Education category: 70663 books
by Frederick M. Hess, Michael B. Horn
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The growth of for-profit providers in the K–16 education sector has generated more than its share of controversy. From the emergence of charter schools to post-secondary options like the University of Phoenix, for-profit providers have been lauded for their capacity to serve historically underserved...
The Misdirection of Education Policy
Raising Questions about School Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
The Misdirection of Education Policy: Raising Questions about School Reform proposes critically important questions about the wisdom of American public education policy and reform initiatives. Laying out the particulars of three policy strands—creation of STEM curricula/schools, expansion of charter...
Universities and Their Cities
Urban Higher Education in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Today, a majority of American college students attend school in cities. But throughout the nineteenth and much of the twentieth centuries, urban colleges and universities faced deep hostility from writers, intellectuals, government officials, and educators who were concerned about the impact of cities,...
World Development Report 2018
Learning to Realize Education's Promise
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Every year, the World Bank’s World Development Report (WDR) features a topic of central importance to global development. The 2018 WDR—LEARNING to Realize Education’s Promise—is the first ever devoted entirely to education. And the time is right: education has long been critical to human welfare,...
Higher Education and Social Class
Issues of Exclusion and Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
Working class groups have historically been excluded from participation in higher education. Past decades have seen an expansion of the system towards a more inclusive higher education, but participation among people from working class groups has remained persistently low. Is higher education unattractive...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Reimagining Education Reform and Innovation provides scholars and laymen with an assortment of theoretical and practical perspectives for questioning contemporary practices and forging new methods of education reform and innovation. This volume is the leading collection of contemporary essays by the...
Intersectionality and Urban Education
Identities, Policies, Spaces & Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
In urban education, “urban” is a floating signifier that is imbued with meaning, positive or negative by its users. “Urban” can be used to refer to both the geographical context of a city and a sense of “less than,” most often in relation to race and/or socioeconomic status (Watson, 2011)....
Defining Physical Education (Routledge Revivals)
The Social Construction of a School Subject in Postwar Britain
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
First published in 1992, David Kirk’s book analyses the public debate leading up to the 1987 General Election over the place and purpose of physical education in British schools. By locating this debate in a historical context, specifically in the period following the end of the Second World War,...
by Ivor Morrish
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Originally published in 1970, this volume provides a survey of the wide field of the development of education since 1800.
The book is structured as follows:
Part One: The General Development of Popular Education
English Elementary Education, the Development of Primary Education,...
by Jane Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2007
Jane Thompson’s writings have influenced and inspired the work of a generation of radical practitioners in adult and community education in Britain and overseas. This new book of essays reflects her concern for working-class and women’s education, for social justice, active citizenship and for...
Girls, Gender and Physical Education
An Activist Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
In this powerfully argued and progressive study, Kimberly Oliver and David Kirk call for a radical reconstruction of the teaching of physical education for girls. Despite forty years of theorization and practical intervention, girls are still disengaging from physical education, dropping out of physical...
Kindergarten Narratives on Froebelian Education
Transnational Investigations
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Kindergarten Narratives on Froebelian Education showcases the latest scholarship and historical understandings concerning the casting of the kindergarten idea abroad: across cultures, continents and centuries.
Each chapter reveals previously unknown narratives of intrepid endeavour, political...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
During the 1980s, Britain’s educational system was restructured and redirected. Of the many changes which were made, perhaps the most far-reaching have affected the education of teachers themselves.The contributors to this book have all been centrally involved in the reforming process of teacher...
Education and the State
International perspectives on a changing relationship
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
In most countries in the world, school education is the business of the state. Even if forms and functions differ, the imparting of elementary knowledge is universally regarded as a public function. Yet this is neither self-evident nor self-explanatory. The degree of involvement of state agencies...