Education category: 70663 books
by Stephen Prickett
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
The essays in this book criticise the new positivism in education policy, whereby education is systematically reduced to those things that can be measured by so-called 'objective' tests. School curricula have been narrowed with an emphasis on measurable results in the 3 R's and the 'quality' of university...
by James Arthur
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
The establishment of citizenship education as a compulsory subject has recently been accompanied by the government's policy of 'promoting education with character.' Schools are identified as having a crucial role to play in helping to shape and reinforce basic character traits that will ultimately...
Education Unchained
What it takes to Restore Schools and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Are we going about education the wrong way? The somewhat shocking demonstration of this book is that "we" simply cannot reform "our" schools "together". We don't actually even know what schools or education really are. Education can only be improved the same way we improve...
World Class Initiatives and Practices in Early Education
Moving Forward in a Global Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
This book offers current international initiatives, developed for working with children from “Birth to Eight” by a diverse group of noted professional authors. Their readings present an overview of early education as it evolved from the Froebelian kindergarten to today’s practices in various...
Understanding Writing Transfer
Implications for Transformative Student Learning in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
While education is based on the broad assumption that what one learns here can transfer over there – across critical transitions – what do we really know about the transfer of knowledge?The question is all the more urgent at a time when there are pressures to “unbundle” higher education to target...
General Education Essentials
A Guide for College Faculty
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
General Education Essentials
"Full-time and part-time faculty in any discipline and at any size campus with any type of mission can pick up this volume and learn something that will help her or him improve teaching and learning.???"—From the Foreword by Terrel L. Rhodes, vice president...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This book provides context about the experiences of Black graduate and professional students attending HBCUs. Indeed, such research is important, particularly since HBCUs play a significant role in the number of Blacks who receive doctorates and professional degrees (i.e. M.D., D.D.S., J.D. etc.),...
by Tom O'Donoghue, Elaine Lopes, Marnie O’Neill
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Australia is a vast sparsely populated land and from an early date this created problems in terms of providing educational facilities. As part of the solution the nation has had a long tradition of using distance education methods to provide an education for its isolated primary and secondary school...
African American Males and Education
Researching the Convergence of Race and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
African American Males in Education: Researching the Convergence of Race and Identity addresses a number of research gaps. This book emerges at a time when new social dynamics of race and other identities are shaping, but also shaped by, education. Educational settings consistently perpetuate racial...
Karl Marx
The Revolutionary as Educator
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
This book is an introduction to Karl Marx (1818–1883) as a radical educational thinker. Marx’s own schooling and education are examined and we see how his interest in educational issues was informed by his own experience. Educational themes in Marx’s thinking are identified: the role of education...
Evidence-Based Approaches in Positive Education
Implementing a Strategic Framework for Well-being in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Based on action research and implementation at one of the world’s great schools, this book provides a much-needed exploration of how to implement positive education at a whole school level. Evidence-Based Approaches in Positive Education summarises the integration of a whole-school mental health...
by Dr Clive Griggs, Clive Griggs
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
This book covers a crucial period for the development of state education in Britain; the advent of the comprehensive debate before and during the Second World War; the War years themselves and the 1944 Education Act; the post-War Labour Government; and Churchill's last government in a time of education...
Education and Its Discontents
Teaching, the Humanities, and the Importance of a Liberal Education in the Age of Mass Information
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Education and Its Discontents: Teaching, the Humanities, and the Importance of a Liberal Education in the Age of Mass Information, by Mark Moss, is an exploration of how the traditional educational environment, particularly in the post-secondary world, is changing as a consequence of the influx of...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
After more than a century of being undervalued, further education has been thrust into the limelight. How have the colleges fared? How have they been shaped by the new arrangements for funding, governance, inspection and the new qualifications framework? What do those running the colleges and working...