)...

‘As the adults in school, we have the chance to be the agents of genuine change. It’s essential we stop ‘doing school’ as we’ve always done, creating one-size-fits-all, trauma-inducing systems instead of intentionally increasing safety for all. Let’s not...

This volume draws together interdisciplinary approaches from political philosophy, social work, medicine and sociology to analyze the theoretical foundations and practical examples of evidence-based and evidence-informed education for the public good. It...

The book uses Chicago as a case study to examine the cultural politics surrounding neoliberal education policy in general and the concomitant alterations to democratic practice in particular. After juxtaposing the numerous failures of neoliberal...

This book examines the intersection of policy and practice in the use of student growth measures (SGMs) for high-stakes purposes as per such educator evaluation systems. The book also focuses on examinations of educators' perceptions of and reactions...

In this collection, the authors put forth different philosophical conceptions of 'hacking education' in response to the educational, societal, and technological demands of the 21st century. Teacher Educators are encouraged to draw on the collection to...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789811960659Author Xu LiuFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint SpringerPublisher SpringerWeight(grams) 263g

This book grounds the education of women and girls in the realities of their lives and experience in diverse areas of the developing world. Moving beyond the previous emphasis on access to education to problematise its content and the way it is...

This edited collection illustrates different possibilities for social justice practice in various grade levels, disciplines, and interdisciplinary spaces in P-12 education. Chapters in this unique volume demonstrate teaching with a critical lens, helping...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425184841Author Daniel J. DymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 374g

This book draws together analysis of class, gender, ethnicity and processes of migration in the context of family-school relationships. It provides an original analysis of the role of class as gendered and ethnicised in the explanation of the...

Over the past decade, No Child Left Behind, Common Core, Race to the Top, data mining initiatives, Title IX gender equity, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, and executive actions on immigration illustrate key...

This book explores the dynamics of curriculum policy processes involved in the adoption, production and enactment of the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (IBPYP), accredited by the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO). It...

This book examines immigrant student achievement and education policy across a range of Western nations. It is divided into 3 sections: Part 1 introduces the topic of immigrant student achievement and the performance disadvantage that is consistently...

Increasing inequalities, political movements and violent extremism across the world cause social and political instability in which education is enormously implicated. Placed firmly in this wider global context, this volume explores interactions between...

Global Pedagogies: Schooling for the Future, which is the twelfth volume in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, presents scholarly research on major discourses in comparative education research with...

Language Policy beyond the State invites readers to (re-)consider the ways language policy is constituted, taken up, and researched if we look within and past the state. Contributors to this edited volume draw attention to language policy as always in...

Against a background of increasing inequality and a rising tide of nationalism and populism, this book raises concerns that curriculum is being shaped by powerful non-academic, non-accountable forces and that populism - and its manifestations - represent...

This book is an edited collection introducing the Education Policy and Social Inequality series, and presents chapters from authors on the editorial board. It investigates relations between educational policy and social inequality, not simply in terms of...

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...

This book emerged from the online project 'A Manifesto for Media Education' and takes forward its starting points by asking some of the original contributors to expand upon their view of the purpose of media education and to support their perspective...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643171432Author Lori OstergaardFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Parlor PressPublisher Parlor PressWeight(grams) 290g

This open access publication outlines the underlying framework for gathering data on civic knowledge, attitudes, and engagement as well as contextual information, and it describes the assessment design for the International Association for the Evaluation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643170886Author Lori OstergaardFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Parlor PressPublisher Parlor PressWeight(grams) 281g

This book explores citizenship education and democracy in the Netherlands. From the Second World War to the present day, debates about civic education and democracy have raged in the country: this book demonstrates how citizens, social movements and...

This volume offers insights on English language education policies in Middle Eastern and North African countries, through state-of-the-art reports giving clear assessments of current policies and future trends, each expertly drafted by a specialist. Each...

Provides expert third party reviews of research reports produced by advocacy think tanks which have influenced education policy over the past thirty years. This book brings together 21 reviews, focusing on the arguments and evidence used by think tanks...

This collection of essays by Antonia Darder engages a variety of political questions rooted within the contentious terrain of culture and power in the United States. Divided into seven sections that focus on biculturalism, racism, culture and schooling,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789987083411Author Inger ErikssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Mkuki na Nyota PublishersPublisher Mkuki na Nyota PublishersWeight(grams) 304g

In 1896, John Dewey established the Laboratory School at the University of Chicago - an experimental school designed to test his ideas in the reality of classroom practice. Through a collective portrait of four of the school's teachers Women Educators in...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the development of educational policies and legislation in China, particularly following the introduction of Reform and Opening Up in 1978. The scope of this book: (1) provides the theoretical basis and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931456685Author J. FangFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams) 451g

Through in-depth socio-historical analysis of discourses and processes of quantification around school performance and student failure rates in Brazil, this volume highlights the prevalence of Eurocentric colonized thought that results in the persistence...

This book will help post-secondary educators to discover the joys and challenges of implementing theoretically grounded civic engagement projects on their campuses. The essays on civic engagement and public scholarship are written by an interdisciplinary...

This book brings together selected lectures given by eminent educationalists in memory of Ruth Wong, an influential figure in the field of education. The lectures represent the powerful ideas seeded by Dr Wong and address the challenges of education in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684948567Author Dr Hitaishi Singh &AmpFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Notion Press Media Pvt LtdPublisher Notion Press Media Pvt LtdWeight(grams)...

This book investigates the international school policy reform in China from various perspectives. In recent years, international schools, international classes, international departments, and various international education projects have emerged in the...

This book examines the interplay and tensions between hegemonic and counter-hegemonic language policy and processes in Tigray, a regional state of Ethiopia, in the period of pre- and post-1991. Viewing language use and language policy as dynamic social...

This book explores how best to invest in and nurture teachers. It examines deprofessionalisation and reprofessionalisation in the recent developments in the understanding of teaching and learning, including the effects of standardizing teaching,...