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Progressive Education: A Critical Introduction
ISBN: 9780826440914 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How and why we should educate children has always been a central concern for governments around the world, and there have long been those who have opposed orthodoxy, challenged perception and called for a radicalization of youth. Progressive Education draws together Continental Romantics, Utopian dreamers, radical feminists, pioneering psychologists and social agitators to explore the history of the progressive education movement. Beginning with Jean Jacques Rousseau's seminal treatise Emile and closing with the Critical Pedagogy movement, this book draws on the latest... How and why we should educate children has always been a central concern for governments around the world, and there have long been those who have ... |
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Ability Grouping in Education
ISBN: 9780761972082 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ability Grouping in Education provides an overview of ability grouping in education. The authors consider selective schooling and ability grouping within schools, such as: * streaming * banding setting * within-class grouping. Drawing on their own and others' research in primary and secondary schools, the authors provide an accessible analysis of the issues and latest research on ability grouping; as well as the implications of ability grouping for teachers, managers in education and the wider community.
Ability Grouping in Education provides an overview of ability grouping in education. The authors consider selective schooling and ability grouping wit...
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The Wiley Handbook of Educational Supervision
ISBN: 9781119128274 / Angielski / Twarda / 664 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An authoritative guide to educational supervision in today s complex environment The Wiley Handbook of Educational Supervision offers a comprehensive resource that explores the evolution of supervision through contributions from a panel of noted experts.
An authoritative guide to educational supervision in today s complex environment The Wiley Handbook of Educational Supervision offers a comprehensiv...
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Turning on Learning: Five Approaches for Multicultural Teaching Plans for Race, Class, Gender and Disability
ISBN: 9780470383704 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With a wealth of ready-to-use lesson plans for grade levels K-12 covering a variety of subject areas, "Turning on Learning, Fifth Edition" shows students how to apply the principles of multicultural education in the classroom. This practical, lesson-based companion to Sleeter and Grant's "Making Choices for Multicultural Education: Five Approaches to Race, Class and Gender" features additional lesson plans and new resource material, along with updates of existing lesson plans.
With a wealth of ready-to-use lesson plans for grade levels K-12 covering a variety of subject areas, "Turning on Learning, Fifth Edition" shows stude...
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School-Based Management and School Effectiveness
ISBN: 9780415083133 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Concern regarding the quality of education, the goals and outcomes of schooling, the relationship between education and international economic competitiveness, continuous financial stringency and competing social demands for public funds have forced educational authorities in many countries to reassess educational needs both qualitatively and quantitatively. For these reasons considerations of improving the effectiveness of schooling have tended to be based around policies of rationalized budget allocations and accountability. In most countries the concern has been, if not how to achieve...
Concern regarding the quality of education, the goals and outcomes of schooling, the relationship between education and international economic competi...
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Education Reform in Contemporary Spain
ISBN: 9780415091480 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of recently published and specially commissioned articles which chart the rapid and extensive process of education reform in Spain over the last two decades. The articles cover in detail all the key measures of reform and the relevant changes in legislation and government policy since the 1970 Ley General de Educacion. They also set these changes within the context of the contemporary historical background. The book shows that throughout, the process of reform in Spain has been characterized by both idealism and determination, and has been notable for its sheer pace. Topics...
A collection of recently published and specially commissioned articles which chart the rapid and extensive process of education reform in Spain over t...
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The Governance of Schooling: Comparative Studies of Devolved Management
ISBN: 9780415195379 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent reforms in the governance of schooling have affected roles, relationships and decision-making within schools and between them and the wider community. Using empirical and theoretical approaches this book describes, analyses and compares the effects of devolved management on secondary schools in a number of countries. It casts a critical light upon policy assumptions and aims, challenging assumptions about the way policy works in practice.
Through a comparative international perspective, which looks at countries including the UK and the US, the conflicting options for school... Recent reforms in the governance of schooling have affected roles, relationships and decision-making within schools and between them and the wider com...
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Managing Complex Educational Change: Large Scale Reorganisation of Schools
ISBN: 9780415200967 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why is educational change becoming more complex? Are there patterns in this complexity? How may managers cope effectively with complex educational change?
This book investigates initiatives to reorganise school systems, involving highly emotive closures and mergers. It reveals how reorganisation was a complex change to manage because it was large-scale, componential, systematic, differentially impacting and context dependent. These characteristics affected management tasks, generating ambiguity in the change process that limited managers' capacity to control it. The authors offer four... Why is educational change becoming more complex? Are there patterns in this complexity? How may managers cope effectively with complex educational cha...
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Restructuring: The Key to Effective School Management
ISBN: 9780415202176 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides an introduction to and analysis of the concept of the restructuring of schools. It includes detailed case-study material, which analyses the theory, considers the real people involved, and offers practical solutions to the problems of understanding and managing restructuring.
Cyril Poster retired from teaching to become deputy director of the National Development Centre for School and Management Training at Bristol University, and then a freelance trainer and consultant. He was the previous series editor of the Routledge Educational Management series. Sonia... This book provides an introduction to and analysis of the concept of the restructuring of schools. It includes detailed case-study material, which ana...
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Extending Educational Reform: From One School to Many
ISBN: 9780415240697 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In an effort to improve student achievement, thousands of US schools have adopted school reform models devised externally by universities and other organizations. Such models have been successful in improving individual schools or groups of schools, but what happens when educational reform attempts to extend from one school to many?
