Education Policy & Politics Books

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11. Achieving Education for All through Public–Private Partnerships?

    Non-State Provision of Education in Developing Countries

    Edited by Pauline Rose

    Series: Development in Practice Books

    Concern for achieving Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 has led to a focus on the role that non-state providers (NSPs) can offer in extending access and improving quality of basic services. While NSPs can help to fill a gap in provision to those excluded from state provision, recent...

    Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
12. Gender Balance and Gender Bias in Education

    International Perspectives

    Edited by Deirdre Raftery, Maryann Valiulis

    This book presents a compelling range of international research on the issues of gender balance and gender bias in education. The chapters draw on cutting edge work from the US, Latin America, the UK, Ireland and Africa, presenting readers with new insights into how educators and students often...

    Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
13. Higher Education in Southeast Asia

    Blurring Borders, Changing Balance

    By Anthony Welch

    Series: Routledge Research On Public and Social Policy in Asia

    This is the first book to systematically chart and comparatively assess the trend towards private higher education in South East Asia. Caught between conflicting imperatives of spiralling demand, and limited resources, the balance between public and private higher education systems in South East,...

    Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
14. On Study: Giorgio Agamben and educational potentiality

    By Tyson E. Lewis

    Series: New Directions in the Philosophy of Education

    In an educational landscape dominated by discourses and practices of learning, standardized testing, and the pressure to succeed, what space and time remain for studying? In this book, Tyson E. Lewis argues that studying is a distinctive educational experience with its own temporal, spatial,...

    Published May 29th 2013 by Routledge
15. Lifelong Learning in the UK

    An introductory guide for Education Studies

    By Anne O'Grady

    Written specifically for Education Studies students, this accessible text offers a clear introduction to lifelong learning and the impact it has on all areas of society. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, it explores what lifelong learning is, where learning can and does take place and who...

    Published May 27th 2013 by Routledge
16. WTO/GATS and the Global Politics of Higher Education

    By Antoni Verger

    Series: Studies in Higher Education

    Since the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) was created in 1995, there has been international pressure towards the liberalization of education all over the world, as well as new challenges to the traditional internationalization rationale in the field of higher education. Nevertheless,...

    Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
17. Using Critical Research for Educational and Social Change

    Edited by Tricia Kress

    This volume features the works of scholar-practitioners who embrace critical pedagogy and critical research as praxis in qualitative research about education. The authors take an explicit stance toward social justice through education, and they use critical research as a vehicle toward that end.&...

    Published May 12th 2013 by Routledge
18. The Resegregation of Schools

    Education and Race in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Jamel K. Donnor, Adrienne Dixson

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    Access to a quality education remains the primary mechanism for improving one’s life chances in the United States, and for children of color, a “good education” is particularly linked to their individual and collective well-being. Despite the popular perception that America is in a “post-racial”...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
19. Law and the Wearing of Religious Symbols

    European Bans on the Wearing of Religious Symbols in Education

    By Erica Howard

    Written in accessible language, Law and the Wearing of Religious Symbols is a comprehensive analysis of a topical subject that is being widely debated across Europe. The book provides an overview of emerging case law from the European Court of Human Rights as well as from national courts and...

    Published May 4th 2013 by Routledge
20. School Level Leadership in Post-conflict Societies

    The importance of context

    Edited by Simon R. P. Clarke, Thomas A. O'Donoghue

    How do different contexts influence the nature and character of school leadership? This book is predicated on the simple, yet profound, observation that school leadership can only be understood within the context in which it is exercised. The observation is particularly valid in relation to...

    Published April 28th 2013 by Routledge