Educational systems and structures

Margaret Heritage presents a practical guide to formative assessment as a process of ';inquiry and action' essential to twenty-first century learning.

This book explores contemporary perspectives and research on inclusion, providing a platform for discussing inclusion at an international level and its intersections with belonging and equity.

This book presents an Asian perspective on transformative science education in the context of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Global Values Education: Teaching Democracy and Peace , which is the seventh volume in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, presents scholarly research on major discourses in v alues edu- tion globally.

This handbook brings together contributors from the United States, Australasia and Europe who use theoretical insights and empirical data to examine current practices as well as possible future directions of postgraduate education.

This book offers an international account of the use of linguistic landscapes to promote multilingual education, from primary school to the university, and in teacher education programs.

This book proposes the new concept of "e;comprehensive global competence"e; in order to explore how to advocate, cultivate, and implement global competence at China's higher education institutions.

Teachers view homework as an opportunity for students to continue learning after the bell rings.

Curriculum maps are among the simplest yet most effective tools for improving teaching and learning.

In industrialized societies, individuals are facing major challenges that mobilize many of their psychological and social resources.

Assessment in Practice explores timely and important questions in relation to assessment.

This volume brings together scholars, practitioners, activists, and students to reflect on socio-political transitions taking place in countries across South Asia and their implications for democracy and education.

This edited volume focuses on Curriculum scholars' critical reflections on teacher education (TE) within South Africa to offer insights into critical considerations for the socio-economic, transformational, social and environmental justice and decolonization challenges that the country faces.

This book presents and elaborates on how the teaching of global ethics in healthcare contributes to furthering ideals of cosmopolitanism: solidarity, equality, respect for differences and concern with what human beings, and specifically patients have in common, regardless of where they live and who they are.

This book is an ethnographically-informed interview study of the ways in which middle-class mothers from three Israeli social-cultural groups - immigrants from the former Soviet Union, Palestinian Israelis and Jewish native-born Israelis - share and differ in their understandings of a 'proper' education for their children and of their role in ensuring this.

Awarded Best Book prize by CIES Globalization and Education SIGAwarded 2nd Prize in the Society of Educational Studies Annual Book PrizeElite schools have always been social choreographers par excellence.

The book reports a comparative research project about algebra teaching and learning in four countries.

Change the World with Service Learning is clear, direct and easy to use, and was designed for busy teachers integrating Service Learning into their existing curriculum.

In a frank contemplation as she nears the end of her shortened course of life, educator Sie Siok Hui reveals moments of epiphany while honing her craft and examines critical factors in the curriculum design process.

Ingrained for many years in the science of educational assessment were a large number of "e;truths"e; about how to make sense out of testing results, artful wisdoms that appear to have held away largely by force of habit alone.

Self-harm in adolescents is an increasingly recognized problem, and there is growing awareness of the important role schools and health services can play in detecting and supporting those at risk.

Like previous volumes in the Educational Innovation in Economics and Business Series, this book is genuinely international in terms of its coverage.

The fast and easy way to score higher on the SAT Does the thought of preparing for the SAT cause you to break out in a cold sweat?

Higher education research is a developing field internationally, which is attracting more and more researchers from a great variety of disciplinary backgrounds within and beyond higher education institutions.

Wie beeinflusst die Einzelschule die Professionalisierung von Lehrkräften?

This book addresses an important, yet under-researched domain in interpreting education: how theoretical training models should be responsive to context.

The authors encourage critical engagement with the practice and research behind the growing number of teaching and learning models and provide an overview of the research basis of many recent theories, looking at their features and use, before considering the overall approach.

Dem Kindergarten wird bei der Förderung von Kindern mit Migrationshintergrund allgemein eine zentrale Bedeutung zugeschrieben.

With this important work, written around current behavioral psychology research and practice as it applies to school-age children, the authors address both experimental and applied issues in the assessments and interventions used with this population.

This book explores diverse relationships at play in integrating Indigenous knowledges and Western Science in curricula.

This edited volume presents innovative current research in the field of Science Education.

This book offers a concise and comprehensive exploration of the theory of transformative learning by European researchers.

Wir leben in einer Gesellschaft, die ihren Bildungsauftrag dem Zeitgeist opfert und dabei sträflich vernachlässigt, was sie ihren Nachkommen und letztendlich sich selbst schuldig ist.

What statistical evidence shows us about our misguided educational policiesUneducated Guesses challenges everything our policymakers thought they knew about education and education reform, from how to close the achievement gap in public schools to admission standards for top universities.

This volume presents the impacts of international higher education on citizen diplomacy.

Major "e;paradigm shifts"e;-replacing one "e;world view"e; with another- regarding what constitutes appropriate knowledge do not happen over- night.

This volume focuses on the ethical significance of human rights, aiming at contributing to a universal culture of human rights with deep roots and wide horizons.

This book highlights the impact of policy and politics on assessment across the globe.

As demographic changes reduce the number of domestic students in Europe attracting the right students and scholars will become more important for administrators and faculty at higher education institutions in Germany.

An adjunct to the increased emphasis on developing students' critical thinking and higher order skills is the need for methods to monitor and evaluate these abilities.

Self-harm in adolescents is an increasingly recognized problem, and there is growing awareness of the important role schools and health services can play in detecting and supporting those at risk.

When a child has difficulties eating or sleeping, or throws frequent tantrums, many parents cross their fingers and hope it's a phase to be outgrown soon.

Part of The Essential SENCO Toolkit series, this invaluable resource offers practical ideas and materials to allow SENCOs and SEN practitioners to capture learning, demonstrate the impact of SEN support, and analyse whether provision is effectively tackling barriers to learning.

This book deepens our understanding of how higher education governance has recently changed in the rapidly developing higher education systems of East Asia.

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This edited volume presents a balanced approach to the ongoing debate of just how general the "e;general factor"e; of intelligence is.