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The Role of International Large-Scale Assessments: Perspectives from Technology, Economy, and Educational Research
ISBN: 9789400797116 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume offers contributions by thought leaders from a variety of disciplines and different perspectives, which are brought together in a final chapter. The contributions give insight in the role of large-scale international assessments as change agents. As national leaders recognize the growing importance of human capital and how it is distributed, policymakers, economists and decision makers in education have become increasingly interested in results from comparative international surveys. These assessments offer important information on the development of cognitive skills and the...
This volume offers contributions by thought leaders from a variety of disciplines and different perspectives, which are brought together in a final ch...
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Teacher Quality 2.0: Toward a New Era in Education Reform
ISBN: 9781612507002 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Debates over teacher quality are among the most heated exchanges in the education reform arena. But while scholars and policy makers grapple with questions about teacher preparation, compensation, and evaluation, the role of teachers is changing. In schools across the country, educators are experimenting with new models for recruiting, training, and supporting teachers, and are innovating strategies for deploying their talents through differentiated roles and the use of technology. Most of the policy measures currently under consideration, however, are designed with a one-size-fits-all...
Debates over teacher quality are among the most heated exchanges in the education reform arena. But while scholars and policy makers grapple with ques...
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Teacher Quality 2.0: Toward a New Era in Education Reform
ISBN: 9781612506999 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Debates over teacher quality are among the most heated exchanges in the education reform arena. But while scholars and policy makers grapple with questions about teacher preparation, compensation, and evaluation, the role of teachers is changing. In schools across the country, educators are experimenting with new models for recruiting, training, and supporting teachers, and are innovating strategies for deploying their talents through differentiated roles and the use of technology. Most of the policy measures currently under consideration, however, are designed with a one-size-fits-all...
Debates over teacher quality are among the most heated exchanges in the education reform arena. But while scholars and policy makers grapple with ques...
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137,09 |
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Academic Inbreeding and Mobility in Higher Education: Global Perspectives
ISBN: 9781137461247 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Academic inbreeding - hiring and promoting one's own graduates - is generally seen as a negative for academic quality and for universities - it is considered as unhealthy for universities as it is in the natural world. Yet it is remarkably widespread across the globe. This book is the first full scale international analysis of the phenomenon of inbreeding. Research from eight countries (including Argentina, China, Japan, Russia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain and Ukraine) where inbreeding is common examines the phenomenon from a variety of perspectives, tracking its causes: historical...
Academic inbreeding - hiring and promoting one's own graduates - is generally seen as a negative for academic quality and for universities - it is con...
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Building an Integrated Higher Education System in Europe: Romania's Commitments in the European Higher Education Area and Their Implementation at Nati
ISBN: 9789633860656 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Die Adipositas-Epidemie ALS Politisches Problem: Gesellschaftliche Wahrnehmung Und Staatliche Intervention
ISBN: 9783658066130 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die "Adipositas-Epidemie" gilt als eine der groten gesundheitspolitischen Herausforderungen der Gegenwart und zunehmend auch als politisches Problem. Die Studie untersucht den Prozess der Etablierung dieser, zwar nur temporaren, aber dennoch wirkmachtigen Wahrheit uber dicke Korper und ordnet sie in ihren gesellschaftspolitischen Kontext ein. Dabei wird auch auf Gegendeutungen eingegangen; etwa auf die Forderung, dicke Korper als gleichberechtigten Teil gesellschaftlicher Vielfalt anzuerkennen. Anschlieend wird analysiert, wie sich die politischen Manahmen gegen die "Adipositas-Epidemie" in...
Die "Adipositas-Epidemie" gilt als eine der groten gesundheitspolitischen Herausforderungen der Gegenwart und zunehmend auch als politisches Problem. ...
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Morality Behind Bars: An Intervention Study on Fostering Moral Competence of Prisoners as a New Approach to Social Rehabilitation
ISBN: 9783631618301 / Angielski / Twarda / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prisoners prefer moral ideals like justice and responsibility just as much as non-prisoners. However, they lack moral competence, which Georg Lind has defined as the ability to solve conflicts through deliberation and communication rather than through violence, deceit and power. The data of this experimentally designed intervention study show that imprisonment mostly makes things worse. It leads to a regression of moral competence. Further, these data show that with appropriate training methods like the Konstanz Method of Dilemma Discussion (KMDD) moral competence can be effectively and...
