Class Size: Eastern and Western Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781138793781 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 292 str.

Peter Blatchford;Kam Wing Chan;Galton Maurice

Opis

This book captures the range of views and evidence on class size across the world; seeks to clarify these deeply held views and move toward a clearer view of what we know and do not know about class size effects; and identify future steps in terms of policy and research. Of all the issues in education, debate about the effects of class sizes in schools is probably the most long standing and contentious. The time is exactly right for a text which captures a range of international research and perspectives, and allows a forum for alternative points of view, while at the same time providing an integrated editorial commentary on the key issues.

Chapters include:

• East and west perspectives: educational and policy contexts and how they have shaped approaches to class size
• Long-term impacts of class size reduction
• Professional development for small class teaching

The book will be an invaluable and potentially seminal addition to the very disparate literature on the class size topic. This will be a valuable contribution to the literature because it will be a one stop reference for coverage and understanding of the topic.

O autorze

Peter Blatchford is Professor of Psychology and Education at the UCL Institute of Education, University College London and Honorary and Visiting Professor at the Education University of Hong Kong (formerly the Hong Kong Institute of Education). Kam Wing Chan is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and Honorary Advisorin the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at the Education University of Hong Kong. He was formerly the Director of the Centre for Small Class Teaching at the University. Maurice Galton is Emeritus Professor with the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge and Former Dean of Education and Continuing Education at the University of Leicester; previously he was Visiting Professor at Hong Kong Institute of Education and evaluator of the Hong Kong Government's small class teaching programme from 2004 to 2014. Kwok Chan Lai is Adjunct Associate Professorin the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and Honorary Advisorin the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at the Education University of Hong Kong. He was the founding Director of the Centre for Small Class Teaching from 2006 to 2012. John Chi-Kin Lee is Vice President (Academic) and Chair Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, as well as Co-Director of the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, at the Education University of Hong Kong. He was conferred the title of Changjiang Chair Professor.