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  • School Dropout and Completion

    International Comparative Studies in Theory and Policy

    Edited by Stephen Lamb, Eifred Markussen, Richard Teese, Nina Sandberg, John Polesel ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    School dropout remains a persistent and critical issue in many school systems, so much so that it is sometimes referred to as a crisis. Populations across the globe have come to depend on success at school for establishing careers and gaining access to post-school qualifications. Yet large numbers of young people are excluded from the advantages that successful completion of school brings and as a ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

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  • Contentious Curricula

    Afrocentrism and Creationism in American Public Schools

    by Amy Binder ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
    This book compares two challenges made to American public school curricula in the 1980s and 1990s. It identifies striking similarities between proponents of Afrocentrism and creationism, accounts for their differential outcomes, and draws important conclusions for the study of culture, organizations, and social movements.Amy Binder gives a brief history of both movements and then describes how ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • China's Higher Education Reform and Internationalisation

    Edited by Janette Ryan ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    Despite radical and fundamental reform of the Chinese higher education system, very little is known about this outside China. The past decade has seen radical reform of all levels of China’s education system as it attempts to meet changing economic and social needs and aspirations: this has included transformation of university curricula, pedagogy and evaluation measures, rapidly increasing joint ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Ethnography and Language Policy

    Edited by Teresa L. McCarty ...
    Illuminating, through ethnographic inquiry, how individual agents "make" language policy in everyday social practice, this volume advances the growing field of language planning and policy using a critical sociocultural approach. From this perspective, language policy is conceptualized not only as official acts and documents, but as language-regulating modes of human interaction, negotiation, and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Higher Education, Stratification, and Workforce Development

    Competitive Advantage in Europe, the US, and Canada

    Edited by Sheila Slaughter, Barrett Jay Taylor ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This work analyses how political economic shifts contribute to competition within higher education systems in the US, EU, and Canada. The authors highlight competition for prestige and public and private subsidies, exploring the consequences of these processes through theoretical and empirical analyses. Accordingly, the work highlights topics that will be of interest to a wide range of audiences. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Cross-Cultural Teaching and Learning for Home and International Students

    Internationalisation of Pedagogy and Curriculum in Higher Education

    Edited by Janette Ryan ...
    Cross cultural teaching and learning for home and international students maps and discusses the increasing internationalisation of teaching and learning at universities around the world. This new phenomenon brings both opportunities and challenges, as it introduces what can be radically different teaching, learning and assessment contexts for both students and staff. This book moves beyond the ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Curriculum Studies in Brazil

    Intellectual Histories, Present Circumstances

    Edited by W. Pinar ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This collection, comprised of chapters focused on the intellectual histories and present circumstances of curriculum studies in Brazil, is Pinar's summary of exchanges (occurring over a two-year period) between the authors and members of an International Panel (scholars working in Finland, South Africa, the United States). ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Improving Teacher Quality

    The U.S. Teaching Force in Global Context

    by Motoko Akiba, Gerald LeTendre ...
    This groundbreaking work examines teacher quality, work norms, and professional learning opportunities, using data from 15 countries. The authors compare and contrast the United States with two high-achieving countries—Japan and Australia—that have implemented very different approaches to improving teacher quality. Drawing on both large international data sets and ethnographic and small-scale ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Second International Handbook of Urban Education

    Edited by William T. Pink, George W. Noblit ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This second handbook offers all new content in which readers will find a thoughtful and measured interrogation of significant contemporary thinking and practice in urban education. Each chapter reflects contemporary cutting-edge issues in urban education as defined by their local context. One important theme that runs throughout this handbook is how urban is defined, and under what conditions the ... Read more

    $530.99 USD

  • Reforming Higher Education

    Public Policy Design and Implementation

    Edited by Christine Musselin, Pedro N. Teixeira ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book analyzes the reforms that led to a differentiated landscape of higher education systems after university practices and governance were considered poorly adapted to contemporary settings and to their new missions. This has led to a growing institutional differentiation in many higher education systems. This differentiation has certainly contributed to making the institutional landscape ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Navigating Educational Change in China

    Contemporary History and Lived Experiences

    by Fang Wang, Leslie N.K. Lo ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book is a reflection on the complexity of educational change in China through the lens of a senior academic who has occupied many diverse roles in the academe, from political worker to dean of faculty. It narrates his journey through different layers of historical, societal, and institutional transformation while trying to make sense of his own life and work. In this book, the professor is ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • ICT-Supported Innovations in Small Countries and Developing Regions

    Perspectives and Recommendations for International Education

    Edited by Ian A. Lubin ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This timely analysis brings greater clarity to the question of how ICT-supported innovations are experienced in small low- to middle-income countries and developing regions with implications for international education and development. By bringing together a group of international technologists, researchers, and scholars, this book explores the building of local capacity for educational technology ... Read more

    $89.99 USD