Philosophy and theory of education

Stressing the importance of using evaluation as a means to improve teacher and administrator performance, Dr.

Providing a comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of higher education this book steps nimbly through the field, leading it into new areas and advancing an imaginative ecological realism.

En este revelador libro, coordinado por Juan Carlos Colomer Rubio, Sara M.

First published in 2005.

In this monograph, Lili Yang compares core ideas about the state, society, and higher education in two major world traditions.

International comparative studies of student achievement have caught the attention of governments, policy-makers, school leaders and educational researchers globally.

These papers aim to provide a substantial review of the literature pertaining to a comprehensive range of traditional and contemporary research paradigms and research methods.

Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds presents a plethora of approaches to developing human potential in areas not conventionally addressed.

Research and practice in the vast field of school-family-community relations have evolved dramatically over the last thirty years.

This book explores multiple policy dialogues on social justice in education from China's perspectives.

The education system should be in the forefront of the battle to combat racial inequality.

This volume addresses planning for the use of computing and information resources on college and university campuses.

Connecting Children focuses on children's understandings of care and their views of different family lives.

Undergraduate Research in Dance: A Guide for Students supplies tools for scaffolding research skills, alongside examples of undergraduate research in dance scholarship.

The landscape of higher education has undergone change and transformation in recent years, partly as a result of diversification and massification.

Adult Education and Lifelong Learning is regarded as one of the most widely used textbooks about adult education.

This book explores the impact of 'race', class and gender on the interaction of pupils and their teachers in the classroom setting.

With a focus on seven Jesuit university leaders emeriti and the late University of Notre Dame President Father Theodore Hesburgh, this book offers a critical analysis of the common values, philosophies, and leadership practices of Jesuit-Catholic university presidents within the broader higher education context.

This first book-length collection on Levinas and education gathers new texts written especially for this volume by an international group of scholars well known for their work in philosophy, educational theory, and on Levinas.

School Counselling in a Chinese Context discusses research in school counselling in the Chinese context of Hong Kong schools and various educational settings, and provides a contextualized understanding of counselling issues.

For Black women faculty members and student affairs personnel, this book delineates the needed skills and the range of possible pathways for attaining administrative positions in higher education.

Teaching STEM to young children is about more than helping them learn their numbers and facts.

Formative measurement models are largely unknown in psychology and education, whereas they are part of the standard repertoire in economics.

Motivation, Educational Policy and Achievement seeks to theorise and critique current trends in education through the lens of key ideas from motivational theory.

Los nueve capítulos de este tomo contienen aproximaciones teórico-conceptuales y reflexiones sobre la innovación educativa y el desarrollo de competencias para responder al nuevo contexto.

This book provides a fresh and unique overview of the modernization and internationalization of Chinese higher education, focusing on Chinese higher education from 1949 to 2018.

First published in 1981, this collection of essays was taken from Peters' larger work, Psychology and Ethical Development (1974) in order to provide a more focused volume on moral education for students.

First published in 1994.

Originally published in 1991, First Episodes: Pupil Careers in the Early Years of School is based on a four-year longitudinal study of pupils from two different catchment areas from the first days of their entry to primary school.

This book traces the decline of the public comprehensive high school.

Best known for the progressive school he founded in Dessau during the 18th century, Johann Bernhard Basedow was a central thinker in the German Enlightenment.

Originally published as a special issue of Educational Studies, this volume demonstrates the ways in which sound considerations can significantly contribute to educational foundations.

This book explores how antiracism theories can be translated into practice within formal education, as well as in other educational programs outside schools, as very often racism occurs outside the school environment.

This edited volume illustrates the idea of a successful research capacity model, critically addressing preconceived notions of early career research projects' impact and drawing together insights and implications around the encouragement of newer researchers to conduct useful, robust studies with real-world effect.

An Educator's Guide to Project-Based Learning will inspire practitioners to implement project-based learning effectively and identifies the importance of creative and innovative classrooms for highly successful educational outcomes.

Building on their important findings in The Source of the River, the authors now probe even more deeply into minority underachievement at the college level.

This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, information, and data-processing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) animal, or machine.

This book looks at the foundations of school self-evaluation from a scientific as from a practical perspective.

*2023 BERA Educational Research Book of the Year*Around the world, governments, charities, and other bodies are concerned with improving education, especially for the lowest-attaining and most disadvantaged students.

Strategic Inquiry is an innovative model for promoting teacher collaboration around identifying specific ';learning gaps' that keep struggling students from succeeding.

Reconciliation is one of the most significant contemporary challenges in the world today.

Drawing on scholarship from the field of internationalisation in higher education and other theoretical influences in education policy, comparative education and sociology of education, this edited collection offers a much-needed extension of discussion and research into the compulsory schooling context.

This book revitalizes the Marxian concept of critique for research into the transformation of universities.

Across the world STEM (learning and work in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) has taken central importance in education and the economy in a way that few other disciplines have.

This unique volume takes readers behind the scenes for an "e;insider/outsider"e; view of education policymaking in action.

This collection focuses on the ways in which policy relating to professional development and professional learning in teacher education is changing across Europe.