Through qualitative data from several studies, this book explores what happens when school reform 'goes to scale'. Topics covered include: *why and how schools are adopting reforms *the influence of the local context and wider constraints on the... In an effort to improve student achievement, thousands of US schools have adopted school reform models devised externally by universities and other or...
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Equality and Power in Schools: Redistribution, Recognition and Representation
ISBN: 9780415268059 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on a study of 12 schools over a two-year period, this book explores issues of equality and power both in the classroom and in the staffroom. Through classroom observation, interviews with pupils and staff, focus groups and questionnaires, the authors examine classroom practice, grouping and streaming, peer group relations and attitudes to power relationships both between pupils and teachers, and amongst teachers themselves. They also look particularly at the different experiences of pupils in single sex and co-educational schools.
The authors' findings offer an insight into the way... Based on a study of 12 schools over a two-year period, this book explores issues of equality and power both in the classroom and in the staffroom. Thr...
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The New Strategic Direction and Development of the School : Key Frameworks for School Improvement Planning
ISBN: 9780415269926 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written for those in leadership roles in schools and those studying leadership on government and university courses, this textbook provides a framework that should help schools to meet the dynamic conditions in which they must operate while responding to current pressures and demands.
Written for those in leadership roles in schools and those studying leadership on government and university courses, this textbook provides a framewor...
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Class Strategies and the Education Market : The Middle Classes and Social Advantage
ISBN: 9780415272766 / Angielski / Twarda / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Modern state education was essentially formed around the needs and interests of the middle class. The middle classes are currently very much at the centre of all politicians' electoral concerns. Nevertheless sociological and educational research has tended to neglect the middle class. Class Strategies and the Education Market examines the ways in which the middle classes maintain and improve their social advantages in and through education. Drawing on an extensive series of interviews with parents and children, this book identifies key moments of decision making in the construction of the...
Modern state education was essentially formed around the needs and interests of the middle class. The middle classes are currently very much at the ce...
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Literacy Crises and Reading Policies: Children Still Can't Read!
ISBN: 9780415336765 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This widely researched comparative study addresses the critical issue of literacy crises around the world and questions their wider sociological and educational impact. The recurring literacy crises in England and English speaking countries such as the US and New Zealand are linked to wider issues of educational standards, concepts of teacher professionalism, debates over curriculum content and the whole purpose of schooling, in order for us to obtain a deeper understanding of specific national contexts and the political pressures involved. The authors' comparative approach enables... This widely researched comparative study addresses the critical issue of literacy crises around the world and questions their wider sociological an... |
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Schooling and the Politics of Disaster
ISBN: 9780415956598 / Angielski / Twarda / 295 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Schooling and the Politics of Disaster is the first volume to address how disaster is being used for a radical social and economic reengineering of education. From the natural disasters of the Asian tsunami and the hurricanes in the Gulf Coast, to the human-made disasters in Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti, Sudan, Indonesia, the United States and around the globe, disaster is increasingly shaping policy and politics. This groundbreaking collection explores how education policy is being reshaped by disaster politics. Noted scholars in education and sociology tackle issues as far-ranging as No... Schooling and the Politics of Disaster is the first volume to address how disaster is being used for a radical social and economic reengineering of... |
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Schooling Reform in Hard Times
ISBN: 9780750701198 / Angielski / Twarda / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on research carried out under Labour governments throughout the 1990s in Western Australia, the authors consider the social, political and economic conditions under which policy is formulated, understood and enacted. They look at how the state structure affects the content and nature of policy statements and provide an outline of the history of policy developments and point to future possibilities and probabilities.
Based on research carried out under Labour governments throughout the 1990s in Western Australia, the authors consider the social, political and econo...
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Educational Reform at the State Level: The Politics and Problems of Implementation
ISBN: 9780750702065 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book sets out to describe the personal experiences of a state worker in Missouri as she attempted to implement educational reform programmes in the late 1980's. This was a critical time in America as other states were mandating new regulations to improve the quality of schools. Problems emerged such as lack of resources, bureaucratic red tape, and a dysfunctional administrative structure caused chaos, hampering the ability of the state workers to regulate and administer the new programmes. Some of the superintendents who did not believe in the new programmes resisted by abusing state...
This book sets out to describe the personal experiences of a state worker in Missouri as she attempted to implement educational reform programmes in t...
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School Leadership: Beyond Education Management
ISBN: 9780750704144 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text provides a study of the education policy scholarship of leadership. It examines the ways in which concepts of educational leadership and management have evolved historically and culturally, reviewing contemporary debates about the nature of school leadership.
This text provides a study of the education policy scholarship of leadership. It examines the ways in which concepts of educational leadership and man...
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Private And Public School Partnerships: Sharing Lessons About Decentralization
ISBN: 9780750705363 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The presentation of a practical model showing how three schools dealt with privatization. This study asks whether privatization is a means of improving education and discusses the issues central to successful privatization including the choices for parents.
The presentation of a practical model showing how three schools dealt with privatization. This study asks whether privatization is a means of improvin...
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Transforming Schools
ISBN: 9780750705660 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Centred around the topic of school leadership, this book addresses the difficulties and challenges which present themselves to school leaders across the western world. All the evidence is primary and secondary school-based.
Centred around the topic of school leadership, this book addresses the difficulties and challenges which present themselves to school leaders across t...
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