Educational Strategies and Policy Books

This book offers new theoretical ground for thinking about, and transforming, leadership and higher education worldwide. It examines the construct of intimacy and 'nearness', including emotional, spiritual, psychic, intellectual, and physical closeness,...

With issues of equity at the forefront of mathematics education research and policy, this collection offers authoritative scholarship that sheds light on the ways that young black learners experience mathematics in schools and their communities.

This book provides a theoretical basis and practical strategies to counter resistance to learning to teach for diversity (in culturally and gender-inclusive ways), and resistance to teaching for understanding (using student-centered and inquiry-based ped

The Story of the Unlucky Teacher and her Koalas is a must read for any educator who believes that all children have the ability to learn and be successful. The Unlucky Teacher's koalas are representative of the students who attend America's public...

Whereas once young women's feminist activism could be easily identified, today this resistance seems obscure, transitory, and disorganized. In Next Wave Cultures, established and emerging scholars provide an interdisciplinary examination of young women's...

Often the school is left as an institution seemingly ethically neutral, leaving untouched questions about whether the school itself is a site of injustice toward both educators and children. Springing from his well-known Building an Ethical School,...

This book examines the complex nature of Japan's promotion of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and suggests new directions for incorporating multicultural perspectives in the development of English language education in Japan.

The increased focus on raising standards in education requires leaders to engage in complex decision making about teacher assessment, mandated accountability measures, and the collection and use of large amounts of data. Showcasing exemplary practices of...

Lesson Study has been actively introduced from Japan to various parts of the world, starting with the US. Such introduction is heavily connected with a focus on mathematics education and there is a strong misconception that Lesson Study is only for...

This edited collection brings together an interdisiplinary group of scholars of color to critically examine what it is like to explore race in predominantly white classrooms.

Since the first edition was published in 1988, the role of crisis intervention and prevention has become central to mental health professionals working in the schools. Disasters such as hurricane Katrina, terrorist attacks both in this country and around...

Portfolios have often been used as a way for teachers to monitor and assess their students' progress, but this book picks up on the current trend of using portfolios to assess teachers themselves as part of their degree requirements. As a professional...

Equity, Opportunity and Education in Postcolonial Southeast Asia addresses the ways in which colonial histories, nationalist impulses and forces of globalization shape equity and access to education in Southeast Asia. Although increasingly identified as...

Creating Safe and Supportive Schools and Fostering Students' Mental Health provides pre- and in-service educators with the tools they need to prevent, pre-empt, handle, and recover from threats to students' mental health.

Leading and managing change in schools is a complex topic. In this timely book the authors take the reader through a journey of how to lead and manage multidimensional change in order to create engaged learners, teachers, leaders and managers. They...

This volume critically examines and provides comparative perspectives on the major strategies that selected Asian countries and societies have adopted to enhance their national competitiveness in the increasingly globalized world.

Written specifically for education studies students, this accessible text offers a clear introduction to education policy. It aims to help the reader understand what is meant by educational policy, how policy can be made and the main discourses that have...

This timely book takes up the challenge of maintaining programs in the arts in the face of unrelenting pressure from two directions; the increasing focus on literacy and numeracy in schools, teamed with the cut-backs in public funding that often affect...

Despite consistent improvements in the school systems of over recent years, there are still too many children who miss out. It is not only children from disadvantaged backgrounds attending hard-pressed urban schools that the system is failing - even...

As the third millennium progresses, we are faced with increasing pressures relating to climate change and the sustainability of life on Earth. Concerned citizens are realizing that the responsibility to respond is both local and global. There is an...

Developing and Evaluating Multi-Agency Partnerships provides advice and guidance for managers and leaders responsible for overseeing multi-agency working in a range of settings.

In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical...

Creating Literacy Communities as Pathways to Student Success offers a model for using literacy as a pathway for secondary students to explore fields from which they are often systematically excluded. In particular, this volume demonstrates how access for...

Centered on a case study of a mid-Atlantic charter school, this book identifies the key factors that help Black male students navigate high school in spite of traditional and historical barriers. Rather than examining their experiences through a deficit...

Emerging from a transnational framework, this book offers a global perspective on gender, sex and race research in education across global north and south. Drawing upon pedagogical, programmatic, and activist work with respect to challenging inequalities...

Setting up cultural encounters is a widespread intervention strategy employed to diffuse conflicts and manage difficulties related to diversity. These organised cultural encounters bring together people of different backgrounds in order to promote...

