Quality and Qualities : Tensions in Education Reforms
ISBN: 9789460919503 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Quality and Qualities: Tensions in Education Reforms is a provocative call for understanding and further exploring the elusive concept of quality in education. Although education quality has acquired high priority in the past few decades, the multiplicity of conceptualizations of quality also reflects the concerns and foci of multiple stakeholders. Coming to an understanding of quality education involves careful analysis of the context from which any particular reform or program emerges and of the continuing struggle to define and achieve it. Two main questions persist: who benefits from...
Quality and Qualities: Tensions in Education Reforms is a provocative call for understanding and further exploring the elusive concept of quality in e...
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428,59 zł |
Learning and Doing Policy Analysis in Education : Examining Diverse Approaches to Increasing Educational Access
ISBN: 9789460919312 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book originated in a policy analysis class at Michigan State University taught during 2010. Using Professor Tattos unique approach to teaching policy analysis, the professor and students agreed to construct a class that represented a reflective and grounded experience in the policy analysis of a current and relevant issue with global ramifications; we began exploring policies that were developed at the global level and that were implemented locally. We investigated the surge of globally developed standards and regulations in an effort to improve education.
Our goal was to learn... This book originated in a policy analysis class at Michigan State University taught during 2010. Using Professor Tattos unique approach to teaching po...
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181,83 zł |
Learning and Doing Policy Analysis in Education : Examining Diverse Approaches to Increasing Educational Access
ISBN: 9789460919329 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book originated in a policy analysis class at Michigan State University taught during 2010. Using Professor Tattos unique approach to teaching policy analysis, the professor and students agreed to construct a class that represented a reflective and grounded experience in the policy analysis of a current and relevant issue with global ramifications; we began exploring policies that were developed at the global level and that were implemented locally. We investigated the surge of globally developed standards and regulations in an effort to improve education.
Our goal was to learn... This book originated in a policy analysis class at Michigan State University taught during 2010. Using Professor Tattos unique approach to teaching po...
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428,59 zł |
International Perspectives on the Goals of Universal Basic and Secondary Education
ISBN: 9780415648707 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although universal schooling has been adopted as a goal by international organizations, bilateral aid agencies, national governments, and non-profit organizations, little sustained international attention has been devoted to the purposes or goals of universal education. What is universal primary and secondary education intended to accomplish? This book, which grew out of a project of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, offers views from Asia, Africa, Europe, North America and South America on the purposes of universal education while considering diverse cultures, religions, and...
Although universal schooling has been adopted as a goal by international organizations, bilateral aid agencies, national governments, and non-profit o...
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270,71 zł |
Language Teachers and Teaching: Global Perspectives, Local Initiatives
ISBN: 9780415636278 / Angielski / Twarda / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume gathers contributions from a range of global experts in teacher education to address the topic of language teacher education. It shows how teacher education involves the agency of teachers, which forms part of their identity, and which they take on when integrating into the teaching community of practice. In addition, the volume explores the teachers' situated practice--the dynamic negotiation of classroom situations, socialization into the professional teaching culture, and "on the ground experimentation" with pedagogical skills/techniques.
This volume gathers contributions from a range of global experts in teacher education to address the topic of language teacher education. It shows how...
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781,04 zł |
Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local, 4th Edition
ISBN: 9781442217751 / Angielski / Twarda / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now in its fourth edition, Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local remains the same groundbreaking book when it first debuted its collection of outstanding scholars in examining the changing transnational landscape of education. With the addition of new coeditor Stephen Franz, the book provides new perspectives on the dynamic interplay of global, national, and local forces as they shape the functions and outcomes of education systems. The book calls for a rethinking of the nation-state as the basic unit for analyzing school-society relations and emphasizes the need to...
Now in its fourth edition, Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local remains the same groundbreaking book when it first debuted...
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1142,14 zł |
Enlightenment, Creativity and Education : Polities, Politics, Performances
ISBN: 9789462090507 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Enlightenment, Creativity and Education: polities, politics, performances presents some outcomes of the 24th Conference of the Comparative Education Society in Europe (CESE), held in Uppsala, in summer 2010. Bringing together studies related to knowledge and educational policies, the volume deals with the role of knowledge, globalisation and new trends what have an effect of identities and policies. Changes in societies have changed the rhetoric concerning the position and function of education. What - in comparative perspective - are the historical forces and sociological and economic...
