Educational systems and structures

Educational Progressivism, Cultural Encounters and Reform in Japan provides a critical analysis of educational initiatives, progressive ideas and developments in curriculum and pedagogy in Japan, from 1900 to the present day.

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Globalisation of world trade, international media, technological innovation and social change are creating opportunities and challenges that today's pupils will inherit and build on.

Despite variations of educational systems, when transitions in education occur, the pedagogical challenges that teachers and pupils undergo are quite similar across the globe.

Trajectories of Education in the Arab World gives a broad yet detailed historical and geographical overview of education in Arab countries.

This edited volume provides a critical discussion of globalization and transformation, considering the cultural contexts of early childhood education systems as discourses as well as concrete phenomena and 'lived experience.

This book investigates the endogenous forces in the relation of "e;One Belt and One Road"e; and educational development in China.

This book examines school violence in South Korea from an international comparative perspective.

This book introduces a new typology of "e;inward- and outward-oriented"e; higher education internationalization, and investigates China's current situation of shifting from a mainly "e;inward-oriented"e; higher education internationalization to a more balanced approach.

Featuring a foreword penned by Ambassador (Ret) and Professor Emeritus Horace G.

This book shares global perspectives on Catholic religious education in schools, chiefly focusing on educational and curriculum issues that take into account the theology and the pedagogy which support learning in connection with Catholic religious education.

This book discusses higher education research as a field of study in Asia.

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 provides new insights into how interactions in early childhood education are being studied, and into what these studies' findings mean for improving the quality of early childhood education.

This book examines the evolution and innovation of teacher education in Singapore in the 21st century.

This book offers a coherent research-based overview and analysis of theories and practices in using data to improve student learning.

The book provides an overview of developments in the field of entrepreneurship education, with special reference to global perspectives on innovations and best practices, as well as research in the emerging economy context.

Stetig steigende Flüchtlingszahlen stellen Ankunftsnationen vor die Frage, wie sie mit Ankommenden aus Kriegs- und Krisengebieten umgehen möchten.

Ob und wie Ideen und Projekte aus Förderprogrammen an Hochschulen und in anderen Organisationen in die Breite transferiert werden, ist Gegenstand des vorliegenden Buchs.

This edited volume will help educators better analyze methodological and practical tools designed to aid classroom instruction.

Der Sammelband fokussiert im ersten Teil Genese und Funktion der Arbeitsgruppe Dokumentarische Methode (AG DM), die Elemente einer Forschungswerkstatt und Interpretationsgruppe ineinander vereint.

This collection highlights the diverse ways comics and graphic novels are used in English and literature classrooms, whether to develop critical thinking or writing skills, paired with a more traditional text, or as literature in their own right.

This book lays the groundwork for the future of global citizenship, and it discusses where we are now, where to go from here, and how all of this fits into a lifelong learning context.

Science Education: A Global Perspective is 'global' both in content and authorship.

A Creative Approach to the Common Core Standards: The Da Vinci Curriculum challenges educators to design programs that boldly embrace the Common Core State Standards by imaginatively drawing from the genius of great men and women such as Leonardo da Vinci.

Look no further if you are new to a teaching career in higher education regardless of whether you are doing it full- or part-time.

Teaching Language Teachers: Scaffolding Professional Learning provides an updated view of as well as a reader-friendly introduction to the field of Teaching Teachers, with special reference to language teaching.

This book is a compendium of lesson plans for classroom exercises designed to foster philosophical inquiry with young people.

This book explores diverse contemporary paradigms of educational praxis and learning in Latin America, both formal and non-formal.

Using casual language and a straightforward approach, Better Writing: Beyond Periods and Commas provides students with an easy-to-read and effective guide for developing their writing skills.

This volume reflects on the role played by textbooks in the complex relationship between war and education from a historical and multinational perspective, asking how textbook content and production can play a part in these processes.

With the Common Core poised to markedly amplify the accountability stakes in public education, the pressure to post steep outcomes gains has never been fiercer.

Typically, school curriculum has been viewed through the lens of preparation for the workplace or higher education, both worthy objectives.

One of America's greatest challenges is to reverse the steep decline of the intellectual performance of its young men.

The EPILLAW Paradigm is a practical method for developing writing skills.

This book summarizes the international evidence on methodological issues in standard setting in education.

By integrating the best of current research and practice in curriculum planning this book presents that comprehensive topic in a manageable form.

This book presents ideas on education, gender and intersectionality through a transdisciplinary frame by crossing disciplinary and methodological borders.

The book makes an important contribution to the discourse on student experience in higher education.

Algebra is the language that must be mastered for any course that uses math because it is the gateway for entry into any science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) discipline.

Algebra is the language that must be mastered for any course that uses math because it is the gateway for entry into any science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) discipline.

A high-performing school is described as one where student achievement is high and student and teacher absenteeism is low.

In History and Imagination, elementary school social studies teachers will learn how to help their students break down the walls of their schools, more personally engage with history, and define democratic citizenship.

Shaping the Future with Math, Science, and Technology examines how ingenuity, creativity, and teamwork skills are part of an intellectual toolbox associated with math, science, and technology.

This book asserts that engaging with divergent understandings about the nature of evil and how it functions can help those interested in education think through issues in curriculum, pedagogy, and beyond.

The EPILLAW Paradigm is a practical method for developing writing skills.

Instructors using the textbook, Supervising Student Teachers: The Professional Way, 7th Edition, will find its companion instructor's guide a helpful resource.

This book explores questions around the meaning and significance of international student migration.