Educational systems and structures

The fourth edition of this textbook offers a scientific and practical context within which to understand and conduct clinical assessments of children's and adolescent's personality and behavior.

This book presents an in-depth look at the state of transnational education and comparative perspectives on education systems between Germany and other nation states.

This book explores the emerging trends and patterns in online student evaluations of teaching and how online reviews have transformed the teacher-student relationship as developments in technology have altered consumer behaviors.

This book is the outcome of a research symposium sponsored by the Association for Educational Communications and Technology [AECT].

This book responds to the call for praxis in L2 education by documenting recent and ongoing projects around the world that see partnership with classroom teachers as the essential driver for continuing to develop both classroom assessment practice and conceptual frameworks of assessment in support of teaching and learning.

This edited volume focuses on the historical role of the OECD (The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) in shaping global education policy.

This book brings readers into classrooms and communities to explore critical curriculum issues in the United States throughout the twentieth century by focusing in on the voices of teachers, administrators, students, and families.

This book critically analyses the current education political strategy of cultivating excellence in education.

This book celebrates the contributions of John Weidman and his colleagues to the understanding of student socialization in higher education.

This book proposes a method to evaluate the work of teachers acting in a very specific educational context: graduate programs at higher education institutions.

This book explores how virtual place-based learning and research has been interpreted and incorporated into learning environments both within and across disciplinary perspectives.

This volume explores the history of dance on the historically black college and university (HBCU) campus, casting a first light on the historical practices and current state of college dance program practice in HBCUs.

This book marks the centenary of the first Waldorf School, established by Rudolf Steiner in Stuttgart in 1919.

The book takes a closer look at the theoretical and empirical basis for a competence-based view of models and modeling in science learning and science education research.

This volume takes an international and multidisciplinary approach to understanding students' academic achievement.

This book provides a unique assessment of the development of research in geography education and its future prospects, offering a challenging critique of subject-based education research, with particular reference to geography education across a range of different jurisdictions.

This book highlights some of Kenneth King's diverse contributions to international and comparative education, African studies and development studies over more than four decades.

This volume takes an international and multidisciplinary approach to understanding students' academic achievement.

This book highlights and interrogates the continued interest and scrutiny of mathematics and science education.

There has been exponential growth in transnational education (TNE) in the last few years as UK universities have looked to expand their markets.

This book takes a critical look at the internationalisation of higher education and argues for the importance of grounding education in spiritual perspectives.

This book deconstructs and analyzes the impact of education-based trauma.

This volume presents the current state of the TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) practicum in 13 countries, including Armenia, Australia, Chile, Costa Rica, Croatia, England, Indonesia, Japan, Malta, Poland, South Korea, Sweden and the USA.

This book examines how the two educational systems of China and the Nordic countries intersect.

In a world where the global engagement and international dialogue intensifies, some areas of cultivated knowledge suffer from this dialogue and this has consequences for people and communities.

This book explores how science learning can be more relevant and interesting for students and teachers by using a contextualized approach to science education.

This book investigates why students choose to study in key Asian cities, and how this trend relates to the strategic intent of states and universities to build 'knowledge economies' and 'world-class' profiles.

This book critically examines four areas common to visual arts curricula: the elements of art and principles of design, the canons of human proportions, linear perspective, and RYB color theory.

This book examines the history of standardized testing in Ontario leading to the current context and its impact on racialized identities, particularly on Grade 3 students, parents, and educators.

This book explores the place of Media Studies in the age of 'fake news', analysing the calls for a curriculum of critical news literacy as part of a cyclical policy debate.

This edited volume provides a critical discussion of globalization and transformation, considering the cultural contexts of early childhood education systems as discourses as well as concrete phenomena and 'lived experience.

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.

This book discusses the topic of graduate employability from the premise that in this era of 'massification,' economic austerity, and political uncertainties, higher education (HE) no longer guarantees a clear 'work place advantage.

This edited volume brings together exciting new research and ideas related to the ongoing internationalization of higher education, particularly in the Asia Pacific region, where this phenomenon has been rapidly developing in recent years.

This book discusses the scientific developments on the new roles of interventions in career-and-life design (career education, career counseling, etc.

This book addresses the nature of professional learning, paramedic skill development, practice assessment, and feedback from both clinical and educational theory perspectives.

This edited volume brings together diverse thinkers and practitioners from the field of teaching and teacher education as it pertains to educational development in South Asia.

This book provides a unique assessment of the development of research in geography education and its future prospects, offering a challenging critique of subject-based education research, with particular reference to geography education across a range of different jurisdictions.

This book offers a comparative approach within a general framework of studies on minority languages of Western Europe and Russia and former Soviet space, focusing on linguistic, legal and categorization aspects.

This edited volume explores a range of educational effects on student learning that resulted from a long-term study using a creative visual arts curriculum designed for mobile media (smartphones and tablets) and used in art classrooms.

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

This book asks how we might conceptualise, design for and evaluate the impact of feedback in higher education.

This book examines the push and pull of factors contributing to and constraining conversion of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education programs into STEAM (science, technology, engineering, math and arts) education programs.

This book explores the pivotal role that geography as a school subject plays in helping every young person achieve their educational potential.

This book is a genre-breaking response to the literature on study abroad.

This book explains why conflict between the institutional and human agencies is an unavoidable outcome of competing local, national and global agendas at a major research university.

This book explores how physical education (PE) can be best enacted in primary schools in order to optimise children's wellbeing.

This book concentrates on the deep historical, political, and institutional relationships between art, education, and excess.

This book investigates university internationalization in different national contexts and compares internationalization performance across national boundaries.

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.