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The School Choice Journey: School Vouchers and the Empowerment of Urban Families
ISBN: 9781137442659 / Angielski / Twarda / 217 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This in-depth chronicle of 110 families in Washington, DC's Opportunity Scholarship Program provides a realistic look at how urban families experience the process of using school choice vouchers and transform from government clients to consumers of education and active citizens.
This in-depth chronicle of 110 families in Washington, DC's Opportunity Scholarship Program provides a realistic look at how urban families experience...
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Skills and Inequality: Partisan Politics and the Political Economy of Education Reforms in Western Welfare States
ISBN: 9781107062931 / Angielski / Twarda / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Skills and Inequality studies the political economy of education and training reforms from the perspective of comparative welfare state research. Highlighting the striking similarities between established worlds of welfare capitalism and educational regimes, Marius R. Busemeyer argues that both have similar political origins in the postwar period. He identifies partisan politics and different varieties of capitalism as crucial factors shaping choices about the institutional design of post-secondary education. The political and institutional survival of vocational education and training as an...
Skills and Inequality studies the political economy of education and training reforms from the perspective of comparative welfare state research. High...
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College Now!: What Needs to Be Done to Give Urban Students a Real Path to Success
ISBN: 9780807755433 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This remarkable, first-hand account reveals the impediments and challenges to educating inner-city secondary students when so much is arrayed against them and how believing in all kids helped save a school and change education in the state of Colorado. In 2 years, Principal Scott Mendelsberg took his school from a 17% to a 73% college matriculation rate. He didnt get new teachers, a new building, different kids, or a new curriculum. He just made sure students realized that college was an option for them.
This remarkable, first-hand account reveals the impediments and challenges to educating inner-city secondary students when so much is arrayed against ...
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College Now!: What Needs to Be Done to Give Urban Students a Real Path to Success
ISBN: 9780807755631 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This remarkable, first-hand account reveals the impediments and challenges to educating inner-city secondary students when so much is arrayed against them and how believing in all kids helped save a school and change education in the state of Colorado. In 2 years, Principal Scott Mendelsberg took his school from a 17% to a 73% college matriculation rate. He didnt get new teachers, a new building, different kids, or a new curriculum. He just made sure students realized that college was an option for them.
This remarkable, first-hand account reveals the impediments and challenges to educating inner-city secondary students when so much is arrayed against ...
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American Higher Education, Leadership, and Policy: Critical Issues and the Public Good
ISBN: 9781137454454 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pasque argues that if a more thorough understanding of leaders' perspectives is not offered, then the dominant perspectives within academic discourse will continue to perpetuate the current ideas of higher education's relationship with society - from an economic rationalization perspective - without consideration of alternative perspectives.
Pasque argues that if a more thorough understanding of leaders' perspectives is not offered, then the dominant perspectives within academic discourse ...
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Sustainable Development and Quality Assurance in Higher Education: Transformation of Learning and Society
ISBN: 9781137459138 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To help address the challenges of sustainable development, higher education institutions must transform themselves, bringing together best practice in quality management for tertiary education with best practice in education for sustainable development. This book provides tested strategies and pathways for undertaking this successfully.
To help address the challenges of sustainable development, higher education institutions must transform themselves, bringing together best practice in...
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201,24 |
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Democracy's Education: Public Work, Citizenship, and the Future of Colleges and Universities
ISBN: 9780826520357 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today Americans feel powerless in the face of problems on every front. Such feelings are acute in higher education, where educators are experiencing an avalanche of changes: cost cutting, new technologies, and demands that higher education be narrowly geared to the needs of today's workplace. College graduates face mounting debt and uncertain job prospects, and worry about a coarsening of the mass culture and the erosion of authentic human relationships. Higher education is increasingly seen, and often portrays itself, as a ticket to individual success--a private good, not a public...
Today Americans feel powerless in the face of problems on every front. Such feelings are acute in higher education, where educators are experiencing a...
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Democracy's Education: Public Work, Citizenship, and the Future of Colleges and Universities
ISBN: 9780826520364 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today Americans feel powerless in the face of problems on every front. Such feelings are acute in higher education, where educators are experiencing an avalanche of changes: cost cutting, new technologies, and demands that higher education be narrowly geared to the needs of today's workplace. College graduates face mounting debt and uncertain job prospects, and worry about a coarsening of the mass culture and the erosion of authentic human relationships. Higher education is increasingly seen, and often portrays itself, as a ticket to individual success--a private good, not a public...
Today Americans feel powerless in the face of problems on every front. Such feelings are acute in higher education, where educators are experiencing a...
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221,82 |
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Incentives and Performance: Governance of Research Organizations
ISBN: 9783319097848 / Angielski / Twarda / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book contributes to the current discussion in society, politics and higher education on innovation capacity and the financial and non-financial incentives for researchers. The expert contributions in the book deal with implementation of incentive systems at higher education institutions in order to foster innovation. On the other hand, the book also discusses the extent to which governance structures from economy can be transferred to universities and how scientific performance can be measured and evaluated. This book is essential for decision-makers in knowledge-intensive...
This book contributes to the current discussion in society, politics and higher education on innovation capacity and the financial and non-fina...
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402,53 |
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Indigenous Education: Language, Culture and Identity
ISBN: 9789401793544 / Angielski / Twarda / 467 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Indigenous Education is a compilation of conceptual chapters and national case studies that includes empirical research based on a series of data collection methods. The book provides up-to-date scholarly research on global trends on three issues of paramount importance with indigenous education language, culture, and identity. It also offers a strategic comparative and international education policy statement on recentshifts in indigenous education, and new approaches to explore, develop, and improve comparative education and policy research globally. Contributing authors examine several...
Indigenous Education is a compilation of conceptual chapters and national case studies that includes empirical research based on a series of data coll...
