Part 1: Reinvention and Innovation: Designing Business and Economics Education for 21st Century Learning -- 1. Introduction; Kristen Reid and Peter Daly -- 2. Mobile phones - Not a Distraction in the Classroom but a Means of Engagement? ; Alison Lahlafi and Diane Rushton -- 3. Authenticity and Transparency in the Teaching of Leadership Readiness; Lisa O’Malley, Ellen Fowler and Sarah Moore --…
Section I. Discipline Disparities: A Research-to-Practice Collaborative -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 What Do We Know about Discipline Disparities? New and Emerging Research -- Chapter 2 How Educators Can Eradicate Disparities in School Discipline -- Section II. Understanding and Addressing Disparities: What We Are Learning and What We Can Do -- Chapter 3 Sexual Orientation-Based Disparities in …
1. Preface -- 2. Prologue -- 3. PISA, Korean students' world-class achievements and Dark side of Korean schooling - 4. History of Shadow education in Korea -- 5. Types of hakwon education -- 6. Elementary School Years -- 7.Middle School Years -- 8. High School Years -- 9. Good and Bad Effects of hakwon education -- 10. Hakwon education as a Worldwide Curriculum Question -- 11. Conclusion: Ques…
Macro Change -- Beyond Bloom’s Taxonomy: Rethinking Knowledge for the Knowledge Age -- Human Development in the Learning Society -- Educational Reform Networks: Changes in the Forms of Reform -- Educational Change in Japan: School Reforms -- National Strategies for Educational Reform: Lessons from the British Experience Since 1988 -- Quality in Schools: Developing a Model for School Improveme…
Marketing the millennium: Education for the twenty-first century -- Contexts -- Educational Change: Easier Said than Done -- Globalization and Educational Change -- Markets, Choices and Educational Change -- New Information Technologies and the Ambiguous Future of Schooling — Some Possible Scenarios -- Public Education in a Corporate-Dominated Culture -- Cultural Difference and Educational Ch…
This book explores Marx's theory of the phenomenal forms in relation to critical pedagogy and educational action research, arguing that phenomenal forms pose a pedagogical obstacle to any endeavour that seeks to expand an individual's awareness of the larger social whole.
Adopting a life story approach, this book explores the memories of those who attended Irish secondary schools prior to 1967. It serves to initiate and enhance the practice of remembering secondary school education amongst those who attended secondary schools not just in Ireland, but around the world.
Chapter 1. School Effectiveness and Educational Management: Editorial; Nikša Alfirević, Josip Burušić, Jurica Pavičić, Renata Relja -- Chapter 2. School Effectiveness: An Overview of Conceptual, Methodological and Empirical Foundations; Josip Burušić, Toni Babarović, Šakić Velić Marija -- Chapter 3. School Principals, Environments and Stakeholders: the Blessings and Heresies of Mark…
Preface -- Chapter 1 The Self Organizing University (SOU) -- Chapter 2 The State of Program Design and Development -- Chapter 3 The SOU Model -- Chapter 4 Theory -- Chapter 5 Research -- Chapter 6 Design -- Chapter 7 Implementation -- Chapter 8 The Design in Practice -- Chapter 9 Efficacy Research Underpinning the SOU -- Chapter 10 Impacts and Benefits -- Chapter 11 Engaging with Transformation…
In an examination of the impact of education policy on Australia's diverse student population, this book asks if increasing the years of compulsory schooling can make the positive social impact its proponents claim. The authors' analysis reveals a policy disjuncture wrought by competing agendas of increased school leaving age and school choice.