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Educational Innovation in Vietnam: Opportunities and Challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Routledge Critical Studies in Asian Education)
by Trung Tran Cuong Huu Nguyen Loc Thi My NguyenThis edited collection, one of the first to be written chiefly by Vietnamese scholars, explores innovation in Vietnamese education under the impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Vietnam is considered a booming country with its continued economic rise, and the contributors explore one of Vietnam’s strategies to achieve further economic growth, which is the innovation – and modernization – of its education system. The content is split into two parts, the first focusing on innovations in educational policy and management and the second looking at innovation in teaching theories and methods. It shows the vitality and innovation coming from developing countries like Vietnam, where necessity breeds fast adoption of education technology and development. This insightful edited volume will help researchers in comparative education, educational development, and Asian studies understand the achievements and challenges of Vietnamese general education and higher education in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Educational Import: Local Encounters with Global Forces in Mongolia
by G. Steiner-Khamsi I. StolpeThis book addresses students, practitioners and scholars in educational policy studies. The authors use Mongolia as a case to illustrate how global influences shape domestic developments in education, and how imported education reforms are locally modified, re-contextualized, or 'Mongolized'.
Educational Governance in historischer Perspektive: Eine Analyse der Reform der Schulaufsicht in Hessen (1992-2015) (Organisation und Pädagogik #28)
by Sven WiethIn der Educational Governance-Forschung werden Formen der Handlungskoordination in Mehrebenensystemen im Bildungsbereich untersucht. Sven Wieth analysiert am Beispiel des Bundeslandes Hessen den Akteur Schulaufsicht und präsentiert einen umfassenderen historischen Überblick von Schul- und Schulverwaltungsreformen. Das Ergebnis zeigt, dass die ursprünglich als Demokratisierungsprojekt angelegte Schul- und Schulverwaltungsreform zunehmend durch Elemente aus dem Bereich New Public Management überformt wurde.
Educational Governance in China
by Ming Yang Hao NiThis book presents a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the educational governance reform trajectory and the latest issues in China, addressing several important topics such as administration, internal management, provision, enrollment, employment, financing, examinations, evaluation and quality assurance. In addition, this important and timely book discusses the educational system at all levels, from primary and secondary schools to colleges and universities, and each chapter ends with a discussion of the status quo, problems facing China and coping strategies for further reform. The past 68 years (1949-2016) have seen a sea change in social, economic, cultural, political and educational fields. Systematically describing the educational landscape in China, the book also reveals how the massive changes in China have shaped education, and how education has responded to the new demands placed on it.Offering essential insights into educational reform in China, the book represents a valuable resource, especially for researchers and graduate students in the field of education.
Educational Governance als Forschungsperspektive: Strategien. Methoden. Ansätze (Educational Governance #17)
by Katharina Maag Merki Herbert Altrichter Roman LangerWährend sich die Forschungsinhalte des Educational Governance-Ansatzes zunehmend präzisieren lassen, ergibt die Diskussion über forschungsmethodische Ansätze noch ein unklares Bild. In diesem Band wird untersucht, welche methodischen Ansätze zur Analyse von governance-relevanten Fragestellungen mit welchem Gewinn verwendet werden können. Damit lassen sich Herausforderungen verschiedener Forschungsstrategien besser verstehen und Anforderungen an zukünftige Untersuchungen skizzieren.
Educational Governance als Forschungsperspektive: Strategien. Methoden. Ansätze (Educational Governance #17)
by Katharina Maag Merki Roman Langer Herbert AltrichterWährend sich die spezifischen Forschungsinhalte eines Educational-Governance-Konzepts zunehmend präzisieren lassen, zeigt die Diskussion über forschungsmethodische Ansätze und ihre reflektierte Umsetzung in konkreten Governance-Analysen noch ein unklares Bild. In diesem Band wird auf der Basis konkreter empirischer Studien untersucht, welchen Regeln und Strategien die Forschungspraxis zur Analyse von governance-relevanten Fragestellungen bislang folgt, welche methodischen Ansätze Governance-Forschung mit welchem Gewinn verwenden kann und welche Standards oder Gütekriterien für Governance-Analysen angemessen sind. Damit können Chancen und Herausforderungen verschiedener Forschungsstrategien besser verstanden und Anforderungen an zukünftige Untersuchungen im Kontext des Educational Governance-Ansatzes skizziert werden.
