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Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
This volume will contain selected proceedings from the 2013 Symposium on Music Teacher Education, sponsored by NAfME’s Society for Music Teacher Education and hosted at University of North Carolina. After an introduction written by SMTE Chair, Doug Orzolek, the initial chapter will represent the...
Policies and Politics in Malaysian Education
Education Reforms, Nationalism and Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This book draws on elements of critical social theory, research on globalization, neo liberalism and education, and Malaysian Studies to understand the interplay of globalization, nationalism, cultural politics and ethnicized neoliberalism in shaping the educational reforms in Malaysia. Using the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Almost any economist will agree that education plays a key role in determining a country’s economic growth and standard of living, but what we know about education policy in developing countries is remarkably incomplete and scattered over decades and across publications. Education Policy in Developing...
by Roy A. Edelfelt, James Dr. Raths
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
With the current emphasis on standards in the schools, one may think that this is a new phenomenon. However, as this pamphlet clearly demonstrates, while standards in American schools have a long history dating back to Reconstruction, the recommendations for what is needed to improve teacher education...
International Education and the Next-Generation Workforce
Competition in the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Education is the first stage in developing a viable, dynamic, and long-lived global economy. Unfortunately, in times of economic hardship, educational programs, teacher salaries, and extracurricular opportunities are often the first to be cut. International Education and the Next-Generation Workforce:...
by Daniel Rechtschaffen
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2014
A new educational paradigm for youth mindfulness.
“If you are a teacher, or an educator, or involved in school administration and curriculum development, the book you hold in your hands has the potential to transform your life, the lives of your students, and the life of the school itself,...
by Susan Johnsen, Ph.D., Jane Clarenbach
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
National teacher preparation standards in gifted and talented education provide the foundation for research-based practices in gifted education and identify what teachers should know and be able to do to ensure that students with gifts and talents realize their full potential. Because the responsibility...
Transforming Teacher Education
What Went Wrong with Teacher Training, and How We Can Fix It
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
"[This book] provides a thorough and complex consideration of possibilities for reinventing teacher education. Diverse, research based chapters approach transformation in teacher education from a vast range of perspectives and ask the reader to analyze and question how to transform teacher education....
Transformative Learning in Practice
Insights from Community, Workplace, and Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Transformative learning in practice
Transformative learning is becoming influential in all areas of the educational landscape. In Transformative Learning in Practice, leading authorities and practitioners working in a variety of national and international settings, including college classrooms,...
A Handbook for Personalized Competency-Based Education
Ensure all students master content by designing and implementing a PCBE system
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
In K–12 education’s growing movement of competency-based education and personalized learning, both contradictory and overlapping definitions come up around these two terms. To clear up this confusion, A Handbook for Personalized Competency-Based Education delves into the components of a personalized...
Information in the Labour Market
Job-Worker Matching and Its Implications for Education in Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1984
This study uses a simple model of information gathering to generate policy recommendations concerning education in Ontario, especially at the post-secondary level. The schools are viewed as helping students discover jobs matched to their abilities, and policy prescriptions are offered from that standpoint.
After...
Learning without School
Home Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
While some people look back on school as the 'best days of your life', for others the experience can be unpleasant and gruelling. Learning without School is a practical handbook for parents who want to educate their children at home but are unsure that they have the skills and know-how required to...
Quest for World-Class Teacher Education?
A Multiperspectival Study on the Chinese Model of Policy Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
Utilizing a case study method and a Multiperspectival Approach, this volume presents a pioneering, in-depth study about China’s teacher education policy since the 1990s. It critically investigates the rational, dynamic and complex implementation process taking place at the micro institutional level...
World Bank Financing of Education
Lending, Learning and Development
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2007
Based on detailed analysis of thousands of confidential World Bank documents, this book demonstrates that the World Bank lies at the centre of the major changes in global education of our time. It outlines the evolution of World Bank lending policies in education, and assesses the policy impact of...