Educational systems and structures

What do successful assessments look like?

To meet the challenge of closing the gap between academic research and industry practice, we need a step change in how the business school and the business scholar engages with business.

This handbook is the first of its kind to provide a general and comprehensive overview of virtually every aspect of International Large Scale Assessment (ILSA).

Este volumen reúne 23 ensayos (uno introductorio general y 22 temáticos) escritos por 30 autores que abordan desde distintas perspectivas y en diversos registros textuales (desde el ensayo libre hasta un formato próximo al artículo académico) problemas centrales de la educación peruana contemporánea con un propósito común: sugerir vías para introducir modificaciones sustantivas que permitan, por un lado, sostener las mejoras observadas en los últimos 25 años y, por otro, identificar rumbos nuevos que nos lleven a superar la timidez de dichas mejoras y abordar temas descuidados o agudizados en el mismo período.

En un mundo cada vez más incierto, hipermediatizado y líquido (Bauman, 2009), donde la aceleración constante nos empuja a situarnos en un espacio crecientemente ansioso, estresado o deprimido, se hace necesario educar en el autoconocimiento y las emociones, de manera que las nuevas generaciones reviertan este panorama hacia el bienestar y la plenitud.

El libro trata en profundidad un tema de crucial interés para nuestra sociedad.

Racism is America's number one problem.

Traditional Eurocentric thought assumes that Greece was the origin of civilization.

This compelling book explores the dimensions of social equity by asking the leading equity scholars to reflect on the responsibility for social equity and how equity can be achieved.

Exploring Education Policy Through Newspapers and Social Media offers an original, theorised, and empirically based account of contemporary (re)presentations, (re)articulations, and (re)imaginings of education policy through news and new media.

This compelling book explores the dimensions of social equity by asking the leading equity scholars to reflect on the responsibility for social equity and how equity can be achieved.

This book presents a comparative ethnographic understanding of government and low-fee private schools in India within the context of ever-increasing privatization and commercialization of education and the growing presence of non-state actors.

The what, the why, and the how of pedagogical documentationWhat does your classroom say about the childrens ideas, inquiries, learning, and play?