Educational systems and structures

What are the prerequisites for reforming education, and how can these reforms be seen in school development and culture?

This book provides international perspectives on the use of digital technologies in primary, lower secondary and upper secondary school mathematics.

This book closely examines the pedagogical possibilities of integrating the arts into history curriculum at the secondary and post-secondary levels.

This book provides no answer key.

Designed to promote reflection, discussion, and action among the entire learning community, Educating Everybody's Children encapsulates what research has revealed about successfully addressing the needs of students from economically, ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse groups and identifies a wide range of effective principles and instructional strategies.

Der Band versammelt aktuelle interdisziplinäre Analysen zu Körper und Emotionen in der Migrationsgesellschaft.

Large-scale assessments (LSAs) play a growing role in education policy decisions, accountability, and education planning worldwide.

Since 1989, with the publication of Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for Mathematics by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, standards have been at the forefront of the education reform movement in the United States.

Dieses Buch ist ein Ergebnis der Anwendung von künstlicher Intelligenz in der Literatur.

As the commitment to performance assessments as a strategy of reform has increased across the nation, so has the controversy surrounding the purposes, development, implementation, and effects of alternative forms of assessment.

In response to the emerging need to develop teachers as professionals who evaluate their own work, this book presents the foundations of self-evaluation as well as self-evaluation models and tools that are likely to help educational practitioners to evaluate their own teaching, and thus raise the level of their professional functioning.

From All Quiet on the Western Front and Gone with the Wind to No Country for Old Men and Slumdog Millionaire, many of the most memorable films have been adapted from other sources.

A fully updated and illustrated handbook providing comprehensive coverage of all curriculum areas covered by the MRCOG Part 1 examination.

The Workshop on the Role of Language in School Learning: Implications for Closing the Achievement Gap was held to explore three questions: What is known about the conditions that affect language development?

Überall wo erzogen wird, wird auch etwas gezeigt, um das Lernen der Kinder und Heranwachsenden zu fördern und zu fordern.

Die starke Abhängigkeit der Bildungschancen von der sozialen Herkunft der Schüler*innen erfährt seit Jahrzehnten eine intensive gesellschaftliche, politische sowie vor allem auch wissenschaftliche Aufmerksamkeit, die jedoch bislang zu keiner Veränderung geführt hat.

Information and computer technology arrived in classrooms more than three decades ago.

This book calls for a reconceptualisation and decolonisation of the Key Stage 2 national history curriculum.

A Brookings Institution Press and Russell Sage Foundation publicationEducation is one of the largest sectors of the U.

This volume addresses both 'evidence of impact' and 'impact of evidence' to reveal the complex dialogue between the enterprise of teacher education and evidence of its effects in the early 21st century, taking a critical position on the very notions of 'evidence' and 'impact' that underpin contemporary policy frameworks.

This inclusive, cross-cultural study rethinks the nexus between engineering, development, and culture.

In the second edition of this pivotal work by Kim Bailey and Chris Jakicic, you will discover updated and improved resources to use formative data to support higher levels of student learning.

This book, drawing on a range of postcritical theories including postmodernism, poststructuralism, and postcolonialism, provides a comprehensive analysis of the current state of curriculum in Latin America.

This book delves into how Japanese schools evaluate and enhance education quality through lesson study, curriculum management, and school self-evaluation.

While analysing what it means to be European, Ortega y Gasset pointed out that European culture is defined by human's desire to find the most perfect way of being, a way that must be both firmly founded in history and clearly projected into the future.

This volume focuses on the need to establish good leadership in academic settings and higher education institutions in India.

This book explores how school leadership plays a significant role in addressing the issues of poor learning among students in India.

From academisation and free schools to workforce retention and curriculum change, education policy is a complicated, constantly evolving topic that sits at the heart of any academic study of education.

Educational systems around the world look to student assessment programs as they initiate reforms and revise educational policies to increase student achievement.

Perhaps no topic in higher education is more controversial than admissions, whether it be to a prestigious college, graduate schools, or professional schools.

How can we centre disabled people and their family members as knowledge-bearers, enriching classrooms with their perspectives and knowledge in non-traditional ways?

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.

This book analyses major discourses of cultural diversity and human rights.

Since the beginning of the 1980s, decentralization has become a globalized policy and catchword in education: a large number of countries around the world have formulated such a policy and many have also implemented it.

This book is a distinctive collection on transcultural encounters in knowledge production and consumption, which are situated at the heart of pursuit for cognitive justice.

This book engages Canadian and Chinese language educators, graduate students, pre-service teachers, school principals and teachers in an enhanced reciprocal learning process by collaboratively reflecting on and writing up the school-based language curriculum projects and school-based language teachers' professional development activities in Canada-China sister schools.

Elisa Knödler beschäftigt sich mit der studentischen Lehrveranstaltungsevaluation als Instrument der Qualitätssicherung an Hochschulen.

Der vorliegende Band untersucht LERNEN UND MACHT in ihren Wechselwirkungen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Schule.

This state-of-the-art, comprehensive Handbook is the first of its kind to fully explore the interconnections between social justice and education for citizenship on an international scale.

Dieses E-Book enthält komplexe Grafiken und Tabellen, welche nur auf E-Readern gut lesbar sind, auf denen sich Bilder vergrössern lassen.

This book offers a first look at transnational education corporations, new firms that operate international schools.