Educational systems and structures

With the new EYFS in its infancy, this practical professional development title will take practitioners through the new policies and provide vital information and practical advice on how to implement it effectively.

With the new EYFS in its infancy, this practical professional development title will take practitioners through the new policies and provide vital information and practical advice on how to implement it effectively.

Practitioners working within the EYFS are still uncertain of exactly how to manage assessment.

Practitioners working within the EYFS are still uncertain of exactly how to manage assessment.

This workbook provides exercises to help teach and build English vocabulary relevant to the hotel, tourism and catering industries.

Help your child power up their reading skills and learn all about a scientist s day with this fun-filled non-fiction reader carefully levelled to help children progress.

Educational Testing provides support for those undertaking training in, and for training providers of, the Certificate of Competence in Educational Testing (CCET) (Level A).

Re-narrating the story of Noah and Schreber, William F.

This is a comparative ethnography of five Israeli schools that use state-of-the-art educational approaches to help change Israel's conflicted society.

Never before have we so needed a new literacy that will enable us to meaningfully participate in the rapidly evolving technologically mediated world.

This book addresses students, practitioners and scholars in educational policy studies.

This book traces the decline of the public comprehensive high school.

Winner of a 2005 Critics Choice Award fromThe American Educational Studies Association, this is a groundbreaking collection of oral histories, letters, interviews, and governmental reports related to the history of Latino education in the US.

Educational Partnerships and the State is a compelling collection of essays by an international group of scholars that provides a critical exploration of the role of partnerships in contemporary educational reform.

Policy decisions in education have changed drastically as a result of the recent threats to our international and national security.

Understandings of sexuality and sex education have changed dramatically, and in this collection, the authors explore the various texts that were used to teach, to entertain, to sanction and to form a sexual standard for a nation.

Revolution and Pedagogy explores the tensions between and within the processes of revolutionary pedagogical change and continuity.

Henry Giroux continues his critique of American culture and the way it impinges on the lives of our children.

Signs of Change: Assessment Past, Present and Future Another Time, Another Place.

The concept of individual responsibility has taken on a signi?

Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Education: Cross-cultural, which is the sixth volume in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, presents scholarly research on major discourses of race, ethnicity and gender in education.

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This book focuses on the academic foundations, trends and traditions of environmental education for sustainable development principally in Chinese 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.

Active citizenship is an objective of schooling in an increasingly complex context, in which social cohesion of the multicultural society is a cause for growing societal concern.

Globalisation, Policy and Comparative Research, which is the fifth volume in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, presents scholarly research on major discourses in comparative education research.

Media education in Asia is a relatively young, but rapidly developing part of the curriculum.

Many resources are invested in the development and introduction of Quality Assurance Systems in educational institutions all over the world.

Higher education reforms have been on the agenda of Western European countries for 25 years, trying to deal with self governed professional bureaucracies politically weakened by massification when an emerging common understanding enhanced their role as major actors in knowledge based economies.

Increasingly, students worldwide are seeking post-secondary education to acquire new skill-sets and credentials.

For many people, a high standard for student learning is desirable.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights endorsed in 1948 by member states of the United Nations continues to remain very much valid as it provides the solid foundation for most actions and activities that are aimed at guaranteeing the rights of everybody.

Yasushi Hirosato and Yuto Kitamura Developing countries, including Southeast Asian countries, face an enormous challenge in ensuring equitable access to quality education in the context of deepening globalization and increasing international competition.

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A major aim of Nation-Building, Identity and Citizenship Education: Cross-cultural Perspectives is to present a global overview of selected scholarly research on global and comparative trends in dominant discourses of identity politics, and nation-building in comparative education research.

There has been a remarkable growth of interest in the assessment of student learning and its relation to the process of learning in higher education over the past ten years.

In our rapidly globalizing world students are able to access learning through mobility, through computer mediated experiences, and through the diverse perspectives of their peers and teachers.

Based on case studies of 11 societies in the world's most dynamic region, this book signals a new direction of study at the intersection of citizenship education and the curriculum.

Statistical models attempt to describe and quantify relationships between variables.

I have long admired the mythopoetic tradition in curriculum studies.

A major aim of Comparative and Global Pedagogies: Equity, Access and Democracy in Education which is the second volume in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, edited by Joseph Zajda and his team, is to present a global overview of recent trends in equity and access in education globally.

Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) research has become a recognized and well-defined area of interdisciplinary research.

Today, a substantial portion of higher education is provided outside of the traditional universities in non-university institutions with a multitude of varied characteristics.

In a globalized neo-colonial world an insidious and often debilitating crisis of knowledge not only continues to undermine the quality of research produced by scholars but to also perpetuate a neo-colonial and oppressive socio-cultural, political economic, and educational system.

Kaye Stacey Helen Chick and Margaret Kendal The University of Melbourne Australia Abstract: This section reports on the organisation procedures and publications of the ICMI Study The Future of the Teaching and Learning of Algebra.

It is a great pleasure to present this book, edited by a distinguished team at the Hong Kong Institute of Education and with excellent contributors from nine countries in the region and beyond.

The International Handbook of Career Guidance represents a project of inter- tional professional cooperation.

Assessment is the daily life of a teacher; designing plans, setting questions, giving feedback and grading are all activities that teachers undertake on a regular basis.

The aim of this book is provide an easily accessible, practical yet scholarly source of information about the international concern for the philosophy, theory, categories and concepts of lifelong learning.

Approaches and methods in comparative education research are of obvious importance, but do not always receive adequate attention.