Educational systems and structures

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.

This book explores teaching and learning in lower secondary classrooms in the three PISA domains science, mathematics and reading.

This book comprises the full selected Regular Lectures from the Proceedings of the 12th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-12), which was held at COEX in Seoul, Korea, from July 8th to 15th, 2012.

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This book delves into two divergent, yet parallel themes; first is an examination of how educators can design the experiences of learning, with a focus on the learner and the end results of education; and second, how educators learn to design educational products, processes and experiences.

This inclusive cross-cultural study rethinks the nexus between engineering education and context.

This book focuses on the changes in academic careers and their implications for job attachment and the management of academic work.

This book examines teacher agency in implementing English as a Foreign Language (EFL) curriculum reform in the Chinese university context.

This volume provides a succinct up-to-date summary of global research on principal instructional leadership as it has evolved over the past 50 years.

This volume represents the most comprehensive collection ever produced of empirical research on Holocaust education around the world.

This volume focuses on our understanding of the reading comprehension of adolescents in a high stakes academic environment.

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In this book, Dieter Lenzen analyzes the world's three major educational systems: the Continental-European, the Atlantic (Anglo-American) and the East Asian.

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 presents systematically six types of schools, with different improvement capacities.

This book discusses mass higher education development in East Asian countries by means of three main issues: the strategy for higher education development; the way professors and students in the region are experiencing the rapid developments; and the challenges imposed by mass higher education.

Building from the history of inequality in education up to current problems, this text posits viewpoints on how to cultivate humanistic leaders in education to best benefit underserved children around the world.

This volume contributes to debates about the teaching profession by reviewing international and national reports on its status, as well as on reforms of various education systems.

This book is the first of two volumes that look at the changed landscape of higher education and the academic profession.

This book explores the perceptions of academic staff and representatives of institutional leadership about the changes in academic careers and academic work experienced in recent years.