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  | | Teaching Comparative Education trends and issues informing practice (Oxford Studies in Comparative Education) by Patricia K. Kubow, Allison H. Blosser, Symposium Books Paperback, 212 Pages, Published 2016 by Symposium Books ISBN-13: 978-1-873927-82-3, ISBN: 1-873927-82-7 "With chapter contributions from seminal scholars in the field of comparative and international education (CIE), this book examines the ways in which comparative education is being taught, or advocated for, in teacher education within higher education institutions worldwide. A particular concern raised by the authors - in locations as diverse as Germany, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States - is the utilitarian approach i ..." |
 | | The Career Trajectories of English Language Teachers (Oxford Studies in Comparative Education) by Penny Haworth, Cheryl Craig, Symposium Books Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2016 by Symposium Books ISBN-13: 978-1-873927-87-8, ISBN: 1-873927-87-8 "This volume identifies, illustrates, compares, contrasts and provides informed reflective commentary on the diverse career trajectories of English language teachers, teacher educators and researchers. This book is likely to be of interest not only to teachers in the field of English language teaching, but also to researchers with an interest in exploring teachers' lives and careers in diverse contexts. CONTENTS Penny Haworth & Cheryl C ..." |
 | | Children's Rights, Educational Research and the UNCRC past, present and future by Jenna Gillett-Swan, Vicki Coppock, Symposium Books, Roger Dale Paperback, 166 Pages, Published 2016 by Symposium Books ISBN-13: 978-1-873927-95-3, ISBN: 1-873927-95-9 "Children's Rights, Educational Research and the UNCRC provides international perspectives on contemporary issues pertaining to children's rights in education. The global context, relevance and implications of children's rights, educational research and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) are explored from multiple perspectives. Since the development of the UNCRC over 25 years ago, significant changes have oc ..." |
 | | The Global Testing Culture shaping education policy, perceptions, and practice (Oxford Studies in Comparative Education) by William C. Smith, Symposium Books Paperback, 302 Pages, Published 2015 by Symposium Books ISBN-13: 978-1-873927-72-4, ISBN: 1-873927-72-X "The past thirty years have seen a rapid expansion of testing, exposing students worldwide to tests that are now, more than ever, standardized and linked to high-stakes outcomes. The global testing culture permeates all aspects of education, from financing, to parental involvement, to teacher and student beliefs and practices. The reinforcing nature of the global testing culture leads to an environment where testing becomes synonymous wi ..." |
 | | Shaping the Futures of Young Europeans education governance in eight European countries by Roger Dale, Patricia Loncle, Symposium Books Paperback, 188 Pages, Published 2015 by Symposium Books ISBN-13: 978-1-873927-62-5, ISBN: 1-873927-62-2 "This book discusses how the ways that young people's educational trajectories into and beyond lower secondary education are regulated can influence their future lives. It draws on the results of empirical studies in eight European countries: Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia and the United Kingdom (England and Northern Ireland), carried out under the EU-funded GOETE project. The book explores the differe ..." |
 | | Education, Privatisation and Social Justice case studies from Africa, South Asia and South East Asia by Ian Macpherson, Geoffrey Walford, Susan L. Robertson, Symposium Books Paperback, 312 Pages, Published 2014 by Symposium Books ISBN-13: 978-1-873927-37-3, ISBN: 1-873927-37-1 "The involvement of private actors in education is not new, yet in the last decade critical issues have arisen that demand close scrutiny. This volume explores emerging forms of the private through case studies from Africa, South Asia and South East Asia and makes three related observations. First, what is new about these manifestations is their scale, scope and penetration into almost all aspects of the education endeavour from the admi ..." |
 | | Transnational Policy Flows in European Education the making and governing of knowledge in the education policy field (Oxford Studies in Comparative Education) by Andreas Nordin, Daniel Sundberg, Symposium Books Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2014 by Symposium Books ISBN-13: 978-1-873927-52-6, ISBN: 1-873927-52-5 "International comparisons of educational achievements have come to play a crucial role in understanding the educational field today. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the development of international large-scale assessments. The lives and achievements of transnational educational experts who paved the way for these assessments are discussed as well as the rise of institutions specialising in the making and managing of education ..." |
