Education category: 70663 books
by Derek Heater
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2003
In this unique examination of education for citizenship, Derek Heater covers two and a half millennia of history encompassing every continent. Education for citizenship is considered from its classical origins through to ideas of world citizenship and multiculturalism which are relevant today. The...
American National Identity, Policy Paradigms, and Higher Education
A History of the Relationship between Higher Education and the United States, 1862–2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
This volume examines the role of higher education in producing and reproducing American cultural identity from 1862 to 2015 and considers whether changes in federal policy regarding higher education result in paradigm shifts that directly impact the purpose of higher education. American institutions...
by Soji Oni
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Revitalizing Nigerian Education in Digital Age: What most of the papers in this book have in common is the concern for the revitalization of Nigerian education in the digital age through ICT and other modern methods of making education functional and effective in the new modernity. While some of the...
Innovations in Career and Technical Education
Strategic Approaches towards Workforce Competencies around the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
This book is designed primarily for potential and inservice vocational instructors who are pursuing a program of personal and professional development which will ensure competency in this specialty. In any state in the United States, there are a number of uncredentialed instructors who teach courses...
by John Dewey
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Experience and Education is the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. Written more than two decades after Democracy and Education (Dewey's most comprehensive statement of his position...
by Jandhyala B. G. Tilak
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
This book critically examines some of the major trends in the development of higher education. It demonstrates how in the context of liberalisation, globalisation and marketisation, the crisis in higher education has assumed different dimensions in all advanced and emerging societies. The author shows...
The Assault on Public Education
Confronting the Politics of Corporate School Reform.
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this timely interdisciplinary volume, William Watkins has brought together leading scholars and activists to address some of the most urgent issues facing public education. What is underneath and behind the language of choice, efficiency, and improvement in current neoliberal discourse? How will...
by John Carlson, PhD, Richard Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Education is a rewarding area of work that provides some of the most diverse career opportunities of any field. Written by educators with real-world knowledge of the profession, this information-packed guide provides the career explorer with concise information on the necessary skills, training, certification/licensure,...
by Philip J. Piety
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
For better or worse, many educational decisions that were once handled on a personal level by teachers or administrators now increasingly rely upon data and information. To be successful in this era, educators need to understand this broad sociotechnical revolution and how it is realigning traditional...
Demystifying Outcomes Assessment for International Educators
A Practical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
For many in international education, assessment can seem daunting and overwhelming, especially given that such efforts need to involve much more than a pre/post survey. This book is a practical guide to learning-outcomes assessment in international education for practitioners who are starting to engage...
Journal of Character Education Issue
Vol. 12 #1
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The Journal of Character Education is the only professional journal in education devoted to character education. It is designed to cover the field—from the latest research to applied best practices. We include original research reports, editorials and conceptual articles by the best minds in our field,...
Education Policy
Bridging the Divide Between Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
What exactly is education policy, why is it important, and how is it implemented in the real world? Jerome Delaney, a professor of educational administration and former high school principal, answers the big questions about education policy in this powerful and practical primer for students. Informed...
by Philip G. Altbach
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Over the past half-century, globalization has had a profound impact on postsecondary education. The twin forces of mass higher education and the global knowledge economy have driven an unprecedented transformation. These fundamental changes have pulled in opposite directions: one pushes for wider...
World Yearbook of Education 2008
Geographies of Knowledge, Geometries of Power: Framing the Future of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This volume examines higher education in globalized conditions through a focus on the spatial, historic and economic relations of power in which it is embedded. Distinct geometries of power are emerging as the knowledge production capability of universities is increasingly globalized. Changes in the...