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  • A Definitive White Paper: Systemic Educational Reform (The Recommended Course of Action for Practitioners of Teaching and Learning)

    This manuscript addresses the need to bring about more effective teacher training and propagate innovative schools in the United States (and abroad). It is intended to serve as a policy statement and position paper which will enable political forces to rally behind a comprehensive strategy that will rectify the shortcomings of our educational system. The constructs described may also be utilized ... Read more

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  • Reinventing Education in America

    by Lady Li Andre ...
    Some students graduating today feel cheated because they are not prepared to enter a career. They don’t have the necessary skills to survive as adults in our complex society. As parents, teachers, and concerned community members, we need to remove the old education system and replace it with a new system that centers around students, not statistics.Reinventing Education in America provides a ... Read more

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  • The Emerald Handbook of Research Management and Administration Around the World

    The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.Over past decades, scholars and practitioners around the world observed an emergence of professionals, research managers and administrators (RMAs) who play an essential role in the advancement of academic research. RMAs have extensive knowledge of the research ecosystem, including funding opportunities, proposals, ... Read more

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  • Positively Transforming Minds within Educational Systems

    An Inner-Directed Inquiry Process for Educators and the Students they Serve

    Youth and young adult suicide and depression is on the rise and employers are complaining about the lack of preparedness among high school and college graduates. This book illustrates the research that can support youth, young adults, and their instructors to transform learning environments that subsequently contribute to desired learning and development outcomes. Through embedding brief micro ... Read more

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  • Dinaric Perspectives on TIMSS 2019

    Teaching and Learning Mathematics and Science in South-Eastern Europe

    Series Book 13 - IEA Research for Education
    This open access book brings together national experts from across the Dinaric region to rigorously review IEA’s Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2019 grade four data to develop a multidimensional and culturally sensitive perspective on their TIMSS 2019 primary-level results. The Dinaric region, named after the Dinaric Alps, is located in South-eastern Europe, and ... Read more

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  • Transforming Lives and Systems

    Cultural Competence and the Higher Education Interface

    Series series SpringerBriefs in Education
    This open access book explores the transformative experiences of participants in the University of Sydney’s National Centre for Cultural Competence (NCCC) programs. The establishment of the NCCC was viewed as a critical point of departure for developing an institution-wide agenda of cultural competence. The NCCC’s work since its inception reflects efforts to lay important foundations for cultural ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Graduate Employability in Context

    Discourse, Policy and Practice

    This open access book offers critical, multidisciplinary analyses on graduate employability. The book examines employability at the macro, meso and micro levels: higher education policy, the labour market, higher education institutions, organisations, individuals and social groups, in European, North American and Australian contexts. The contributors provide social and contextual analysis of ... Read more

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  • Politische Bildung in Aktion

    Eine qualitative Studie zur Rekonstruktion von selbstbestimmten Bildungserfahrungen in politischen Jugendinitiativen

    by Steve Kenner ...
    Series series Bürgerbewusstsein
    In diesem Open-Access-Buch geht Steve Kenner der Frage nach, inwiefern sich politische Bildungsprozesse aus den Partizipationserfahrungen junger Menschen rekonstruieren lassen. Er begleitete politische Jugendinitiativen und führte Interviews mit politisch aktiven Jugendlichen (u.a. Fridays for Future und Antirassismus-Arbeitsgemeinschaften). Die Ergebnisse der Untersuchung offenbaren, dass die ... Read more

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  • Lifelong Learning, Young Adults and the Challenges of Disadvantage in Europe

    Series series Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning
    This open access book challenges international policy ‘groupthink’ about lifelong learning. Adult learning – too long a servant of business competitiveness – should be reimagined as central to democratic society. Young adults, especially from disadvantaged backgrounds, engage more in education and training, and learn more day-to-day at work, if provision is democratically organised and based on ... Read more

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  • Advancing Human Assessment

    The Methodological, Psychological and Policy Contributions of ETS

    Series series Methodology of Educational Measurement and Assessment
    This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license.This book describes the extensive contributions made toward the advancement of human assessment by scientists from one of the world’s leading research institutions, Educational Testing Service. The book’s four major sections detail research and development in measurement and statistics, education policy analysis and evaluation, scientific ... Read more

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  • Global Perspectives on Recognising Non-formal and Informal Learning

    Why Recognition Matters

    by Madhu Singh ...
    Series Book 21 - Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects
    This book deals with the relevance of recognition and validation of non-formal and informal learning education and training, the workplace and society. In an increasing number of countries, it is at the top of the policy and research agenda ranking among the possible ways to redress the glaring lack of relevant academic and vocational qualifications and to promote the development of competences ... Read more

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  • World Class Universities

    A Contested Concept

    Series series Evaluating Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices
    This open access book focuses on the dimensions of the discourse of 'The World Class University', its alleged characteristics, and its policy expressions. It offers a broad overview of the historical background and current trajectory of the world-class-university construct. It also deepens the theoretical discussion, and points a way forward out of present impasses resulting from the pervasive use ... Read more

