This book brings together the notions of material school design and educational governance in the first such text to address this critical interrelationship in any depth.
This book comprises six main chapters and addresses the core research question: How can the endurance of academic bias in Ghana's secondary education system be explained in the context of educational reform versus change of government concurrence?
This book tracks the changes in government involvement in Indigneous children's education over the nineteenth century, drawing on case studies from the Caribbean, Australia and South Africa.
Der Tagungsband bietet anlässlich des 100-jährigen Jubiläums der Grundschule in Deutschland eine Bestandsaufnahme wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse auf vier Ebenen der Grundschulforschung.
When Arthur Gochman filed a class-action suit in 1968 on behalf of San Antonio school children, he and his clients were directly challenging the inequality of education funding in Texas.
In welchem Verhältnis steht die Erziehungswissenschaft zur Normativität pädagogischer Theorie und Praxis, aber auch zu den Erwartungen von Bildungspolitik und Bildungsplanung?
Das Buch geht der Frage nach, welche Bedeutung Angst und Vernunft im Kontext von kultureller Gewaltförmigkeit und subjektiver unterschiedlicher Gewalterfahrungen zukommen.
Die 1970er Jahre sind ohne das, was mit 1968 verbunden wird, kaum zu verstehen und die Ereignisse von 1968 würden möglicherweise heute in ihrer Bedeutung ohne die Veränderungen im darauffolgenden Jahrzehnt geringer eingeschätzt.
This short book provides an introduction to the study of education, outlining the dual purpose of education - to help people live well and to help develop a world worth living in.
This book studies three female Chinese intellectuals in the first half of the 20th century, namely Feng Yuanjun, Lu Yin, and Cheng Junying, the first graduates of Beijing Female Higher Normal College, which was the first-ever national higher educational institution for women in modern China.
This book clarifies the fundamental difference between North America-based instrumental motivation and Korea (and East Asia)-specific competitive motivation by which the EFL learners' excessive competition to be admitted to famous universities and to be hired at a large-scale conglomerate is the main source of L2 motivation.
This book presents a novel conceptualisation of universal information processing systems based on studies of environmental interaction in both biological and non-biological systems.
This book tries to trace Dewey's intellectual history from his early years to the end, focusing on the themes of psychology and the psychological aspect of education in Dewey's lifelong writing.
This book record achievements of the East Asian Institute (EAI), one of the top five think tanks in Asia under the leadership of Dr Goh Keng Swee, Professors Wang Gungwu, John Wong and Zheng Yongnian.
En este libro titulado Humanismo y pedagogía: educación en las fronteras, la apuesta de unos humanistas pensando en lo que hacen y en el cómo lo hacen y –aunque parezca normal– no es habitual, justamente porque partimos de la idea de que todos somos humanistas y lo que nos ha hecho pensar en este ejercicio de pensamiento es que nada hay más lejos de la realidad que nos pensemos a nosotros mismos y en lo que hacemos.
In Jews, Judaism, and Success, Robert Eisen attempts to solve a long-standing mystery that has fascinated many: How did Jews become such a remarkably successful minority in the modern Western world?
In Jews, Judaism, and Success, Robert Eisen attempts to solve a long-standing mystery that has fascinated many: How did Jews become such a remarkably successful minority in the modern Western world?
This book offers a rich account of how quality improvement agendas, informed by neoliberalism, create contradictory and complex contexts in which teachers produce different types of practices for specific purposes.
This book describes and analyses the history of Dutch mathematics education from the point of view of the changing motivations behind the teaching of mathematics over a 200 year period.
Esta investigación analiza la naciente república de Colombia afrontando los retos de cobertura y financiación de las escuelas de primeras letras y de los colegios públicos en medio de un ambiente social, económico y político adverso: la transición entre los valores del antiguo régimen español y los principios liberales.
This handbook offers a global view of the historical development of educational institutions, systems of schooling, ideas about education, and educational experiences.
This edited volume explores the evolution of history education from a transnational perspective, focusing on border regions in Europe that are considered on the "e;periphery"e; of the Nation-State.
Die Überlegung, dass Menschen als Subjekte nicht einfach gegeben sind, sondern sich selbst von Anderen her erlernen, kann mit Norbert Ricken als Kerngedanke einer sozialtheoretischen Erziehungswissenschaft verstanden werden.
Die Überlegung, dass Menschen als Subjekte nicht einfach gegeben sind, sondern sich selbst von Anderen her erlernen, kann mit Norbert Ricken als Kerngedanke einer sozialtheoretischen Erziehungswissenschaft verstanden werden.
This edited volume explores the evolution of history education from a transnational perspective, focusing on border regions in Europe that are considered on the "e;periphery"e; of the Nation-State.
The strengths and failures of the American college, and why liberal education still mattersAs the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential.
How the expansion of primary education in the West emerged not from democratic ideals but from the state's desire to control its citizensNearly every country today has universal primary education.
Instead of following the Magna Charta Universitatum, the declaration of the principles of knowledge signed in 1988 in Bologna, the academic approach pursued in Europe and the other continents over the past 30 years has strictly employed a utilitarian model of higher education.
Achieving Success for Kids is a clarion call to action that explains why we need to save America's children and return our nation and our schools to the core values, beliefs, and principles upon which our nation was founded.
This book presents an innovative method to investigate the history of mathematics education using oral narratives to study different aspects related to the teaching and learning of mathematics.
This edited collection addresses the nexus of gender, power relations, and education from various angles while covering a broad spectrum of the history of education in both time and geographic space.
