Educational systems and structures

`Each chapter in the book is firmly rooted in research and is well referenced as one would expect of such a book.

This book draws together the perceptions and experiences from a range of international professionals with specific reference to food education.

This book builds upon Louise Berman's late 20th-century framing of life processes to inform school curriculum, by proposing a new curriculum project that extends and reframes Berman in and beyond schooling.

Effective Steps Toward School Enhancement: Turning Around High Needs Schools is an essential guide for enhancing, improving, and turning around schools.

Facing the Consequences presents a perspective on US mathematics and science education that is developed from data gathered as part of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).

This book investigates university internationalization in different national contexts and compares internationalization performance across national boundaries.

Create a more effective system for evaluating online faculty Evaluating Online Teaching is the first comprehensive book to outline strategies for effectively measuring the quality of online teaching, providing the tools and guidance that faculty members and administrators need.

From academisation and free schools to workforce retention and curriculum change, education policy is a complicated, constantly evolving topic that sits at the heart of any academic study of education.

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

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.

This book discusses national school policy reforms in a number of key European countries and shows how these are framed in transnational collaborations that meet with national particularities and contestations.

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This volume centres the notion of "e;chance"e; in education as a key concept in contemporary education - relating to aspects like accountability, datafication, or international large-scale assessments - and discusses the impact that the historical desire to "e;tame"e; this notion has had on present-day educational policy and practice.

The Handbook of Formative Assessment in the Disciplines meaningfully addresses current developments in the field, offering a unique and timely focus on domain dependency.

Why do programmes of continuing professional development and Learning (CPDL) for teachers so frequently fail to deliver sustained improvement in children's social behaviour and academic performance?

The primary purpose of this book is to demonstrate how proven quality assurance tools and methods that have been applied successfully in the manufacturing and service industries for the past 20 years can be applied in the testing industry.

The Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) in the U.

Thereis an increasing focus on research-practice partnerships that adopt research designsaimed at improving educationalpractice while advancing research knowledge.

This volume explores the instructional use of creative writing in secondary and post-secondary contexts to enhance students' language proficiency and expression in English as a second or foreign language (ESL/EFL).

This comprehensive book provides all the information that practitioners need to know about assessment in relation to their pupils with Specific Learning Difficulties.

Das Ländermonitoring Frühkindliche Bildungssysteme beobachtet seit 2008 kontinuierlich die frühkindliche Bildung, Betreuung und Erziehung (FBBE) und bietet im Rahmen dessen alle zwei Jahre den »Länderreport Frühkindliche Bildungssysteme« an.

Dee Fink challenges our conventional assumptions and practices and offers an insightful approach to expanding our learning goals, making higher education more meaningful.

This book focuses on narrative forms of research and inquiry in music education.

One of the areas of study students find most difficult to master--and are most fearful of--is math.

Sticky Assessment is a straightforward guide to assessment, designed to demystify assessment and to give teachers the tools they need become better assessors.

This book compiles and synthesizes existing research on teachers' use of mathematics curriculum materials and the impact of curriculum materials on teaching and teachers, with a particular emphasis on - but not restricted to - those materials developed in the 1990s in response to the NCTM's Principles and Standards for School Mathematics.

This book fills an existing gap within the practice of global citizenship education by offering Asian perspectives.

This edited book explores different international practices in reforming science teacher education programs for STEM education.

The New Plantation examines the controversial relationship between predominantly White NCAA Division I Institutions (PWI s) and black athletes, utilizing an internal colonial model.

This book explores community action within our more-than-human lifeworld, tackling post-Anthropocene challenges.

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Reform initiatives in mathematics education have been reluctant to embrace racial equity as a core or guiding principle.

Amidst all of the bureaucracy and policy concerning special educational needs (SEN), it is easy to lose sight of the role of standards in the education of pupils with SEN.

This book provides a detailed description of research and application outcomes from the Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills project, which explored a framework for understanding the nature of these skills.

This book focuses on one of the key questions in education: What determines a student's success?

Digital Transformation in Higher Education is a pivotal reference through the transformative power of emerging technologies in academia.

The new (eighth) edition of the Excellence in Higher Education Guide: A Framework for the Design, Assessment and Continuous Improvement of Institutions, Departments and Programs updates and extends the classic EHE series.

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Wie kann es gelingen, dass SchülerInnen verschiedenen Alters, sozialer Herkunft oder Leistungsstandards gemeinsam unterrichtet werden?

This book casts a refreshingly new light on current literature on school leadership, which has predominantly been viewed through Western lenses.

The recent movement in K-12 education toward common standards in key subjects represents an unprecedented opportunity for improving learning outcomes for all students.

Andreas Kegel entwickelt einen didaktischen Politikbegriff.

This book focuses on discourses of effective learning environments globally for reducing discrimination in schools.

This book examines the nature of human language and the ideology of linguistic legitimacy - the common set of beliefs about language differences that leads to the rejection of some language varieties and the valorization of others.

Drawing on the ideas of Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault, this book extends the theoretical understanding of public pedagogy and brings into sharp focus the elements that constitute the public realm; the site of public pedagogy.