Since 1945 the United Kingdom has changed from a polity that was overwhelmingly white, ethnically British, and Christian to one constituted by creeds, cultures, and communities drawn from all over the globe. The term 'multiculturalism' evokes these...

Offering an original historical perspective on literacy work in Africa, this book examines the role of the Norwegian Lutheran mission in Madagascar and sheds light on the motivations that drove colonizing powers' literacy work. Focusing on both colonial...

This volume celebrates cellphilm as an emerging Participatory Visual Method which effectively and powerfully engenders learning and catalyses social change. The book outlines the method's theoretical framework, the role of the educator and researcher,...

This book interrogates politics and practices of multiculturalism and multicultural education in contexts where liberal and critical multiculturalism is under pressure. It examines and interrogates perspectives on multiculturalism and the political and...

The oral eye is a metaphor for the dominance of global designer capitalism. It refers to the consumerism of a designer aesthetic by the 'I' of the neoliberalist subject, as well as the aural soundscapes that accompany the hegemony of the capturing...

Introduction: Transformational Multiculturalism - Definitions, Alterations, Interventions 'We are related to all that lives': Forging 'New' Stories for Social Change Making Commonalities: Relational Patterns of Reading and Teaching Giving Voice to...

Most of the findings in this book are based on the work of a team of researchers from Urban Affairs Programs at Michigan State University. From 1976 to 1981, the team observed the progress of school desegregation in ...

""An Essay On The Systematic Training Of The Body"" is a book written by Karl Heinrich Schaible in 1878. This book is a comprehensive guide on how to systematically train the body to achieve optimal physical fitness and health. Schaible was a German...

""An Essay On The Cultivation Of The Intellect By The Study Of Dead Languages"" is a book written by William Sewell and originally published in 1830. The book is a philosophical essay that argues in favor of the study of ancient languages, such as Latin...

An Epitome of English Grammar, For the Use of Students: Adapted to the London Matriculation Course and Similar Examinations (1885) by William Henry Hastings Kelke is a comprehensive guide to English grammar. The book is specifically designed for students...

A Selection of Latin Verse is a book published in 1914, compiled by instructors in Latin at Williams College. The book is a collection of Latin poems from various eras, including the classical period and the Middle Ages. The poems are arranged...

""A Secular View Of Religion In The State, And The Bible In The Public Schools"" is a book written by Elisha P. Hurlbut in 1870. The book explores the relationship between religion and the state, as well as the role of the Bible in public schools...

Cape Coast: The Town of Romanticised Finesse is a delightful book from Ghana, West Africa containing the reminiscences, scenarios, culture and nature of the Fantse people of Cape Coast. It also contains basic Ghanaian traditions and customs in relation...

The book comprises a lively and wide-ranging discussion of the intersecting discourses of race, gender, and empire in literature, history, and contemporary culture generally.

Global reforms in welfare state provisions entail changes in family and school responsibilities, governmental responsibilities about who should care for and educate children, and the images and narratives of what the family and child are and should be...

Fabricating Europe has within it a core idea, a crucial but imprecise idea, that of a European educational space, which transnational governance, networks and cultural and economic projects are creating now. Yet, the...

This volume addresses the important problem of understanding good university teaching, and focuses on the thinking, beliefs, and knowledge, which accompany teachers' actions. It is the first book to address this area and it...

Il libro ""Introduzione alla Geografia Antica e Moderna: delle Provincie delle Due Sicilie di Qua dal Faro (1819)"" di Vito Buonsanto ����� un'opera che si concentra sulla geografia delle regioni meridionali d'Italia, ovvero le Due Sicilie. L'autore...

""Ensayo sobre la esgrima de la bayoneta: para el manejo del fusil como arma blanca"" es un libro escrito por Francisco G�����lvez de Zea en 1855. Este ensayo se centra en la t�����cnica de la esgrima con bayoneta, un arma que se utiliza en el fusil. El...

El libro ""El Caballo: Estudio Minucioso Del Caballo Y Su Educacion, Seguido De Un Curso De Equitaci������n Para Jinetes Y Amazonas"" escrito por E. Santini en 1898, es una obra completa que aborda el tema del caballo y su educaci������n. El autor...

""Ein Kapitel Aus Der Geschichte Der Deutschen Grammatik"" ist ein Buch von Max Hermann Jellinek, das im Jahr 1898 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Buch besch�����ftigt sich mit der Geschichte der deutschen Grammatik und gibt einen Einblick in die...