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  • Reimagining Science Education in the Anthropocene, Volume 2

    Series series Palgrave Studies in Education and the Environment
    This volume, a follow up to Reimagining Science Education in the Anthropocene (2021), continues a transdisciplinary conversation around reconceptualizing science education in the era of the Anthropocene. Drawing educators from many walks of life and areas of practice together in a creative work that helps reorient science education toward the problems and peculiarities associated with this ... Read more

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  • Empowering Teachers to Build a Better World

    How Six Nations Support Teachers for 21st Century Education

    Edited by Fernando M. Reimers ...
    Series series SpringerBriefs in Education
    This open access book presents a comparative study on how large-scale professional development programs for teachers are designed and implemented. Around the world, governments and educators are recognizing the need to educate students in a broad range of higher order cognitive skills and socio-emotional competencies, and providing effective opportunities for teachers to develop the expertise ... Read more

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  • Global Citizenship Education

    Critical and International Perspectives

    This open access book takes a critical and international perspective to the mainstreaming of the Global Citizenship Concept and analyses the key issues regarding global citizenship education across the world. In that respect, it addresses a pressing need to provide further conceptual input and to open global citizenship agendas to diversity and indigeneity.Social and political changes brought by ... Read more

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  • Sharing Less Commonly Taught Languages in Higher Education

    Collaboration and Innovation

    This edited volume highlights how institutions, programs, and less commonly taught language (LCTL) instructors can collaborate and think across institutional boundaries, bringing together voices representing different approaches to LCTL sharing to highlight affordances and challenges across institutions in this collection of essays. Sharing Less Commonly Taught Languages in Higher Education ... Read more

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  • Building Better Schools with Evidence-based Policy

    Adaptable Policy for Teachers and School Leaders

    Building Better Schools with Evidence-based Policy: Adaptable Policy for Teachers and School Leaders provides an extensive set of free-to-use policies for building better schools.The policies included in this book cover a broad range of popular topics for schools that are not readily accessible, and each policy is built on theory, driven by research, and created by experts. Each policy is based on ... Read more

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  • Dynamics in Education Politics

    Understanding and explaining the Finnish case

    Dynamics in Education Politics: Understanding and Explaining the Finnish Case introduces a new theoretical framework characterised as Comparative Analytics of Dynamics in Education Politics (CADEP). Albeit the topicality of comparative research is obvious in the current era of global large-scale assessment, with its concomitant media visibility and political effects, comparative education is still ... Read more

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  • Continued Comments

    by Bob Howitt ...
    The publication of Continued Comments represents a conscious decision by the author to convert written “stuff” into archived material (sort of) instead of having it be recycled, i.e., thrown away, on his demise. ... Read more

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  • Adult Language Education and Migration

    Challenging agendas in policy and practice

    Edited by James Simpson, Anne Whiteside ...
    Adult Language Education and Migration: Challenging Agendas in Policy and Practice provides a lively and critical examination of policy and practice in language education for adult migrants around the world, showing how opportunities for learning the language of a new country both shape and are shaped by policy moves. Language policies for migrants are often controversial and hotly contested, but ... Read more

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  • Learner-Centred Pedagogy in the Global South

    Pupils and Teachers’ Experiences

    by Nozomi Sakata ...
    Series series Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education
    Learner-Centred Pedagogy in the Global South: Pupils and Teachers’ Experiences shines light on learner-centred pedagogy (LCP), which has gained popularity within global and national governments, albeit resulting in puzzling and inconsequential appropriation.Nozomi Sakata draws on award-winning research on learner centred pedagogy conducted in Tanzania that looks to shift the focus from teachers ... Read more

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  • Docencia e investigación educativa con enfoque interdisciplinario

    Los problemas y fenómenos del contexto educativo son complejos, por lo que estudiarlos desde una sola disciplina es limitado, cobra importancia el enfoque interdisciplinar para su abordaje. En este libro se resalta la importancia de desarrollar una visión de amplia perspectiva para desarrollar las funciones sustantivas de docencia e investigación en las instituciones de educación superior, ... Read more

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  • Teacher Talk: A Collection of Magazine Articles for Teachers (Book 2)

    Teacher Talk, #2

    by Marsha Marie ...
    Series Book 2 - Teacher Talk
    Teacher Talk, Book 2 is a collection of magazine articles that were written in 2012 while Marsha Marie was writing for alocal family magazine in the United Arab Emirates. This free e-book series of four volumes is a great addition to anyteacher's library--especially new teachers. More information about Marsha Marie can be found at www.MarshaMarie.com. ... Read more

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  • Mergers and Alliances in Higher Education

    International Practice and Emerging Opportunities

    This volume casts light on mergers and alliances in higher education by examining developments of this type in different countries. It combines the direct experiences of those at the heart of such transformations, university leaders and senior officials responsible for higher education policy, with expert analysts of the systems concerned.Higher education in Europe faces a series of major ... Read more

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