Educational systems and structures

Across the world, higher education is witnessing exponential growth in both student participation and types of educational providers.

This book fills an existing gap within the practice of global citizenship education by offering Asian perspectives.

As the number of international students in Chinese higher education increases steadily, this volume is one of the first to focus on their many and varied experiences.

This book exposes a disturbing misuse of the scientific method to advance policies and agendas that are in fact detrimental to both science and education.

This book offers an up-to-date overview of the research on philosophy of mathematics education, one of the most important and relevant areas of theory.

This book presents current perspectives on theoretical and empirical issues related to the teaching and learning of geometry at secondary schools.

This book presents the core concepts of geographical education as a means of understanding global issues from a spatial perspective.

This book advocates that teachers should play an active role in high-stakes language testing and that more weight should be given to teacher judgement.

This book investigates the relationship between context and leadership in post-conflict Cambodia.

This book focuses on the representation of nature in science education in schools in the United States.

This book introduces the specifics of mathematics lesson study with regard to regional/national particularities, discussing the methodological and theoretical tools that can be used to pursue research on lesson study (its forms, contents, effects etc.

This book provides international perspectives on the use of digital technologies in primary, lower secondary and upper secondary school mathematics.

In an increasingly globalised educational landscape, this book examines whether the principle of educational equality can be applied across nation state borders.

This volume examines research productivity within schools in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and presents examples of various successful LAC North-South programs which have propelled university research in the region.

This book focuses on the dynamic and rapidly expanding field of transnational higher education (TNE).

This book argues that the neoliberal globalisation of higher education faces a need for recalibration.

This book analyses the evidence for global change, and suggests that the Earth is going through a profound transformation, caused in large part by human action.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of current, innovative approaches to assessing generic and domain-specific learning outcomes in higher education at both national and international levels.

This book constitutes a valuable manual for young and seasoned business researchers alike, and provides a comprehensive summary for the whole research journey.

This edited monograph contains a comprehensive overview of educational developments in the fields of operations research (OR) and management science (MS).

This book examines immigrant student achievement and education policy across a range of Western nations.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of research at interface between History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science (HPSS) and Science Teaching in Ibero-America.

This volume examines the history and current state of Canadian studies in a number of countries and regions across the world, including Canada's major trading partners.

This book consists of 13 papers developed by participants in the ICME 13 Topic Study Group 40 on Classroom Assessment.

This book presents the views of leading scholars, academics, and educators on the renewal of Islamic schools in the Western context.

This collection is the first of its kind, bringing together Holocaust educational researchers as well as school and museum educators from across the globe, to discuss the potentials of Holocaust education in relation to primary school children.

Knowledge is now central to national economic competitiveness and to socio-economic endeavours concerned with inequalities and social exclusion, and in this context higher education is recognized as a core sector of national policy and strategy.

This edited volume examines inclusive education and disability in the global South.

This volume is the first to compile the insights of experienced and informed education researchers and practitioners involved in the delivery of university pathway programs.

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 book draws on the stories of thirty-two young Australians to identify the barriers and obstacles they face in 'getting a job' in precarious times and from their vantage point.

This book examines governance reforms in higher education in six European countries: Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, the Netherlands, and Portugal.

This book aims to make a contribution to the theory, research and practice on quality and equity in education by providing a comprehensive overview of these two dimensions of educational effectiveness and proposing a methodological instrument that may be used to measure the contribution that each school can make to promoting equity.

This book explores new trends and developments in mathematics education research related to proof and proving, the implications of these trends and developments for theory and practice, and directions for future research.

This book presents innovative approaches and state-of-the-art empirical studies on mathematics teacher learning.

In this book,  Al-Kohlani examines fifty-five Muslim and non-Muslim countries from 1960 to 2010 in response to "e;religious theory"e; that associates certain religions with gender inequality and "e;modernization theory"e; which downplays the role of religion on gender inequity and associates gender inequality with socioeconomic factors.

This book examines the impact of internationalization, student mobility and transnational workforce mobility on the changing nature of teacher work and teacher professional learning in the Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector.

This book explores the influence of high stakes standardised testing within the context of South Korea.

This book discusses examples of discrete mathematics in school curricula, including in the areas of graph theory, recursion and discrete dynamical systems, combinatorics, logic, game theory, and the mathematics of fairness.

This contributed volume is an exciting product of the 22nd MAVI conference, which presents cutting-edge research on affective issues in teaching and learning math.

This book explores school leadership through a cross-cultural comparative lens, drawing on data from 16 countries located on five continents.

This book presents the case for a conceptual and pragmatic revolution of Africa's formal educational systems.

This volume presents in-depth studies on leading themes in education policy and intercultural communication in contemporary Asia, covering empirical as well as theoretical approaches, and offering both an in-depth investigation of their implications, and a synthesis of areas where these topics cohere and point to advances in description, analysis and theory, policy and applications.

This volume is the result of a 2016 research symposium sponsored by the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) focused on the growing theoretical areas of integrating story and narrative into educational design.

Flipped learning-in which students view recorded lectures outside of the classroom and then utilize class time to develop a broad range of knowledge and skills-is a relatively new phenomenon.

The goal of this guide and manual is to provide a practical and brief overview of the theory on computerized adaptive testing (CAT) and multistage testing (MST) and to illustrate the methodologies and applications using R open source language and several data examples.

This book examines why Japan has one of the highest enrolment rates in cram schools and private tutoring worldwide.

Higher education and innovation policies are today seen as central elements in national economic competitiveness, increasingly measured by global rankings.

This book examines very important issues in research evaluation in the Social Sciences and Humanities.

Winner of the 2019 AERA Division B (Curriculum Studies) Outstanding Book AwardThis book explores curriculum inquiry through the theoretical lens of governmentality as a site of disciplinary biopolitics and a system of heteropatriarchal political economy.