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New Perspectives in Educational Leadership examines educational administration and leadership within the complex social, political, and community contexts that inform and influence the work of today’s educational leaders. With particular attention to the implications...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-03-03
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Drawing on critical pedagogy, post-colonial analysis, hermeneutic interpretation, and reconceptualist curriculum frameworks, the twenty chapters in this edited collection address, from interrelated perspectives, a gap in the scholarly literature on the theory, practice,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-03-03
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The book is centered on how major curriculum reform shapes mathematics and the professional practices of teachers. This book documents in real time the implementation of a major government numeracy programme and its receipt by trainee and new teachers. It documents the...
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Springer
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2011-02-08
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This book is about a small city state’s social experiment with globalization. It examines how Singapore conducts its globalization experiment through the state apparatus of schooling and education policy. The author argues that Singapore engages with globalization by...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-01-14
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Collaboration and networking have recently come to the fore as major school improvement strategies in a number of countries. A variety of initiatives, from government and other agencies, have encouraged collaboration and led to a lot of practical activity in this area....
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Springer
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2011-01-04
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Die Disziplingeschichte der Erziehungswissenschaft in China wird in dieser Studie aus sozial- und problemgeschichtlicher Sicht behandelt.Die Rekonstruktion der Disziplinentstehung und die Systematisierung des Themenspektrums in den ersten 20 Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-12-21
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Entsprechende Motivation der Beteiligten beschleunigt Prozesse. Dies gilt in besonderem Maße für die aktuelle Bildungsreform. Mit der Planung, Entwicklung und Struktur von Studiengängen beschäftigten Kommissionen, Dekanaten und Hochschulleitungen wird hier eine...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-11-23
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This book contributes to the setting out of a new, better informed and complex basis for discussions about the relationships between the State, the civil society and the citizen in distinct European countries and regions. It will be useful to researchers in the field of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-11-23
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This book provides an interdisciplinary and collaborative anthology that seeks to make a compelling and exciting analysis of contemporary Hollywood film texts (and the larger industry and society to which they are dialectically related) in light of Giroux's ideas about...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-11-14
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It is generally taken for granted that human behavior distributes along the lines of a bell-shaped, normal curve. This idea underpins much educational theory, research, and practice. There is, however, a considerable body of research demonstrating that the normal curve...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2010-11-01
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Too Simple to Fail presents a startling dissection of what is wrong with our educational system and a set of simple, common-sense steps for improving it. This simplicity, Bausell argues, characterizes both the schooling process and the science of education, as witnessed...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-11-01
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Each book includes a 15 gift card from DonorsChoose.org to give to a classroom in need. The American public school system is in crisis, failing millions of students, producing as many drop-outs as graduates, and threatening our economic future. By 2020, the United...
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PublicAffairs
Parution :
2010-09-14
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Over the last decade the structure of higher education in most countries has undergone significant change brought about by social demands for expanded access, technological developments, and market forces. In this period of change the traditional concerns with access...
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Springer
Parution :
2010-04-12
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This book focuses on the language of educational research as well as on the language of education. It conceives both as social practices and investigates how rhetoric plays a part in the complex process of historically situated argumentation. The book aims to answer...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2009-10-08
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Educational Research
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Every year more colleges and high schools are offering classes (and often making them required classes) in black history. Joanne Turner-Sadler provides a concise and probing treatment of 400 years of black history in America that can be used with age groups ranging from...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2009-07-01
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In America today, the gap between the rich and the poor is the greatest ever recorded--larger than any other industrialized nation. It has become far too easy to ignore the hardships of millions of children plagued by poverty, poor health, illiteracy, violence, adult...
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Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2008-09-23
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Boston s schools in 2006 won the Eli Broad Prize for the Most Improved Urban School System in America. But from the 1930s into the 1970s the city schools succumbed to scandals including the sale of jobs and racial segregation. This book describes the black voices before...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-02-14
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This children's book takes the everyday matter of chemistry and transforms it into a subject of wonder, fun and discovery. It's Elementary! is full of amazing facts, fantastic images and an incredible world of elements to explore. From the stone age to twentieth...
Editeur :
Dk Children
Parution :
2007-06-07
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The Comparative Education Research Centre (CERC) at the University of Hong Kong is proud and privileged to present this book in its series CERC Studies in Comparative Education. Alan Rogers is a distinguished figure in the field of non-formal education, and brings to...
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Springer
Parution :
2007-03-06
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This book challenges the conventional wisdom that greater schooling and skill improvement leads to higher wages, that income inequality falls with wider access to schooling, and that the Information Technology revolution will re-ignite worker pay. Indeed, the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2006-04-25
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