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Non-Western Educational Traditions: Local Approaches to Thought and Practice
Informative and mind-opening, this text uniquely provides a comprehensive overview of a range of non-western approaches to educational thought and practice. Its premise is that understanding the ways that other people educate their children-as well as what counts for them as "education"-may help readers...- $69.95
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Inquiry-Based Teaching and Learning Across Disciplines: Comparative Theory and Practice in Schools
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Each One Must Shine: The Educational Legacy of V.A. Sukhomlinsky
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Learning to Teach in an Era of Privatization: Global Trends in Teacher Preparation
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Stratification in Higher Education: A Comparative Study
The mass expansion of higher education is one of the most important social transformations of the second half of the twentieth century. In this book, scholars from 15 countries, representing Western and Eastern Europe, East Asia, Israel, Australia, and the United States, assess the...- $38.00
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Cuba's Academic Advantage: Why Students in Cuba Do Better in School
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Education and Poverty in Affluent Countries
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Race and Early Childhood Education: An International Approach to Identity, Politics, and Pedagogy
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Finnish Lessons 3.0 (Third Edition): What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland?
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School Is A Joke: Ethnography of Inner City Public School Students' Perception and Sensemaking of School and Schooling
School Is a Joke: Ethnography of Inner City Public School Students' Perception and Sensemaking of School and Schooling explored minority and low-SES inner-city high school students' perception and sense-making of school, schooling, learning, academic behaviors, and academic achievement through an integrated theory of human...- $24.95
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Teaching Expertise in Three Countries: Japan, China, and the United States
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International Student Mobility to and from the Middle East: Theorising Public, Institutional, and Self-Constructions of Cross-Border Students
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Transformative Teaching Around the World: Stories of Cultural Impact, Technology Integration, and Innovative Pedagogy
Transformative Teaching Around the World compiles inspiring stories from Fulbright-awarded teachers whose instructional practices have impacted schools and communities globally. Whether thriving or struggling in their classrooms, instructing in person or online, or pushing for changes at high or low costs and risk levels,...- $42.95
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Epistemic Colonialism and the Transfer of Curriculum Knowledge across Borders: Applying a Historical Lens to Contest Unilateral Logics
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Risk Society and Education in Post-Disaster Fukushima
In response to the explosion of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in March 2011, this book examines how the concept of a risk society was handled in the various education programs implemented in post-disaster Fukushima. The explosion and subsequent radiation contamination that affected the...- $170.00
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Europe's Lifelong Learning Markets, Governance and Policy: Using an Instruments Approach
This book explores European governance and policy coordination within lifelong learning markets. Using an instruments approach, the editors and contributors examine the ways in which governance mechanisms employed by the European Union influence policy to regulate lifelong learning, and intervene in lifelong learning markets,...- $169.00
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Primary and Secondary Education During Covid-19: Disruptions to Educational Opportunity During a Pandemic
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World Yearbook of Education 2022: Education, Schooling and the Global Universalization of Nationalism
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Improving Inclusive Education Through Universal Design for Learning
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Changing Higher Education in East Asia
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Primary Mathematics Pedagogy at the Intersection of Education Reform, Policy, and Culture: Comparative Insights from Ghana, Singapore, and the US
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Manual for Developing Intercultural Competencies: Story Circles
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Changing Higher Education in India
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Indigenous Identity Formation in Chilean Education: New Racism and Schooling Experiences of Mapuche Youth
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Law, Education, and the Place of Religion in Public Schools: International Perspectives
This text presents a comparative, cross-cultural analysis of the legal status of religion in public education in eighteen different nations while offering recommendations for the future improvement of religious education in public schools. Offering rich, analytical insights from a range of renowned scholars with...- $170.00
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The International Handbook of Teacher Ethos: Strengthening Teachers, Supporting Learners
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Singapore Math and Science Education Innovation: Beyond Pisa
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Theorizing Shadow Education and Academic Success in East Asia: Understanding the Meaning, Value, and Use of Shadow Education by East Asian Students
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International Schooling: Privilege and Power in Globalized Societies
International schooling has expanded rapidly in recent years, with the number of students educated in international schools projected to reach seven million by 2023. Drawing on the author's extensive experience conducting research in international schools across the globe, this book critically analyses the concept...- $135.00
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Comparative Perspectives on School Textbooks: Analyzing Shifting Discourses on Nationhood, Citizenship, Gender, and Religion
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Multiculturalism in Turbulent Times
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Teacher Education for Critical and Reflexive Interculturality
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Social Justice and Education in the 21st Century: Research from South Africa and the United States
Introduction: Social Justice and Education in the 21st Century.- Part I: Early Education and Schooling.- Chapter 1: Social Justice in the United States' Early Education.- Chapter 2: Education and Labour Market Inequalities in South Africa.- Chapter 3: Reproducing Inequality in the South African Schooling...- $219.99
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Waldorf Schools and the History of Steiner Education: An International View of 100 Years
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Indigenous Knowledge and Education in Africa
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Indigenous Knowledge and Education in Africa
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The Power of Responsive Educational Leadership: Building Schools for Global Challenges
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Curriculum Challenges and Opportunities in a Changing World: Transnational Perspectives in Curriculum Inquiry
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Finnish Lessons 3.0: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland?