Educational Governance: Handlungskoordination und Steuerung im Bildungssystem (Educational Governance)
by Herbert Altrichter Thomas Brüsemeister Jochen WissingerIn den Bildungssystemen Europas sind gravierende Umbauten institutioneller Regelungsstrukturen zu verzeichnen: In den Schulen werden beispielsweise im Kontext von PISA schulische Gestaltungsspielräume erhöht, Bildungsstandards und externe Evaluations- und Beobachtungsverfahren eingeführt. Diese Veränderungen der Steuerungs- und Koordinations-Praxis führen in jüngster Zeit zu einer Reihe von wissenschaftlichen Beiträgen, die mit dem Governance-Begriff analytisch arbeiten, um die institutionellen Umbauten nachzuvollziehen, ihre vielfältigen Wirkungen zu erfassen und Orientierungswissen zu bieten. Der Band stellt das Konzept 'Governance im Bildungswesen' vor und liefert aus verschiedenen sozialwissenschaftlichen Bezugsdisziplinen neue Perspektiven für Steuerungsprozesse im Bildungswesen.
Educational Failure and Working Class White Children in Britain
by G. EvansAre schools failing working class children or does working class life present alternative means for gaining social status that conflict with what it means to do well at school? Focusing on Southeast London, this book provides insight into class values and reveals the complex cultural politics of white working class pride.
Educational Equity Policy in China: Concept and Practice (Exploring Education Policy in a Globalized World: Concepts, Contexts, and Practices)
by Eryong Xue Jian LiThis book investigates the educational equity in China from multiple perspectives, including rural and urban educational equity, interschool educational equity, Eastern and Western educational equity and administrative policies related to the educational equity. All those perspectives concentrate on examining the comprehensive development of the educational equity in contemporary China. In addition, this book also presents specific historical and cultural shifts for policymakers and stakeholders to offer an in-depth understanding of the educational equity strategy in a long term.
Educational Equity and Accountability: Paradigms, Policies, and Politics (Studies in Education/Politics)
by Linda Skrla James Joseph ScheurichDespite the intense political attention that has been focused on accountability, on standardized testing, and on the equity effects of both accountability and testing, the great majority of recent debate in education policy circles has failed to attend to either the dynamism or complexity of these issues and has, instead, been carried out in a dualistic, good versus evil, fashion. In contrast, the scholarship collected in this important new volume is designed to move beyond the prevailing dualism and to push the discourse about accountability, testing, and educational equity in public schools usefully forward, and to provide a much-needed resource for researchers, policy makers, and practitioners.
Educational Equity and Accountability: Paradigms, Policies, and Politics (Studies in Education/Politics)
by Linda Skrla James Joseph ScheurichDespite the intense political attention that has been focused on accountability, on standardized testing, and on the equity effects of both accountability and testing, the great majority of recent debate in education policy circles has failed to attend to either the dynamism or complexity of these issues and has, instead, been carried out in a dualistic, good versus evil, fashion. In contrast, the scholarship collected in this important new volume is designed to move beyond the prevailing dualism and to push the discourse about accountability, testing, and educational equity in public schools usefully forward, and to provide a much-needed resource for researchers, policy makers, and practitioners.
