Education Policy

This unique inter-disciplinary collection of papers explores ideologies and imperatives that frame contemporary education policy and practice around emotional well-being, ideas and assumptions about the state of childhood today, and the changing nature of the curriculum subject and associated forms ..

This collection invites readers to rethink key challenges in environmental and sustainability education (ESE) policy through the lenses of problem-posing and solution-oriented research, alongside the changing roles of research and researchers in ESE policy. This book is based on a special issue of E..

This book's findings are based on a radical study of twelve schools over two years that not only sought the opinions of teachers but actively encourgaed pupils to participate by giving their views too...

This book locates itself in international debates about education and poverty and reports on a project conducted into the work of a number of teachers who were successful at engaging students from poor backgrounds...

This book locates itself in international debates about education and poverty and reports on a project conducted into the work of a number of teachers who were successful at engaging students from poor backgrounds...

Inequalities in educational opportunity have been a persistent feature of all school systems for generations, with conventional explanations of differences in educational attainment tending to be reduced to either quantitative or non-quantitative 'list' theories. In this groundbreaking book, Roy N..

This book seeks to develop different approaches to policy analysis through a discursive and rhetorical engagement with the themes of flexibility and lifelong learning...

This title was first published in 2003.Funding for pupils with special educational needs has created resource management difficulties for schools and budgetary control problems for LEAs. This stimulating book examines the policy context for formula funding and the design and accountability issues fo..

Originally published in 1993. The purpose of this introductory text is to bring the somewhat gender blind fields of educational administration and policy into contact with feminism and demonstrate the manner in which a range of feminist perspectives enhance the field...

Written by an impressive international array of education policy analysts, educational activists and scholars, Global Neoliberalism and Education and its Consequences lays bare the motivations, organizations, institutions and ideologies underlying the global, national and local neoliberalisation of ..

Provides a critical account of how contemporary educational knowledge is put together and presented in the global knowledge economy, redefining the actors in the education process, including principally the child, pupil, and learner, but also the teacher, parent, inspector and policy-maker...

Provides a critical account of how contemporary educational knowledge is put together and presented in the global knowledge economy, redefining the actors in the education process, including principally the child, pupil, and learner, but also the teacher, parent, inspector and policy-maker...