The first two editions of Finnish Lessons described how a small Nordic nation built a school system that provided access to a world-class education for all of its young people. Now available in 30 languages, this Grawemeyer Award-winning book continues to influence education policies...- $96.00
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Trust, Accountability and Capacity in Education System Reform: Global Perspectives in Comparative Education
This global collection brings a new perspective to the field of comparative education by presenting trust, capacity and accountability as the three building blocks of education systems and education system reform. In exploring how these three factors relate to student learning outcomes across different...- $49.95
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Race, Culture, and Politics in Education: A Global Journey from South Africa
This autobiographical volume will foster a deeper understanding of racism, discrimination, and inequality in all its subtleties. Through storytelling, framed within the life journey of a South African sociologist of Indian ancestry, this book examines how marginalized communities lived with, fought, and braved racial...- $34.95
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Value-Creating Global Citizenship Education for Sustainable Development: Strategies and Approaches
This volume brings together marginalized perspectives and communities into the mainstream discourse on education for sustainable development and global citizenship. Building on her earlier work, Sharma uses non-western perspectives to challenge dominant agendas and the underlying Western worldview in the UNESCO led discourse on...- $69.99
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Schooling as Uncertainty: An Ethnographic Memoir in Comparative Education
In today's uncertain world, few beliefs remain as firmly entrenched as the optimistic view that more schooling will lead to a better life. Though this may be true in the aggregate, how do we explain the circumstances when schooling fails to produce certainty or...- $115.00
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Education for Social Change: Perspectives on Global Learning
This book introduces students to education as a vehicle for social change. Douglas Bourn begins by providing historical context of how education has been linked to social change around the world and moves on, in the second section of the book, to discuss potential...- $95.00
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The Qur'an Respond to the Dead Sea Scrolls Myth: Restructuring Seven Sleepers of the Cave and the Last Supper Milieu. Based on the study presented at
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Education, Equality, and Meritocracy in a Global Age: The Japanese Approach
How has schooling functioned in the construction of meritocratic national systems historically? To what extent will these historical patterns and normative commitments continue in the new era of a global meritocracy? And ultimately, how can educators effectively balance the inherent tension between individual merit...- $49.95
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Audacious Education Purposes: How Governments Transform the Goals of Education Systems
This open access book offers a comparative study of eight ambitious national reforms that sought to create opportunities for students to gain the necessary breath of skills to thrive in a rapidly changing world. It examines how national governments transform education systems to provide...- $59.99
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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theory in Comparative and International Education
This book offers a practical and approachable overview of central theories in comparative and international education (CIE). The chapters focus in depth on specific theoretical perspectives and seek to elucidate the histories, assumptions, and recent developments of these theories. The chapters also situate the...- $200.00
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Vendor:Maren Elfert
UNESCO�s Utopia of Lifelong Learning: An Intellectual History
With a focus on lifelong learning, this book examines the shifts that UNESCO's educational concepts have undergone in reaction to historical pressures and dilemmas since the founding of the organization in 1945. The tensions between UNESCO's humanistic worldview and the pressures placed on the...- $52.95
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Explorations in Technology Education Research: Helping Teachers Develop Research Informed Practice
This volume brings together significant international research in technology education by focusing on contemporary postgraduate research, elaborating on the findings with the aim of making the content relevant to researchers, teachers and other potential researchers in the field. The book shares with readers what...- $139.99
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