Educational Equality and International Students: Justice Across Borders?
by Stuart TannockIn an increasingly globalised educational landscape, this book examines whether the principle of educational equality can be applied across nation state borders. Exploring the tension between the theory of educational equality and the reality that most educational institutions are rooted in local communities and national frameworks, the author thus probes the consequences for institutions, individuals and communities as the number of international students grows exponentially. A topic that has previously received limited attention, the author draws upon theoretical literature and an empirical study of how universities in the United Kingdom conceptualise and promote principles of educational equality for international as compared with home students. This pioneering work will be interest and value to students and scholars of international education, international students, educational equality and globalisation, as well as practitioners and policy makers.
Educational Effectiveness and Ineffectiveness: A Critical Review of the Knowledge Base
by Jaap ScheerensThis book is a critical assessment of the knowledge base on educational effectiveness, covering a period of five decades of research. It formulates a “lean” theory of good schooling, and identifies and explains instances of “ineffectiveness”, such as low effect sizes of malleable conditions, for which expectations are highly strung. The book presents a systemic outlook on educational effectiveness and improvement, as it starts out from an integrated multi-level model that comprises system level, school level and instructional conditions. It offers a classification of school improvement strategies and scenarios for system level educational improvement. Above all, the analysis is very systematic, comprehensive and strongly grounded in theory. The book includes a case study analysis of various strands of improvement-oriented educational policy in the Netherlands as an illustration of some of the arguments used.
Educational Diversity: The Subject of Difference and Different Subjects
by Yvette TaylorThis collection explores the relationship between new equality regimes and continued societal inequalities, exploring change, ambivalence and resistance specifically in relation to compulsory and post-compulsory education, seeking to more fully situate the educational journeys and experiences of staff and students.
Educational Developments, Practices and Effectiveness: Global Perspectives and Contexts
by Patrick Alan Danaher Petrea Redmond Jennifer LockExploring a range of educational developments and practices in different national contexts in Australia, Canada and Switzerland, this book analyses the effectiveness of such initiatives. Case studies in the book include business and online education, supporting students with disabilities and school-wide pedagogical improvement.
Educational Computing and Problem Solving
by W Michael Reed John K BurtonFirst published in 1988. Professionals who are on the cutting edge of educational computing discuss, in this provocative new book, one of the most exciting prospects of the field--harnessing the power of the computer to enhance the development of problem-solving abilities. Here is everything that educators will need to know to use computers to improve higher level skills such as problem solving and critical thinking. Current aspects of problem-solving theory, a philosophical case for including programming languages in the curriculum, state-of-the-art research on computers and problem solving, and a look at problem-solving software are included in this comprehensive volume. The research and its application to instruction are grounded in problem-solving theory--making this book a unique and critical addition to the existing literature.
Educational Computing and Problem Solving
by W Michael Reed John K BurtonFirst published in 1988. Professionals who are on the cutting edge of educational computing discuss, in this provocative new book, one of the most exciting prospects of the field--harnessing the power of the computer to enhance the development of problem-solving abilities. Here is everything that educators will need to know to use computers to improve higher level skills such as problem solving and critical thinking. Current aspects of problem-solving theory, a philosophical case for including programming languages in the curriculum, state-of-the-art research on computers and problem solving, and a look at problem-solving software are included in this comprehensive volume. The research and its application to instruction are grounded in problem-solving theory--making this book a unique and critical addition to the existing literature.
Educational Commons in Theory and Practice: Global Pedagogy and Politics
by Alexander J. Means Derek R. Ford Graham B. SlaterIn this volume, critical scholars and educational activists explore the intricate dynamics between the enclosure of global commons and radical visions of a common social future that breaks through the logics of privatization, ecological degradation, and dehumanizing social hierarchies in education. In its institutional and informal configurations alike, education has been identified as perhaps the key stake in this struggle. Insisting on the urgency of an education that breaks free of the bonds of enclosure, the essays included in this volume weave together bright threads of radical thought into a vivid tapestry illustrating a critical framework for enacting a global educational commons.
