Educational systems and structures

This book examines new trends and developments in research related to the mathematical education of pre-service elementary teachers, and explores the implications of these research advances for theory and practice in teacher education.

This book offers insights into the history of mathematics education, covering both the current state of the art of research and the methodology of the field.

This book examines the European discussion about alternative schooling in the 20th century.

This edited collection explores how democratic citizenship education manifests across the African continent.

The present book shares critical perspectives on the conceptualization, implementation, discourses, policies, and alternative practices of environmental education (EE) for diverse and unique groups of learners in a variety of international educational settings.

This timely analysis brings greater clarity to the question of how ICT-supported innovations are experienced in small low- to middle-income countries and developing regions with implications for international education and development.

In this tribute to Benjamin Wright, former students and colleagues recall the foundational contributions he made to the theory and practice of measurement in a career spanning over five decades.

This book examines how the career counselling profession should respond to the changes in the world of work that have resulted from the increasing need to communicate faster and disseminate information more efficiently.

This book provides a detailed description of research and application outcomes from the Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills project, which explored a framework for understanding the nature of these skills.

This book contrasts authentic approaches to education with classroom practices based primarily on standards external to the individuals who are supposed to learn.

This book focuses on the interdisciplinary incorporation of place-based learning in faculty teaching strategies at the New York City College of Technology.

This book addresses some of the challenges posed by the globalization of higher education.

This book weaves together two distinct and powerfully related sources of knowledge: the author's journey and transition from a once undocumented immigrant from Guatemala to a hyperdocumented academic, and five years of on-going national research on the identity, education, and agency of undocumented college students.

In this tribute to Benjamin Wright, former students and colleagues recall the foundational contributions he made to the theory and practice of measurement in a career spanning over five decades.

This book focuses on discourses of the politics of history education and history textbooks.

This book provides a global overview of developments and discussion around the evaluation of quality of early childhood education environments, and the professional development of early childhood teachers, during the last decade.

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This book makes the case for a revival in interest in the viva.

This book offers an empirical analysis of how academic peer review panels mediate the traditionally non-academic criterion of societal impact.

This book is a reflection on the complexity of educational change in China through the lens of a senior academic who has occupied many diverse roles in the academe, from political worker to dean of faculty.

This collection highlights the diverse ways comics and graphic novels are used in English and literature classrooms, whether to develop critical thinking or writing skills, paired with a more traditional text, or as literature in their own right.

This book reports the results of a research project that investigated assessment methods aimed at supporting and improving inquiry-based approaches in European science, technology and mathematics (STM) education.

This book focuses on how the Northern futures are transformed through regional cooperation in the Barents eduscape: a study of the social, cultural and political aspects of higher education and the exchanges of learning and people in the Euro-Arctic Barents region, especially between Norway and Russia.

In this edited volume, authors explore the ways in which departments, programs, and centers at public research universities are working to better engage students in the work of citizenship and social justice.

This book explores the multiple pathways from scholarships for international study to positive social change.

This book explores art practice and learning as processes that break new ground, through which new perceptions of self and world emerge.

This book represents a set of critical analyses of educational reforms where issues of transnational governance are of vital concern.

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What does it mean to be starting an academic career in the twenty first century?

This book provides classroom practice and research studies that verify Reacting to the Past (RTTP)-a student-centered, active learning pedagogy that provides college students and faculty unique teaching and learning opportunities-as a high impact practice for student learning and engagement.

This book provides new insights on the unique role of doctoral students and new faculty as they join other stewards of the academy working within Christian higher education.

Otto Huther and Georg Krucken analyze the developments of the last 20 years in their new book on German higher education.

In industrialized societies, individuals are facing major challenges that mobilize many of their psychological and social resources.

This book analyses the development of hospitality education from vocational to higher education, and discusses the positioning of hotel schools.

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This book explores the philosophical, ideological and practical dimensions of curriculum using an intercultural lens.

This book is about international students from Asia studying at American universities in the age of globalization.

This book theorizes aesthetic classroom management through a hermeneutical approach with three fields of literature: history and philosophical foundations of chivalry, chivalry's promulgation through the Victorian Age, and parallel issues of identity in twenty-first century teacher education.

This book explores the current status of primary schools in Rwanda and the history behind their development.

This book provides an unconventional account of post-1989 education reform in Romania.

This book investigates the interrelationship between educational reforms and pedagogical and technological innovations, as well as the implications of this relationship for the quality of human capital.

This book shares a range of examples where international students have undertaken a work placement, practicum, internship or participated in work integrated learning.

This book examines Joseph Kamiru Gikubu's impact on Kenyan youth education.

This book offers both a theoretical and empirical examination of elite education, at all stages from the early years to university level.

This book addresses numerous issues related to ethnomathematics and diverse approaches to it in the context of mathematics education.

This book describes the Data Team Procedure: a method for data-based decision making that can help schools to improve their quality.

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.

This edited volume offers empirical, evaluative, and philosophical perspectives on the question of higher education as a human right in the Asia Pacific.

This volume provides a critical examination of branding and marketing in higher education from national, regional, and global perspectives.

This collection addresses issues related to families and transition, and pays special attention to the transition to school, the effect of this on the family, as well as the effect of the family on that transition.