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The Developing World and State Education
Neoliberal Depredation and Egalitarian Alternatives
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Neoliberalism has had a major impact on schooling and education in the Developing World, with social repercussions that have affected the salaries of teachers, the number and type of potential students, the availability of education, the cost of education, and more. This edited collection argues that...
by Elizabeth Connor
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Explore a wealth of ideas, insights, and approaches that can be used or adapted by any medical library!
Curricular changes in the health professions, coupled with a growing acceptance of the Internet as a tool for daily living, have contributed to a climate of change and opportunity for health...
MOOCs and Their Afterlives
Experiments in Scale and Access in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
A trio of headlines in the Chronicle of Higher Education seem to say it all: in 2013, “A Bold Move Toward MOOCs Sends Shock Waves;” in 2014, “Doubts About MOOCs Continue to Rise,” and in 2015, “The MOOC Hype Fades.” At the beginning of the 2010s, MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses,...
Change and Promise
Bilingual Deaf Education and Deaf Culture in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Within the past few decades, there has been great progress in deaf education in Latin America and growth in the empowerment of their Deaf communities. However, there is little awareness outside that region of these successes. For the first time, this book provides access, in English, to scholarly...
Imagining the Future of Global Education
Dreams and Nightmares
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Imagining the Future of Global Education examines the Grand Educational Narrative (GEN) and the major institutions that shape and disseminate it. The book focuses on national visions of education and the imaginary futures that nations seek to make reality. It critiques how the GEN policy implementation...
by William Van Zyl
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
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Concepts of 'openness' in education hinge on interactions between individuals and organisations and boundaries within which these interactions exist. The future development of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technologies of Higher Education rests on the critical decisions of 'openness' ('open'...
Levinas and Education
At the Intersection of Faith and Reason
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2008
This first book-length collection on Levinas and education gathers new texts written especially for this volume by an international group of scholars well known for their work in philosophy, educational theory, and on Levinas. It provides an introduction to some of Levinas's major themes of ethics,...
Handbook of Asian Education
A Cultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Comprehensive and authoritative, this Handbook provides a nuanced description and analysis of educational systems, practices, and policies in Asian countries and explains and interprets these practices from cultural, social, historical, and economic perspectives.
Using a culture-based framework,...
Human rights and equality in education
Comparative perspectives on the right to education for minorities and disadvantaged groups
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Thousands of children from minority and disadvantaged groups will never cross the threshold of a classroom. What can human rights contribute to the struggle to ensure that every learner is able to access high quality education? This brilliant interdisciplinary collection explores how a human rights...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
This Handbook is a much needed international reference work, written by leading writers in the field of global citizenship and education. It is based on the most recent research and practice from across the world, with the 'Geographically-Based Overviews' section providing summaries of global citizenship...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education
An Introduction for the Teaching Profession
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education: An Introduction for the Teaching Profession prepares students for the classroom and community environments they will encounter when teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in urban, rural and remote schools at early childhood, primary...
Empowered Educators in Canada
How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
BEST PRACTICES FROM CANADA'S HIGH-PERFORMING SCHOOL SYSTEMS
Empowered Educators in Canada is one volume in a series that explores how high-performing educational systems from around the world achieve strong results. The anchor book, Empowered Educators: How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching...
Ignoring Poverty in the U.S.
The Corporate Takeover of Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Ignoring Poverty in the U.S.: The Corporate Takeover of Public Education examines the divide between a commitment to public education and our cultural myths and more powerful commitment to consumerism and corporate America. The book addresses poverty in the context of the following: the historical and...
Regarding Educacion
Mexican-American Schooling, Immigration, and Bi-national Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The “Latino Education Crisis” not only threatens to dash the middle class aspirations of the nation’s largest immigrant group, it is also an ominous sign for democratic engagement and global competitiveness for U.S. society as a whole. This timely book argues that this crisis is...