In the educational arena, new ideas often compete as solutions to recurrent problems, making the concept of "innovations" a widespread discursive term. While expectations are substantial for each innovation, implementation of ideas has shown them to be more modest in practice. This book examines innovations in several developing countries, presenting case studies of technological, curricular, and organizational innovations selected for their magnitude in financial investment, scope, and duration. The case studies explore the social and political contexts that shaped the features of these...
In the educational arena, new ideas often compete as solutions to recurrent problems, making the concept of "innovations" a widespread discursive term...
US-based scholars of education and social sciences of whom one grew up in Japan and two in China discuss Japanese education as a construction of American projections, and demonstrate new, more sophisticated, and more nuanced research in the field. They look at such issues as what aspects get noticed
US-based scholars of education and social sciences of whom one grew up in Japan and two in China discuss Japanese education as a construction of Ameri...
This volume explores global issues in the professional development of science teachers, and considers classroom applications of teacher training with a comparative lens.
This volume explores global issues in the professional development of science teachers, and considers classroom applications of teacher training with ...
This volume examines the lives of young adolescents in Japanese middle schools, focusing on the dynamics of school, family, and social life, and explores the change from child to adolescent that takes place in the middle school years.
This volume examines the lives of young adolescents in Japanese middle schools, focusing on the dynamics of school, family, and social life, and explo...