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  • Private Schools and School Choice in Compulsory Education

    Global Change and National Challenge

    Edited by Thomas Koinzer, Rita Nikolai, Florian Waldow ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Marketization and privatization in compulsory education have spread around the globe. School choice is seen by many to be the panacea to develop the quality of schools and improve school systems worldwide. Additionally in many countries several types of private schools expand and change the school landscapes. The articles of the anthology analyse and discuss these changes in several countries and ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Understanding PISA’s Attractiveness

    Critical Analyses in Comparative Policy Studies

    Edited by Florian Waldow, Gita Steiner-Khamsi ...
    Series series New Directions in Comparative and International Education
    Understanding PISA's Attractiveness examines how policy makers and the media interpret the results of PISA league-leaders, losers, and slippers in ways that suit their own reform agendas. As a result, a myriad of explanations exist as to why an educational system is high or low performing. The chapters, written by leading scholars from Australia, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway, ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • World Yearbook of Education 2012

    Policy Borrowing and Lending in Education

    Edited by Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Florian Waldow ...
    Series series World Yearbook of Education
    The phenomenon of "travelling reforms" has become an object of great professional interest and intensive academic scrutiny. The fact that the same set of educational reforms is transferred from one country to another made scholars wonder whether policy transfer has increased as a result of globalization. But also the fact that policy makers increasingly import "best practices "and international ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • International Handbook of Curriculum Research

    Edited by William F. Pinar ...
    Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
    Continuing its calling to define the field and where it is going, the Second Edition of this landmark handbook brings up to date its comprehensive reportage of scholarly developments and school curriculum initiatives worldwide, providing a panoramic view of the state of curriculum studies globally. Its international scope and currency and range of research and theory reflect and contribute ... Read more

    $179.99 USD

  • What Makes a Good School?

    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

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Globalization and the Singapore Curriculum

    From Policy to Classroom

    Edited by Zongyi Deng, Christine Kim-Eng Lee, S Gopinathan ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This volume provides a multi-faceted and critical analysis of the Singapore curriculum in relation to globalization. First, it details reform initiatives established by the Singapore government to meet the challenges posed by globalization. Next, Globalization and the Singapore Curriculum presents how these reforms have been translated into programs, school subjects and operational frameworks and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Linguistic Imperialism Continued

    by Robert Phillipson ...
    This volume brings together key writings since the 1992 publication of Linguistic Imperialism – Robert Phillipson’s controversial benchmark volume, which triggered a major re-thinking of the English teaching profession by connecting the field to wider political and economic forces. Analyzing how the global dominance of English in all domains of power is maintained, legitimized and persists in the ... Read more

    $86.99 USD

  • Culturally Responsive Pedagogy

    Working towards Decolonization, Indigeneity and Interculturalism

    Edited by Fatima Pirbhai-Illich, Shauneen Pete, Fran Martin ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book convincingly argues that effective culturally responsive pedagogies require teachers to firstly undertake a critical deconstruction of Self in relation to and with the Other; and secondly, to take into account how power affects the socio-political, cultural and historical contexts in which the education relation takes place. The contributing authors are from a range of diaspora, ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Reinventing the Curriculum

    New Trends in Curriculum Policy and Practice

    Edited by Dr Mark Priestley, Professor Gert Biesta ...
    Scotland's Curriculum for Excellence offers an example of a different approach to national curriculum development. It combines what are claimed to be the best features of top-down and bottom-up approaches to curriculum development, and provides an indication of the broad qualities that school education should promote rather than a detailed description of curriculum content. Advocates of the ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Handbook of Comparative Education Law

    Selected Asian Nations, Volume 2

    Edited by Charles J. Russo ...
    Each of the four volumes in this set, as well as each volume independently, provide comparative analyses for researches, practitioners, and students of the law and educationIn examining law and education in various countries around the world. Designed to allow readers to learn from, rather than copy, the legal and educational systems in these volumes, the books are designed to generate thought and ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Schooling, Society and Curriculum

    Edited by Alex Moore ...
    Series series Foundations and Futures of Education
    Schooling, Society and Curriculum offers a much needed reassessment and realignment of curriculum studies in the UK and international contexts. Comprising a collection of eleven original chapters by prominent, nationally and internationally known experts in the field of curriculum studies, the book leads and fosters critical, generic debates about formal education and its relationships to wider ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • 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

    $80.09 USD