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“fons van wieringen”

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  • Vocational and Adult Education in Europe

    Edited by Fons van Wieringen, Graham Attwell ...
    The system of vocational and adult education and training in Europe offers young people and adults the opportunity to learn to play an effective part in the workplace and elsewhere in society. Vocational and adult education and training is increasingly seen as crucial to the maintenance of employment, economic growth and the social integration of disadvantaged groups. In an economy and a society ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

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    by Chris Bonner, Jane Caro ...
    School choice has become one of the most agonizing issues of parenthood; while schools boast of unsurpassed facilities, genius teachers, and stellar academic achievement, parents wonder whether the marketing hype is actually true. Drawing on the authors' experiences and knowledge—one as a school principal and both as parents and advocates—this account compares public, Catholic, private, selective, ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • International Organizations and Higher Education Policy

    Thinking Globally, Acting Locally?

    Edited by Roberta Malee Bassett, Alma Maldonado-Maldonado ...
    Series series International Studies in Higher Education
    Higher Education operates in an increasingly global context, and yet the examination of what drives and moves the field has remained largely focused on domestic campus leaders, national governments and institutional actors. International Organizations and Higher Education Policy expands the analysis to include the global drivers behind higher education policy, including a full array of influential ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • The Development of Postsecondary Education Systems in Canada

    A Comparison between British Columbia, Ontario, and Québec, 1980-2010

    by Donald Fisher, Kjell Rubenson, Theresa Shanahan, Claude Trottier ...
    Significant public investment and increased access to higher education lead to economic development - governments across the political and ideological spectrum believe this and have designed and implemented policy based on this understanding*. The Development of Postsecondary Education Systems in Canada* examines how these policies affect the structure and performance of postsecondary education ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Education and State Formation

    Europe, East Asia and the USA

    by A. Green ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Education has always been a key instrument of nation-building in new states. National education systems have typically been used to assimilate immigrants; to promote established religious doctrines; to spread the standard form of national languages; and to forge national identities and national cultures. They helped construct the very subjectivities of citizenship, justifying the ways of the state ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

  • Practical Knowledge in Teacher Education

    Approaches to teacher internship programmes

    Edited by Javier Calvo de Mora, Keith Wood ...
    Series series Asia-Europe Education Dialogue
    In Practical Knowledge in Teacher Education, expert contributors from across Asia and Europe explore and reflect upon the innovation and creativity in teacher education programs. Specific focus is given to the internships that provide students an opportunity for intensive, hands-on experience in schools. Different approaches to internship provide comprehensive information on a diversity of ways of ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Early Childhood Education in Chinese Societies

    Edited by Nirmala Rao, Jin Sun, Jing Zhou ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book provides an up-to-date account of relevant early childhood policy and practice in five Chinese societies: the People’s Republic of China or Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore, and Taiwan. It analyses how traditional Chinese values, Eastern and Western curricular approaches, and socio-political, economic, cultural and demographic changes influence current policies, services and ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Indigenous Education and the Metaphysics of Presence

    A Worlded Philosophy

    by Carl Mika ...
    Series series New Directions in the Philosophy of Education
    Indigenous Education and the Metaphysics of Presence: A worlded philosophy explores a notion of education called ‘worldedness’ that sits at the core of indigenous philosophy. This is the idea that any one thing is constituted by all others and is, therefore, educational to the extent that it is formational. A suggested opposite of this indigenous philosophy is the metaphysics of presence, which ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Education and Gender

    by Dr Colin Brock ...
    Series series Education as a Humanitarian Response
    Education and Gender draws on international research from the USA, the UK, India, Mexico, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, to provide a comprehensive global overview of the relationship between gender and education. Rooting constructions of gender and sexuality in specific geographical contexts, the contributors consider a range of issues. Themes discussed include the gender gap in ... Read more

    $231.99 CAD

  • Ideas for Intercultural Education

    by S. Marginson, E. Sawir ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Takes a critical look at present approaches to international education, focusing on the intercultural potential that it offers but mostly fails to deliver. The underlying premise of this profound, engaging book is that international education can be a transforming intercultural experience for hosts as well as visitors. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Debating Single-Sex Education

    Separate and Equal?

    by Frances R. Spielhagen ...
    Debating Single Sex Education: Separate and Equal, 2nd edition, provides a balanced summary of the context, concerns, and findings about single sex education in 21st Century United States.Few school reforms have engendered as much controversy as single sex public education.This book examines the history of single-sex classes and legislation that has over time evolved to render the reform legal, ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • The Quest for Entrepreneurial Universities in East Asia

    by K. Mok ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    With the rise of the knowledge economy, universities are under pressure to embrace not just their traditional missions of teaching and research but a third mission of serving economic and social development. This book examines the major strategies that governments in East Asia have adopted to promote this kind of innovation in the education sector. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD