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Educação, escola e docência
Novos tempos, novas atitudes
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Atento às reconfigurações do cotidiano, o autor propõe uma parceria entre escola e família para a promoção de uma educação que retome seu sentido humanista.
The Emotional Literacy Handbook
A Guide for Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Demonstrating how schools can reduce conflict and bullying, this title promotes tolerance and stimulates a positive attitude to teaching and learning by creating an emotionally literate environment.
A Prison Called School
Creating Effective Schools for All Learners
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Many students struggle to survive a system that has become yet another obstacle in their life to overcome. The current, one-size-fits-all educational model requires students to adapt to the system, but in order for students to thrive, schools, not the students, must change in deep and substantial...
by Berise Therese Heasly
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
This book, based on extensive qualitative research carried out among teachers in Australia, New Zealand and the UK, explores a new approach to teaching virtues, values and ethics in the twenty-first century. Drawing on both education studies and philosophy, the author uses inductive methods of analysis...
Disestablishing the School
De-Bunking Justifications for State Intervention in Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
That governments are, and will always be, involved in education, is taken for granted by the majority of educationalists. Recent market reforms are condemned, because they appear to undermine state intervention in education. But are justifications for state intervention in education philosophically...
by Bruce S. Cooper, Stephen V. Coffin
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Sound school finance is integral to the provision of a quality education. Indeed, a school district’s budget is the financial representation of its educational plan. Thus, a clarion alert for all teachers: “if it’s not in your budget, it won’t be in your classroom.” However, sound school...
Gravissimum Educationis
Golden Opportunities in American Catholic Education 50 Years after Vatican II
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Gravissimus Educationis: Golden Opportunities in American Catholic Education 50 Years after Vatican II reviews the development of American Catholic schools since the promulgation of Gravissimus Educationis, the only document on education produced by the Ecumenical Council known as Vatican II. This...
Handbook of Comparative Education Law
Selected European Nations
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Each of the four volumes in this set, as well as each volume independently, provide comparative analyses for researches, practitioners, and students of the law and education in examining law and education in various countries around the world. Designed to allow readers to learn from, rather than copy,...
Handbook of Comparative Education Law
Selected Nations from Africa and the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2019
Each of the four volumes in this set, as well as each volume independently, provide comparative analyses for researches, practitioners, and students of the law and education in examining law and education in various countries around the world. Designed to allow readers to learn from, rather than copy,...
Growing a Soul for Social Change
Building the Knowledge Base for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
For readers new to the field of multicultural education and human relations education, the recency of these publications heralded as seminal may be confusing, for certainly the concepts building the field of multicultural education and human relations education have been around much longer. True....
How Educational Ideologies Are Shaping Global Society
Intergovernmental Organizations, NGOs, and the Decline of the Nation-State
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
In this book Joel Spring explores three major international educational ideologies that are shaping global society: neo-liberal educational ideology, human rights education, and environmentalism.
Neo-liberal ideology reflects a rethinking of nationalist forms of education as the nation-state...
Performance
The Dynamic of Results in Postsecondary Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Understanding performance requires asking fundamental questions about the nature and purpose of an organization: What is its business? Whom does it serve? What do stakeholders want and expect? What do they get? How does the organization conceive of and measure results? How do stakeholders feel about...
Present Successes and Future Challenges in Honors Education
Present Successes and Future Challenges in Honors Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Present Successes and Future Challenges in Honors Education is the first volume in an edited series examining the proliferation of honors programs and colleges in American higher education. While honors education has become ubiquitous in American higher education, this transformation has happened...
Teacher Evaluation Policies and Practices in Japan
How performativity works in schools
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
This book explores the impacts of the introduction of new teacher evaluation policies on teachers and head teachers in Japan, particularly that of producing and reinforcing mutual policing relations among teachers and the destabilisation of their identities. It is timely given the big surge of interest...