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  • Educating the Children of Migrant Workers in Beijing

    Migration, education, and policy in urban China

    de Myra Pong ...
    Series series Education and Society in China
    Educating the Children of Migrant Workers in Beijing is a timely book that addresses the gap in the provision of basic education to migrant children in China. It examines the case of Beijing, with a focus on policy implementation at the municipal and district levels and its impacts on migrant schools and their students.Rural migrant workers in the cities usually lack local hukou (household ... Leer más

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  • What Makes a Good School?

    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, ... Leer más

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  • Toxic Schools

    High-Poverty Education in New York and Amsterdam

    de Bowen Paulle ...
    Series series Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries
    Violent urban schools loom large in our culture: for decades they have served as the centerpieces of political campaigns and as window dressing for brutal television shows and movies. Yet unequal access to quality schools remains the single greatest failing of our society—and one of the most hotly debated issues of our time. Of all the usual words used to describe non-selective city schools ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Non-Western Educational Traditions

    Local Approaches to Thought and Practice

    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    Informative and mind-opening, this text uniquely provides a comprehensive overview of a range of non-western approaches to educational thought and practice. Its premise is that understanding the ways that other people educate their children—as well as what counts for them as "education"—may help readers to think more clearly about some of their own assumptions and values, and to become more open ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Institutionalization of World-Class University in Global Competition

    Edición de Barbara M. Kehm, Jung Cheol Shin ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Moving the academic debate on from its current focus on development to a more nuanced sociological perspective, this fresh research is a collaboration between academics in South Korea and Germany that assesses the factors shaping world-class universities as institutional social systems as well as national cultural treasures. The work explores in detail how WCUs have moved to a central position in ... Leer más

    $89.09 USD

  • The Finnish Education Mystery

    Historical and sociological essays on schooling in Finland

    de Hannu Simola ...
    Finnish education has been a focus of global interest since its first PISA success in 2001. After years of superficial celebration, astonishment and educational tourism, the focus has recently shifted to what is possibly the most interesting element of this Finnish success story: that Finnish schools have been effectively applying methods that go against the flow of global education policy with no ... Leer más

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  • Effective Schools in Developing Countries

    Edición de Henry Levin, Marlaine Lockheed ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    This volume brings together eight case studies which describe a variety of initiatives to create more effective schools for children of poverty, especially in the Third World. The initiatives reviewed published and unpublished documents and both qualitative and statistical studies were examined. Countries include Brazil, Burundi, Colombia, Ghana, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and the United States. ... Leer más

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  • Debating Single-Sex Education

    Separate and Equal?

    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, ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD

  • Lee Kuan Yew’s Educational Legacy

    The Challenges of Success

    Edición de Oon Seng Tan, Ee Ling Low, David Hung ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The late Mr Lee Kuan Yew (1923–2015) laid the foundations for the creation of a first-world education system in Singapore. Like many other issues concerning the country, his ideas for education were transported in a red box, which he took with him wherever he went, even up to his last days. Inside it was always something designed to help create a better life for all Singaporeans.The editors of ... Leer más

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  • Indigenous Education and the Metaphysics of Presence

    A Worlded Philosophy

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Continuing Professional Education in Australia

    A Tale of Missed Opportunities

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book offers a history of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in the Australian context. It presents an approach that links the development of CPD to a series of 'missed opportunities' and the identification of three key themes (mandatory CPD, competencies and regulation/registration) as well as with national regulation for select health professions. It not only relates the evolution of ... Leer más

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  • Mergers in Higher Education

    The Experience from Northern Europe

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book addresses the critical knowledge gaps of mergers involving higher education institutions. It is based on a comparative research project (spring 2013-spring 2015) investigating the phenomena of mergers involving higher education institutions across the Nordic countries – Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. The study involved close to 30 scholars from the region, and aimed at shedding ... Leer más

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