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Education and the Crisis of Public Values
Challenging the Assault on Teachers, Students, and Public Education Second edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Updated with both a new introduction and a series of interviews, the second edition of Education and the Crisis of Public Values examines American society’s shift away from democratic public values, the ensuing move toward a market-driven mode of education, and the last decade’s growing social...
The Trouble with Higher Education
A Critical Examination of our Universities
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
The Trouble with Higher Education is a powerful and topical critique of the Higher Education system in the UK, with relevance to countries with similar systems. Based on the authors’ experiences that span over 30+ years of fieldwork, the issues discussed focus on the problems facing the principle...
Too Hot to Handle
A Global History of Sex Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
Too Hot to Handle is the first truly international history of sex education. As Jonathan Zimmerman shows, the controversial subject began in the West and spread steadily around the world over the past century. As people crossed borders, however, they joined hands to block sex education from most of...
by Ansgar Allen
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Education is a violent act, yet this violence is concealed by its good intent. Education presents itself as a distinctly improving, enabling practice. Even its most radical critics assume that education is, at core, an incontestable social good.
Setting education in its political context, this...
Introduction to International Education
International Schools and their Communities
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2006
'This is a book for all who work in international education or want to understand more about a rapidly expanding sector. For those who are new to the field it provides an excellent introduction.
To tackle such varied subjects... needed a professional of wide expertise, wisdom and clarity of...
Dance Education around the World
Perspectives on dance, young people and change
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Dance has the power to change the lives of young people. It is a force in shaping identity, affirming culture and exploring heritage in an increasingly borderless world. Creative and empowering pedagogies are driving curriculum development worldwide where the movement of peoples and cultures generates...
Towards the Private Funding of Higher Education
Ideological and Political Struggles
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
An almost universal driving force for contemporary change in universities is the shifting view of higher education as more of a private than a public good. Towards the Private Funding of Higher Education presents a contemporary global picture of this move towards the privatisation of higher education,...
Game Changer
Phil Lawler's Crusade to Help Children by Improving Physical Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2011
Engaging and inspiring, Game Changer: Phil Lawler’s Crusade to Help Children by Improving Physical Education charts Lawler’s tireless mission to refocus physical education to a wellness-based model that encourages fitness for a lifetime. Game Changer captures the passion of this legend in the...
A Guide to Special Education Advocacy
What Parents, Clinicians and Advocates Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2009
Disability law can be complex and intimidating, so how can concerned parents use it to ensure their child with a disability receives the appropriate education they are legally entitled to? A Guide to Special Education Advocacy gives strategies for advocating for better provision of special education...
Digital citizenship education
Volume 1: Overview and new perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Supporting children and young people to participate safely, effectively, critically and responsibly in a world filled with social media and digital technologies is a priority for educators the world over. Most young people in Europe today were born and have grown up in the digital era. Education authorities...
In Their Own Words
A Journey to the Stewardship of the Practice in Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED)—an interinstitutional action project of the Carnegie Foundation—is a consortium of universities pursuing the goals of instituting a clear distinction between the professional doctorate in education and the research doctorate; and improving...
Open Education
A Study in Disruption
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
What for decades could only be dreamt of is now almost within reach: the widespread provision of free online education, regardless of a geographic location, financial status, or ability to access conventional institutions of learning.
But does open education really offer the openness, democracy...
Education 3.0
Seven Steps to Better Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“Jim has undoubtedly set out a road map to that much talked of but rarely glimpsed destination, the new educational system. . . . We can stumble our way forward, or we can learn from the pragmatic and hard-earned wisdom of Jim Lengel, who has done more effective thinking about how to make 21st-century...
Teaching and Learning at a Distance
Foundations of Distance Education, 6th Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Teaching and Learning at a Distance is written for introductory distance education courses for preservice or inservice teachers, and for training programs that discuss teaching distant learners or managing distance education systems. This text provides readers with the basic information needed to be...