Prisoners prefer moral ideals like justice and responsibility just as much as non-prisoners. However, they lack moral competence, which Georg Lind has...
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Curriculum Leadership by Middle Leaders: Theory, Design and Practice
ISBN: 9781138793774 / Angielski / Twarda / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Curriculum Leadership by Middle Leaders focusses on major issues relating to the continuing national and international discourse on curriculum leadership, and highlights the vital role of middle leaders in schools. School leadership has focused primarily on first-order change involving school leaders or principals. This book seeks to put the spotlight on second-order change that involves curriculum leadership and professional development support on the part of middle leaders for more sustainable and long-term change in teaching and learning that will influence what happens... Curriculum Leadership by Middle Leaders focusses on major issues relating to the continuing national and international discourse on ... |
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Still Failing: The Continuing Paradox of School Desegregation
ISBN: 9781610489621 / Angielski / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Still Failing: The Continuing Paradox of School Desegregation is a significantly updated and revised version of Caldas and Bankston's previous book Forced to Fail: The Paradox of School Desegregation. The book includes an analysis of the most significant Supreme Court cases that have been decided in the ten years since the first edition of the book appeared. The authors consider the important implications of these recent rulings for the future of school desegregation in America's schools. Social capital theory is used to explain why schools and communities continue to be segregated along...
Still Failing: The Continuing Paradox of School Desegregation is a significantly updated and revised version of Caldas and Bankston's previous book Fo...
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Still Failing: The Continuing Paradox of School Desegregation
ISBN: 9781610489638 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Still Failing: The Continuing Paradox of School Desegregation is a significantly updated and revised version of Caldas and Bankston's previous book Forced to Fail: The Paradox of School Desegregation. The book includes an analysis of the most significant Supreme Court cases that have been decided in the ten years since the first edition of the book appeared. The authors consider the important implications of these recent rulings for the future of school desegregation in America's schools. Social capital theory is used to explain why schools and communities continue to be segregated along...
Still Failing: The Continuing Paradox of School Desegregation is a significantly updated and revised version of Caldas and Bankston's previous book Fo...
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181,22 |
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Smart Cities That Work for Everyone
ISBN: 9781632330345 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ABOUT SMART CITIES...
As the majority of the worlds population becomes urban, cities must become centers of learning for young and old. Every person, organization and region needs to get smart-to skill up, learn more and build new capacities faster and cheaper than ever. In the long run, education is the economic development agenda. Innovative new tools and schools are making it possible for individuals, organizations, and cities to boost learning outcomes. Most learning innovations occur in ecosystems-and these unique environments begin with leadership and an innovation mindset. This... ABOUT SMART CITIES...
As the majority of the worlds population becomes urban, cities must become centers of learning for young and old. Every pers... |
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Assessing Mathematical Literacy: The Pisa Experience
ISBN: 9783319101200 / Angielski / Twarda / 321 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book describes the design, development, delivery and impact of the mathematics assessment for the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). First, the origins of PISA's concept of mathematical literacy are discussed, highlighting the underlying themes of mathematics as preparation for life after school and mathematical modelling of the real world, and clarifying PISA's position within this part of the mathematics education territory. The PISA mathematics framework is introduced as a significant milestone in the development and dissemination of these ideas. The... This book describes the design, development, delivery and impact of the mathematics assessment for the OECD Programme for International Student Ass... |
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Cultural and Linguistic Minorities in the Russian Federation and the European Union: Comparative Studies on Equality and Diversity
ISBN: 9783319104546 / Angielski / Twarda / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first comprehensive volume to compare the sociolinguistic situations of minorities in Russia and in Western Europe. As such, it provides insight into language policies, the ethnolinguistic vitality and the struggle for reversal of language shift, language revitalization and empowerment of minorities in Russia and the European Union. The volume shows that, even though largely unknown to a broader English-reading audience, the linguistic composition of Russia is by no means less diverse than multilingualism in the EU. It is therefore a valuable introduction into the historical...
This is the first comprehensive volume to compare the sociolinguistic situations of minorities in Russia and in Western Europe. As such, it provides i...
