Educational systems and structures

A fascinating and important history of foreign students in American higher education.

Focusing on non-traditional students in higher education institutions, this new book from renowned scholar John Levin examines the extent to which community college students receive justice both within their institution and as an outcome of their education.

This collection on peace education includes contributions from an international group of scholars representing a wide variety of geographical conflict areas and exemplifying the multiple venues of peace educational labour.

By the end of the Twentieth century, formal schooling - once the privilege of male elites - had become accessible to women, the working class and some ethnic minorities.

What happens when a new social technology is imposed on the established social technology of the school?

Schooling in Europe is being transformed by a new policy orthodoxy affecting all aspects of the school.

By the late eighteenth century, universities in England and Germany had lost their sense of purpose.

The authors describe evaluation as a way of understanding and developing language programs: the thematic and background section sets out the decision-making, quality management, and learning functions of evaluation.

A book that develops an understanding of practices at the very centre of language education - the classroom.

A state of the art critical review of research into literature in language education of interest to teachers of English and of modern foreign languages.

This pioneering book examines how policies to raise efficiency and performance in Europe's universities have profoundly altered ties between government, society and higher education, outlining how Evaluation Agencies have urged Europe's universities to meet the challenge of modernization.

The first comparative study of the spread of mass education around the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this unique new book uses a bottom-up focus and demonstrates, to an extent not appreciated hitherto, the gulf between the intentions of the government and the reality on the ground.

Transforming Classroom Culture is an anthology of original work authored by diverse faculty who work in a variety of New England college and university settings - private and public, racially homogeneous and diverse.

Using a platform of substantial theories and applications, this book explores approaches taken to university leadership, how leadership is formed, and challenges that leadership of universities experiences within the context of Europe.

Takes a critical look at present approaches to international education, focusing on the intercultural potential that it offers but mostly fails to deliver.

Across much of the world there is now a standard secondary school curriculum based on a traditional array of subjects.

Of interest to scholars both within and outside the U.

Andreotti illustrates how postcolonial theory is applied in the contexts of educational research/critique and in pioneering pedagogical projects.

The short story is moving from relative neglect to a central position in the curriculum; as a teaching tool, it offers students a route into many complex areas, including critical theory, gender studies, postcolonialism and genre.

Leading scholars in the field examine the role played by the English language in contemporary Japanese society.

The first fully comparative empirical analysis of the relationship between education and social cohesion, this book develops a new 'distributional theory' of the effects of educational inequality on social solidarity.

Given the current educational climate of high stakes testing, standardized curriculum, and 'approved' reading lists, incorporating unauthorized, popular literature into the classroom becomes a political choice.

Marxist thinking can offer a critical understanding of education in an international context.

This book challenges educators to be agents of change, to take history into their own hands, and to make social justice central to the educational endeavor.

Extends Marxist analysis to include key concepts from the work of neo-Marxists Antonio Gramsci and Louis Althusser.

Higher education is growing most rapidly in the Asia-Pacific region, and policy makers are facing the task of balancing quality and quantity.

Two persistent dilemmas haunt school reform: curriculum politics and classroom constancy.

The new millennium presents us with unexpected events that challenge us to think and act in different ways.

This collection, comprised of chapters focused on the intellectual histories and present circumstances of curriculum studies in Brazil, is Pinar's summary of exchanges (occurring over a two-year period) between the authors and members of an International Panel (scholars working in Finland, South Africa, the United States).

A collection of content-based chapters and case studies examining the pedagogical potential and realities of digital literacies in education.

School boards spend almost $500 billion in taxpayer-provided funds, they employ more than 6 million people, offering pensions and lifetime health benefits that have helped build the obligation that has put state governments in fiscal peril.

Through a unique combination of critical, posthumanist, and educational theories, the authors engage in a surreal journey into the worlds of feral children, alien reptoids, and faery faiths in order to understand how social movements are renegotiating the boundaries of community.

Academic freedom has been a principle that undergirds the university since 1915.

An exploration of how the nonrational aspects of schooling, especially ritual(s), have been harnessed to construct a commonsense which serves the interests of transnational corporations, leaving those educators committed to democracy to develop a new pedagogy that rejects the technical solutions that present reforms demand.

This book examines current trends in global student mobility patterns in several key host and destination countries, including the United States, China, India, South Africa, Mexico, Australia, and Germany, among others, and will explore the national and global-level factors that contribute to these trends.

The Hope of American School Reform tells the story of the origins of the reform in science and math education.

Teachers, as often as students, articulate frustrations over each other's choices and expectations.

This is the first book devoted to the study of the thought of Albert Schweitzer as it relates to educational theory and practice.

Critical Race, Feminism, and Education provides a transformative next step in the evolution of critical race and Black feminist scholarship.

A New Social Contract in a Latin American Education Context is committed to what has become known as "e;perspective of the South:"e; understanding the South not as a geographical reference but as a vindication of the existence of ways of knowing and of living which struggle for their survival and for a legitimate place in a world where the respect for difference is balanced with the right for equality.

This work examines the impoverished image of life presupposed by the legacy of transcendent and representational thinking that continues to frame the limits of curricular thought.

From 1996-2000, thirty minority teenagers (African American, Chinese American, Puerto Rican American, and Dominican American) were interviewed every year for four years to investigate how their experiences in high school shaped their social relationships.

Offers readers a rich understanding of the experience of students who are first in their family to attend college.

This book considers how interdisciplinary conversation, critique, and collaboration enrich and transform humanities and social science education for those teaching and studying traditional Americanist fields.

This book offers a unique perspective of art and its education in designer capitalism.

This book seeks to revive dialectical materialist interpretations of sexuality, relevant to K-12 settings and society.

In a unique effort, this book brings together, for the first time, scholarly analyses by eminent researchers of the historical, social, legal, and cultural influences on the young newcomers' lives as well as reports by practitioners in major aid organizations about the concrete work that their organizations have been carrying out.

The dynamics, politics, and richness of knowledge production in social movements and social activist contexts are often overlooked.

This collection makes a unique contribution towards the amplification of indigenous knowledge and learning by adopting an inter/trans-disciplinary approach to the subject that considers a variety of spaces of engagement around knowledge in Asia and Africa.

The present volume sets out in the wider context of globalization to critically examine how selected countries / societies in Asia have responded to the growing pressures of globalization for improving university performance in the global market place.