Access, Equity, and Capacity in Asia-Pacific Higher Education
ISBN: 9780230101104 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Higher education is growing most rapidly in the Asia-Pacific region, and policy makers are facing the task of balancing quality and quantity. This book will help readers understand the current situation of higher education not only in this region but everywhere that they may work.' - Shinichi Yamamoto, Hiroshima University, Japan
Higher education is growing most rapidly in the Asia-Pacific region, and policy makers are facing the task of balancing quality and quantity. This boo...
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Crossing Borders in East Asian Higher Education
ISBN: 9789400704459 / Angielski / Twarda / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines issues that have emerged as higher education systems and individual institutions across East Asia confront and adapt to the changing economic, social, and educational environments in which they now operate. The book s focus is on how higher education systems learn from each other and on the ways in which they collaborate to address new challenges. The sub-theme that runs through this volume concerns the changing nature of cross-border sharing. In particular, the provision of technical assistance by more industrialized countries to lower and middle income countries has given...
This book examines issues that have emerged as higher education systems and individual institutions across East Asia confront and adapt to the changin...
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387,30 zł |
Nation-Building, Identity and Citizenship Education: Cross Cultural Perspectives
ISBN: 9789048181063 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines issues surrounding the nation-building processes and identity and citizenship education in the global culture. It explores the relationship between the State, globalization and the construction of cultural identity.
This book examines issues surrounding the nation-building processes and identity and citizenship education in the global culture. It explores the rela...
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387,30 zł |
International Handbook of Leadership for Learning
ISBN: 9789400713499 / Angielski / Twarda / 1357 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the rich contextual nature of learning and the role of school leaders and leadership development in promoting it. It concludes that inserting the preposition for between the terms leadership and learning forces a useful wider perspective.
This book explores the rich contextual nature of learning and the role of school leaders and leadership development in promoting it. It concludes that...
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2905,05 zł |
Contrasting Ironies. English and Ugandan State Secondary Schools
ISBN: 9789970250073 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It would be everybodys hope that the education system of a First World country would create room for a first rate academically-oriented student body. Yet when the author, Rev. Fred Sheldon Mwesigwa, encountered education in the UKs public secondary schools, the reverse was true. In this book, he compares the dire resistance to learning in the UK schools, with the high appetite for learning among Ugandas poor students. The book raises some pertinent issues concerning British educational policies and social responsibility towards children. The discussion also raises questions concerning the...
It would be everybodys hope that the education system of a First World country would create room for a first rate academically-oriented student body. ...
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Schooling for Sustainable Development in Chinese Communities: Experience with Younger Children
ISBN: 9789048181827 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on the academic foundations, trends and traditions of environmental education for sustainable development in Chinese contexts. It highlights case studies that illuminate recent sustainability initiatives in China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.
This book focuses on the academic foundations, trends and traditions of environmental education for sustainable development in Chinese contexts. It hi...
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387,30 zł |
Beyond Fragmentation: Didactics, Learning and Teaching in Europe
ISBN: 9783866493872 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. All European countries have different ways to teach learning and to learn teaching. In most European countries - except for the English-speaking countries - didactics is a university discipline. Though there are national and local differences in the practice of learning and teaching, this book negotiates through the disparities, finding common ground and creating new angles. In trying to move towards a more widely-shared approach to didactics in Europe, different European traditions are explored from the bottom up, by taking a closer look at various teacher education models and their...
All European countries have different ways to teach learning and to learn teaching. In most European countries - except for the English-speaking count...
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180,60 zł |
School Decentralization in the Context of Globalizing Governance: International Comparison of Grassroots Responses
ISBN: 9789048171743 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the beginning of the 1980s, decentralization has become a globalized policy and catchword in education: a large number of countries around the world have formulated such a policy and many have also implemented it.The policies and the changes at the national level have been researched but what has taken place and is taking place at the grassroots level has not received attention until recently. This book presents grassroots cases from different countries against the background of the overall changes in governance philosophy and applications. It uses case studies from countries in Africa,...
Since the beginning of the 1980s, decentralization has become a globalized policy and catchword in education: a large number of countries around the w...
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387,30 zł |
Paradise Redefined: Transnational Chinese Students and the Quest for Flexible Citizenship in the Developed World
ISBN: 9780804772662 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2004, Vanessa Fong offered a groundbreaking ethnographic exploration of the social, economic, and psychological development of children born since China's one-child policy was introduced in 1979. Her book Only Hope left readers with a picture of stressed, ambitious adolescents for whom elite status was the ultimate goal, though relatively few were in a position to achieve it. In Paradise Redefined, Fong tracks the experiences of many in her initial cohort of Chinese only-children--now college-age--as they study abroad in Australia, Europe, Japan, New Zealand, North America,...
In 2004, Vanessa Fong offered a groundbreaking ethnographic exploration of the social, economic, and psychological development of children born since ...
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453,00 zł |
Paradise Redefined: Transnational Chinese Students and the Quest for Flexible Citizenship in the Developed World
ISBN: 9780804772679 / Angielski / Miękka / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2004, Vanessa Fong offered a groundbreaking ethnographic exploration of the social, economic, and psychological development of children born since China's one-child policy was introduced in 1979. Her book Only Hope left readers with a picture of stressed, ambitious adolescents for whom elite status was the ultimate goal, though relatively few were in a position to achieve it. In Paradise Redefined, Fong tracks the experiences of many in her initial cohort of Chinese only-children--now college-age--as they study abroad in Australia, Europe, Japan, New Zealand, North America,...
