This edited collection brings together leading researchers from Australia, United Kingdom and the United States to explore issues of boys, schooling and masculinities within the context of the current concern about the education of boys. The contributors draw on detailed empirical research to highlight some important issues that are not addressed in public debates about boys in the media. Chapter topics include international perspectives on debates about boys; teaching boys; programmes for boys in schools; boys and risk taking; boys and discipline; boys and sexuality; Afro-American boys;...
This edited collection brings together leading researchers from Australia, United Kingdom and the United States to explore issues of boys, schooling a...
Globalizing Educational Accountabilities analyzes the influence that international and national testing and accountability regimes have on educational policy reform efforts in schooling systems around the world. Tracing the evolution of those regimes, with an emphasis on the OECD's PISA, it reveals the multiple effects of policy as numbers in countries with different types of government and different education systems. From the effect of Shanghai's PISA success on nations trying to compete economically to the perverse effects of linking funding to performance targets in Australia,...
Globalizing Educational Accountabilities analyzes the influence that international and national testing and accountability regimes have on...
Around the globe, various kinds of testing, including high stakes national census testing, have become meta-policies, steering educational systems in particular directions, and having great effects on schools and on teacher practices, as well as upon student learning and curricula. There has also been a complementary global aspect to this with the OECD s PISA and IEA s TIMSS and PIRLS, which have had impacts on national education systems and their policy frameworks.
While there has been a globalized educational policy discourse that suggests that high stakes standardised testing will...
Around the globe, various kinds of testing, including high stakes national census testing, have become meta-policies, steering educational systems ...