Educational systems and structures

This book draws on a longitudinal study which highlights the beneficial impact of film in the primary curriculum.

This book discusses how Big Data could be implemented in educational settings and research, using empirical data and suggesting both best practices and areas in which to invest future research and development.

This book offers a moral rather than instrumental notion of university education whilst locating the university within society.

This book is a comprehensive text for those interested in formal education in sub-Saharan Africa.

This book articulates a practice and theory of education that aims to facilitate the emergence of sustainable peace and conflict-resilient communities in societies plagued by conflict.

This book examines how state schooling in China has economically, culturally, and ideologically had an impact on and gradually transformed a traditional Muslim Hui village in rural Northwestern China.

This book listens to the voices of post-school teachers, managers, theorists, trainees, teacher educators and students talking about the battle against being educated.

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.

Hong Kong's universities have been transformed by the move from elite to mass higher education, from government support to market driven finance, from academic management to professional management, from local to cross border and international outreach, from China's education bridge to China's education window, and from a colonial model of curricular specialization to a postcolonial model emphasizing broader intellectual development and service.

This book offers a range of approaches and specific examples of how a sample of internationally leading research-intensive universities, from a variety of regions around the world, work to improve teaching and learning.

This volume addresses an urgent need across multiple disciplines to broaden our understanding and use of response processes evidence of test validity.

This book focuses on the effect of psychological, social and demographic variables on student achievement and summarizes the current research findings in the field.

This book examines planning education provision and approaches globally, through a comparative and longitudinal perspective.

This book explores various approaches to building a positive interdisciplinary STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) learning environment, as described by educators across the K-20 educational ladder.

This volume examines the specific effects that schools have on the performance of immigrant students and linguistic minority groups.

This book addresses issues surrounding writing centers in the Arabian Gulf region.

This book provides a global and social examination of how disabilities are played out and experienced around the world.

This book radically counters the optimism sparked by Competence Based Education and Training, an educational philosophy that has re-emerged in Schooling, Vocational and Higher Education in the last decade.

This book acts as a highly practical guide for new and experienced lecturers, learning supporters and leaders in Higher Education; and offers plentiful examples and vignettes showing how learning can be brought to life through activity and engagement.

This proceedings volume brings together the results of a corporate discussion on research, academic teaching and education in the field of business and economics in the context of globalization.

This book explores the unique phenomenon of public alternative schools in Toronto, Canada and other large urban areas.

This graduate-level textbook is a tutorial for item response theory that covers both the basics of item response theory and the use of R for preparing graphical presentation in writings about the theory.

This book examines the effects of education exchange on educational sovereignty in Indonesia.

This book explores diverse contemporary paradigms of educational praxis and learning in Latin America, both formal and non-formal.

This books focuses on co-design, and more specifically, on the various forms co-design might take to tackle the most pressing societal challenges, introducing public-interest services as the main application field.

This book explores Conditional Cash Transfers programs within the context of education policy over the past several decades.

This book discusses competence, teacher competence, and professional error competence of teachers, and emphasizes the need for a training programme that supports the latter.

This book presents evidence-based practices for appropriate assessment of and school-based services for young English language learners.

This book draws on detailed case studies from three very different countries and school systems to explore the early adolescent learner and the middle years of learning, both of which are often overlooked in the literature.

This book examines the role of the inspector within the context of a number of OECD member states and explores the ways in which the inspectors themselves interpret, implement and influence inspection practices and policy.

This book sets out political economy explanations for higher education policy reform in Europe in the initial decades of the 21st century.

This Springer Brief provides theory, practical guidance, and support tools to help designers create complex, valid assessment tasks for hard-to-measure, yet crucial, science education standards.

This book argues for the importance of literature studies using the historical debate between the disinterested disciplines ("e;art for art's sake"e;) and utilitarian or productive disciplines.

This book describes how to use test equating methods in practice.

This book offers a comprehensive overview and critical analysis of the UK's policy on recruiting international students.

This book summarizes the international evidence on methodological issues in standard setting in education.

This book presents a number of fundamentally challenging perspectives that have been brought to the fore by the national tests on religious education (RE) in Sweden.

This book addresses challenges in the theoretically and empirically adequate assessment of competencies in educational settings.

In this book geography educators from around the globe discuss their research into the power of geographical thinking and consider successful strategies to implement, improve and advance geography education in research and practice.

This volume seeks to examine the skills development agenda for youth by exploring two key questions for sustainable livelihoods: What are the skills needed for employability in developing countries, especially in Africa and Asia?

This book examines how Performance or Outcomes Based Funding (POBF) policies impact racial equity in higher education.

This book advances an in-depth, comprehensive analysis of flagship universities in Africa - the largest, most selective, and most prestigious universities on the continent.

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 volume brings together diverse thinkers and practitioners on Participatory Action Research (PAR) and educational development in South Asia.

This book sets out political economy explanations for higher education policy reform in Europe in the initial decades of the 21st century.

This edited book addresses a range of aspects of internationalization in vocational education and training (VET) in different countries.

This book brings together a broad range of approaches and methodologies relevant to international comparative vocational education and training (VET).

This book describes a researcher's journey to carry out an ethnographic study.

This book is a guide to help teachers, parents, guidance counselors and other stakeholders understand the importance of intervention for gifted children and to become an advocate for those individuals who are developmentally advanced.

This book examines how injustice based on social positioning is performed within the context of international schools.