What constitutes quality schooling? What are the implications for educational practice and administration? The text looks at these questions and examines international research evidence and reform initiatives with particular emphasis on North America, UK, Australasia and the Third World. It offers a synopsis of the Third World School Effects Research (SER). The authors claim that the challenges now facing educational leaders is to find a balance between SER and the other school movements and to ask more demanding questions of our educational systems.
What constitutes quality schooling? What are the implications for educational practice and administration? The text looks at these questions and exami...
The Effectiveness of Mathematics Teaching in Primary Schools provides a timely and unique insight into today s mathematics classrooms in England and China and arrives at a time when the world is eager to know how Chinese learners consistently excel at learning mathematics and other core subjects.
Showcasing the kinds of teaching methods that work or do not work within and across countries, this book presents a rich collection of various views, including those from teachers, their native colleagues, their foreign colleagues and the researcher, regarding the quality of mathematics...
The Effectiveness of Mathematics Teaching in Primary Schools provides a timely and unique insight into today s mathematics classrooms in England an...
In 1989 and 1990 the map of Europe was transformed peacefully, without the wars which caused the other great ruptures of the international order in 1815, 1870, 1918, and 1945. What role did international summitry play in the denouement of the Cold War? Scholars have tended to focus on long-term systemic factors, Gorbachev's reform agenda, or the impact in 1989 of 'people power'. This major multinational study, based on archives from both sides of the 'Iron Curtain', adopts a novel perspective by exploring the contribution of international statecraft to the dissolution of Europe's bipolar...
In 1989 and 1990 the map of Europe was transformed peacefully, without the wars which caused the other great ruptures of the international order in 18...
