Educational systems and structures

This book analyses European higher education policies and their three main drivers: the European Commission, the European Court of Justice and the building of the European Higher Education Area through the Bologna Process.

This book explores the unique experiences of a sister school network in Canada and China contextualized through the lens of the Reciprocal Learning Project, which supports the relationship between a school network and teacher education exchange program of two countries.

This book uses the publicly available TEDS-M data to answer such questions as: How does teacher education contribute to the learning outcomes of future teachers?

This book examines black intellectual thought during from 1890-1940, and its relationship to the development of the alternative black curriculum in social studies.

This book examines the identity formation and negotiation of Chinese doctoral students in the UK, and the opportunity for self-transformation this experience offers.

This book highlights innovative approaches to preparing secondary mathematics teachers.

This book explores poetry and pedagogy in practice across the lifespan.

This book explores and compares the systems of doctoral education in twelve higher education systems, consisting of four systems in East Asia, four in Europe and four Anglo-American systems.

This book explores the meanings, experiences, and challenges faced by Black women faculty that are either on the tenure track or have earned tenure.

This textbook is a step-by-step guide for high school, community college, or undergraduate students who are taking a course in applied statistics and wish to learn how to use Excel to solve statistical problems.

This book covers the current state of thinking and what it means to have a framework of representational competence and how such theory can be used to shape our understanding of the use of representations in science education, assessment, and instruction.

The world of business is constantly evolving and management education institutions will likely face a number of challenges in keeping up with these changes.

This book presents and elaborates on how the teaching of global ethics in healthcare contributes to furthering ideals of cosmopolitanism: solidarity, equality, respect for differences and concern with what human beings, and specifically patients have in common, regardless of where they live and who they are.

This book analyses the role of universities as critical actors in the socio-economic development of peripheral regions in Norway and the Czech Republic.

This book examines the formative relationship between nineteenth century American school architecture and curriculum.

This book focuses on models, strengths, opportunities, constraints and tensions in internationalisation in Vietnamese higher education.

Across the world, higher education is witnessing exponential growth in both student participation and types of educational providers.

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

As the number of international students in Chinese higher education increases steadily, this volume is one of the first to focus on their many and varied experiences.

This book exposes a disturbing misuse of the scientific method to advance policies and agendas that are in fact detrimental to both science and education.

This book offers an up-to-date overview of the research on philosophy of mathematics education, one of the most important and relevant areas of theory.

This book presents current perspectives on theoretical and empirical issues related to the teaching and learning of geometry at secondary schools.

This book presents the core concepts of geographical education as a means of understanding global issues from a spatial perspective.

This book advocates that teachers should play an active role in high-stakes language testing and that more weight should be given to teacher judgement.

This book investigates the relationship between context and leadership in post-conflict Cambodia.

This book focuses on the representation of nature in science education in schools in the United States.

This book introduces the specifics of mathematics lesson study with regard to regional/national particularities, discussing the methodological and theoretical tools that can be used to pursue research on lesson study (its forms, contents, effects etc.

This book provides international perspectives on the use of digital technologies in primary, lower secondary and upper secondary school mathematics.

In an increasingly globalised educational landscape, this book examines whether the principle of educational equality can be applied across nation state borders.

This volume examines research productivity within schools in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and presents examples of various successful LAC North-South programs which have propelled university research in the region.

This book focuses on the dynamic and rapidly expanding field of transnational higher education (TNE).

This book argues that the neoliberal globalisation of higher education faces a need for recalibration.

This book analyses the evidence for global change, and suggests that the Earth is going through a profound transformation, caused in large part by human action.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of current, innovative approaches to assessing generic and domain-specific learning outcomes in higher education at both national and international levels.

This book constitutes a valuable manual for young and seasoned business researchers alike, and provides a comprehensive summary for the whole research journey.

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

This book examines immigrant student achievement and education policy across a range of Western nations.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of research at interface between History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science (HPSS) and Science Teaching in Ibero-America.

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.

This book consists of 13 papers developed by participants in the ICME 13 Topic Study Group 40 on Classroom Assessment.

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

This collection is the first of its kind, bringing together Holocaust educational researchers as well as school and museum educators from across the globe, to discuss the potentials of Holocaust education in relation to primary school children.

Knowledge is now central to national economic competitiveness and to socio-economic endeavours concerned with inequalities and social exclusion, and in this context higher education is recognized as a core sector of national policy and strategy.

This edited volume examines inclusive education and disability in the global South.

This volume is the first to compile the insights of experienced and informed education researchers and practitioners involved in the delivery of university pathway programs.

Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities.

This book draws on the stories of thirty-two young Australians to identify the barriers and obstacles they face in 'getting a job' in precarious times and from their vantage point.

This book examines governance reforms in higher education in six European countries: Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, the Netherlands, and Portugal.

This book aims to make a contribution to the theory, research and practice on quality and equity in education by providing a comprehensive overview of these two dimensions of educational effectiveness and proposing a methodological instrument that may be used to measure the contribution that each school can make to promoting equity.

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.