Educational systems and structures

This book explores how curriculum reform is interconnected with policy, practice and society.

This volume discusses theory, philosophy, praxis and methods in Environmental and Ecological education, and considers the junction with the main visions and issues of Critical Pedagogy.

This book presents a literature review of and a state-of-the-art glimpse into current research on affect-related aspects of teaching and learning in and beyond mathematics classrooms.

This edited collection brings together the work of researchers and educators from Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Colombia, Costa Rica, Portugal,and Mexico on education, pedagogy, and research from a queer perspective.

This second edition of the International Handbook of Career Guidance presents the outcomes of an international collaborative project.

This book brings together internationally prominent scholars renowned for their work on post-Soviet republics, as well as outstanding emerging scholars native of Central Asia in order to discuss the state of education in the Central Asian Republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

This book historically reconstructs the conservative and moderate liberals' views on governance, morality, and education within the context of La Regeneracion (1878-1903) in Colombian Panama.

This book argues that academic freedom in higher education in East Asia, the U.

This book explores how teachers can navigate the complex process of managing change within the classroom.

This book explores the interplay between culture and pedagogy within the student experience of international joint double degree programmes.

This edited volume brings closer two contemporary science education research areas:  Nature of Science (NOS) and Social Justice (SJ).

This book analyses selected critical concepts of policy and practice in educational leadership in five European countries.

This volume explores cross-cultural encounters with schooling among Chinese immigrant mothers in Canada.

This edited volume offers a range of insights about, practices of, and findings associated with, enrichening higher education students' learning by their engagement in educational processes during and after the completion of their work integrated education experiences.

This book introduces and explains a series of tools for curriculum renewal and revitalization in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) programs, based on the experiences of the authors in successfully implementing a new curriculum in a large EAP program in North America.

Against a background of increasing inequality and a rising tide of nationalism and populism, this book raises concerns that curriculum is being shaped by powerful non-academic, non-accountable forces and that populism - and its manifestations - represent a grave challenge to learning.

This book explores how peer reviews are used in school improvement, accountability and education system reform.

Revealing Creativity: Exploration in Transnational Education Cultures explores the recovery and fostering of creativity under educational constraint.

This book inspects higher education reform in market-oriented socialist Vietnam, with a focus on newness narratives and enquiry.

This book brings together stories of the green schools movement ((Eco Schools, Enviroschools, Green Schools, Sustainable Schools, ResourceSmart Schools etc) in several countries around the world, with a focus on the impact of the movement on the development and implementation of education for sustainable development in each of the countries.

This book opens up philosophical spaces for comparative discussions of education across 'East and West'.

This book analyses selected critical concepts of policy and practice in educational leadership in five European countries.

This edited collection addresses the nexus of gender, power relations, and education from various angles while covering a broad spectrum of the history of education in both time and geographic space.

This edited volume explores questions about 'what works', how, for whom, when, and why in education, and considers how and to what extent such knowledge can be understood and extended across countries and different educational systems.

This book explores the impacts of transnational education (TNE) from the perspectives of institutions and countries that primarily act as hosts.

This book provides a collection of applicable learning theories and their applications to science teaching.

This book reports on an innovative study into the first five years of mathematics teaching: FIRSTMATH.

This book describes and analyses the organisation, functions and development of national educational authorities and agencies and the influence they have on local schools in 20 countries around the world.

This book provides an overview of current research on the development of reading skills as well as practices to assist educational professionals with assessment, prevention, and intervention for students with reading difficulties.

Greater student mobility, increasing demand for access to tertiary education, as well as policy changes have spurred rapid expansion of the global higher education sector.

This book explores the concept of the 'hidden curriculum' within doctoral education.

This book offers a rich collection of international research narratives that reveal the qualities and value of peer play.

This edited book brings together fifteen original empirical studies from a variety of international contexts to provide a detailed exploration of language assessment, testing and evaluation.

In 2007, the Monash-Kings College London International Centre for the Study of Science and Mathematics Curriculum edited a book called The Re-emergence of Values in Science Education.

This book is the first to explore the big question of how assessment can be refreshed and redesigned in an evolving digital landscape.

This book provides an analysis of university missions over time and space.

This book focuses on quality work in higher education, and examines the relationship between the organizational and pedagogical dimensions of quality work in higher education.

This book proposes a new way of understanding the concept of currere, first described by William Pinar, as an approach to curriculum studies.

This edited volume, now in its second edition, brings together the some of the most important figures in the evolution of Critical Pedagogy and a number of up-and-coming scholars.

This book draws together the perceptions and experiences from a range of international professionals with specific reference to food education.

This book is a rhizomatic curriculum autobiography that charts the author's efforts to develop and promote Australian outdoor environmental education practices that are inclusive of, and responsive to, the places in which they are performed.

This book draws together leading student assessment academics from across Europe exploring student monitoring policies and practices in a range of countries across 22 chapters.

This book describes and analyses the organisation, functions and development of national educational authorities and agencies and the influence they have on local schools in 20 countries around the world.

This contributed volume is devoted to the recent history and evolution of mathematics education in Eastern Europe, exploring how it was influenced by social and political changes in this part of the world.

This volume documents on-going research and theorising in the sub-field of mathematics education devoted to the teaching and learning of mathematical modelling and applications.

By traveling to different parts of the world, this book provides a multidisciplinary perspective on the current state of adolescent education and demonstrates how education systems are formed by and closely tied to culture.

This book examines the importance, and potential, of citizenship education, using extensive qualitative data from England and Sweden.

This book presents a systematic literature review focusing on studies examining teachers' participation in professional development (PD) within Germany, Austria, and Switzerland since 1990.

This book explores European governance and policy coordination within lifelong learning markets.

This Handbook presents an international collection of essays examining history education past and present.