Enlightenment, Creativity and Education: polities, politics, performances presents some outcomes of the 24th Conference of the Comparative Education S...
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181,83 zł |
Enlightenment, Creativity and Education : Polities, Politics, Performances
ISBN: 9789462090514 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Enlightenment, Creativity and Education: polities, politics, performances presents some outcomes of the 24th Conference of the Comparative Education Society in Europe (CESE), held in Uppsala, in summer 2010. Bringing together studies related to knowledge and educational policies, the volume deals with the role of knowledge, globalisation and new trends what have an effect of identities and policies. Changes in societies have changed the rhetoric concerning the position and function of education. What - in comparative perspective - are the historical forces and sociological and economic...
Enlightenment, Creativity and Education: polities, politics, performances presents some outcomes of the 24th Conference of the Comparative Education S...
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428,59 zł |
Literacy and Numeracy in Latin America: Local Perspectives and Beyond
ISBN: 9780415896092 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Local Perspectives and Beyond. This book charts new direction in Latin American studies of literacy and numeracy and explores the relationship between these and international perspectives.
Local Perspectives and Beyond. This book charts new direction in Latin American studies of literacy and numeracy and explores the relationship between...
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781,04 zł |
Literacy and Numeracy in Latin America: Local Perspectives and Beyond
ISBN: 9780415896108 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Latin American Literacy and Numeracy Studies (LALNS) are fairly unknown in other parts of the world. This book charts new directions in LALNS and explores the relationship between these studies and international perspectives.
Latin American Literacy and Numeracy Studies (LALNS) are fairly unknown in other parts of the world. This book charts new directions in LALNS and expl...
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255,09 zł |
The Reorientation of Higher Education: Challenging the East-West Dichotomy
ISBN: 9789400758476 / Angielski / Twarda / 315 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents accounts of the repositioning of higher education institutions across a range of contexts in the East and West. It argues that global governance, institutional organisation and academic practice are complementary elements within the process.
This book presents accounts of the repositioning of higher education institutions across a range of contexts in the East and West. It argues that glob...
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387,30 zł |
International Comparisons of China’s Technical and Vocational Education and Training System
ISBN: 9789400732940 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. China is experiencing an unprecedented phenomenon: breakneck industrialization on a scale and at a pace not seen before. It is trying to achieve in just a few decades what Western nations took more than a century to do. The arrival in the country's cities of tens of millions of rural dwellers, at most semi-skilled, has put huge strain on the country's system of vocational education, known as TVET. How have the Chinese authorities and their education administrators responded? Is China's TVET system adapting to the rapidly evolving needs of its industry? Using the province of Yunnan as a... China is experiencing an unprecedented phenomenon: breakneck industrialization on a scale and at a pace not seen before. It is trying to achieve in... |
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387,30 zł |
Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education: Emerging Perspectives on Institutional Transformation
ISBN: 9780415529181 / Angielski / Twarda / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In addition to many other issues that touch higher education around the world, diversity and equity in higher education is fast becoming a major opportunity and challenge to institutions, countries and regions. The increasing centrality of diversity is fueled in part by changing demographics, immigration, social movements, calls for remedies to historic grievances, and the relationship between identity and access to power. This book will provide an opportunity to look at efforts at institutional change with respect to diversity in several countries where issues of diversity are moving... In addition to many other issues that touch higher education around the world, diversity and equity in higher education is fast becoming a major op... |
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807,08 zł |
Education, Indigenous Knowledges, and Development in the Global South: Contesting Knowledges for a Sustainable Future
ISBN: 9780415629881 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book's focus is the hegemonic role of so-called modernist, Western epistemology that spread in the wake of colonialism and the capitalist economic system, and its exclusion and othering of other epistemologies. Through a series of case studies the book discusses how the domination of Western epistemology has had a major impact on the epistemological foundation of the education systems across the globe. The book queries the sustainability of hegemonic epistemology both in the classrooms in the global South as well as in the face of the imminent ecological challenges of our... The book's focus is the hegemonic role of so-called modernist, Western epistemology that spread in the wake of colonialism and the capitalist econo... |
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296,74 zł |
Personalisation of Education in Contexts : Policy Critique and Theories of Personal Improvement
ISBN: 9789462090262 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume addresses personalisation, a key education policy in England and a key issue identified by the OECD for the schools of the future. The central questions addressed are: Which are the main theoretical perspectives on personalisation? Which are the policy strategies in different contexts? Which ingredients and theories of personalisation as legitimated knowledge from abroad are locally adopted and adapted in different countries? What are the meanings and purposes of personalisation? Why does it come paradoxically to be implemented by teachers through grouping by ability? Which...
