Educational systems and structures

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.

The contributors to this collection of essays offer a stimulating and varied range of approaches to this developing area.

Problem-based learning (PBL) is a pedagogical approach that has the capacity to create vibrant and active learning environments in higher education.

A Guide to Teaching Practice is the major standard text for all students on initial teacher training courses in the UK.

This volume examines the challenges weighing on the future of education in the face of globalization in the twenty-first century.

This book provides an explanation of the nature of the Indian university system, including its specificities and its peculiarities as well as exploring how they developed.

Charles Bailey advances a modern characterization and justification of liberal education and defends such a view of liberal education against contemporary challenges.

This book posits that national education systems are enhancing socioeconomic inequalities in political engagement.

This research-based book dissects and explores the meaning and nature of Inquiry in teaching and learning in schools, challenging existing concepts and practices.

This book explores the universal and highly topical issues of ageing and retirement.

This book provides a radical rethinking of the prominent Indian thinker Rabindranath Tagore, exploring how his philosophy of education relates to the ideas of Western theorists such as Kant, Plato and Aristotle.

Winner of the 2017 AESA Critic's Choice Book AwardThis book provides multiple perspectives on the dual struggle that teacher educators currently face as they make sense of edTPA while preparing their pre-service teachers for this high stakes teacher exam.

This book explores how multiculturalism should be promoted throughout higher education due to its benefits for students.

Practical and concise, this introductory text for language teaching professionals is a guide to ESL assessment and to fulfilling the testing component of TESOL programs in the U.

Debating Special Education is a provocative yet timely book examining a range of criticisms made of special education in recent years.

Pathways to Academic Success in Higher Education examines two major challenges facing the nation.

This book opens up ways to engage critically with what counts as innovatory practice in lifelong learning today, locating its discussion of innovations in lifelong learning within an international and comparative framework.

This innovative book offers a new approach to assessment in which learners can follow their own learning journey using cumulative feedback or measurements of distance travelled from different starting points.

This book analyses the development of Catholic schooling in Scotland over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Cross-border Partnerships in Higher Education looks beyond student and faculty exchanges to examine the myriad ways international colleges and universities work together as institutions.

This book illustrates a pathway for knowledge production to benefit from interweaving the seemingly disparate historical experiences of Indigenous Peoples and computer science education.

Despite the rising interest in school districts, there are relatively few comprehensive resources available for graduate students in educational leadership programs.

Based on ethnographic and policy data collected over a ten-year span at a university in the People's Republic of China, this book analyses the history of English Language Teaching (ELT) polices in Chinese higher education.

By addressing intercultural and multicultural education in a global context, this volume brings together the dynamic discussions and lively debate of intercultural and multicultural education taking place across the world.

This book focuses on how to improve the teaching and learning of primary level mathematics education within resource-constrained contexts.

This work builds on the assumption that language learning and teaching needs to be made more relevant to the 'glocalised' digital world we live in.

The introduction of market forces into higher education is the most crucial issue facing universities and colleges today.

This book explores the value of duoethnography to the study of interdisciplinary practice.

This richly detailed description and analysis of exemplary teaching in the primary grades looks at how a teacher establishes her classroom as a collaborative learning community, how she plans curriculum and instruction that features powerful ideas and applications to life outside of school, and how, working within this context, she motivates her students to learn with a sense of purpose and thoughtful self-regulation.

This book is an in-depth study which examines the lives of fifty ambitious Latino/a high school seniors in the San Francisco East Bay Area, following their entrance into college and career pathways over several years.

This book explores curricular, teaching and learning practices in schools in England and in higher education institutions, and considers the damaging effects of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) for UK higher education institutions, international comparative assessment systems such as the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), and broadly, how educational judgements are now made about educational matters.

Education cannot be understood today without recognizing that nearly all educational policies and practices are strongly influenced by an increasingly integrated international economy.

Throughout the world, equity and excellence in education is a major issue of concern.

This book investigates the relationship developed between the researcher/evaluator and the commissioning arts and cultural producer in providing an opportunity to rethink the traditional process of reporting back on value and impact through the singular entity of funds acquittal.

This book analyzes curriculum studies in Turkey from the perspective of three paradigms-religion, science, and ideology-since the early 19th century.

The Palgrave International Handbook of Action Research offers a vivid portrait of both theoretical perspectives and practical action research activity and related benefits around the globe, while attending to the cultural, political, social, historical and ecological contexts that localize, shape and characterize action research.

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This collection of important and significant papers examines a wide range of issues.

This book provides new insights into the phenomena of global education policies and international policy transfer.

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500 AP style questions with detailed answer explanations to prepare you for what you'll see on test day From Foundations: 8000 BC to 60 CE to the Present Era: 1914 to Present there is a lot of subject matter to know if you want to succeed on your AP World History exam.

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This is an insightful essay which explores the appraisal and regulation of healthcare professionals.