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Mathematics, Education and History
Towards a Harmonious Partnership
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
This book includes 18 peer-reviewed papers from nine countries, originally presented in a shorter form at TSG 25 The Role of History of Mathematics in Mathematics Education, as part of ICME-13 during*.* It also features an introductory chapter, by its co-editors, on the structure and main points of...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
This edited volume explores various issues pertaining to the education of children with disabilities in Africa, the Caribbean and Middle East. As a group, persons with disabilities have been subjected to social, cultural and educational exclusions of various forms and for various sociallyscripted reasons....
Education Research On Trial
Policy Reform and the Call for Scientific Rigor
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Read the author's commentary for the Teachers College Record here: http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=15915
It is not an exaggeration to say that the field of education has been under attack. Many, particularly in Washington, D.C., have proclaimed the research to be shoddy. They...
Formal Education: A Catalyst to Nation Building
A Case Study of Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
The smallest and most remote villages in the developing countries are affected by the rapid and seemingly irresistible trend towards globalization. The limitless availability of information however necessitates education to stand out as the key factor for human and national development. But which...
by Ka-ho Mok
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2006
This book assesses the impact of globalization on the education systems of key East Asian countries, including China, Hong Kong, Japan, and the "tiger economies" of South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore, examining how the increasingly interdependent economic system has driven policy change...
Math Education for America?
Policy Networks, Big Business, and Pedagogy Wars
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Math Education for America? analyzes math education policy through the social network of individuals and private and public organizations that influence it in the United States. The effort to standardize a national mathematics curriculum for public schools in the U.S. culminated in 2010 when over...
Globalization of Education
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Continuing Joel Spring’s reportage and analysis of the intersection of global forces and education, this text offers a comprehensive overview and synthesis of current research, theories, and models related to the topic. Written in his signature clear, narrative style, Spring introduces the processes,...
Refinancing the College Dream
Access, Equal Opportunity, and Justice for Taxpayers
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
During the 1990s, rising tuition costs and inadequate federal grant aid prevented more than a million otherwise qualified, low-income students from continuing their education past high school. Education policy expert Edward P. St. John is troubled by this situation and argues that equal access to...
Learner-centred Education in International Perspective
Whose pedagogy for whose development?
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Is learner-centred education appropriate for all societies and classrooms?
Learner-centred education (LCE) is a travelling policy, widely promoted by international agencies and national governments. Arguments in favour of this pedagogical tradition refer to theories and evidence from cognitive...
First Freire
Early Writings in Social Justice Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In his new book, Carlos Alberto Torres, an internationally renowned critical theorist of education, explores the early writings of Paulo Freire whose ideas have had a tremendous and long-lasting impact on the world of pedagogy and politics. Torres analyzes Freire’s works, from the 1960s and...
Disestablishing the School
De-Bunking Justifications for State Intervention in Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
That governments are, and will always be, involved in education, is taken for granted by the majority of educationalists. Recent market reforms are condemned, because they appear to undermine state intervention in education. But are justifications for state intervention in education philosophically...
by Jevdet Rexhepi
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
As national planners codify and enact the university, state, and market alliance—amid global higher education trends towards internationalization, competition, and massification—debates on the efficacy of this merger have increased in recent years, clarifying a real or perceived significance....
Expanding Elementary Teacher Education through Service-Learning
A Handbook on Extending Literacy Field Experience for 21st Century Urban Teacher Preparation
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Teacher education programs and colleges of education face a multilayered task of preparing teachers to teach in increasingly divergent environments where children of color encompass a significant number of urban school populations. Yet the teaching force remains predominantly white, middle-income,...
Class and the College Classroom
Essays on Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
We have long been encouraged to look to education, especially higher education, for the solution to social problems, particularly as a way out of poverty for the talented and the hard working. But in its appointed role as the path to upward mobility that makes inequality more acceptable, higher education...