Educational systems and structures

This book presents the views of leading scholars, academics, and educators on the renewal of Islamic schools in the Western context.

This book critically addresses concepts and analyses related to the higher education and development nexus in Africa.

This book discusses instruction, learning, and assessment in higher education with an emphasis on several effective formative assessment tools and methods such as digital badges, reflective journals, and peer assessment used in learning environments comprising students of diverse, multicultural backgrounds.

This book analyses discourses of effective learning environments globally.

This book examines the effects of education exchange on educational sovereignty in Indonesia.

This book demonstrates that the COVID 19 pandemic asks for a a global approach to bioethics.

This book highlights and examines the role of the textbook in legitimising established political and social orders.

This book discusses current challenges related to teaching geography, mainly at the secondary school and higher education level.

This book reflects a range of pedagogical responses to increasingly complex educational contexts.

This edited monograph contains a comprehensive overview of educational developments in the fields of operations research (OR) and management science (MS).

This book examines Norwegian education throughout the course of the 19th century, and discusses its development in light of broader transnational impulses.

This book examines some of the major higher education reforms and policy shifts globally, particularly in the light of recent shifts in quality and standards-driven education and policy research.

This book convincingly argues that effective culturally responsive pedagogies require teachers to firstly undertake a critical deconstruction of Self in relation to and with the Other; and secondly, to take into account how power affects the socio-political, cultural and historical contexts in which the education relation takes place.

This book explores school leadership through a cross-cultural comparative lens, drawing on data from 16 countries located on five continents.

This book presents the latest research on educational transitions from a variety of research traditions and practical contexts set in Australia, New Zealand, and several European countries.

This handbook brings together a range of global perspectives in the field of critical studies in education to illuminate multiple ways of knowing, learning, and teaching for social wellbeing, justice, and sustainability.

This book makes an original contribution to credential sociology by analysing how high school certificates become and remain valuable in a context of mass high school participation (i.

Reading instruction is the most legislated area of education and the most frequently referenced metric for measuring educational progress.

This book addresses the current issues of inclusive education during the time of the global pandemic of COVID-19.

This volume presents in-depth studies on leading themes in education policy and intercultural communication in contemporary Asia, covering empirical as well as theoretical approaches, and offering both an in-depth investigation of their implications, and a synthesis of areas where these topics cohere and point to advances in description, analysis and theory, policy and applications.

This book covers initiatives related to higher education's public mission such as university-community engagement, knowledge transfer, economic development, and social responsibility, using empirical and conceptual cases in the US, South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.

This Handbook traces and presents the fundamentals of Islam and their history and background, and provides a global and holistic, yet, detailed picture of Islamic education around the world.

The volume comprises a variety of research approaches that seek to explore and understand employees' learning and development through and for work.

This collection brings together a diverse group of scholars from throughout the world who have grappled with and investigated the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the lives of young children.

This book examines the European discussion about alternative schooling in the 20th century.

This edited volume provides a platform for experts from various fields to introduce and discuss their different perspectives on the topic of teamwork and collaborative problem solving.

This book explores the internationalization policy, programs, and initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the United States.

This volume examines the history and current state of Canadian studies in a number of countries and regions across the world, including Canada's major trading partners.

Since its original publication, Conflicts in Curriculum Theory has firmly established itself as the key volume that not only advanced alternative ways to think about education and curriculum but also introduced innovative scholarship and a radical conceptual grammar for the field.

This book draws on a longitudinal study which highlights the beneficial impact of film in the primary curriculum.

This book focuses on the effect of psychological, social and demographic variables on student achievement and summarizes the current research findings in the field.

This book explores the current status of primary schools in Rwanda and the history behind their development.

In this book geography educators from around the globe discuss their research into the power of geographical thinking and consider successful strategies to implement, improve and advance geography education in research and practice.

This book explores new trends and developments in mathematics education research related to proof and proving, the implications of these trends and developments for theory and practice, and directions for future research.

This book provides an unconventional account of post-1989 education reform in Romania.

Recognizing the various ecological contexts that support children's development while amplifying voices from across the globe, this book challenges narrow interpretations of quality and best practice.

In this edited volume, authors explore the ways in which departments, programs, and centers at public research universities are working to better engage students in the work of citizenship and social justice.

This edited collection explores how democratic citizenship education manifests across the African continent.

This is the first international and interdisciplinary handbook to offer a comprehensive and an in-depth overview of findings from contemporary research, theory, and practice in early childhood language education in various parts of the world and with different populations.

This book contributes to the studies on learning processes occurring outside "e;traditional"e; socialization settings such as family and school, by analysing civic and political participation and learning experiences.

This book explores community education in Ireland and argues that neoliberalism has had a profound effect on community education.

This book is a reflection on the complexity of educational change in China through the lens of a senior academic who has occupied many diverse roles in the academe, from political worker to dean of faculty.

In this book international geography educators discuss the ways in which geographical knowledge is recontextualised in schools and consider effective approaches to facilitate, improve and advance geography education in research and practice.

This book addresses the complex phenomenon in higher education of structural reforms in higher education systems.

This edited volume-the first book devoted to the topic of contract cheating-brings together the perspectives of leading scholars presenting novel research.

This book presents, for the first time in English, the state of the art of Mathematics Education research in Brazil, a country that has the strongest community in this field in Latin America.

This book examines educational semiotics and the representation of knowledge in school science.

This volume provides a critical assessment of the mainstream western childhood constructions and their impact to the developing world.

This book presents a comparative study of the history and development of indigenous and ethnic higher education in the US and China.

This book examines the development of civic education in the United States through the lives of two teachers at Shortridge High School (SHS) in Indianapolis around 1900.