Toward School Development focuses on university-school partnership and highlights changes in school development. Relating experiences of and research on school development in connection with individual strategies and organizational strategies. Specifically illustrating the nature of different partnerships. Contributors to this book range from renowned scholars, school reformers, to experienced practitioners. Jointly providing an international perspective on the issues related to school partnerships and development.
The book is broadly divided...
Toward School Development focuses on university-school partnership and highlights changes in school development. Relating experiences of an...
Roger Hon-Man Cheng John Chi-Kin Lee Leslie NAI-Kwai Lo
This book is a collection of papers by experts in education in various places of the world on the theory and practice of values education in global contexts. The chapters are divided into three parts, which respectively deal with theoretical exploration, varieties, and issues in values education for citizens. The current issues in Australia, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Macau, and Thailand are discussed, leading us to the important question of how commonly shared values and multiculturalism can be balanced in values education. The book will be a valuable and useful reference for the...
This book is a collection of papers by experts in education in various places of the world on the theory and practice of values education in global co...
More than ever, schools are regarded as a learning community in which its leaders, and therefore the school's primary agents of change, are expected to stay abreast of the latest developments in education and instruction. This book provides important insights for improving professional development activities, school-university partnerships and networks, educational management, as well as teaching and learning in schools and colleges. It builds on research conducted in the 1990s, during which the pursuit of school improvement and skill development first converged.
More than ever, schools are regarded as a learning community in which its leaders, and therefore the school's primary agents of change, are expected t...
This book focuses on the academic foundations, trends and traditions of environmental education for sustainable development principally in Chinese contexts. It highlights contexts and case studies that illuminate recent Chinese initiatives. It includes case studies of green schools and reports on recent initiatives in school-based ESD curriculum development programmes in China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. The book concludes with an overview chapter that points to likely future developments. The assumption underpinning the book is that experiences gained in such a major country as China will...
This book focuses on the academic foundations, trends and traditions of environmental education for sustainable development principally in Chinese con...
This volume discusses education within the context of globalization and examines what is occurring in schools and systems of education in the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Chinese Taipei, Singapore, and Australia.
This volume discusses education within the context of globalization and examines what is occurring in schools and systems of education in the People's...
Within educational research that seeks to understand the quality and effectiveness of teachers and school, the role emotions play in educational change and school improvement has become a subject of increasing importance. In this book, scholars from around the world explore the connections between teaching, teacher education, teacher emotions, educational change and school leadership. (For this text, teacher encompasses pre-service teachers, in-service teachers and headteachers, or principals).
New Understandings of Teacher s Work: Emotions and Educational Change is...
Within educational research that seeks to understand the quality and effectiveness of teachers and school, the role emotions play in educational ch...