In common with most of the industrialized countries, France has undertaken an ambitious programme of education reform in the period 1980-1995. This work uses extracts from contemporary writing to examine exactly how and why that process has happened, focusing on all stages of the education system. Sections cover the main characteristics of school reform in France, its aims and objectives, a discussion of the desirability of, and politics surrounding, the reform process, and explorations of classroom practice, the changing role of parents, standards in schools, and the curriculum.

This work brings together a range of authoritative accounts of key issues facing educationalists as the 21st century begins. The volume contains almost 60 contributions exploring issues ranging from early childhood to adult education, from developments in the teaching of reading to challenges of peace education. The chapters are divided into five topic fields: foundations, processes, substantive issues, sectors and subjects. Each chapter gives a contemporary account of developments in the field, and looks to the future and the directions that new activity and enquiry is likely to take. All...

This book provides a rich range of case studies and theoretical and methodological perspectives on the practical leadership tasks that underpin educational change.
Section 1 focuses on the nature of professional learning and the policy context in which educational reform takes place.
Section 2 explores the forms of leadership relevant to the differing contexts of professional development.
Section 3 explores mentoring, peer coaching, team and group work. These processes are examined through international experience and by reference to work in other professions.
Section 4...

The articles which make up this reader provide both overview and analysis of the central issues in secondary education. Focused closely upon what it means to teach and learn in the modern secondary classroom, this book provides invaluable insight into the development of secondary education today. It is an ideal introduction to the task of teachers in secondary schools. Issues covered in the book include:
the new agenda around teaching and learning
effective pedagogy
the teacher-student relationship
teaching, learning and the digital age
grouping by ability
managing the...

This collection presents new investigations into the role of heritage languages and the correlation between culture and language from a pedagogic and cosmopolitical point of view.

Research and writing on secondary education is often a specialised treatment of isolated themes. This reader draws together the most significant work of recent years across a whole range of themes to give students and new teachers an overview of some of the most important issues and challenges that faced secondary teachers in the 1990s.

It looks at the central players - the children and the teachers - at the classrooms in which they work together; at the curriculum, both implicit and overt; and at the wider community and political context of secondary education. Divided into...