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Book J J  Smolicz on Education and Culture

Download or read book J J Smolicz on Education and Culture written by Jerzy Jaroslaw Smolicz and published by James Nicholas Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a selection of major articles by the author and focuses on cultural diversity in Australia, core values and cultural interaction, case studies in Australian pluralism and the interplay between tradition, education and change.

Book Culture and Education in a Plural Society

Download or read book Culture and Education in a Plural Society written by Jerzy Jaroslaw Smolicz and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at Culture and Education in a multicultural society.

Book Excellence in Scholarship

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sivakumar Alagumalai
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2013-09-03
  • ISBN : 9462092575
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Excellence in Scholarship written by Sivakumar Alagumalai and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teachers empower both the next generation of learners and educators. Communities value the intricate roles and responsibilities of teachers: many of whom who go beyond the tangibles to cater to the learning needs of their students. The multidimensional and multifaceted relationship between teacher-education providers and teachers is a complex one. At one end of the spectrum sits the scholarship of teaching while at the enacted zone sits standards-based praxis. Teacher education and scholarship of teaching provides the avenue to demonstrate this interaction of knowledge, pedagogy, research and broadly, scholarship. Unfortunately, there is no strong consensus about the value of pedagogical preparation for teachers. This monograph highlights the broad focus on how education draws its knowledge base from various disciplines; advancing that education itself can become a plethora for shared discourse and reflection. The chapters provide fresh demonstrated understanding into practice-enabled research directions and emphasise the position of research-based praxis in both schools and in institutions entrusted with teacher education. Importantly, the monograph demonstrates the two-way communication between the community and teacher educators about knowledge, experiences, values and diversity and to add value with the sole aim to enhance learning. It highlights education is a collective endeavour in that education and teacher education are subsets of the community, and deliberations in communities add important synergy to education’s evolution and revolution. Thus, the process of inquiry is fundamental in education, and implies transcending traditional discipline-bound knowledge and processes. This monograph provides the challenge to educators that no single or specific discipline directs educational development and enrichment, nor does the latter exclude any.

Book World Yearbook of Education

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jacquetta Megarry
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2005-12-08
  • ISBN : 9780415392976
  • Pages : 414 pages

Download or read book World Yearbook of Education written by Jacquetta Megarry and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005-12-08 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Educational Research in the Age of Anthropocene

Download or read book Educational Research in the Age of Anthropocene written by Reyes, Vicente and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current geological age has had a profound effect on the relationship between society and nature, and it raises new issues for researchers. It is important for educational research to engage with the politics of knowledge production and address the ecological, economic, and political dynamics of the Anthropocene era. Educational Research in the Age of Anthropocene is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research on the impact of educational research paradigms through the dynamic interaction of human society and the environment. While highlighting topics such as human consciousness, complexity thinking, and queer theory, this publication explores the historical trends of theories, as well as the context in which educational models have been employed. This book is ideally designed for professors, academicians, advanced-level students, scholars, and educational researchers seeking current research on the contestability of educational research in contemporary environments.

Book Global Values Education

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joseph Zajda
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2009-08-11
  • ISBN : 9048125103
  • Pages : 178 pages

Download or read book Global Values Education written by Joseph Zajda and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Values Education: Teaching Democracy and Peace , which is the seventh volume in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, presents scholarly research on major discourses in v alues edu- tion globally. It provides an easily accessible, practical yet scholarly source of information about the international concern in the field of globalisation and c- parative education. Above all, the book offers the latest findings to the critical issues concerning major discourses in comparative education in values education in the global culture. It is a sourcebook of ideas for researchers, practitioners and policy makers in values education, multiculturalism and moral education. It offers a timely overview of current issues affecting values education, comparative edu- tion and education policy research in the global culture. It provides directions in values education, and policy research, relevant to transformational educational reforms in the twenty-first century (see also Zajda & Rust, 2009). This book critically examines the overall interplay between values education, globalisation, dominant ideologies and implications for policy research (see also Apple, 2004). It draws upon recent studies in the areas of globalisation, equity, social justice and the role of the State (Zajda, Biraimah, & Gaudelli, 2008). It explores conceptual frameworks and methodological approaches applicable in the research covering values education, globalisation, equity and multicultural education. Various book chapters critique the dominant discourses and debates pertaining to values education, multiculturalism and relevant comparative education discourses.

Book Help Seeking in Academic Settings

Download or read book Help Seeking in Academic Settings written by Stuart A. Karabenick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on Karabenick’s earlier volume on this topic and maintaining its high standards of scholarship and intellectual rigor, Help Seeking in Academic Settings: Goals, Groups, and Contexts brings together contemporary work that is theoretically as well as practically important. It highlights current trends in the area and gives expanded attention to applications to teaching and learning. The contributors represent an internationally recognized group of scholars and researchers who provide depth of analysis and breadth of coverage. Help seeking is currently considered an important learning strategy that is linked to students’ achievement goals and academic performance. This volume not only provides answers to who, why, and when learners seek help, but raises questions for readers to consider for future research. Chapters examine: *help seeking as a self-regulated learning strategy and its relationship to achievement goal theory; *help seeking in collaborative groups; *culture and help seeking in K-12 and college contexts; *help seeking and academic support services (such as academic advising centers); *help seeking in computer-based interactive learning environments; *help seeking in response to peer harassment at school; and *help seeking in non-academic settings such as the workplace. This book is intended for researchers, academic support personnel,and graduate students across the field of educational psychology, particularly those interested in student motivation and self-regulation.

