School Segregation and Social Cohesion in Santiago

This book examines the consequences of educational segregation from the perspective of social cohesion. It investigates the impact of separating students along socioeconomic lines on student attitudes, dispositions and outlooks considered important for social cohesion as well as on achievement, opening the discussion about the social costs of school segregation. The separation of students ba…

Life and Learning Between Hong Kong and Toronto

This book presents a narrative inquiry into the cross-cultural educational experiences of a family living in Hong Kong and Toronto, Canada. At heart a go-and-return story, Lau reflects on the difficulties of adjusting to the different practices of teaching and learning in two places with their own distinctive cultures. Ever more prescient now amid the current social and political upheavals in H…

Credential Market

This book makes an original contribution to credential sociology by analysing how high school certificates become and remain valuable in a context of mass high school participation (i.e. credentialism). Building on a detailed analysis of the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma, a senior secondary school certificate offered in over 150 countries, Quentin Maire argues that the advent of new …

Identity in a Hyperconnected Society

This book is about the formation of identity, primarily in adolescents, and the danger inherent in creating that identity in the context of a hyperconnected world. It provides scientific and regulatory pedagogical knowledge associated with these risks in creating identity, primarily among young people, arising from increasing, and increasingly important, screen connection times. It proposes sol…

Liberatory Practices for Learning

This book promotes collaborative ways of knowing and group accountability in learning processes to counteract the damaging effects of neoliberal individualism prevalent in educational systems today. These neoliberalist hierarchies imposed through traditional, autocratic knowledge systems have driven much of the United States’ educational policies and reforms, including STEM, high stakes testi…

Pedagogies for the Post-Anthropocene

This book draws on posthumanist critique and post qualitative approaches to research to examine the pedagogies offered by imaginaries of the future. Starting with the question of how education can be a process for imagining and desiring better futures that can shorten the Anthropocene, it speaks to concerns that are relevant to the fields of education, youth and futures studies. This book explo…

Compliance and Resistance Within Neoliberal Academia

This open access book reflects on academic life under a neoliberal regime. Through collaborative autoethnographies, the authors share stories about the everyday experiences, dilemmas and conflicts of three academics: the struggle for promotion, teaching’s challenges, the race to publish, confronting bureaucracy and institutional politics, as well as the resulting emotional stress. These stori…

School & Society; Educational Practice as Social Expression

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ISBN/ISSN

0-07-557043-2

Collation

xiii, 434 p. ; ill. ; 26 cm

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370.190 973 Toz s 1993

Understanding Schools: The foundations of education

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ISBN/ISSN

0-06041318-2

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xv, 655 p. : 25 cm

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370.973 Cla u

BENEFITING FROM BASIC EDUCATION, SCHOOL QUALITY AND FUNCTIONAL LITERACY IN KENYA

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ISBN/ISSN

0-08-034995-1

Collation

vii, 149 p. ; 23 cm

Series Title

Comparative and International Education Series ; Volume 2

Call Number

370.190 967 62 Eis b 1988