Tag: Education

Free Download Pathways to Community Engagement in Education: Collaboration in Diverse, Urban Neighbourhoods
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031330005 | 397 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 4 MB
This book takes a comprehensive look at community engagement strategies in education to demonstrate the diverse nature of school-community relations and their value to promote their effective development. The author brings twenty years of experience in various educational settings in Ontario and California to examining community involvement policies and their interpretation, as well as school-community collaboration in practice. Chapters include recent research on school-community collaboration from the perspective of teachers, school district leaders, administrators, and support staff within two school districts in a low-income and culturally diverse urban community. The book also includes perspectives from community members involved in organizations across the city with a mandate to work with youth. In a time where students’ academic, social, and emotional support needs are on the rise, this book offers a valuable resource for strengthening school-community relations and demonstrating the power of collaboration.

Free Download David H. Kelly, "French Colonial Education: Essays on Vietnam and West Africa"
English | 2000 | pages: 283 | ISBN: 0404616801 | PDF | 26,0 mb
Eleven reprinted articles examine the education systems in the two French colonies during the period 1918 to 1938, the height of French colonialism. Among the topics are the myth of educational planning in The Indochinese University in 1906 to 1938, schooling and national integration in interwar Vietnam, schooling in interwar French West Africa as learning to be marginal, the development of African history in French West Africa, and the presentation of indigenous society in the schools of French West Africa and Indochina. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Free Download Education in the Age of Misinformation: Philosophical and Pedagogical Explorations
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031258703 | 372 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 6 MB
This edited volume examines the implications of misinformation and youth digital life in a new information environment. This new information environment is characterized by high levels of user engagement, hidden algorithmic manipulations, and information abundance, including misinformation and disinformation. While misinformation and disinformation in the post-truth era have been previously investigated, this edited volume offers a distinctive educational focus that scholars have not yet addressed. Chapters contribute to the ongoing discussion of the role of education in democracies while uniquely contextualizing the problem of misinformation as a pedagogical opportunity. Contributions from across the globe answer the question of how education might respond to the changing information environment through engagements with educational philosophy, democracy, and everyday practices of teaching and learning. The book adds to a growing body of work exploring what it means to engage in responsive, rather than reactive or stagnant, pedagogy.

Free Download Alison Wolf, "Does Education Matter?: Myths About Education and Economic Growth"
English | 2003 | pages: 352 | ISBN: 0140286608 | EPUB | 1,7 mb
Highly topical and controversial examination of the education system.

Free Download Reforming Science Teacher Education Programs in the STEM Era: International and Comparative Perspectives
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031273338 | 288 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 9 MB
This edited book explores different international practices in reforming science teacher education programs for STEM education. Incorporating case studies in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, North America and South America, the contributors emphasise the large variety in STEM teacher preparation. Including science-centric versions of STEM programs as well as more integrated models of STEM, this contextual diversity will help readers learn about the design, opportunities, and challenges of STEM teacher preparation in a variety of circumstances, in order to innovate and improve STEM education more broadly.

Free Download Ubiratan D’Ambrosio and Mathematics Education: Trajectory, Legacy and Future
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031312929 | 578 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 32 MB
This edited volume is written in memoriam of Professor Emeritus Ubiratan D’Ambrosio (1932 – 2021), who was a well-known Brazilian mathematics educator and historian of mathematics. This book explores the diverse facets of D’Ambrosio’s work as well as his legacy and the later adaptation of his ideas around the globe.

Free Download Tom Are Trippestad, "The Struggle for Teacher Education: International Perspectives on Governance and Reforms "
English | ISBN: 1474285538 | 2017 | 240 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Reform of teacher education is en vogue worldwide today due to the widespread belief that teacher education has the power to change traditional modes of schooling, educating new teachers who will be capable of improving the knowledge standard of children and boost the economic power of nations. The Struggle for Teacher Education brings together conceptual, comparative and empirical studies from Australia, England, Finland, The Netherlands, Norway, South Africa and South America to explore the ways in which professional education has been positioned in a reactive mode. The contributors discuss how teacher education is a contested division in higher education and look at how current reform efforts may limit the potential and work of teacher education, highlighting why this point needs more attention. Moreover, the collection reveals how teacher education’s authorship on teacher professionalism may be weakened or strengthened by current reform drives and offers alternative models on how to rethink reforming teacher education.

Free Download Gordon Cox, "The Origins and Foundations of Music Education: International Perspectives Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 1474229093 | 2016 | 312 pages | PDF | 14 MB
This landmark collection explores the origins and foundations of music education in Europe, The Americas, Africa and Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East, and considers the inclusion of music as part of the compulsory school curriculum in the context of the historical, social and political landscape. Within each chapter, the contributors explore the following key areas:

Free Download Donna L. Pasternak, "Secondary English Teacher Education in the United States "
English | ISBN: 1350032018 | 2017 | 232 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Identifying key areas of teacher education that cross countries and disciplines, this book provides the first extensive research-based insight into how secondary English teachers are prepared at institutions of higher education in the United States of America (US) since the last major study in 1995. In the two decades since then, English teacher education programs have developed in contextually dependent ways that often have been driven by institutional, economic, social and political considerations.

Free Download Jean Conteh, "Researching Education for Social Justice in Multilingual Settings: Ethnographic Principles in Qualitative Research"
English | ISBN: 1350002631 | 2017 | 280 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Researching Education for Social Justice in Multilingual Settings provides innovative guidance on carrying out qualitative research in education by offering a wide range of examples of research projects with a focus on the methodologies and data collection strategies used. Rather than decontextualised ‘how-to’ advice, the book offers insights into the complexities of actually carrying out research in multilingual settings.