References -- 1. An Epistemic Governance of European Education -- Introduction -- Globalisation and Regimes of Knowledge -- Policy Networks and Travelling Politics of PISA -- Transnationalisation of Knowledge and Evidence-Based Research Policy -- The Mode 2 of Knowledge Production: a European Research Agenda -- The European University and the Knowledge Triangle -- The Foundations of the Europea…
Examining cases in educational technology from computer assisted instruction to MOOCs, this volume shows how social interests frame reform programs and realign organizational and pedagogical strategies around them to produce a particular environment for change in higher education. Technology is a contingent product rather than a driver of such changes, suggesting that the politics of reform in …
Introduction: Strange Matters -- Chapter 1. Expansive Learning -- Chapter 2. Researching Organizational Learning: Expansive Perspectives -- Chapter 3. Expansive Learning in Action -- Chapter 4. Towards an Expansive Learning Index -- Chapter 5. Ethics and Expansive Learning -- Conclusion.This book discusses approaches to organizational learning from a materialist point of view. Inspired by resea…
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…
Prologue: Stage Fright -- Chapter 1. Setting the Stage -- Chapter 2. The Allure -- Chapter 3. The Lament -- Chapter 4. Embodied Experience -- Chapter 5. Creative Processes -- Chapter 6. Script Reading -- Chapter 7. Creative Enactments of Teacher Leadership -- Chapter 8. From Stories to Scripts -- Chapter 9. As the Curtain Closes -- Epilogue: After the Cast Party.This book addresses the lived ch…
Chapter 1 Introduction: Ethical dilemmas, social values and public policy: The Context of Governance and Citizenship -- Part I: Ethics, Social Values and Public Policy -- Chapter 2 The case of Ah Bun: Euthanasia and other alternatives -- Chapter 3 The justification of the abortion law in Hong Kong: A comparative study -- Chapter 4 Compensated dating: An ethical analysis -- Chapter 5 Private sph…
Roadmap to Become a World-Class University -- International Advisory Boards in the World -- Excellence as Duty -- Excellence in Education -- Excellence in Research -- Excellence in Serving Society and Mankind -- Excellence in Strategic Planning -- Excellence in Innovation and Knowledge Economy -- Excellence in International Cooperation -- Change towards Excellence.Open AccessThis book written b…
About the Editors -- About the Contributors -- PART 1: Assessment in Education: Implications for Leaders -- PART 2: Assessment at the District/School Leadership Level -- PART 3: Leadership Assessment-related Knowledge and Behaviours -- Index.This book provides key insights into how educational leaders can successfully navigate the turbulence of political debate surrounding leading student asses…
1. Implementing Assessment for Learning: Theoretical and Practical Issues -- PART I: Assessment Policy Enactment in Education Systems -- 2. Assessment Policy Enactment in Education Systems: A Few Reasons to Be Optimistic -- 3. Making Meaning of Assessment Policy in Australia through Teacher Assessment Conversations -- 4. Effective Enactment of Assessment for Learning and Student Diversity in Au…
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…