 | | Internationalisation of Higher Education and Global Mobility (Oxford Studies in Comparative Education) by Bernhard Streitwieser, Symposium Books Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2014 by Symposium Books ISBN-13: 978-1-873927-42-7, ISBN: 1-873927-42-8 "Continuous and rapid developments in global higher education today more than ever before present new questions, greater challenges and vast new opportunities for institutions, policy makers, scholars and students alike. This book is a collection of studies and essays by many of the leading experts in international higher education, who share their analysis of current trends and the implications they see for present and future policy and ..." |
 | | The Rise of Data in Education Systems collection, visualization and use (Comparative Histories of Education) by Martin Lawn, Symposium Books Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2013 by Symposium Books ISBN-13: 978-1-873927-32-8, ISBN: 1-873927-32-0 "The growth of education systems and the construction of the state have always been connected. The processes of governing education systems always utilized data through a range of administrative records, pupil testing, efficiency surveys and international projects. By the late twentieth century, quantitative data had gained enormous influence in education systems through the work of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Developm ..." |
 | | School Leadership in the Caribbean perceptions, practices, paradigms by Paul Miller, Symposium Books Paperback, 204 Pages, Published 2013 by Symposium Books ISBN-13: 978-1-873927-81-6, ISBN: 1-873927-81-9 "Successful school leadership is an issue currently being debated up and down Caribbean territories. Key issues in the ongoing debate include: students' outcomes and participation in the regional Caribbean Secondary Examinations (CSEC); teacher recruitment and retention; teacher training and continuing professional development (upgrading); and parental involvement. These issues point to leadership at various levels, whether in its exerci ..." |
 | | Low-fee Private Schooling aggravating equity or mitigating disadvantage? (Oxford Studies in Comparative Education) by Prachi Srivastava, Symposium Books Paperback, 220 Pages, Published 2013 by Symposium Books ISBN-13: 978-1-873927-91-5, ISBN: 1-873927-91-6 "Low-fee private schooling represents a point of heated debate in the international policy context of Education for All and the Millennium Development Goals. While, on the one hand, there is an increased push for free and universal access with assumed state responsibility, reports on the mushrooming of private schools targeting socially and economically disadvantaged groups in a range of developing countries, particularly across Africa a ..." |
 | | Education in the Broader Middle East borrowing a baroque arsenal by Gari Donn, Yahya Al Manthri, Symposium Books Paperback, 206 Pages, Published 2012 by Symposium Books ISBN-13: 978-1-873927-86-1, ISBN: 1-873927-86-X "This book brings together academics and postgraduate students, practitioners and ministry officials, all of whom are wedded to developing an understanding of what is happening to education in the broader Middle East. They cover many countries whilst recognising that many more could have been included. In drawing attention to education in Pakistan, Palestine, Oman, Turkey and Qatar, they indicate the wide range of education 'policy borro ..." |
 | | Higher Education and the State Changing Relationships in Europe and East Asia (Oxford Studies in Comparative Education) by Roger Goodman, Takehiko Kariya, John Taylor, Symposium Books Paperback, 270 Pages, Published 2012 by Symposium Books ISBN-13: 978-1-873927-76-2, ISBN: 1-873927-76-2 "The relationship between the state and higher education institutions has always been a complex one. The 'state' itself in this context is a heterogeneous mix of elite people - bureaucrats, politicians, committees of co-opted academics and business leaders - and it increasingly faces pressures from diverse stakeholders, including students (themselves an increasingly diverse community), staff, families, employers and businesses (local, re ..." |
