Education Policy

This benchmark 6-volume set documents, analyzes, and critiques a comprehensive body of research on the history of multicultural education in the U.S . By collecting and providing a framework for key publications spanning the last 30-40 years, these volumes provide a means of understanding and visual..

Human Resource Management in Education debates the fundamental question of how far effective human resource management policies can enable schools and colleges to transcend the paradoxes of the global reform agenda. It analyzes the relationship between leadership, the classroom and results, and uses..

Examining the role of symbolic innovations in higher education institutions, this book distinguishes between the real, material changes universities undergo and the ways universities present them and symbolic changes to outside and internal stakeholders. By defining symbolic innovations and their ge..

Sets out to examine five education projects from England, Ireland, North America and South America that each claim to know what ‘good’ learning is and how its cause can best be advanced...

Sets out to examine five education projects from England, Ireland, North America and South America that each claim to know what ‘good’ learning is and how its cause can best be advanced...

This title was first published in 2000:  Focusing on the constant evolution of teaching, learning and assessment methods, this book explores how information and communications technologies can address the challenges facing educators today, and how they may be deployed in the educational environments..

Suitable for 2nd and 3rd year students taking courses on drug use/misuse principally in departments such as Sociology, Law, Cultural and Media Studies, and Psychology. Also particularly relevant for students taking courses leading to a profession, such as nurses and social workers. The use of illega..

For the first time one of the UK's leading historians of education presents eighteen of his key writings in one place. Aldrich introduces his own work which spans thirty years, taken from over fifteen books and seventy-five articles that he contributed to the field...

The authors of this book highlight the emerging role of libraries and community partners in literacy development and provide concrete examples via case studies drawn from global communities, demonstrating how libraries are working to support local literacies. They also suggest recommendations for su..

What is working in education in the UK - and what isn't? This book offers a highly readable guide to what the latest research says about improving young people's outcomes in pre-school, primary and secondary education. Never has this issue been more topical as the UK attempts to compete in the globa..

What is working in education in the UK - and what isn't? This book offers a highly readable guide to what the latest research says about improving young people's outcomes in pre-school, primary and secondary education. Never has this issue been more topical as the UK attempts to compete in the globa..

This book provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of major issues and challenges faced by the education system, ranging from pre-school to higher education. It analyses the prospects for educational development in Hong Kong. It further addresses how the Hong Kong government has responded to t..