Download or read book The Learning Game Arguments for an Education Revolution written by Michael Barber and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Education Debate written by Stephen J. Ball and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education is a key political issue and seen as a crucial factor in ensuring economic productivity and competitiveness. In this enthralling book, Stephen J. Ball offers an analysis of the flood of government initiatives and policies that have been introduced over the past 20 years, including Beacon Schools, the Academies programme, parental choice, Foundation Schools, faith schools and teaching standards. He looks at the politics of these policy interventions and how they have changed the face of education.This bestselling book makes essential reading for student-teachers, other students of politics and social policy courses and for the general reader who wants to get beyond the simplistic analyses of the newspapers.
Download or read book Psychological Socialism written by Jeremy Nuttall and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Labour's first Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald, socialism meant not only 'satisfactory figures of death rates and .improved houses' but also the 'mental cleanliness, the moral robustness of our people.' This book explores the neglected theme of individual character and 'mental qualities' in British social democratic thought and Labour Party history. How important was it for the centre-left that citizens be 'good people'? What was the relationship between socialism and psychology in the 1930s? Did Labour's technocratic, statist socialism of the 1950s and 1960s downgrade moral and mental progress? Why was the party often more concerned to produce a 'rationally planned' economy that rational, independent-minded citizens? Does New Labour represent a sidelining of ethical socialism or a re-birth of the pre-war left's belief in improvement through education and self-control.
Download or read book Education and the Labour Government written by Geoffrey Walford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a valuable and authoritative evaluation of the real impact Labour’s two terms have had on the British education system. On the 1st May 1997 the British electorate witnessed a watershed moment. After an eighteen year Conservative rule, a New Labour government took office. When asked what his top three priorities were for the first term, Tony Blair stated that they would be ‘education, education, education.’ This book questions the extent to which the policy has met the rhetoric; examining Labour’s education policy, practice and achievements during Blair’s two terms in office. This selection of writings by highly respected academics in this field charts and evaluates the effects of policy changes on the various sectors of the educational system and on the major indicators of inequality. This book was previously published as a special issue of the Oxford Review of Education.
Download or read book Accelerated Learning in Practice written by Alistair Smith and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1998-07-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers nine principles for brain based approaches to accelerating learning, improving motivation and raising achievement. It offers the reader a coherent structure and describes: guaranteed ways to motivate learners esteem-building tools for schools, teachers and parents how to access and teach to different types of intelligence 17 different ways in which schools can make Accelerated Learning work
Download or read book Educational Management written by Harry Tomlinson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores historical and present-day issues in education management, the training and development of leaders, and their roles in leading people and managing resources, and provides a focus on the major management issues which are current throughout the education world.The articles reprinted here include the management of applied individual psychology; organizational psychology; individual, interpersonal and group interaction; personality theory; leadership theory and organization theory.
Download or read book Assessment in Action in the Primary School written by Colin Conner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessment has become one of the key issues in primary education over the past 10 years. This edited volume of essays brings together perspectives from all the significant participants involved in assessment in the primary school: teachers, headteachers, LEA advisors, inspectors, pupils, academics and researchers. The contributions illustrate effective assessment, and examine how it is, and can be, achieved. It will be of interest to school assessment co-ordinators, deputies and heads following NPQH courses, and lecturers on IE courses.
Download or read book Understanding Primary Education As a Whole Socio Cultural Perspectives for Leaders written by Tony Birch and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the foundations of modern primary education and the role that society and culture has had in shaping it. Dismantling assumptions about what education has been or ‘should’ be, Tony Birch outlines what the core principles are that underpin high quality education to provide a holistic approach. Supporting leaders, practitioners and those studying primary education, this book: - Explains key issues in primary education and what drives them - Highlights the importance of pedagogy and leadership to enrich education - Builds on the existing frameworks in schools to encourage an holistic approach - Emphasises the importance of seeing the range of a child’s potential outside of academic expectations Understanding Primary Education as a Whole is an essential resource for leaders and those studying primary education who want to understand the changing nature of their schools, classrooms and children. “All of those leading primary education at whatever level can learn from Tony Birch’s analysis of history and competing influences on primary education. This book is systematic, comprehensive and thoughtful.” Dr. Alison Borthwick, UK and International Freelance Education and Mathematics Consultant “As well as being wise, this book is also engaging, accessible and essentially practical. Read it!” Professor Emeritus David Hopkins, www.profdavidhopkins.com “Tony reminds us of the complexity and challenge of primary education, the battles that have been fought around it and the changes in systems and practice that have occurred as a consequence.” Michael Tonge MA, Chief Executive Prestolee Multi Academy Trust, UK Tony Birch is Director of Birch Education and a Senior Associate of the Association of Education Advisers. He established Bolton Council's award-winning Curriculum ICT team, was Head of School Improvement and also Assistant Director responsible for Education and Learning.
Download or read book Educational Research and Policy Making written by Lesley Saunders and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-09-12 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking into the troubled relationship between ‘research’ and ‘policy-making’ in education; with contributions from leading UK educationalists, this book will be invaluable to academics wanting to learn from the experience of senior researchers.
