Educational systems and structures

This book argues for the importance of literature studies using the historical debate between the disinterested disciplines ("e;art for art's sake"e;) and utilitarian or productive disciplines.

This book describes how to use test equating methods in practice.

This book offers a comprehensive overview and critical analysis of the UK's policy on recruiting international students.

This book explores the complexities of community colleges and global counterparts by focusing on critical analysis of governance, leadership, and mission.

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

This book presents a number of fundamentally challenging perspectives that have been brought to the fore by the national tests on religious education (RE) in Sweden.

This book addresses challenges in the theoretically and empirically adequate assessment of competencies in educational settings.

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 volume seeks to examine the skills development agenda for youth by exploring two key questions for sustainable livelihoods: What are the skills needed for employability in developing countries, especially in Africa and Asia?

This book examines how Performance or Outcomes Based Funding (POBF) policies impact racial equity in higher education.

This book advances an in-depth, comprehensive analysis of flagship universities in Africa - the largest, most selective, and most prestigious universities on the continent.

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 volume brings together diverse thinkers and practitioners on Participatory Action Research (PAR) and educational development in South Asia.

This book sets out political economy explanations for higher education policy reform in Europe in the initial decades of the 21st century.

This edited book addresses a range of aspects of internationalization in vocational education and training (VET) in different countries.

This book brings together a broad range of approaches and methodologies relevant to international comparative vocational education and training (VET).

This book describes a researcher's journey to carry out an ethnographic study.

This book is a guide to help teachers, parents, guidance counselors and other stakeholders understand the importance of intervention for gifted children and to become an advocate for those individuals who are developmentally advanced.

This book examines how injustice based on social positioning is performed within the context of international schools.

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 edited volume examines the importance of quality issues in contemporary higher education systems in the Asia Pacific.

This book examines the idea of 'good education' which is thought to include a scientific and technical component, a mathematical component, a writing component, and an ethical and aesthetic component.

This book introduces the concept of reciprocal educational learning among cultures with very different historical and philosophical origins.

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

This volume brings together educational effectiveness research and international large-scale assessments, demonstrating how the two fields can be applied to inspire and improve each other, and providing readers direct links to instruments that cover a broad range of topics and have been shown to work in more than 70 countries.

This edited volume provides a framework for understanding academic public good and offers case studies and perspectives as in depth examples of the ways in which colleges and universities engage with the community to produce social benefits.

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This volume examines the complex role of international education exchange in promoting peace and intercultural understanding.

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

This book addresses problems and challenges that face educational measurement at a time when multipurpose usage of observational data from educational assessments, tests and international surveys has become a growing global trend.

This book presents research in Geoscience Education focusing on indoor and outdoor environments in which teaching geoscience gains particular relevance, significance and contextualization.

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 book provides a review of the effectiveness of Opportunity to Learn (OTL) operationalized as the association between OTL and student achievement.

This book fills a gap in the literature of 21st century international visual arts education by providing a structured approach to understanding the benefits of Philosophical Realism in art education, an approach that has received little international attention until now.

This book sets out to examine the changing role of women in higher education with an emphasis on academic and leadership issues.

This book presents the most recent theory, research, and practice on service learning as it relates to early childhood education.

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

This book offers a perspective on Education for Sustainable Development in Early Childhood (ESDEC) that is far removed from the 'business as usual' notion of an extended, predominantly environmental, educational curriculum for preschools.

This book provides a comprehensive and engaging analysis of the purpose and function of student evaluation in higher education.

This book explores the impact of the socio-historical, political, and economic environment in South Africa, both during and after Apartheid.

This book carves the beginnings of a new path in the arguably weary discipline of economics.

This book focuses on the use of guanxi (Chinese personal connections) in everyday urban life: in particular, how and why people develop different types of social capital in their guanxi networks and the role of guanxi in school choice.

This second handbook offers all new content in which readers will find a thoughtful and measured interrogation of significant contemporary thinking and practice in urban education.

This book depicts rigorous and vigorous accounts of strategies used successfully by researchers to negotiate their way through the research maze.

This volume informs the growing number of educational policy scholars on the use of critical theoretical frameworks in their analyses.

English-medium universities around the world face real challenges in ensuring that incoming students have the language and literacy skills they need to cope with the demands of their degree programmes.

This book provides new perspectives on Assessment for Learning (AfL), on the challenges encountered in its implementation, and on the diverse ways of meeting these challenges.

This book encapsulates a line of research that looks at how students are positioned as ethical actors/decision makers in biology education by science policy, curriculum, and classroom resources.

This book examines the integration of the international, global, and intercultural dimensions in contemporary education systems.

English Language Teaching Today: Linking Theory and Practice provides an up-to-date account of current principles and practices for teaching English in the world today.