Education Books

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41. Equity and Excellence in Education

    Towards Maximal Learning Opportunities for All Students

    Edited by Kris Van den Branden, Piet Van Avermaet, Mieke Van Houtte

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    Throughout the world, equity and excellence in education is a major issue of concern. International comparative studies such as those carried out by OECD (PISA) have launched a worldwide debate on the effectiveness of educational systems (macro level), schools (meso level) and teachers (micro level...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
42. Education, Professionalization and Social Representations

    On the Transformation of Social Knowledge

    Edited by Mohamed Chaib, Berth Danermark, Staffan Selander

    Series: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education

    This book presents a broad range of research related to how social knowledge is shared, transmitted and transformed in the context of education and professional formation. The chapters of this edited collection reflect different theoretical and empirical approaches to that form of common-sense...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
43. Education and Sustainability

    Learning Across the Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Divide

    By Seonaigh MacPherson

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    This book critically examines the impact of migration, education, development, and the spread of English on global bio-linguistic and cultural diversity. Derived from findings from a comparative eco-linguistic study of intergenerational language, culture, and education change in the Tibetan...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
44. Education in the Third World

    By Keith Watson

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

    This reissue examines the crucial question of how the education systems of Third World countries continue to be influenced by the former colonial powers, arguing that decisions and views made early in the twentieth century cannot always be so readily condemned from the standpoint of the 1980s. The...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
45. Theories, Policy, and Practice of Lifelong Learning in East Asia

    Edited by Weiyuan Zhang

    As the centre of the world economy is moving to Asia, lifelong learning in Asia is attracting a great deal of attention in the educational field worldwide. Asia not only provides the largest education market, but also plays an increasingly important role in educational globalization. However, until...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
46. Distance Teaching for the Third World

    The Lion and the Clockwork Mouse

    By Michael Young, Hilary Perraton, Janet Jenkins, Tony Dodds

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

    This reissue, first published in 1980, is based on the experiences of the International Extension College in developing distance teaching. The volume begins by reviewing the world problems of educational quality and quantity, and then examines the ways in which print, broadcasts and group study...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
47. The School I'd Like

    Children and Young People's Reflections on an Education for the Future, 2nd Edition

    By Catherine Burke, Ian Grosvenor

    Wonderfully illuminated by children's essays, stories, poems, pictures and plans, this groundbreaking book offers a unique snapshot of the perceptions of today's school pupils’. [French bookstore Lavoisier www.lavoisier.fr] In 2001, The Guardian launched a ground-breaking competition called The...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
48. Involving Children and Young People in Health and Social Care Research

    Edited by Jennie Fleming, Thilo Boeck

    Lead by both children’s rights perspectives and methodological arguments there is an increasing emphasis on children and young people’s participation in health and social care research by researchers, policy makers and funding bodies – with many now considering the active involvement of children...

    Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
49. Young Children Becoming Curriculum

    Deleuze, Te Whariki and curricular understandings

    By Marg Sellers

    Series: Contesting Early Childhood

    This book contests a tradition and convention in educational thinking that dichotomises children and curriculum, by developing the notion of re(con)ceiving children in curriculum. By presenting an innovative research project, in which she worked with children to share their understandings of the...

    Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
50. Teacher Proof

    Why research in education doesn’t always mean what it claims, and what you can do about it

    By Tom Bennett

    ‘Tom Bennett is the voice of the modern teacher.’ - Stephen Drew, Senior Vice-Principal, Passmores Academy, UK, featured on Channel 4’s Educating Essex Do the findings from educational science ever really improve the day-to-day practice of classroom teachers? Education is awash with theories...

    Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge