Education category: 70663 books
by Kaye Sung Chon, Clayton W Barrows, Robert H Bosselman
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Help students succeed now and in the future in any aspect of the hospitality field!
Hospitality Management Education focuses on the academic aspect of hospitality--the mechanisms of hospitality education programs, their missions, their constituents, and the outcomes of their efforts. This book...
Does Education Matter?
Myths About Education and Economic Growth
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2002
"Education, education, education" has become an obsession for politicians and the public alike. It is seen as an economic panacea: an engine for growth and prosperity. But is there a link between increased spending on higher eductaion and economicgrowth? Professor Alison Wolf takes a critical...
Giving Kids The Business
The Commercialization Of America's Schools
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Giving Kids the Business exposes the ways in which corporate America is turning schools into profit centers, the curriculum into an advertising vehicle, and children into a cash crop. Learn how market-oriented school reforms take money out of your pocket and lower the quality of public education....
The Economics of Education
Human Capital, Family Background and Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2006
In an important contribution to educational policy, Daniele Checchi offers an economic perspective on the demand and supply of education. He explores the reasons why, beyond a certain point, investment in education has not resulted in reductions in social inequalities. Starting with the seminal work...
Early Childhood Education
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
In an accessible and meaningful way, Early Childhood Education examines foundational topics that encourage early childhood education students to think, reflect, and develop opinions, theories, and philosophies about their field. This interactive book invites the reader to develop a personal philosophy...
by Sharon J. Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
This lucid, accessible, thought-provoking discussion of issues related to equity in science education reform is for science educators, including idealists and exacting pragmatists, who are dedicated to exploring what it means to put into practice rallying cries like "science literacy for all,"...
First Nations Education Policy in Canada
Progress or Gridlock?
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
How can First Nations schools in Canada offer a curriculum that is at once authentically and deeply Aboriginal while comparable in content, quality, and standards to provincial and territorial education? First Nations Education Policy in Canada is a critical analysis of policy developments affecting...
Education Between State, Markets, and Civil Society
Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
*How should education be organized in pluralistic and multicultural societies?
*What are the roles in education of civil society, markets, governments, and the family?
*How can the idea of the civil society help to reorient education policy discussions that are sometimes stuck in either-or juxtapositions...
Mega-Schools, Technology and Teachers
Achieving Education for All
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Education for All (EFA) has been a top priority for governments and intergovernmental development agencies for the last twenty years. So far the global EFA movement has placed its principal focus on providing quality universal primary education (UPE) for all children by 2015.
The latest addition...
Student Financing of Higher Education
A comparative perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
The financing of higher education is undergoing great change in many countries around the world. In recent years many countries are moving from a system where the costs of funding higher education are shouldered primarily by taxpayers, through government subsidies, to one where students pay a larger...
JOHN DEWEY Premium Collection – 40+ Books in One Single Volume: Works on Psychology, Education, Philosophy & Politics
Democracy and Education, The Schools of Utopia, Studies in Logical Theory, Ethics, Soul and Body, Psychology and Social Practice, Psychology of Infant Language, German Philosophy and Politics...
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
This carefully crafted ebook: "JOHN DEWEY Premium Collection – 40+ Books in One Single Volume: Works on Psychology, Education, Philosophy & Politics" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The collection contains: Books on Education Democracy...
Alternative Solutions to Higher Education's Challenges
An Appreciative Approach to Reform
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Moving beyond critique, Alternative Solutions to Higher Education’s Challenges uses an appreciative approach to highlight what is working in colleges and universities and offers an examination of how institutions can improve practice. Drawing on examples and cases from real higher education institutions,...
Issues in Distance Education
New Directions for Higher Education, Number 173
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
In this environment of disruptive technological change, higher education institutions must determine whether they will develop and offer technology-supported, hybrid, or online courses and degrees, which courses and degrees, how many, for whom, and for what purpose. They must make decisions about...
Adult and Continuing Education
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Beyond the undergraduate and graduate levels, education has traditionally ceased when students enter the workforce as professionals in their respective fields. However, recent trends in education have found that adult students beyond the traditional university age often benefit greatly from returning...