Educational Commons: Democratic Values, Social Justice and Inclusion in Education (UNIPA Springer Series)
by Gianna Cappello Marianna Siino Natália Fernandes Mittzy Arciniega-CáceresThis open access book presents the final findings from the case studies developed within the Horizon 2020 SMOOTH project Educational Spaces. Passing through Enclosures and Reversing Inequalities through Educational Commons. The overall objective of the project was to understand, develop, and accelerate the potential impact of education on reversing inequalities for active social inclusion of children and young people at risk in Europe, through introducing the emergent paradigm of the “commons” as an alternative value and action system in the field of education (preschools, schools, and after-school programs). SMOOTH critically draws out the implications of the commons for refiguring education and for social change in general, on a footing of equality, sharing, participation, togetherness, caring, and freedom. Universities, research laboratories, municipalities, NGOs, museums, and youth organizations, in different European countries, have worked together to achieve the aboveaim involving almost 200 educators and teachers, and 800 children, and providing interesting insights and suggestions on how to implement educational commons in many different educational contexts. The target audience comprises policymakers and education leaders, students from Education and Communication degrees, researchers, and educators from both formal and non-formal educational contexts.
Educational Choices, Transitions and Aspirations in Europe: Systemic, Institutional and Subjective Challenges (Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education)
by Nicola Ingram Aina TarabiniEducational Choices, Transitions and Aspirations in Europe analyses educational choices and transitions in eight different European countries/regions and provides an engaging means of considering issues of inequality through international comparisons. The book is underpinned by explorations of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches, which share the common goal of highlighting and challenging educational inequalities in relation to political imaginings and discursive constructions of notions of aspirations and choice. Beginning with an overview of the theoretical landscape, the book posits ways of understanding transitional experiences through both a social and a political lens. Comprising of chapters that explore these issues within the context of specific countries and at different stages of young people’s transitions, the collection examines the features of different European education systems and how they frame transitions and choices, before providing an overall analysis of systemic, institutional and subjective constraints on these processes. The book uniquely opens and develops an intellectual conversation about different education systems with similar educational challenges and outcomes. Assimilating key issues and solutions, this volume also makes general recommendations for policy and practice that would help to promote greater equity and social justice. The book covers a range of transition points and countries, which should make it essential reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate students with an interest in international perspectives on education. It will be particularly useful for those working in education, sociology, social policy, geography, and politics.
Educational Choices, Transitions and Aspirations in Europe: Systemic, Institutional and Subjective Challenges (Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education)
by Nicola Ingram Aina TarabiniEducational Choices, Transitions and Aspirations in Europe analyses educational choices and transitions in eight different European countries/regions and provides an engaging means of considering issues of inequality through international comparisons. The book is underpinned by explorations of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches, which share the common goal of highlighting and challenging educational inequalities in relation to political imaginings and discursive constructions of notions of aspirations and choice. Beginning with an overview of the theoretical landscape, the book posits ways of understanding transitional experiences through both a social and a political lens. Comprising of chapters that explore these issues within the context of specific countries and at different stages of young people’s transitions, the collection examines the features of different European education systems and how they frame transitions and choices, before providing an overall analysis of systemic, institutional and subjective constraints on these processes. The book uniquely opens and develops an intellectual conversation about different education systems with similar educational challenges and outcomes. Assimilating key issues and solutions, this volume also makes general recommendations for policy and practice that would help to promote greater equity and social justice. The book covers a range of transition points and countries, which should make it essential reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate students with an interest in international perspectives on education. It will be particularly useful for those working in education, sociology, social policy, geography, and politics.
