Books from Symposium Books Ltd
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Research and Evaluation for Educational Development: learning from the PRISM experience in Kenya
By Michael Crossley, Andrew Herriot, Judith WaudoHiggins, L. & Rwanyange, R. (2005) Ownership in the Education Reform Process in Uganda, Compare, 35(1), pp. 7-26. Hillage, J., Anderson, A. & Pearson, R. (1998) Excellence in Research on Schools. London: Department for Education and ...
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European Educational Research (Re)Constructed: institutional change in Germany, the United Kingdom, Norway, and the European Union
By Mike Zapp, Marcelo Marques, Justin J.W. Powellentrepreneurs (DiMaggio, 1988; Maguire et al, 2004), we argue that institutional change in its breadth and depth, as seen in our cases, can only be fully understood through a focus on the legitimacy these ideas acquire in the wider ...
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Globalisation, Enterprise and Knowledge: education, training and development in Africa
By Kenneth King, Simon McGrathThe former US Secretary of Labour, Robert Reich, sums up the argument: the standard of living of a nation's people increasingly depends on what they contribute to the world economy — on the value of their skills and insights.
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The Institutions of Education: a comparative study of educational development in the six core nations
By William K. CummingsBereday, George S.F., William W. Brickman & Gerald H. Read (Eds) (1960) The Changing Soviet School. Cambridge: Riverside Press. Berlak, A. & Berlak (1981) Dilemmas of Schooling. London: Methuen. Black, C.E. M.B. Jansen, M.J. Levy Jr., ...
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Education and International Development: theory, practice and issues
By Clive HarberReferences Ahmad, I. (2008) The Anatomy of an Islamic Model: citizenship education in Pakistan, in D.L. Grossman (Ed.) Citizenship Education in Asia and the Pacific. Dordrecht: Springer. Andrabi, T., Das, J., Khwaja, A.I. & Zajone, ...
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Education, Democracy and Development: does education contribute to democratisation in developing countries?
By Clive Harber, Vusi MncubeAhmad, I. (2008) The Anatomy of an Islamic Model: citizenship education in Pakistan, in D.L. Grossman (Ed) Citizenship Education in Asia and the Pacific. Dordrecht: Springer. Aikman, S. (2010) Grasping Rare Moments for Change: ...
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State of Transition: post-apartheid educational reform in South Africa
By Clive HarberThis brought together international and local participants and discussed both the nature of masculinity in relation to education and initiatives that have been taken to work with boys and young men to reduce levels of violence.
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Implementation of Educational Policies for Minority Language Pupils in England and the United States
By Amanda KiblerWe went and talked to [the principal] and she gave us a little pep talk and told us we were doing great and made us feel good about ourselves ... she just came ... (S6) I am not a test focused principal, I can tell you that right now .
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International Schools: Current Issues and Future Prospects
By Jeff Thompson, Mary HaydenNew York: John Wiley. Fisher, S. (1991) Homesickness and Health at Boarding Schools, in G. Walford (Ed.) Private Schooling: tradition, change and diversity, pp. 70-83. ... Woodbridge: John Catt Educational.
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Religion and Education: comparative and international perspectives
By Ruth Hayhoe, Malini Sivasubramaniamjustice, morality and practicality for education and development, International Journal of Comparative Education and Development ... Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. de Bary, W.T. (2007) Confucian Tradition and Global Education.
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Education, Privatisation and Social Justice: case studies from Africa, South Asia and South East Asia
By Geoffrey Walford, Susan Robertson, Ian MacphersonPsacharopoulos, G., Arieira, C.R. & Mattson, R. (1997) Private Education in a Poor Country: the case of urban Bolivia, Economics of ... Siddiqui, S. (2007) Rethinking Education in Pakistan: perceptions, practices, and possibilities.
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Children’s Rights, Educational Research and the UNCRC
By Vicki Coppock, Jenna Gillett-SwanThis book provides critical and focused discussion on the challenges of enacting children’s rights in educational research contexts and alerts readers to the ways in which children’s rights provide a provocation to think and practise ...
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Transnational Policy Flows in European Education: the making and governing of knowledge in the education policy field
By Daniel Sundberg, Andreas NordinMejding, J. & Roe, A. (2006) Northern Lights on PISA 2003: a reflection from the Nordic countries. ... (accessed 4 September 2009) Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) (2009) PISA 2009 Assessment Framework.
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Modularisation of Vocational Education in Europe: NVQs and GNVQs as a model for the reform of initial training provisions for...
By Hubert Ertl[112] The 15 vocational areas of GNVQs are: Health & Social Care; Leisure & Tourism, Business; Art & Design; Manufacturing; ... Management Studies; Land & Environmental Studies; Performing Arts & Entertainment Industries (QCA, 1997b, p.
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School Choice and the Quasi-market
By Geoffrey WalfordTriangle Books PO Box 65, Wallingford, Oxfordshire OX100YG, United Kingdom Triangle Books is a division of Triangle journals Ltd Published in the United Kingdom, 1996 © Triangle Journals Ltd ISBN 1873927 23 1 All rights reserved.
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Globalisation, Educational Transformation and Societies in Transition
By Unesco Institute for Education. Documentation Centre and LibraryAdvances and Challenges in the Transformation of Education in South Africa Because of the long history of ... which would have responsibility for the implementation of general education policy, as well as control over the budget.
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The Changing Landscape of Education in Africa: quality, equality and democracy
By David JohnsonThe language committee, NACALCO and other institutions involved in delivery of mother-tongue literacy programmes ... and Language Maintenance In these language communities the process of learning to read and write the mother tongue has ...
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Doing Comparative Education Research: issues and problems
By Keith WatsonKandel, I.L. (1933) Studies in Comparative Education. ... Ordonez, B. (1996) Paper presented at the 9th World Congress of Comparative Education Societies, ... Paris: Institut National de Recherche Pedagogique (INRP).
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Internationalisation of Higher Education and Global Mobility
By Bernhard StreitwieserLane, J. & Kinser, K. (Eds) (2011) Multinational Colleges and Universities: leading, governing, and managing international branch campuses. New Directions for Higher Education, no. 155. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
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Education in Transition: international perspectives on the politics and processes of change
By Rosarii GriffinHenry, Miriam (1992) Higher Education for All? Tensions and Contradictions in Post-compulsory and Higher Education Policy in Australia, journal of Education Policy, 7, pp. 399-413. Ife, Jim (1997) Rethinking Social Work.