Download or read book Learning in Contemporary Culture written by Will Curtis and published by Learning Matters. This book was released on 2009-05-18 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an accessible undergraduate-level introduction to the central educational concepts of learning and culture. In examining these themes it addresses key issues including: what is meant by ′culture′; characteristics commonly associated with contemporary culture; relationships between culture and learning; changing understandings of how, what, where and when we learn; the relationship between learning, national identity and citizenship; and the impact of all these on our way of life today. These ideas are approached from historical, philosophical, sociological, political and psychological perspectives: the traditional disciplines of Education Studies.
Download or read book The Essential Guide for Experienced Teaching Assistants written by Anne Watkinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This indispensable textbook provides the underpinning knowledge to support all Teaching Assistants working towards Level 3 of the National Occupational Standards. This new edition incorporates and responds to all new materials and initiatives required to meet the revised and expanded 2007 standards. The Essential Guide for Experienced Teaching Assistants: actively engages the reader in activities, developing reflective practice while giving the theoretical background to school-based work gives insight and information about pupils individual needs helps Teaching Assistants develop curriculum-based skills to enable more effective pupil, teacher and classroom support emphasises that Teaching Assistants are team members, supporting the school and being supported by the school enables Teaching Assistants to operate more independently, using their knowledge and initiative.
Download or read book The Managerial School written by Sharon Gewirtz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between welfare and the state has undergone a sustained process of reconfiguration over the past two decades and managerialism has played a key role in this process. In education, parents are now seen as consumers and schools as small businesses, their income dependent on their success in attracting customers within competitive local 'markets'. At the same time, management practices borrowed from business, such as target setting and performance monitoring, now play a key role in regulating schools. What kinds of schools are the reforms producing? What impact are they having on school culture and values? What are the social justice implications of applying a business model to the provision of schooling? In The Managerial School Sharon Gerwirtz draws on in-depth interviews with teachers in a range of secondary schools and close observation of school practices to try to answer these questions.Through a comparison of Conservative and New Labour policies, she argues that New Labour's 'third way' for education is a contradictory mix of neo-liberal, authoritarian and humanistic strands that is not in any real sense a new educational settlement. This empirically based account of over a decade of education reform offers a unique insight into the effects of managerialism on schools and a hard-hitting analysis of the inherent tensions in a system that undoubtedly perpetrates social injustice.
Download or read book Reinventing Schools Reforming Teaching written by John Bangs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the impact of educational policies on those who have to translate political priorities into the day-to-day work of schools and classrooms.
Download or read book Transforming Education written by Agnieszka Bates and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transforming Education challenges the current global orthodoxy that ‘educational transformation’ can be achieved through a step-by-step implementation of centralised, performance-based strategies for school improvement. Complex responsive processes theory is utilised in an original way to critique leadership myths and explore the alternative, deeper meanings of educational transformation. The theory opens up new forms of understanding about how ordinary practitioners negotiate the meanings of ‘improvement’ in their everyday practice. It is in the gap between the emergence of these local interactions and the predetermined designs of policy-makers that educational transformation can be lost or found. This book is an essential read for education professionals and students interested in the fields of complexity, education policy, leadership and management.
Download or read book Realism and Educational Research written by David Scott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the literature of social research covers a vast range of material, there has been little on the role of social theory in educational research. In this respect, David Scott's book covers an important gap in the market, as it focuses on the centrality of social theory in a variety of empirical projects. The volume covers a range of conceptual and theoretical discussions and subsequently applies these concepts to our analysis of empirical studies. As a consequence, it is a volume that deserves to be read widely by students and researchers alike.
Download or read book Citizenship Through Secondary History written by James Arthur and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Citizenship through Secondary History reveals the potential of history to engage with citizenship education and includes: a review of the links between citizenship education and the teaching and learning of history an analysis of how citizenship education is characterised, raising key issues about what could and should be achieved a critique of the discipline and the pitfalls to avoid in teaching citizenship through history case studies offering practical teaching suggestions. History teaching is at the vanguard of citizenship education - the past is the springboard from which citizens learn to think and act. This book offers positive and direct ways to get involved in the thinking that must underpin any worthwhile citizenship education, for all professional teachers, student teachers in history, policy-makers, heads of department and principals.
Download or read book Evaluating Creativity written by Dr Julian Sefton-Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-12 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluating Creative Practice discusses: *the function of evaluation in general *the role of formal assessment and its relation with informal evaluation *the role of the audience for the creative product *the value of making within the subject discipline *the balance within the subject paid to product and process *the role of reflection and the place of the students voice. Examples of practice from subject disciplines English, Art, Music, Drama, Media Studies, Design and Technology, Gallery Education and Digital Arts will enable those involved with primary, secondary, further, higher, gallery and community education to learn from each other and to develop a coherent approach to the range of creative work produced by young people. By focusing on questions of evaluation and containing a range of practical examples the book sets an agenda for creative work by young people in the school curriculum and beyond.
