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  • Job Satisfaction around the Academic World

    Edited by Peter James Bentley, Hamish Coates, Ian Dobson, Leo Goedegebuure, V Lynn Meek ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Higher education systems have changed all over the world, but not all have changed in the same ways. Although system growth and so-called massification have been worldwide themes, there have been system-specific changes as well. It is these changes that have an important impact on academic work and on the opinions of the staff that work in higher education. The academic profession has a key role ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • The Teaching Gap

    Best Ideas from the World's Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom

    by James W. Stigler, James Hiebert ...
    Comparing math teaching practices in Japan and Germany with those in the United States, two leading researchers offer a surprising new view of teaching and a bold action plan for improving education inside the American classroom.For years our schools and children have lagged behind international standards in reading, arithmetic, and most other areas of academic achievement. It is no secret that ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Hit Lit

    Cracking the Code of the Twentieth Century's Biggest Bestsellers

    by James W. Hall ...
    DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF WHAT MAKES A MEGA-BESTSELLER IN THIS ENTERTAINING, REVELATORY GUIDEWhat do Michael Corleone, Jack Ryan, and Scout Finch have in common? Creative writing professor and thriller writer James W. Hall knows. Now, in this entertaining, revelatory book, he reveals how bestsellers work, using twelve twentieth-century blockbusters as case studies—including The Godfather, Gone with ... Read more

    $6.99 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

    $62.99 USD

  • Effective Schools in Developing Countries

    Edited by 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. ... Read more

    $70.99 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

    $49.49 USD

  • English Language Education and Assessment

    Recent Developments in Hong Kong and the Chinese Mainland

    Edited by David Coniam ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This volume gathers contributions in the closely linked fields of English language assessment and language education. The contributors from China and Hong Kong represent a mixture of established and new scholars. Areas covered in the language education section range across major developments in the redefining of Hong Kong’s secondary and tertiary curricula, as well as the huge field of China’s ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Educational Policy Borrowing in China

    Looking West or looking East?

    by Charlene Tan ...
    Series series Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education
    For over a decade, Mainland China has been embarking on an ambitious nation-wide education reform ('New Curriculum Reform') for its basic education. The reform reflects China’s propensity to borrow selected educational policies from elsewhere, particularly North America and Europe. Chinese scholars have used a local proverb "the West wind has overpowered the East wind" to describe this phenomenon ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Academic Identities in Higher Education

    The Changing European Landscape

    Edited by Professor Linda Evans, Professor Jon Nixon ...
    Academic identity is continually being formed and reformed by the institutional, socio-cultural and political contexts within which academic practitioners operate. In Europe the impact of the 2008 economic crisis and its continuing aftermath accounts for many of these changes, but the diverse cultures and histories of different regions are also significant factors, influencing how institutions ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • The Multiracial Urban High School

    Fearing Peers and Trusting Friends

    by S. Rosenbloom ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    From 1996-2000, thirty minority teenagers (African American, Chinese American, Puerto Rican American, and Dominican American) were interviewed every year for four years to investigate how their experiences in high school shaped their social relationships. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education

    Emerging perspectives on institutional transformation

    Edited by Daryl G. Smith ...
    Series series International Studies in Higher Education
    In addition to many other issues that touch higher education around the world, diversity and equity in higher education is fast becoming a major opportunity and challenge to institutions, countries and regions. The increasing centrality of diversity is fueled in part by changing demographics, immigration, social movements, calls for remedies to historic grievances, and the relationship between ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Cost of Not Educating the World's Poor

    The new economics of learning

    by Lynn Ilon ...
    In The Cost of Not Educating the World’s Poor, Lynn Ilon observes from her 30 years of travel and work in some 20 developing countries, how global instability, problems of environmental degradation, spread of global disease, migration and political instability are a cost of viewing the uneducated poor as separated from a networked of fast-growing global knowledge. This book shows how powerful ... Read more

    $66.99 USD