 | | Education, Conflict and Development (Oxford Studies in Comparative Education) by Julia Paulson, Symposium Books Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2011 by Symposium Books ISBN-13: 978-1-873927-46-5, ISBN: 1-873927-46-0 "Under various names - education and conflict, education and fragility, education and insecurity, etc. - the understanding of linkages between education and violent conflict has emerged as an important and pressing area of inquiry. Work and research by practitioners and scholars has clearly pointed to the negative potential of education to contribute to and entrench violent conflict. This work has highlighted the struggle for education d ..." |
 | | Reimagining Japanese Education borders, transfers, circulations, and the comparative (Oxford Studies in Comparative Education) by David Blake Willis, Jeremy Rappleye, Symposium Books Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2011 by Symposium Books ISBN-13: 978-1-873927-51-9, ISBN: 1-873927-51-7 "Sparked by the confluence of accelerating domestic transformation and increasingly explicit impacts from 'globalization', the Japanese education system has undergone tremendous changes during the turbulence of the past decade. This volume, which brings together some of the foremost scholars in the field of Japanese education, analyses these recent changes in ways that help us 'reimagine' Japan and Japanese educational change at this cri ..." |
 | | Politics, Modernisation and Educational Reform in Russia From Past to Present (Oxford Studies in Comparative Education) by David Johnson, Symposium Books Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2010 by Symposium Books ISBN-13: 978-1-873927-41-0, ISBN: 1-873927-41-X "The chapters in this volume give an account of the process of modernisation and educational reform in Russia, variously considering the cultural and political dilemmas provoked by democratisation, the structural and policy challenges associated with the reform of higher and vocational education, and the deep divisions exposed as sociocultural activity is brought into alignment with the new discourse of freedom and choice. The volume sti ..." |
 | | Languages and Education in Africa A Comparative and Transdisciplinary Analysis (Bristol Papers in Education) by Birgit Brock-Utne, Ingse Skattum, Symposium Books Paperback, 356 Pages, Published 2009 by Symposium Books ISBN-13: 978-1-873927-17-5, ISBN: 1-873927-17-7 "The theme of this book cuts across disciplines. Contributors to this volume are specialised in education, and especially classroom research, as well as in linguistics, most being transdisciplinary themselves. Around 65 sub-Saharan languages figure in this volume as research objects: as means of instruction and in connection with teacher training, language policy, lexical development, harmonisation efforts, information technology, oral l ..." |
 | | Modelling the Future Exhibitions and the Materiality of Education (Comparative Histories of Education) by Martin Lawn, Symposium Books Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2009 by Symposium Books ISBN-13: 978-1-873927-27-4, ISBN: 1-873927-27-4 "The role of World Exhibitions in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was to confirm a relation between the nation state and modernity. As a display about industries, inventions and identities, the Exhibition, in a sense, put entire nations into an elevated, viewable space. It is a significant element in modernity as comparisons can be made, progress is assumed and the future can be made manageable. The Exhibition links the nati ..." |
 | | Higher Education and International Capacity Building Twenty-Five Years of Higher Education Links (Bristol Papers in Education) by David Stephens, Symposium Books Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2009 by Symposium Books ISBN-13: 978-1-873927-22-9, ISBN: 1-873927-22-3 "For the past 25 years UK higher education institutions have forged research and teaching partnerships with their counterparts overseas. Many of these links were funded by the British government and managed by the British Council's Higher Education Links Scheme. This book takes an informed and critical look at issues and trends in global higher education over the past 25 years with an in-depth and often personal account of how these link ..." |
 | | An Atlantic Crossing? The Work of the International Examination Inquiry, its Researchers, Methods and Influence (Comparative Histories of Education) by Martin Lawn, Symposium Books Paperback, 206 Pages, Published 2008 by Symposium Books ISBN-13: 978-1-873927-26-7, ISBN: 1-873927-26-6 "This book focuses on the International Examinations Inquiry (IEI), an international, well-funded scientific project that operated in the 1930s, attracting key world figures in educational research, and which undertook significant exchanges of data. Originally involving the USA, Scotland, England, France, Germany and Switzerland, the IEI grew to include Norway, Sweden and Finland. Funded by Carnegie money, these researchers included majo ..." |