In 2004, Vanessa Fong offered a groundbreaking ethnographic exploration of the social, economic, and psychological development of children born since ...
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109,29 zł |
The Politics of Teaching Palestine to Americans: Addressing Pedagogical Strategies
ISBN: 9780230116887 / Angielski / Twarda / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores two poles: how American youth are indoctrinated with Zionist mythology and how to intervene in that process by teaching American youth about Palestine. The author argues that because the relationship between Zionist education and the Israel lobby continues to be strong, it is necessary to find a way to correct the misrepresentations that infiltrate Western public culture especially for educators.
This book explores two poles: how American youth are indoctrinated with Zionist mythology and how to intervene in that process by teaching American yo...
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193,63 zł |
Educating Children in Conflict Zones: Research, Policy, and Practice for Systemic Change--A Tribute to Jackie Kirk
ISBN: 9780807752432 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Inspired by the work of the late Dr. Jacqueline Kirk, this book takes a penetrating look at the challenges of delivering quality education to the approximately 39 million out-of-school children around the world who live in situations affected by violent conflict. With chapters by leading researchers on education in war and other conflict zones, the volume provides a comprehensive and critical overview of the links between conflict and children's access to education, as well as a review of the policies and approaches taken by those offering international assistance in this area. Empirical case...
Inspired by the work of the late Dr. Jacqueline Kirk, this book takes a penetrating look at the challenges of delivering quality education to the appr...
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175,39 zł |
Reforming Learning: Concepts, Issues and Practice in the Asia-Pacific Region
ISBN: 9789048167661 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book discusses educational reforms in the Asia-Pacific region and evaluates their impact on learning. The central argument highlights the importance of understanding reforms and learning within their historical, political and sociocultural contexts.
This book discusses educational reforms in the Asia-Pacific region and evaluates their impact on learning. The central argument highlights the importa...
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580,98 zł |
Education by the Numbers and the Making of Society: The Expertise of International Assessments
ISBN: 9781138295834 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Progressive Education Fallacy in Developing Countries: In Favour of Formalism
ISBN: 9789400718500 / Angielski / Twarda / 257 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a provocative but carefully argued addition to the theory and practice of education in developing countries. The book provides an ethical and empirical justification for support of formalistic teaching in primary and secondary schools in developing countries. It also refutes the application of progressive education principles to curriculum and pre- and in-service teacher education in such contexts. The central focus of this book is the formalistic teaching prevalent in the classrooms of many developing countries. Formalistic ( teacher-centred, traditional, didactic,...
This book provides a provocative but carefully argued addition to the theory and practice of education in developing countries. The book provides an e...
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387,30 zł |
Comparative Education: The Construction of a Field
ISBN: 9789400719293 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a remarkable feat of scholarship so remarkable in fact that I put it in the same league as the great classics of the field that had so much to do with setting the direction of Comparative Education. Indeed, this volume goes further than earlier classics to reveal, through textual analysis and interviews with key figures, how the epistemological foundations of the field and crucial professional developments combined to, as the title indicates, construct Comparative Education. Manzon s work is indispensable a word I do not use lightly for scholars who seek a genuine grasp of the...
This book is a remarkable feat of scholarship so remarkable in fact that I put it in the same league as the great classics of the field that had so mu...
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774,65 zł |
Exploring Childhood in a Comparative Context: An Introductory Guide for Students
ISBN: 9780415696517 / Angielski / Twarda / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exploring Childhood in a Comparative Context meets an increasing need for students focusing on early childhood to be familiar with alternative practices in other countries. Providing a ready-made source of information about a wide range of countries including Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, the United States, New Zealand, Japan, South Africa and many more, the book clearly describes the way each country understands and conceptualises childhood. Each chapter includes contextual information about the country, an introduction to the theory that has shaped practice and describes the... Exploring Childhood in a Comparative Context meets an increasing need for students focusing on early childhood to be familiar with alternative prac... |
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Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
ISBN: 9780821388891 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparative Analysis takes stock of education in Sub-Saharan Africa by drawing on the collective knowledge gained through the preparation of Country Status Reports for more than 30 countries. The analysis is based on a cross-country dataset which combines both administrative and household survey data to describe aspects of enrollment and student flow, disparities, out-of-school children, finance, management, quality, social impact and the link between education systems and labor markets. The book provides those concerned with education in Sub-Saharan Africa...
Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparative Analysis takes stock of education in Sub-Saharan Africa by drawing on the collective knowledge gained t...
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157,34 zł |
The Immigration & Education Nexus : A Focus on the Context & Consequences of Schooling
ISBN: 9789460918186 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The focus of this edited volume is on immigration's effect on schooling and the consequential aspect of illegal immigration's effect. To understand immigration (legal and undocumented) and K-16 education in Asia, Europe, and the US is to situate both within the broader context of globalization. This volume presents a timely and poignant analysis of the historical, legal, and demographic issues related to immigration with implications for education and its interdisciplinary processes. Arguments based on theories of globalization, socialization, naturalization, and xenophobia are provided as a...
The focus of this edited volume is on immigration's effect on schooling and the consequential aspect of illegal immigration's effect. To understand im...
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181,83 zł |
Educating Young Giants: What Kids Learn (and Don't Learn) in China and America
ISBN: 9780230339064 / Angielski / Twarda / 187 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Carries readers into Chinese and American elementary and high school classrooms, and highlights the big differences between schooling in China and the United States. Nancy Pine reveals how these two countries need to extract themselves from outmoded practice and learn from each other's strengths.
Carries readers into Chinese and American elementary and high school classrooms, and highlights the big differences between schooling in China and the...
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193,63 zł |