Local Government in North Carolina
Author: Gordon P. Whitaker
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 120
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Local Education
Author: Smith, Mark
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Published: 1994-09-01
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 0335192742
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing upon the experiences of adult and community educators, youth and community workers, Mark Smith examines the practice of educators who build up ways of working with local networks and cultures. Shops, launderettes, streets, bars, cafes and people's houses are the settings for much of their work, and when they do appear in schools and colleges, they are most likely to be found in corridors, eating areas and student common-rooms. Their work is not organized by subject, syllabi or lessons; it is about conversation and community, a commitment to local democracy and self-organization, and is often unpredictable and risky. Mark Smith offers an analysis of the subtle and difficult activity of intervening in other peoples' lives, of conversing with purpose, and of engaging with people to broaden opportunity and to effect change in their lives and communities.
Comparative Education
Author: Robert F. Arnove
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 517
ISBN-13: 1442217766
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEditors Robert F. Arnove and Carlos Alberto Torres, along with new coeditor Stephen Franz, have assembled the key scholars in comparative education, bringing a new edition of their groundbreaking book. To be used in graduate courses in comparative education, the new edition re...
EBOOK: LOCAL EDUCATION
Author: Mark Smith
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Published: 1994-09-16
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 0335231306
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing upon the experiences of adult and community educators, youth and community workers, Mark Smith examines the practice of educators who build up ways of working with local networks and cultures. Shops, launderettes, streets, bars, cafes and people's houses are the settings for much of their work, and when they do appear in schools and colleges, they are most likely to be found in corridors, eating areas and student common-rooms. Their work is not organized by subject, syllabi or lessons; it is about conversation and community, a commitment to local democracy and self-organization, and is often unpredictable and risky. Mark Smith offers an analysis of the subtle and difficult activity of intervening in other peoples' lives, of conversing with purpose, and of engaging with people to broaden opportunity and to effect change in their lives and communities.
Education and Social Change
Author: Geoffrey Elliott
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2010-12-16
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 0826444091
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Comparative Education
Author: Robert F. Arnove
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780742559844
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComparative Education examines the common problems facing education systems around the world as the result of global economic, social, and cultural forces. Issues related to the governance, financing, provision, processes, and outcomes of education systems for differently situated social groups are described and analyzed in specific regional, national, and local contexts.
Local Education Order
Author: Stephen Hester
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9789027250889
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe studies in this book take an ethnomethodological approach to educational phenomena. Ethnomethodology's concern is with the locally accomplished and situated character of social order. With reference to educational phenomena, this means that ethnomethodology investigates how the 'natural facts' of educational life, such as daily activities in school classrooms, are produced as such in the first place, rather than taking for granted the recognisability of these facts and then theorising their explanation. In this sense, ethnomethodological studies contrast markedly with other approaches to the study of education. Each of the chapters in the book consists of a new and original study. Collectively, they exhibit the continuing vitality of this tradition and demonstrate ethnomethodology's special commitment to the analysis of educational phenomena as locally ordered and accomplished.
Local Education Policies
Author: C. Hudson
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-01-14
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 0230523382
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the Western world, education policy has increasingly become a local matter. Localities and schools adjust education to meet specific local needs, fragmentation and diversity. Globalization and the greater emphasis on knowledge in society however, also embody strong streamlining tendencies. This edited volume examines and compares the way in which local education systems in Britain and Sweden are created in the interplay between common tendencies of change and particular local conditions.
Beyond Standards
Author: Morgan Polikoff
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Published: 2021-05-11
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781682536124
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeyond Standards highlights the structural conditions that have undermined the success of the standards movement and challenges us to confront them. The book offers an impassioned argument about the ways that our decentralized educational systems undermine the pursuit of educational equity and excellence. Morgan Polikoff applies a wide array of quantitative and qualitative data to provide a pointed critique of the US educational system. He addresses why standards have failed, whether standards-based reform can be salvaged, and what we can do to improve teaching and learning at scale across America's 13,000 school districts. Polikoff argues that no amount of tinkering can fix standards. Rather, we need to tackle the big, structural issues, such as decentralization. The author identifies curriculum reform as a high-leverage strategy for making meaningful progress at scale and emphasizes that states need to play a greater role in evaluating and recommending high-quality curriculum materials. Beyond Standards proposes a new, progressive vision that emphasizes the central role of states in challenging the antiquated, segregating structures that have thwarted educational improvement.
Learning Under the Lens
Author: Annemaree Carroll
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-12-01
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 0429556977
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLearning Under the Lens: Applying Findings from the Science of Learning to the Classroom highlights the innovative approach being undertaken by researchers from the disparate fields of neuroscience, education and psychology working together to gain a better understanding of how we learn, and its potential to impact student learning outcomes. The book is structured in four parts: ‘Science of learning: a policy perspective’ sets the scene for this emerging field of research; ‘Self regulation of learning’ and ‘Technology and learning’ feature findings by eminent international and national researchers in the field and provides an insight into some of the innovative research illustrating the depth, breadth and multi-disciplinarity of the research; and ‘Research translation’ focuses on the scaled-up implementation of research findings in authentic learning settings, and showcases research findings which are having impact in learning environments. This fascinating book is intended as a reference tool to create awareness among researchers, policy makers, and education practitioners of the research being undertaken in the science of learning field and its potential to impact student learning outcomes.
