Educational systems and structures

This book convincingly argues that effective culturally responsive pedagogies require teachers to firstly undertake a critical deconstruction of Self in relation to and with the Other; and secondly, to take into account how power affects the socio-political, cultural and historical contexts in which the education relation takes place.

This edited volume examines the importance of quality issues in contemporary higher education systems in the Asia Pacific.

This book examines the idea of 'good education' which is thought to include a scientific and technical component, a mathematical component, a writing component, and an ethical and aesthetic component.

This book introduces the concept of reciprocal educational learning among cultures with very different historical and philosophical origins.

This book explores community education in Ireland and argues that neoliberalism has had a profound effect on community education.

This volume brings together educational effectiveness research and international large-scale assessments, demonstrating how the two fields can be applied to inspire and improve each other, and providing readers direct links to instruments that cover a broad range of topics and have been shown to work in more than 70 countries.

This edited volume provides a framework for understanding academic public good and offers case studies and perspectives as in depth examples of the ways in which colleges and universities engage with the community to produce social benefits.

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This volume examines the complex role of international education exchange in promoting peace and intercultural understanding.

This book discusses current challenges related to teaching geography, mainly at the secondary school and higher education level.

This book addresses problems and challenges that face educational measurement at a time when multipurpose usage of observational data from educational assessments, tests and international surveys has become a growing global trend.

This book presents research in Geoscience Education focusing on indoor and outdoor environments in which teaching geoscience gains particular relevance, significance and contextualization.

This book presents the latest research on educational transitions from a variety of research traditions and practical contexts set in Australia, New Zealand, and several European countries.

This book provides a review of the effectiveness of Opportunity to Learn (OTL) operationalized as the association between OTL and student achievement.

This book fills a gap in the literature of 21st century international visual arts education by providing a structured approach to understanding the benefits of Philosophical Realism in art education, an approach that has received little international attention until now.

This book sets out to examine the changing role of women in higher education with an emphasis on academic and leadership issues.

This book presents the most recent theory, research, and practice on service learning as it relates to early childhood education.

This book addresses the complex phenomenon in higher education of structural reforms in higher education systems.

This book offers a perspective on Education for Sustainable Development in Early Childhood (ESDEC) that is far removed from the 'business as usual' notion of an extended, predominantly environmental, educational curriculum for preschools.

This book provides a comprehensive and engaging analysis of the purpose and function of student evaluation in higher education.

This book explores the impact of the socio-historical, political, and economic environment in South Africa, both during and after Apartheid.

This book carves the beginnings of a new path in the arguably weary discipline of economics.

This book focuses on the use of guanxi (Chinese personal connections) in everyday urban life: in particular, how and why people develop different types of social capital in their guanxi networks and the role of guanxi in school choice.

This book depicts rigorous and vigorous accounts of strategies used successfully by researchers to negotiate their way through the research maze.

This volume informs the growing number of educational policy scholars on the use of critical theoretical frameworks in their analyses.

English-medium universities around the world face real challenges in ensuring that incoming students have the language and literacy skills they need to cope with the demands of their degree programmes.

This book provides new perspectives on Assessment for Learning (AfL), on the challenges encountered in its implementation, and on the diverse ways of meeting these challenges.

This book encapsulates a line of research that looks at how students are positioned as ethical actors/decision makers in biology education by science policy, curriculum, and classroom resources.

This book examines the integration of the international, global, and intercultural dimensions in contemporary education systems.

English Language Teaching Today: Linking Theory and Practice provides an up-to-date account of current principles and practices for teaching English in the world today.

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 edited volume explores the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in higher education, specifically focusing on student assessment.

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.