Book Migration  Multiculturalism and Language Maintenance in Australia

Download or read book Migration Multiculturalism and Language Maintenance in Australia written by Beata Leuner and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses 'push' and 'pull' factors for migration from Poland to Australia and examines the costs of migration; Polish migrants' experiences of Australia's multicultural policy; an evaluation of parent's migration by their children' re-migration to Poland and much more. Beata Leuner, Monash University.

Book Third International Handbook of Globalisation  Education and Policy Research

Download or read book Third International Handbook of Globalisation Education and Policy Research written by Joseph Zajda and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook presents a global overview of current research in education and education policy reforms during the last decade. It provides an accessible, practical and comparative source of current research that examines the intersecting and diverse discourses of this important issue. It first examines globalisation, education and policy research and reforms in higher education, including coverage of main trends in education and policy reforms globally, as well as specific policy issues such as gender, equity, minorities and human rights. Next, the handbook offers a comparative perspective that evaluates the ambivalent and problematic relationship between globalisation, the state and education reforms globally. It features coverage on curricula issues and education reforms in schools around the world, the curriculum in the global culture, as well as globalisation and education futures, with respect to social justice and human rights. The handbook contributes to a better and a more holistic understanding of the education reforms and research nexus—offering possible strategies for the effective and pragmatic policy planning and implementation at the local, regional and national levels. It will serve as a vital sourcebook of ideas for researchers, practitioners and policy makers in education.

Book International Handbook on Globalisation  Education and Policy Research

Download or read book International Handbook on Globalisation Education and Policy Research written by Joseph Zajda and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-05 with total page 853 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this Handbook is to present a global overview of developments in education and policy change during the last decade. It has the objective of providing both a strategic education policy statement on recent shifts in education and policy research globally and offers new approaches to further exploration, development and improvement of education and policy making. The Handbook attempts to address some of the above issues and problems confronting educators and policy makers globally. Different articles seek to conceptualize the on-going problems of education policy formulation and implementation, and provide a useful synthesis of the education policy research conducted in different countries, and practical implications. The Handbook, by focusing on such issues as - the OECD (2001) model of the knowledge society, and associated strategic challenge and 'deliverable goals' (OECD 2001:139) - UNESCO-driven lifelong learning paradigm, and its relevance to education policy makers, globally - different models of policy planning, and equity questions that are raised by centralization/decentralization, diversity/uniformity and curriculum standardization issues - the 'crises' of educational quality, the debate of standards and excellence, and good and effective teaching. - will contribute to a better and more holistic understanding of the education policy and research nexus; offering possible strategies for the effective and pragmatic policy planning and implementation at the local, regional and national levels.

Book Curriculum  Culture and Teaching

Download or read book Curriculum Culture and Teaching written by Joseph Zajda and published by James Nicholas Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curriculum, Culture and Teaching analyses some of the major issues confronting the curriculum and teaching in the contemporary culture of a global society. Using qualitative methodology the contributors from around the world discuss key areas in curriculum theorising, innovation and teaching. The book is divided into four interrelated parts. In Part 1: Issues in the Curriculum, the authors focus on thinking about curriculum and alternative curriculum models. Chapters examine the emergent curriculum, alternative curriculum models, conceptual schemes in curriculum inquiry, and teachers' narratives about curriculum practice in schools. In Part 2: Cultural Dimensions in the Curriculum the authors examine cultural pluralism and multicultural education in the curriculum, and discuss innovative projects for promotion of active citizenship, peace and tolerance in schools. In Part 3: Curriculum Innovations and Teaching the authors evaluate history curriculum reform, Complex Instruction as a curriculum innovation, and the concept of the outcomes in education in Australia. In Part 4: Case Studies the authors, using comparative research methodology evaluate children’s images of picturing teaching, multicultural education in the curriculum and the politics of curriculum reforms. The authors, including Laurie Brady, Margaret Clark, Gustavo Fischman, Sydney Grant, Talmadge Guy, Ian Macpherson, Cynthia Nance, Jacob Perrenet, John Schell, William Schubert, Margaret Secombe, Edmund Short, Jerzy Smolicz, Jan Terwel and Joseph Zajda present a rich tapestry of curriculum theorising and practice in schools in different parts of the world.