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Global Innovation of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Transgressing Boundaries
ISBN: 9783319104812 / Angielski / Twarda / 369 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines current trends in higher education and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. It introduces readers to pedagogical strategies that instructors worldwide are using to overcome some of the challenges they face in higher education. To maximize their students' learning, this work argues that institutions are compelled to innovate their policies and instructors must be collaborative and creative in their practices in response to students' growing demands, needs, challenges to their learning, and the shifting terrain of a rapidly globalizing world. The text explores the...
This book examines current trends in higher education and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. It introduces readers to pedagogical strategies th...
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201,24 |
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Privatization and the Public Good: Public Universities in the Balance
ISBN: 9781612507323 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Public education is in crisis and it has been for some time. The problem is, no one can agree on the problem, and when there is no agreement on the problem, developing solutions is nearly impossible. Thus writes Matthew T. Lambert in this study of present-day public higher education, which is currently plagued by momentous challenges.
In Privatization and the Public Good, Lambert examines a range of developments related to the privatization of public higher education in the United States, including increasing institutional autonomy, higher tuition, diminishing... "Public education is in crisis and it has been for some time. The problem is, no one can agree on the problem, and when there is no agreement on the p...
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Privatization and the Public Good: Public Universities in the Balance
ISBN: 9781612507316 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Public education is in crisis and it has been for some time. The problem is, no one can agree on the problem, and when there is no agreement on the problem, developing solutions is nearly impossible. Thus writes Matthew T. Lambert in this study of present-day public higher education, which is currently plagued by momentous challenges.
In Privatization and the Public Good, Lambert examines a range of developments related to the privatization of public higher education in the United States, including increasing institutional autonomy, higher tuition, diminishing... "Public education is in crisis and it has been for some time. The problem is, no one can agree on the problem, and when there is no agreement on the p...
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The Changing Nature of the Graduate Labour Market: Media, Policy and Political Discourses in the UK
ISBN: 9781137479068 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The assumptions made in the media regarding graduate skills and occupations are no longer valid within the changing educational context. This book traces seven key trends that shape the graduate labour market and reveals that their effects contradict the conceptualisation of the graduate labour market which dominates media and policy discourses.
The assumptions made in the media regarding graduate skills and occupations are no longer valid within the changing educational context. This book tra...
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201,24 |
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Reinventing Financial Aid: Charting a New Course to College Affordability
ISBN: 9781612507149 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this provocative volume, two experts with very different points of view address the growing concern that student loan programs are not a sustainable solution to the problem of mounting college costs. They argue that the time has come to reform the financial aid system so that it is more effective in promoting college affordability, access, and completion.
Reinventing Financial Aid provides a thorough critique of the existing financial aid system and identifies the challenges of reform. It presents a host of innovations designed to improve grant and loan programs and the... In this provocative volume, two experts with very different points of view address the growing concern that student loan programs are not a sustainabl...
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127,29 |
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Reinventing Financial Aid : Charting a New Course to College Affordability
ISBN: 9781612507156 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this provocative volume, two experts with very different points of view address the growing concern that student loan programs are not a sustainable solution to the problem of mounting college costs. They argue that the time has come to reform the financial aid system so that it is more effective in promoting college affordability, access, and completion.
Reinventing Financial Aid provides a thorough critique of the existing financial aid system and identifies the challenges of reform. It presents a host of innovations designed to improve grant and loan programs and the... In this provocative volume, two experts with very different points of view address the growing concern that student loan programs are not a sustainabl...
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254,68 |
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Literacy Policies and Practices in Conflict: Reclaiming Classrooms in Networked Times
ISBN: 9780415527415 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Current U.S. school reform efforts link school success, student achievement, and teacher performance to standardized tests and narrowly prescribed curricula. How do test-driven, mandated curricula in urban school systems overtly and subtly impact teachers' efforts to provide technologically advanced, challenging classroom environments that foster literacy development for all students? How do these federal policies affect instruction at the classroom level? The premise of this book is that, in order for teachers to confront and/or counteract the pressures placed on them from... Current U.S. school reform efforts link school success, student achievement, and teacher performance to standardized tests and narrowly prescribed ... |
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