Educational Binds of Poverty: The lives of school children (Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics)
by Ceri BrownShortlisted for BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed's second Ethnography Awards in partnership with the British Sociological Association! Educational Binds of Poverty tackles the assumptions made by many recent social and educational policy initiatives suggesting that the best way to improve educational prospects of children in poverty is through an increased emphasis upon a culture of control, discipline, regulation and accountability. In this book, Ceri Brown presents these assumptions against a review of the research literature and an original ethnographic longitudinal study into the lives of children in poverty, in order to highlight the gap between policy discourses and the lived experiences of children themselves. Through the theoretical concept of a set of ‘binds’ against educational success, the book explores four key areas that children in poverty have to navigate if they are to be successful in school. These are: material deprivation the cultural contexts of school, home and the community friendship and social capital the effects of student mobility through atypical school changes. In seeking to characterise and explain what life is like for young school children, this book questions why policy makers have a radically different frame of reference in purporting to understand how their policies will change the behaviour of those living in poverty. This leads onto a consideration of what lessons may be learned in order to contribute towards a more appropriate policy agenda that attends to the multiple binds that children in poverty have to negotiate.
Educational Binds of Poverty: The lives of school children (Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics)
by Ceri BrownShortlisted for BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed's second Ethnography Awards in partnership with the British Sociological Association! Educational Binds of Poverty tackles the assumptions made by many recent social and educational policy initiatives suggesting that the best way to improve educational prospects of children in poverty is through an increased emphasis upon a culture of control, discipline, regulation and accountability. In this book, Ceri Brown presents these assumptions against a review of the research literature and an original ethnographic longitudinal study into the lives of children in poverty, in order to highlight the gap between policy discourses and the lived experiences of children themselves. Through the theoretical concept of a set of ‘binds’ against educational success, the book explores four key areas that children in poverty have to navigate if they are to be successful in school. These are: material deprivation the cultural contexts of school, home and the community friendship and social capital the effects of student mobility through atypical school changes. In seeking to characterise and explain what life is like for young school children, this book questions why policy makers have a radically different frame of reference in purporting to understand how their policies will change the behaviour of those living in poverty. This leads onto a consideration of what lessons may be learned in order to contribute towards a more appropriate policy agenda that attends to the multiple binds that children in poverty have to negotiate.
Educational Authorities and the Schools: Organisation and Impact in 20 States (Educational Governance Research #13)
by Olof Johansson Helene ÄrlestigThis book describes and analyses the organisation, functions and development of national educational authorities and agencies and the influence they have on local schools in 20 countries around the world. It examines the governing chain in the respective countries from both a theoretical and descriptive perspective. It does so against the background of the stability and rigour of the governing chains having been challenged, with some researchers considering the chain to be broken. However, the view that comes to the fore in this book is that the chain is still present and contains both vertical implementation structures and intervening spaces for policy interpretation. How schools become successful is important for the individual students as well as the local community and the national state. A vast quantity of research has looked at what happens in schools and classrooms. At the same time, national governance and politics as well as local prerequisites are known to exert influence on schools and their results to a high degree. Societal priorities, problems and traditions provide variety in how governance is executed. This book provides an international overview of the similarities and differences between educational agencies and how their work influences schools.
Educational Assortative Mating in Japan: Insights into Social Change and Stratification (SpringerBriefs in Population Studies)
by Fumiya Uchikoshi James M. RaymoThis book represents a first attempt to comprehensively discuss and investigate causes and potential implications of changing patterns of spouse pairing in Japan and to consider similarities and differences with patterns observed in the USA and other low-fertility Western societies. In this book, research on educational assortative mating in Japan is summarized and updated. This book contributes to research on the demography of contemporary Japan by overviewing theoretical and empirical linkages between marriage behavior and processes of social and economic stratification. It also extends the large body of research on assortative mating and stratification by incorporating insights from the understudied context of Japan. The authors draw upon multiple data sources – both survey and administrative data – to update and extend previous research on “who marries whom” in Japan. The wide range of consequences considered includes income inequality, the intergenerational transmission of advantage and disadvantage, marriage and fertility timing, lifelong singlehood, childlessness, and the family roles of husbands and wives. Throughout the manuscript, Japan is considered in comparative perspective by employing the large USA and international literatures on assortative mating.