Educational Strategies & Policy

Policy analysis has always attended to the role of elite actors, but much less often has the policy activity of street level actors been attended t...

Performance measurement is now a key management tool used by government to assess and enhance public services. It is also used as a tool for public...

This book critically examines some of the major trends in the development of higher education. It demonstrates how in the context of liberalisation...

For more than 20 years, Lucy West has been studying mathematical classroom discourse. She believes that teachers need to understand what their stud...

This book investigates the intersection of gender and distance education from a feminist perspective and explores their contemporary innovative int...

This title was first published in 2001. Offering a fascinating new perspective on the processes of technical and social change, this book complemen...

Assessment in architecture and creative arts schools has traditionally adopted a one size fits all approach by using the crit, where students pin u...

Originally published in 1988, this book was an up to the minute account of the way in which recent government initiatives, including the 1986 Act, ...

Through an accessible, research-based program of professional learning, this critical resource empowers gifted educators to become change agents fo...

Volume 14, Number 1, 2002. Contents: J.R. Lewis, Introduction. ARTICLES: D.J. Gillan, R.G. Bias, Usability Science 1: Foundation. H.R. Hartson, T.S...

This book aims to reconceptualize teaching and learning in spaces with diverse populations of young people. Chapters focus on the schooling experie...

This fully revised and updated second edition builds upon the original vision of the first, which was to give voice to diverse and inclusive perspe...

The Covid pandemic has caused massive disruption in the education system. The consequences for the education of the next generation are now clearly...

This title was first published in 2000: Teaching, learning and assessment methods are constantly evolving, providing the educator with a range of i...

Its time for the educational slugfest to stop. Traditional and progressive education are both caricatures, and bashing cartoon images of each other...

As one of the most rapid and earliest nations to achieve Western modernisation, much of Japans success stems from its fruitful literacy history dur...

While Islamophobia was present in our society before 9/11, it has become more pervasive in recent years. This is evidenced by the current social an...

This handbook for educators and researchers consists of an unparalleled set of conceptual essays and empirical studies that advance new perspective...

In this collection of original essays, contributors critically examine the pedagogical, administrative, financial, economic, and cultural contexts ...

Learn the secrets to getting your entire school excited about math! This book from acclaimed author Dr. Nicki Newton and experienced instructional ...

Implementing systematic diversity transformation requires embracing all aspects of diversitygender, sexual orientation, disability, gender identifi...

Published in 1996, this book presents a broad overview of the development of educational policy for schools in England and Wales since Margaret Tha...

Originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, this expanded text provides new insights into the ...

Despite the enshrinement by the United Nations in 1948 of education as a universal human right, and despite the ideals espoused in the Education fo...

The post-Mao period has witnessed rapid social and economic transformation in all walks of Chinese life much of it fuelled by, or reflected in, ch...

Mirroring worldwide debates on social class, literacy rates, and social change, this study explores the intersection between reading and social cla...

This volume is being issued in the hope that readers of the addresses and lectures included in it may be induced to make further acquaintance with ...

Published in 1997, this volume is a result of a number of European Union and Council of Europe initiatives. The major stimulus came from an intensi...

Whitmore and Meyer bring together top literacy scholars from around the world to introduce the concept of manifestations: evidence of meaning makin...

Learn how to assign homework that truly enhances learning and isn't just busywork. This important book defines what deliberate homework looks like ...

Gifted education has come to be regarded as a key national programme in many coutnries, and gifted education in science disciplines is now being re...

Team-Based Learning (TBL) is a unique, powerful, and proven form of small-group learning that is being increasingly adopted in higher education. Te...

Co-published with and In this era of Big Data, institutions of higher education are challenged to make the most of the information they have to imp...

This book explores the world of international doctoral students in the Chinese higher education system. It delves into their motivations, research ...

Most important to being a good science teacher is holding the expectation that all students can be scientists and think critically. Providing a ...

Whether it's a trickling stream, a grassy slope, or an abandoned rail line, the natural world offers teachers a wonderful resource around which t...