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Education Policy And Social Class
Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 45.95This book brings together in one place Stephen Ball's key writings. Drawing on over twenty years' work, Professor Ball has selected his most important work - from education policy and sociology to his work on education and social class. more...
REPORT 02/2009 Popular Education
W. Bertelsmann Verlag 2009; US$ 16.42Hauptbeschreibung In der internationalen Debatte spielt der Begriff der Popular Education eine wachsende Rolle. Es gilt zu überprüfen, welche historischen Ursprünge und aktuellen Diskurse für die Erwachsenenbildung in den deutschsprachigen Ländern von Bedeutung sind und in welcher Weise anschlussfähige Konzepte an eine Weiterbildung entwickelt werden... more...
REPORT 04/2010
W. Bertelsmann Verlag 2010; US$ 16.42Hauptbeschreibung Religion und Ethik sind nicht selten Gegenstand von Angeboten in der Erwachsenenbildung. Sie dienen als Herausforderung zur Selbstklärung und bieten Raum zur Beteiligung am Zeitgespräch. Dieser REPORT arbeitet die Dimensionen von Religion und Ethik in einer Verbindung aus Reflexion und Praxisbezug heraus. Dabei wird insbesondere... more...
Decolonizing Philosophies of Education
Springer 2012; US$ 69.95Philosophy of education basically deals with learning issues that attempt to explain or answer what we describe as the major questions of its domains, i.e., what education is needed, why such education, and how would societies undertake and achieve such learning possibilities. In different temporal and spatial intersections of people's lives, the... more...
Complexity
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011; US$ 199.00We are at a seminal transition point for many institutions. The dinosaurs took millennia to disappear or transform. We should not expect the period of transformation for universities to take that long. And, as with some dinosaurs, we should expect that some will survive relatively unchanged. But for most, in a world made global by the electronic network,... more...
Learning to Fail
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 35.95During a decade of relative prosperity from the mid-1990s onward, governments across the developed world failed to crack one major issue ? youth unemployment. Even when economic growth was strong, one young person in 10 in the United Kingdom was neither working nor learning. As the boom ended, the number of young people dropping out after leaving... more...
Academic Freedom
ABC-CLIO 2000; US$ 155.00The freedom of academics to pursue knowledge and truth in their research, writing, and teaching is a fundamental principle of contemporary higher education in the United States. But this freedom has been hard won and regularly abridged, reinterpreted, and violated. Academic freedom has been central to many issues and controversies in higher education... more...
Urban Education
ABC-CLIO 2003; US$ 45.00This work takes a comprehensive look at urban schools using history as a lens for coming to grips with social, political, legal, and economic realities reflected in the American urban education system. It covers inadequate funding, student poverty, and ethnic schisms in the classroom. more...
Global Migration and Education
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 49.95Global Migration and Education makes a notable contribution to understanding the issues faced by immigrant children, their parents, and educators as they interact in school settings, and to identifying the common challenges to, and successes in, educational institutions worldwide as they cope with these issues. Global in scope, there are chapters... more...
Language Minority Students in American Schools
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 48.95This book addresses questions of language education in the United States, focusing on how to teach the 3.5 million students in American public schools who do not speak English as a native language. These students are at the center of a national debate about the right relationship among ESL, bilingual, and mainstream classes. Bilingual education has... more...









