Education category: 70663 books
Diversity in American Higher Education
Toward a More Comprehensive Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Diversity has been a focus of higher education policy, law, and scholarship for decades, continually expanding to include not only race, ethnicity and gender, but also socioeconomic status, sexual and political orientation, and more. However, existing collections still tend to focus on a narrow definition...
by Jaimie Bleck
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Primary school enrollment has nearly tripled in Mali since 1991, when the country made its first transition to multiparty democracy. Jaimie Bleck explores the effect of this expanded access to education by analyzing the relationship between parents’ and students’ respective experiences with schooling...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Transformative Learning and Teaching in Physical Educationexplores how learning and teaching in physical education might be improved and how it might become a meaningful component of young people’s lives. With its in-depth focus on physical education within contemporary schooling, the book presents...
Chinese Students in UK Further Education
Examining Aspirations, Motivations and Choices
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Chinese students in the UK have been increasing in number for many years, yet competition from other Western educators and increasing investment in China’s own education system has led to concern that UK institutions may soon see a decline in their market share. Dr. Reynolds addresses this issue...
Questioning Allegiance
Resituating Civic Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Education about living in society and in the world is a vital task of schools. Yet such civic education is not always critically examined, and few among us have been encouraged to reflect on our civic education experiences. Around the world, one’s civic education most often looks like a black box....
Dewey and Eros
Wisdom and Desire in the Art of Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
"We become what we love," states Jim Garrison in Dewey and Eros: Wisdom and Desire in the Art of Teaching. This provocative book represents a major new interpretation of Dewey's education philosophy. It is also an examination of what motivates us to teach and to learn, and begins with the idea of...
Education With Vision
What's wrong with education today? What is true education?
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Education is something most people take for granted. We assume it is something one acquires after graduating from college. Yet the 20th-century knowledge explosion has done little to solve the problems of this world. What’s wrong with education today? More importantly, what is true education?...
by Kenneth R. Howe, Amy E. Boele
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Since publication of the original edition of this book, there have been significant changes across the landscape of special education. This new edition addresses those changes and revisits enduring ethical issues that are most salient and pressing to special education teachers and administrators....
Public Education Reform and Network Governance
Lessons From Chinese State-Owned Enterprise Schools
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
This book is located in the field of education governance and sits amidst debates on public school reform in China. It examines how a top-down policy approach has been implemented from central government right down to the district level within the public education system in China. It shows the way...
Curriculum Studies Guidebooks
Volume 1- Concepts and Theoretical Frameworks
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Curriculum Studies Guidebooks treat the (Post)reconceptualization of curriculum studies. The huge corpus of literature reviewed in this volume reflect current issues and discussions dealing with education. This volume is about the intersections among curriculum studies, history, politics, multiculturalism,...
Lesson Planning for High School Physical Education
Meeting the National Standards & Grade-Level Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Lesson Planning for High School Physical Education provides standards-based, ready-to-use lesson plans that enhance student learning and help students become physically literate. Designed to complement the successful elementary and middle school books in the series, this book also provides guidance...
by David Guile, Lorna Unwin
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
A collection of the theories, practices, and policies of vocational education and training written by international experts
The Wiley Handbook of Vocational Education and Training offers an in-depth guide to the theories, practices, and policies of vocational education and training (VET). With...
Self-Study in Physical Education Teacher Education
Exploring the interplay of practice and scholarship
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
In this in-depth examination of self-study as a research methodology, an international selection of physical education scholars share their ideas and experiences and consider the value of self-study as a vector for highlighting the emerging conflicts, dilemmas, and debates currently developing in...
The Power of Education
Education for All, Development, Globalisation and UNESCO
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
This book is about the power of education: the kind of education that simultaneously improves the quality of life both of individuals and the wider society. It explains why education must be viewed as a basic human right, as a value in and of itself, and reviews the evidence on how education builds...