"With PISA tables, accountability, and performance management pulling educators in one direction, and the understanding that education is a social process embedded in cultural contexts, tailored to meet the needs and challenges of individuals and communities in another, it is ea…
"With PISA tables, accountability, and performance management pulling educators in one direction, and the understanding that education is a social process embedded in cultural contexts, tailored to meet the needs and challenges of individuals and communities in another, it is ea…
Part 1. Definitions and developments. 1. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and some implications for education ; 2. Defining children's rights education ; 3. Implementing children's rights education -- Part 2. Ideology and interpretations. 4. Children's ri…
"With PISA tables, accountability, and performance management pulling educators in one direction, and the understanding that education is a social process embedded in cultural contexts, tailored to meet the needs and challenges of individuals and communities in another, it is ea…
"With PISA tables, accountability, and performance management pulling educators in one direction, and the understanding that education is a social process embedded in cultural contexts, tailored to meet the needs and challenges of individuals and communities in another, it is ea…
Changing the Conversation about Higher Education -- Values and Aims of Higher Education -- The De Facto Value of Higher Education -- Rethinking the De Facto Value of Higher Education -- Citizenship as an Aim of Higher Education -- The Liberal Argument for Compulsory Civic Educat…
"Is higher education a right, or a privilege? This author argues that all citizens in a free and open society should have an unconditional right to higher education. Such an education should be costless for the individual and open to everyone regardless of talent. A readiness an…
"Is higher education a right, or a privilege? This author argues that all citizens in a free and open society should have an unconditional right to higher education. Such an education should be costless for the individual and open to everyone regardless of talent. A readiness an…
The book will show that the American educational system sustains its inequities in part by projecting a misleading view of human learning and development. I will trace the evolution of the American educational system to the principles of behaviorist educational psychology which …
