While globalization has had tremendous influence on the world of teaching, national cultural traditions continue to influence systems of schooling, national curricula, and teachers' values and classroom practices. This book explores the effects of globalisation on teachers through an examination of the values held by beginning teachers in three distinctly different education systems. Utilizing interview data from teachers within the social democratic traditions of Norway, the 'corporatist welfare' regime seen in Germany and the more individualised, market-led approach to education adopted...
While globalization has had tremendous influence on the world of teaching, national cultural traditions continue to influence systems of schooling,...
This volume describes the legal prohibition of physical punishment of children. Documenting the stories of countries that have either prohibited corporal punishment of children or are moving in that direction.
This volume describes the legal prohibition of physical punishment of children. Documenting the stories of countries that have either prohibited corpo...
This text seeks to explore the ethical, methodological & social justice questions that arise in education research that is founded on conceptualizations of binary opposites. In education research these dualisms may include ability-disability, academic-vocational, adult-child, domestic-foreign, male-female, public-private, & young-old.
This text seeks to explore the ethical, methodological & social justice questions that arise in education research that is founded on conceptualizatio...
Despite over thirty years of activism and legislation to eliminate discrimination, parity has yet to be achieved for women in academe. This book illustrates the methods of policy discourse analysis by describing their use in a study of twenty-one women's commission reports. It is suitable for researchers in policy studies, and higher education.
Despite over thirty years of activism and legislation to eliminate discrimination, parity has yet to be achieved for women in academe. This book illus...
Based on case studies from public schools in Toronto, Canada, this book chronicles an inspiring five-year journey to develop thinking about and teaching literacy for the 21st century.
Based on case studies from public schools in Toronto, Canada, this book chronicles an inspiring five-year journey to develop thinking about and teachi...
Education is a controversial subject in which difficult and contested discourses are the norm. Individuals in education experience multiple inequalities and have diverse identifications that cannot necessarily be captured by one theoretical perspective alone. This edited collection draws on empirical and theoretical research to examine the intersections of race, gender and class, alongside other aspects of personhood, within education.
Education is a controversial subject in which difficult and contested discourses are the norm. Individuals in education experience multiple inequaliti...
This book is a comparative history that explores the social, cultural, and political formation of the modern nation through the construction of public schooling. It asks how modern school systems arose in a variety of different republics and non-republics across four continents during the period from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. The authors begin with the republican preoccupation with civic virtue -- the need to overcome self-interest in order to take up the common interest -- which requires a form of education that can produce individuals who are capable of...
This book is a comparative history that explores the social, cultural, and political formation of the modern nation through the construction of public...
In the continuing global call for educational reforms and change, the contributors in this edited collection address the critical issue of teacher learning from diverse national contexts and perspectives. They define teacher learning that matters as it shapes and directs pedagogical practices with the goal of improving student learning. Student achievement is broadly and inclusively defined, beyond the test scores so often identified as the mark of success in the research literature. This book weaves together major studies, research findings and theoretical orientations to represent a...
In the continuing global call for educational reforms and change, the contributors in this edited collection address the critical issue of teacher lea...
Research evidence indicates that formative assessment is one of the most effective ways of enhancing student learning. It is, however, difficult to implement successfully, principally because what is tested through summative assessment has such a powerful influence on teacher and student actions. This book scrutinizes the relationship between testing and learning from alternative perspectives to the dominant literature from the major Anglophone countries. It develops the notion of contextually grounded formative assessment practices by analyzing data from schools in the Confucian-heritage...
Research evidence indicates that formative assessment is one of the most effective ways of enhancing student learning. It is, however, difficult to im...
Throughout the world, equity and excellence in education is a major issue of concern. International comparative studies such as those carried out by OECD (PISA) have launched a worldwide debate on the effectiveness of educational systems (macro level), schools (meso level) and teachers (micro level) in terms of enhancing equity and excellence. Inspired by the OECD research and spurred by national policy-making, quantitative and qualitative research studies have recently been conducted in different parts of the globe aiming to provide deeper insight into the crucial variables that have an...
Throughout the world, equity and excellence in education is a major issue of concern. International comparative studies such as those carried out by O...
