This book identifies the gaps needing to be bridged to achieve a more inclusive and ‘just’ early childhood education, in relation to class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, race, disabilities and age, and explores various ways of bridging these gaps...
In recent decades governing practices in education have become highly contradictory: deregulation and decentralisation are accompanied by re-regulation and increased centralisation, while the performative effects of over-regulation contribute to considerable tension in the development of education g..
Securing the hearts and minds of ‘dangerous’ populations is a major concern for governments across the world. Governing Literate Populations shows how ‘governmentalities’ have deployed education and literacy in different ways in order to protect their national, social, economic and geopolitical secu..
This book gives a comprehensive account of what happened to higher education in Austria, Belgium, the former Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Greece, Holland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Russia and the former Yugoslavia during 1938-1944. It reveals the mentality of the German cultural experts..
This book deals with the very real challenges that managing, filtering and coping with constant policy change, throws up for different people, located in different positions in secondary schools...
In this volume C.A. (Chet) Bowers, whose pioneering work on education and environmental and sustainability issues is widely recognized and respected around the world, brings together a carefully curated selection of his seminal work on these concerns and educational reforms to address the them. _x00..
This book features step-by-step advice, photocopiable checklists and templates, and suggestions for further activities in relation to implementing and embedding the government’s ECM strategy in schools/education settings...
This book examines some of the causes and responses to these educational inequalities, and focuses upon poor urban contexts in England, and elsewhere, where educational disadvantage is at its most concentrated and where educational policy and practice has, over time, proliferated. The text questions..