Educational systems and structures

This book offers a comprehensive overview of studies on youth agency across various parts of the world.

This edited volume provides a platform for experts from various fields to introduce and discuss their different perspectives on the topic of teamwork and collaborative problem solving.

The Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) is the oldest and largest body of its kind, and is a leader among the 44 members of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES).

This book analyses accountability and quality policies relating to learning standards and examines their implications for assessment in higher education.

Governing universities is a multi-level as well as a highly paradoxical endeavor.

This volume explores two aspects of change within higher education: macro factors governing and influencing the institutional environment, and micro issues taking place within the institutions themselves.

Science Education: A Global Perspective is 'global' both in content and authorship.

This book examines Religious Education (RE) in over ten countries, including Australia, Indonesia, Mali, Russia, UK, Ireland, USA, and Canada.

This book examines the transformations of epistemic governance in education, the way in which some actors are shaping new knowledge, and how that new knowledge impacts other actors in charge of implementing this knowledge in the context of the decision-making process and practice.

This book critically addresses concepts and analyses related to the higher education and development nexus in Africa.

This book shows the different ways in which migration matters in the context of global and local childhood and youth.

This book provides an overview anddiscussion of the evidence base of effective school inspections; reflecting on issuesof validity and reliability of school inspections in relation to schooleffectiveness research, unintended consequences and emergent roles andresponsibilities of Inspectorates of Education.

This book examines the challenges of cross-professional comparisons and proposes new forms of performance assessment to be used in professions education.

Private supplementary tutoring, widely known as shadow education because of the way that it mimics mainstream schooling, has greatly expanded worldwide.

This textbook is a step-by-step guide for high school, community college, and undergraduate students who are taking a course in applied statistics and wish to learn how to use Excel to solve statistical problems.

This book addresses the questions of what constitutes the integrative learning of theory and practice (ILTP), and how this learning progresses over time - these are important questions that have been overlooked to date.

This book highlights innovative approaches to preparing secondary mathematics teachers.

This volume provides an informed review of the accomplishments of the Washington Group on Disability Statistics (WG) in the provision of international data and statistics on disability.

This book presents and discusses the state of the art and future trends in software engineering education, with a focus on agile methods and their budgetary implications.

This volume reviews the background of mandated teacher performance assessment with an emphasis on policy, privatization, and professionalization.

This book examines the mathematics achievement of immigrant students on the basis of data from the IEA Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).

This volume provides an overview of thestate of internationalisation of legal education (IOLE) in many civil law andcommon law countries.

This volume explores the interrelationship between ideology, the state and higher education reforms, setting it in a global context.

This book capitalizes on the developments in dynamical systems and education by presenting some of the most recent advances in this area in seventeen non-overlapping chapters.

The book draws on the 2007 Changing Academic Profession international survey in order to document the personal characteristics, career trajectories, sense of identity/commitment and job satisfaction of academics in 14 countries with different levels of economic and social development and different higher education systems.

This book analyses the experiences of multicultural education in nine very different international settings uncovering insights from a vast variety of educational contexts.

Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities.

This edited text recaptures many of Joe L.

This book focuses on special organizational configurations for schools in diverse parts of the world.

The book contains solutions to fundamental problems which arise due to the logic of development of specific branches of science, which are related to pipeline safety, but mainly are subordinate to the needs of pipeline transportation.

This important book builds on recent publications in lifelong learning which focus on learning and education in later life.

How teachers may be better educated for a changing global world is a challenge that faces many systems of education worldwide.

This practical guide introduces functional behavioral assessment as a critical tool in planning interventions to reduce disruptive and other problematic behaviors.

This book provides key insights into how educational leaders can successfully navigate the turbulence of political debate surrounding leading student assessment and professionalised practice.

This book provides pragmatic strategies and models for student assessment and ameliorates the heightened sense of confusion that too many educators and leaders experience around the complexities associated with assessment.

The volume is a practical introduction to the ways in which the teachers deal with classroom events in the context of change for researchers, teachers, administrators who wish to implement curriculum reform to EFL in schools.

This book will help post-secondary educators to discover the joys and challenges of implementing theoretically grounded civic engagement projects on their campuses.

In this volume teacher educators explicitly and implicitly share their visions for the purposes, experiences, and commitments necessary for social studies teacher preparation in the twenty-first century.

This book offers a detailed analysis and assessment of the state of education round the world.

This monograph presents the current views, challenges and future needs of educators from a global online exchange where educators and researchers discuss the 21st century skills needed by students and teachers.

This volume documents international, national, and small-scale testing and assessment projects of English language education for young learners, across a range of educational contexts.

This volume offers educators, higher education institutions, communities and organizations critical understandings and resources that can underpin respectful, reciprocal and transformative educative relationships with First Peoples internationally.

Creative Contradictions in Education is a provocative collection of essays by international experts who tackle difficult questions about creativity in education from a cross-disciplinary perspective.

This book addresses the critical knowledge gaps of mergers involving higher education institutions.

This book discusses the role that integrated science and higher education policies may play in further democratizing and promoting social-economic development in Latin America.

This work analyses how political economic shifts contribute to competition within higher education systems in the US, EU, and Canada.

This book covers theoretical aspects of Catholic Religious Education in schools and examines them from multiple theoretical and contextual perspectives.

This collection of articles by Susan W.

This book focuses on the process of creating and educating innovation leaders through specialized programs, which are offered by leading academic schools.

This 14th volume in the 24-volume book series sets out to explore the interrelationship between ideology, the state, and education reforms, placing it in a global context.