Introduction.- Part I: Globalising Intercultural Education: Politics, Policy-making and Implementation -- Chapter 1. Theorising Globalisation in Education -- Chapter 2. Conceptions of Intercultural Education from around the Globe.- Chapter 3. Conceptions of Education Policy for Intercultural Education.- Chapter 4. The Influence of Supranational Institutions on Policy-development for Inter…
The Educational Significance of Human and Non-Human Animal Interactions explores human animal/non-human animal interactions from different disciplinary perspectives, from education policy to philosophy of education and ecopedagogy. The authors refute the idea of anthropocentrism (the belief that human beings are the central or most significant species on the planet) through an ethical investiga…
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Epistemological Foundations -- Chapter 3. Perspectives of Sole Parents in Higher Education -- Chapter 4. The Case Study -- Chapter 5. Judith Butler's Gender Performativity and Recognition -- Chapter 6. Sole Parenting in Higher Education Spaces -- Chapter 7. Access and Attachment to Higher Education for Sole Parents -- Chapter 8. Policy: Performative Recogni…
PART I: FRAMING SOFT GOVERNANCE, EDUCATION AND CONVERGENCE -- Chapter 1. Education in Transition: An Empirical Puzzle -- Chapter 2. Measuring Convergence in Education Policy -- Chapter 3. Soft Governance and Voluntary Policy Convergence: A Theoretical Framework -- Chapter 4. Education Policy-Making in Switzerland: Origins and Trends -- PART II: SWITZERLAND: AN EXTREME CASE -- Chapter 5. Swiss R…
The era of a 'slow-paced' academia characterized by leisurely tempos of research and pedagogy has gone. Academia is now an intensely social site, and the boundaries between capitalist dynamics and academic life have become blurred. Academic workloads are increasing as academics have to deal with an ever-growing number of tasks, information, obligations, texts, procedures and connections. Yet th…
Academic freedom is increasingly being threatened by a stifling culture of conformity in higher education that is restricting individual academics, the freedom of academic thought and the progress of knowledge – the very foundations upon which academia and universities are built. Once, scholars demanded academic freedom to critique existing knowledge and to pursue new truths. Today, while fon…
Part 1: Policy Changes and Education Quality -- 1. How to Improve Quality Education for Indigenous Children in Latin America -- 2. Indigenous Student Learning Outcomes and Education Policies in Peru and Ecuador -- Part 2: Intercultural Education in Practice -- 3. Role-Play as a Pedagogical Tool for Intercultural Education -- 4. Inclusion or Interculturalidad: Attaining Equity in Higher Educatio…
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.
PART I. The Theoretical Framework.- Chapter 1. The Unintended Consequences of University Governance Reforms.- Chapter 2. Poor Policy Design and Implementation -- PART II: The Historical Evolution of Italian Higher Education.- Chapter 3. From the Post-WWII Period To The 1980 Modernization Law.- Chapter 4. Autonomy And Funding: The Reforms Of the Late 1980s to the Mid-1990s.- Chapter 5. Lead…