Over the last 20 years, international attempts to raise educational standards and improve opportunities for all children have accelerated and proliferated. This has generated a state of constant change and an unrelenting flood of initiatives, changes and reforms that need to be …
Truly international in scope, this Handbook focuses on approaches to discipline, surveillance and social control from around the world, critically examining the strategies and practices schools employ to monitor students and control their behavior. Bringing together leading scho…
In this book, the authors pursue quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods approaches, conducting hundreds of large-scale surveys and in-depth interviews in 679 schools, 67 counties and 13 provinces throughout China. They also conducted longitudinal case studies in five munici…
"This is a fascinating, scholarly and informative synthesis of the history of UK community-university engagement and will be essential reading for anyone who wants to make sense of the past in order to progress future agendas in this area. A great read." -Angie Hart, Academic Di…
This open access book investigates the effects of changes in leadership and managerial structures of Nordic universities resulting from reforms in the last decade. It builds on a rich, comparative dataset across a multiplicity of system-wide (macro) and organisational (meso and …
1. The importance of selecting the most effective teachers -- 2. Teacher effectiveness -- 3. Predicting teacher effectiveness -- Part II. Research on selection practices: A look at the evidence -- 4. Selection theory and research -- 5. Selection practices in other fields -- 6. I…
"Governing Cross-Border Higher Education examines the role of governments in relation to three key aspects of international education: student mobility; migration of international students; and transnational provision through collaboration or branch campuses. The research for th…
Evalue les programmes de lutte contre la pauvreté axés sur l'accès à l'éducation et à la santé à partir d'une méthode dite d'expérimentation aléatoire inspirée des essais cliniques pratiqués en médecine.
Despite the increased trend towards secularisation in state schooling, issues of religion and spirituality have remained important. Increased pluralism within societies through expanding migration patterns is changing the religious and cultural contours of many countries in Euro…
by King, Carolyn, Martin, Jennifer, Sadler, David, McKay, Elspeth, McKay, Elspeth, (ed), Kumar, Naveen, Parker, Drew, Griffin, Patrick, Lenarcic, John, (ed), Bagley, Carole A., Barrera, Alba Garcia, Booth, Sara, Chaulon, Amit, Errey, Howard, Gupta, Shikha, Hawkins, Linette, Hernandez, Patricia Gomez, Kelder, Jo-Anne, Lawless, Seamus, Lewis, Melinda J., Lodge, Jason M., Lopez, Calos Monge, Masri, Kamal, McPherson, Megan J., Milligan, Sandra, O'Donnell, Eileen, O'Donnell, Liam, Pattanayak, Supriya, Ronkowitz, Kenneth, Ronkowitz, Lynette Condro, Saborido, David Montalvo, Sharp, Mary, Taneja, Sheetal, Walls, Justin, Weisenford, Stefan
To some in academia, Massive Open Online Courses are a paradigm shift in online education, while others perceive them as a threat to traditional styles of pedagogy. In this regard, the time-honored model of the university lecture is seen as being a potential casualty of the rise…