This volume addresses personalisation, a key education policy in England and a key issue identified by the OECD for the schools of the future. The cen...
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181,83 zł |
Personalisation of Education in Contexts : Policy Critique and Theories of Personal Improvement
ISBN: 9789462090279 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume addresses personalisation, a key education policy in England and a key issue identified by the OECD for the schools of the future. The central questions addressed are: Which are the main theoretical perspectives on personalisation? Which are the policy strategies in different contexts? Which ingredients and theories of personalisation as legitimated knowledge from abroad are locally adopted and adapted in different countries? What are the meanings and purposes of personalisation? Why does it come paradoxically to be implemented by teachers through grouping by ability? Which...
This volume addresses personalisation, a key education policy in England and a key issue identified by the OECD for the schools of the future. The cen...
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428,59 zł |
Preparation, Practice, and Politics of Teachers : Problems and Prospects in Comparative Perspective
ISBN: 9789462090750 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited volume, based on papers presented at the World Congress of Comparative Education (Istanbul, 2010), presents research examining pre-service teacher education, in-service teacher development, and the politics of teachers' work in a variety of geographical regions, including Asia, Africa, Eurasia, Europe, Latin America, and North America. More specifically, the chapters examine the situations, activities, and education of teachers in the societal contexts of Cuba, Equatorial Guinea, France, Germany, Ghana, Hong Kong, Ireland, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Scotland, Spain, Turkey, and...
This edited volume, based on papers presented at the World Congress of Comparative Education (Istanbul, 2010), presents research examining pre-service...
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181,83 zł |
Preparation, Practice, and Politics of Teachers : Problems and Prospects in Comparative Perspective
ISBN: 9789462090767 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited volume, based on papers presented at the World Congress of Comparative Education (Istanbul, 2010), presents research examining pre-service teacher education, in-service teacher development, and the politics of teachers' work in a variety of geographical regions, including Asia, Africa, Eurasia, Europe, Latin America, and North America. More specifically, the chapters examine the situations, activities, and education of teachers in the societal contexts of Cuba, Equatorial Guinea, France, Germany, Ghana, Hong Kong, Ireland, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Scotland, Spain, Turkey, and...
This edited volume, based on papers presented at the World Congress of Comparative Education (Istanbul, 2010), presents research examining pre-service...
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428,59 zł |
International Organizations and Higher Education Policy: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally?
ISBN: 9780415890830 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Higher Education operates in an increasingly global context, and yet the examination of what drives and moves the field has remained largely focused on domestic campus leaders, national governments and institutional actors. International Organizations and Higher Education Policy expands the analysis to include the global drivers behind higher education policy, including a full array of influential organizations such as the World Bank, UNESCO, OECD, WTO, bilateral aid agencies and major private foundations. The significance of these organizations is especially pronounced in the developing...
Higher Education operates in an increasingly global context, and yet the examination of what drives and moves the field has remained largely focused o...
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270,71 zł |
Critical Perspectives on International Education
ISBN: 9789460919046 / Angielski / Miękka / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In rapidly globalizing spaces of life, any research project on international education would necessarily have multi-directional emphases, with the quality of observations and analyses reflecting the expanding political, economic and cultural intersections which characterize this potentially promising century. To respond to these emerging learning and living contexts of our world, this book brings together some of the most active and established scholars in the field. As such, the book represents important epistemic interventions that analyze and critique the institutional, socio-economic,...
In rapidly globalizing spaces of life, any research project on international education would necessarily have multi-directional emphases, with the qua...
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238,11 zł |