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Journal of Character Education Issue
Vol. 13 #1
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
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...
Human Rights Education
Theory, Research, Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Over the past seven decades, human rights education has blossomed into a global movement. A field of scholarship that utilizes teaching and learning processes, human rights education addresses basic rights and broadens the respect for the dignity and freedom of all peoples. Since the founding of the...
Moderating the Debate
Rationality and the Promise of American Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Moderating the Debate is a major statement on education research, policy, and reform that will be required reading for everyone with a stake in improving America's schools.
This eloquent book examines the complex—and often problematic—relations between education research, policy, and practice,...
Urban Education
A Model for Leadership and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Many factors complicate the education of urban students. Among them have been issues related to population density; racial, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic diversity; poverty; racism (individual and institutional); and funding levels. Although urban educators have been addressing these issues for...
Transforming Education in the Gulf Region
Emerging Learning Technologies and Innovative Pedagogy for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Countries in the Arab Gulf are currently experiencing some of the fastest rates of growth and progress in the world. Transforming Education in the Gulf Region argues that education systems in these countries need to use innovative pedagogies and best practices in teaching and learning to educate all...
Caring Leadership in Turbulent Times
Tackling Neoliberal Education Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
This book analyzes education reform through the eyes of those entrenched in the process—policy makers, administrators, middle managers, principals, and teachers—in the context of care. A senior administrator, who participated in the implementation of an unprecedented series of reforms that flattened...
Understanding Employer Engagement in Education
Theories and evidence
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
This collection focuses on employer engagement in education, how it is delivered and the differentiated impact it has on young people in their progression through schooling and higher education into the labour market. The focus is not narrowly on vocational or technical education or work-related learning,...
Confronting Racism in Higher Education
Problems and Possibilities for Fighting Ignorance, Bigotry and Isolation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Racism and ignorance churn on college campuses as surely as they do in society at large. Over the past fifteen years there have been many discussions regarding racism and higher education. Some of these focus on formal policies and dynamics such as Affirmative Action or The Dream Act, while many more...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
Contemporary education research, policy and practice are complex and challenging. The political struggle over what constitutes curriculum and pedagogy is framed by quasi-markets and technocratic models of education. This has had a significant effect on larger issues of policy. But it has also had...
Reconstructing Policy in Higher Education
Feminist Poststructural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Reconstructing Policy in Higher Education highlights the work of accomplished and award-winning scholars and provides concrete examples of how feminist poststructuralism effectively informs research methods and can serve as a vital tool for policy makers, analysts, and practitioners. The research...
Politics, Pedagogy and Power
Bullying in Faculties of Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Politics, Pedagogy and Power: Bullying in Faculties of Education is the result of research seeking to find explanations for bullying between faculty members in faculties of education around the world. The frank and devastating revelations of professors are shocking and painful, screaming for interrogation....
Doing Your PGCE at M-level
A Guide for Students
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
What is PGCE at M-Level and what can you expect from the course? How can it help you to develop as a professional?
Master's-level study is now a well established component of PGCE courses and this new edition of the best selling student guide offers a clear and concise overview of Master's...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Rethinking Gendered Regulations and Resistances in Education highlights key debates on the theme of ‘regulation and resistance’, focusing on some of the most pressing contemporary issues in the field of gender and education today. It underlines the need for educational research to attend to historical...
by Mignonne Breier
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The papers for this special issue were selected from a pool of nearly 700 presentations which were made at the 10th Congress of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES), which was held in Cape Town, South Africa, from 12 to 17 July 1998. The congress was hosted by the Southern...