Book Education and Society

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joseph I. Zajda
  • Publisher : James Nicholas Publishers
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 1875408347
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book Education and Society written by Joseph I. Zajda and published by James Nicholas Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education and Society (third edition) is a completely new edition of this popular text. In fifteen wholly new chapters, the authors, outstanding educators, writers and leaders in their particular fields, focus on questions which have a highly current relevance for students of education in 2001 and beyond. Future teachers for our twenty-first century will read chapters which deal with such key issues as education for active citizenship, democracy and education, social identity, conflict and education for peace, social class in children's lives, reconciliation and multiculturalism, Asian values and human rights, minority school settings, marketing schools, gender and ethnicity and achievement, Information Technology, education and new literacies and issues arising from emerging technology-society relations in cyberspace and information technology dependence. The new edition of Education and Society (third edition) complements the excellent selection of chapters in Education and Society and can be used in conjunction with the earlier edition, in order to offer students a wide and stimulating introduction and overview to the major issues in the debate over the relationship between the school and the social and economic and political institutions which surround it. inc.

Book Shared Languages  Shared Identities  Shared Stories

Download or read book Shared Languages Shared Identities Shared Stories written by Doris Schüpbach and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how 15 immigrants from German-speaking Switzerland in Australia make sense of their migratory experience, of building a new life in a different language. It does so by examining their written and oral life stories. The analysis takes two complementary perspectives: Firstly, the construction of language identities is studied through the language practices and attitudes discussed and displayed by the participants. Secondly, the ways in which they create coherence in their life stories focuses on autobiographical identities where language is a medium of sense-making across their life course. The combined perspectives highlight the diversity among the participants and the complexities of language and identity construction in the context of migration.

Book Displacement  Language Maintenance and Identity

Download or read book Displacement Language Maintenance and Identity written by Anikó Hatoss and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph presents an ecological perspective to the study of language maintenance and shift in immigrant contexts. The ecology incorporates past, present and future and treats spatial and temporal dimensions as the main organizing frames in which everyday language use and identity development can be explored. The methods combine a quantitative domain-based sociolinguistic survey with discourse analytic approaches. The novel approach is valuable for fellow researchers working in interdisciplinary fields of language maintenance, language shift, multilingualism andlanguage planning in migration contexts. The ecological perspective adds to sociolinguistic theories of globalization and responds to current dynamics of translocality in modern immigrant contexts. The research presents language use and language planning efforts in the Sudanese community of Australia. Language, culture, race and ethnic identity are explored in unique sociolinguistic contexts using an emic research lens and giving voice to the participants.

Book Second International Handbook on Globalisation  Education and Policy Research

Download or read book Second International Handbook on Globalisation Education and Policy Research written by Joseph Zajda and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook presents a global overview of developments in education and policy change during the last decade. It provides an accessible, practical and comparative source of current research that examines the intersecting and diverse discourses of this important issue. Divided into two parts, the handbook first examines globalisation and education policy reforms, including coverage of main trends as well as specific policy issues such as gender, equity, minorities and human rights. Next, the handbook offers a comparative perspective that evaluates the ambivalent and problematic relationship between globalisation, the state and education reforms globally. It features coverage on curricula issues and education reforms in schools around the world as well as the curriculum in the global culture. Now more than ever there is a need to understand and analyse both the intended and the unintended effects of globalisation on economic competitiveness, educational systems, the state and relevant policy changes--all as they affect individuals, the higher education sector, schools, policy-makers and powerful corporate organisations across the globe. By examining some of the major education policy issues, particularly in the light of recent shifts in education and policy research, this handbook offers readers a comprehensive picture of the impact of globalisation on education policy and reforms. It will serve as a vital sourcebook of ideas for researchers, practitioners and policy makers in education.

Book Family and School Capital  Towards a Context Theory of Students  School Outcomes

Download or read book Family and School Capital Towards a Context Theory of Students School Outcomes written by K. Marjoribanks and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents a major advance in examining the problem of how to reduce inequalities in the educational and occupational attainment of students from different socio-economic, ethnic and race group backgrounds. It integrates qualitative and quantitative research orientations and methodologies. A set of family and school measures is included that might be used by researchers and students as they examine the context theory, and by educators involved in school reform programs.

Book Transforming Curriculum for A Culturally Diverse Society

Download or read book Transforming Curriculum for A Culturally Diverse Society written by Etta R. Hollins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intention of this book is to engage educators in transforming the public school curriculum for a culturally diverse society. This means more than including knowledge about diverse populations. It means reconceptualizing school practices through debate, deliberation, and collaboration involving the diverse voices that comprise the nation. Certain key questions must be addressed in this process: * What should be the purpose of schooling in a culturally diverse society? * Who should be involved in curriculum planning and what process should be employed? * How is the actualized curriculum differentiated? * What is the relationship between school practices and the structure of the larger society? * How should the curriculum be evaluated? The authors of the essays in this book address critical perspectives from which a framework is constructed for a discourse on planning curriculum for a culturally diverse society. In a substantive introduction, Hollins presents the major themes and overall goals of the book and describes how the readings in each of the four parts are linked to each other and to these themes and goals. Each part begins with critical questions and an overview to provide a framework and a focus for the readings that follow, and concludes with suggested learning experiences.