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Media and Education in the Digital Age: Concepts, Assessments, Subversions
ISBN: 9783631651544 / Angielski / Miękka / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is an invitation to informed and critical participation in the current debate on the role of digital technology in education and a comprehensive introduction to the most relevant issues in this debate. After an early wave of enthusiasm about the emancipative opportunities of the digital -revolution- in education, recent contributions invite caution, if not scepticism. This collection rejects extreme interpretations and establishes a conceptual framework for the critical questioning of this role in terms of concepts, assessments and subversions. This book offers conceptual tools,...
This book is an invitation to informed and critical participation in the current debate on the role of digital technology in education and a comprehen...
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The Higher Education Scene in America: Some Observations
ISBN: 9780761864585 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on the authors' experiences in academe over seventy-five years, The Higher Education Scene in America: Some Observations discusses a number of issues that confront America's higher education scene today. Those issue embrace such problems as: (1) the missions(s) of our colleges and universities and the development of critical thinking and/or employability; (2) the role of for-profit academic institutions; (3) the impact of online technology; (4) diffusion of power and achievement of consensus between administrators and faculty; (5) the importance of financial matters, embracing budgets,...
Based on the authors' experiences in academe over seventy-five years, The Higher Education Scene in America: Some Observations discusses a number of i...
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Multidisciplinary Research on Teaching and Learning
ISBN: 9781137467737 / Angielski / Twarda / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection indicates how research on teaching and learning from multiple scientific disciplines such as educational science and psychology can be successfully pursued by a co-operation between researchers and school teachers. The contributors adopt different methodological approaches, ranging from field research to laboratory experiments.
This collection indicates how research on teaching and learning from multiple scientific disciplines such as educational science and psychology can be...
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201,24 |
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Learning What You Cannot Say: Teaching Free Speech and Political Literacy in an Authoritarian Age
ISBN: 9781433123757 / Angielski / Miękka / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do teachers know the limits of their speech? Free speech means more than simply being free to agree, though the authoritarian managerial cultures of many schools increasingly ignore the need for a strong and empowered teaching profession. In response to this ongoing systemic contradiction, Learning What You Cannot Say provides a unique combination of teacher narratives, cultural theory and black letter law as part of a broader effort to create an active and effective critical legal literacy. The book explores the subtle ways in which cultural values inform shared perceptions of the...
How do teachers know the limits of their speech? Free speech means more than simply being free to agree, though the authoritarian managerial cultures ...
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Learning in the Fast Lane: 8 Ways to Put All Students on the Road to Academic Successascd
ISBN: 9781416618683 / Angielski / Miękka / 175 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Disrupting Qualitative Inquiry: Possibilities and Tensions in Educational Research
ISBN: 9781433123115 / Angielski / Miękka / 289 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Disrupting Qualitative Inquiry is an edited volume that examines the possibilities and tensions encountered by scholars who adopt disruptive qualitative approaches to the study of educational contexts, issues, and phenomena. It presents a collection of innovative and intellectually stimulating chapters which illustrate the potential for disruptive qualitative research perspectives to advance social justice aims omnipresent in educational policy and practice dialogues. The book defines disruptive qualitative methodologies and methods in educational research as processes of inquiry which...
Disrupting Qualitative Inquiry is an edited volume that examines the possibilities and tensions encountered by scholars who adopt disruptive qu...
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Disrupting Qualitative Inquiry: Possibilities and Tensions in Educational Research
ISBN: 9781433123122 / Angielski / Twarda / 289 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Disrupting Qualitative Inquiry is an edited volume that examines the possibilities and tensions encountered by scholars who adopt disruptive qualitative approaches to the study of educational contexts, issues, and phenomena. It presents a collection of innovative and intellectually stimulating chapters which illustrate the potential for disruptive qualitative research perspectives to advance social justice aims omnipresent in educational policy and practice dialogues. The book defines -disruptive- qualitative methodologies and methods in educational research as processes of inquiry...
Disrupting Qualitative Inquiry is an edited volume that examines the possibilities and tensions encountered by scholars who adopt disruptive qu...
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842,52 |
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Knowledge and the Future of the Curriculum: International Studies in Social Realism
ISBN: 9781137429254 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Knowledge and the Future of the Curriculum: International Studies in Social Realism is about the central purpose of schooling - to provide students with equitable access to powerful curriculum knowledge that is ultimately capable of taking them beyond their experiences. This collection presents a social realist understanding of the role of knowledge as a progressive option in support of social and educational justice. It moves beyond mere critique by offering a rationale for determining what should be taught and how it should be taught. It is an account justified by a theory of knowledge that...
Knowledge and the Future of the Curriculum: International Studies in Social Realism is about the central purpose of schooling - to provide students wi...
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The Transnationally Partnered University: Insights from Research and Sustainable Development Collaborations in Africa
ISBN: 9781137481740 / Angielski / Twarda / 273 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Analyzing the growing importance of the transnational higher education landscape and the role of African universities, Koehn and Obamba show how transnational partnerships among universities can inform policy, strengthen synergies between knowledge producers and knowledge users, and advance sustainable-development practice.
Analyzing the growing importance of the transnational higher education landscape and the role of African universities, Koehn and Obamba show how trans...
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201,24 |
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Politics, Disability, and Education Reform in the South: The Work of John Eldred Swearingen
ISBN: 9781137484055 / Angielski / Twarda / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Politics, Disability, and Education Reform in the South explores how race, gender, disability, and politics all came together to impact the career of one State Superintendent of Education in South Carolina who fought to improve educational conditions for African-Americans, women, and millworkers' children in South Carolina.
Politics, Disability, and Education Reform in the South explores how race, gender, disability, and politics all came together to impact the career of ...
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201,24 |
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