Educational Strategies & Policy

This book helps teachers gain confidence and build sensitivity when interacting with caregivers and families who speak different languages and may ...

Focusing on a wide range of critical issues, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the linkage of different educational ideas, policies, a...

Gender and the Radical and Extreme Right takes up an important and often-overlooked across scholarship on the radical right, gender, and education....

Steps to Success: What Successful Principals Do Every Day is purposefully written for practicing and aspiring public and private school administrat...

Offering a vital, critical contribution to debates on gender, sexuality and schooling in South Africa, this book highlights how South African educa...

Originally published in 1983. This book provides the first overview of developments in primary science prior to and following the national survey o...

Steps to Success: What Successful Principals Do Every Day is purposefully written for practicing and aspiring public and private school administrat...

Excellence: Every Classroom, Every Lesson, Every Day is the story of the transformation of a principal from new and inexperienced but good-hearted ...

Rethinking the Politics of Education provides an entirely original rethinking of the modern and contemporary mythology of education. Problematizing...

This book examines the idea of educational accountability in higher education, which has become a new secular gospel. But do accountability policie...

The achievement gap is one of the most talked about issues in U.S. education. It shows up in grades, standardized test scores, course selection, dr...

Tough topics are inescapable for journalism and mass communication academics. If it’s in the news, journalism and mass communication instructors ha...

Drawing on a three-year post-critical ethnography, this volume counters deficit-based notions of disability to present a new social and dialogic th...

Excellence: Every Classroom, Every Lesson, Every Day is the story of the transformation of a principal from new and inexperienced but good-hearted ...

Originally published in 1979. This study was supported by a grant from the Bernard Van Leer Foundation, The Hague, Netherlands. The Gifted Disadvan...

This important volume explores how racism operates in schools and society, while also unpacking larger patterns of racist ideology and white privil...

The school accountability movement’s focus solely on improving standardized test scores is dehumanizing. There is no standardized child. In the r...

The study of religious education is of great interest in analyzing how schools and educational authorities address the demands of multicultural and...

What educational experiences have helped college graduates to successfully complete their degrees and prepare for their chosen careers? What motiva...

This important volume explores how racism operates in schools and society, while also unpacking larger patterns of racist ideology and white privil...

School Choice at the Crossroads compiles exemplary, policy-relevant research on school choice options—voucher, private, charter, and traditional pu...

School Reform in an Era of Standardization explores how teachers and school-based administrators navigate the processes of accountability and stand...

In every UK classroom, an estimated three children suffer from a diagnosable mental health problem. Proactive Pastoral Care is a vital guide to ena...

Educational Leadership, Management, and Administration through Actor-Network Theory presents how actor-network theory (ANT) and the related vocabul...

Based on qualitative research focused on literacy and health from three schools in coastal Kenya, this book examines country, school, and family co...

All too often, race discourse in the United States devolves into shouting matches, silence, or violence, all of which are mirrored in today’s class...

Originally published in 1980. School-based curriculum development was the dominant form of curriculum development in Britain. Though there were nat...

Disaster Pedagogy for Higher Education serves as an all-purpose, contextually grounded, and multi-modal introduction to teaching in higher educatio...

Why are preservice teachers often told by veteran teachers to "forget what you learned" in teacher preparation programs? Why is there a gap between...

This book addresses issues and challenges arising in the theory and practice of international education. Written by leading international experts i...

This book synthesizes and analyzes the complex map of educational reforms in Latin America in the first two decades of the 21st century. The book o...

The school accountability movement’s focus solely on improving standardized test scores is dehumanizing. There is no standardized child. In the r...

This book explores the interdisciplinary arena of peace studies and shows how the field has evolved and continues to grow and change. Dedicated to ...

Why is it that more people can’t read and write? Why are there still so many vastly different methods of teaching literacy? Why do people still arg...

Further Language Learning in Linguistic and Cultural Diverse Contexts deals with the interdisciplinary area of multilingual and intercultural educa...

Questioning the Language of Improvement and Reform in Education challenges the language used in education by linking the language of both the publi...