Schools and pre-schools

This book explores the ability of the Norwegian school system to support the achievement of formal competencies among children with physical disabilities, as well as its role in the informal dimensions of social participation and networking.

This book explores the emerging and under-researched phenomenon of internationalised schooling in China.

This book provides scholars, educators, and legislators with a personal, classroom-level tour of daily life at a community college.

This edited collection focuses on different aspects of everyday violence, harassment and threats in schools.

This book identifies the cultural and moral foundations of country-specific educational governance and school leadership and presents the principles of justice and the diversity of common goods that guide leadership practices in schools.

This book explores the impact of neoliberalism on education in the UK.

This book goes deep behind the scenes of school privatization campaigns to expose the complex networks of funding that sustain these efforts - often hidden from the view of the public.

This book offers a new perspective into the world of international schools and the lucrative industry that accompanies it.

This edited volume includes contributions on education within a world of challenges by authors with diverse experiences and perspectives.

This book explores what mindfulness could mean for teachers and educational researchers.

This book presents research findings and conclusions that has been developed as algorithms or intelligent new methods solving problems in the fields of air pollution, climate and health, natural hazards and risks, water resources, human activities and management and informatics, remote sensing, high-performance computing and GIS for environmental monitoring and management.

The book focuses on the ways in which gendered and sexualised systems of power are produced in educational settings that are framed by broader social and cultural processes, both of which shape and are shaped by children and young people as they interact with each other.

This book examines the consequences of educational segregation from the perspective of social cohesion.

This book offers an original contribution to the area of international research on comparative education policies and the influence of transnational agencies on national school policy and reform.

This book deals with the importance of interculturality in teacher education and training.

This book offers new ways of engagement for leaders seeking to connect theory to practice in decolonizing education.

This book closely examines the ways in which many popular, internationally-published Japanese young adult manga graphic novel titles frame instances of K-12 school-situated violence and bullying.

This book calls for a reconceptualisation and decolonisation of the Key Stage 2 national history curriculum.

This book explores how Australian secondary schools prepare their students for global citizenship.

This textbook brings together findings from global research on teaching and learning, with an emphasis on secondary and higher education.

This book explores the complex ways in which belonging, identity and time are entangled in shaping young people engagement with the middle years of school.

This book explores the significance of silence within and beyond pedagogical contexts.

This book explores how curriculum reform is interconnected with policy, practice and society.

This book draws on important original transdisciplinary research to address a wide range of issues relating to the remodeling of existing schools for pre-teenagers to fit them to various novel teaching models (e.

This book explores the history of the unschooling movement and the forces shaping the trajectory of the movement in current times.

This book explores how teachers can navigate the complex process of managing change within the classroom.

This book analyses selected critical concepts of policy and practice in educational leadership in five European countries.

This book analyses selected critical concepts of policy and practice in educational leadership in five European countries.

This Springer brief explores the contribution of Nicolas de Condorcet in French higher education, the historical development of his work and its influence on the history of the French education system.

This book describes and analyses the organisation, functions and development of national educational authorities and agencies and the influence they have on local schools in 20 countries around the world.

This book brings together leading scholars researching the field of gender, sexuality, schooling, queer activism, and social movements within different cultural contexts.

This book describes and analyses the organisation, functions and development of national educational authorities and agencies and the influence they have on local schools in 20 countries around the world.

This thought-provoking textbook explores how special education became distinct from general education over time, through changes in teacher education, research funding, teacher licensure, school organization, and student stratification.

This book examines the importance, and potential, of citizenship education, using extensive qualitative data from England and Sweden.

Mark Enser's 'Making Every Geography Lesson Count: Six principles to support great geography teaching' maps out the key elements of effective geography teaching and shows teachers how to develop their students' conceptual and contextual understanding of the subject over time.

2020 Finalist for Book of the Year Award, North American Society of Social and Political Philosophy (NASSP)This book examines the philosophical, motivational, and practical challenges of education theory, policy, and practice in the twenty-first century.

In this edited volume, authors analyze how symbolic boundaries of belonging are negotiated and reflected upon by school actors in different educational contexts and how that contributes to a richer understanding of the ways in which "e;we-ness"e; acts as a fundamentally structuring force in immigrant incorporation.

This book explores the experiences of early career teachers in a profession that has become highly stratified by market processes.

This book disrupts the false dichotomy of college versus career by showing how young people and the programs created to serve them integrate the worlds of college and career readiness as students work to learn against the odds and strive toward lives that matter to them.

This book explores the development of educational leadership within difficult contexts via the lens of a previously failing English secondary school in an area of urban poverty.

This book presents recent developments involving the role of nanoparticles on plant physiology and growth.

This book examines the benefits of applying the Identity Structure Analysis (ISA) to teacher professional development.

This book marks the centenary of the first Waldorf School, established by Rudolf Steiner in Stuttgart in 1919.

This book investigates notions of 'quality' in early childhood settings both in Australia and globally.

This book provides an up-to-date overview of the current knowledge and research concerning domestic pets as sentinels, forecasters and promoters of human health.

This book examines how religion operates as an institution of governance and discipline in society.

This book highlights and interrogates the continued interest and scrutiny of mathematics and science education.

This book draws together for the first time some of the most important international policy practice and research relating to education in out-of-home care.

This book presents a sweeping overview of the historical and philosophical foundations of schooling in the United States.

This book explores the pivotal role that geography as a school subject plays in helping every young person achieve their educational potential.