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Alan Watkins; Matt Silver – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025
The need for change in the education system is obvious and overwhelming. But each stakeholder group has its own ideas about why the system is broken and how to fix it. Competing priorities, political inertia and diminishing budgets maintain the dysfunctional status quo. This essential text examines the underlying causes behind the key challenges…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Knowledge Economy, Educational Change, Systems Approach
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Tom Woodin; Keith Vernon; Linda Shaw – Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning, 2025
This open access book explores the Co-operative College's distinctive adult educational tradition over the past century as it provided education for co-operative leaders, employees and members in addition to developing a range of wider educational initiatives and ideas internationally. The Co-operative College is a British educational charity…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Lifelong Learning, Cooperative Education, Educational History
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Alexander W. Wiseman – Emerald Publishing Limited, 2024
Since 2013, the "Annual Review of Comparative and International Education" has covered significant developments in the intersecting fields of comparative education, international education, education for development, and comparative and international education. With an international authorship, the chapters presented in the "Annual…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, International Education, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis
Lowe, Roy – Routledge Research in Education, 2021
"Schooling and Social Change in England since 1760" offers a powerful critique of the situation of British education today and shows the historical processes that have helped generate the crisis confronting policymakers and practitioners at the present time. The book identifies the key phases of economic and social change since 1760 and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Change, Educational Change, Educational History
Johnstone, Christopher J. – Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education, 2021
This volume charts the rise of the concept of "inclusive development" and simultaneously recognizes its problematic implications as it shifts the focus of development work from efficiency to justice. In response to increasing awareness that development projects can all too often lead to the exclusion of marginalized populations,…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Comparative Education, Minority Groups, Educational Development
Shibuya, Kazuro – Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education, 2022
Nobody denies that trust in schools is key to success in generating any educational outcomes. However, trust is often eroded, resulting in conflicts, alienation, and differentiation among school-level stakeholders. This book analyses school-based management (SBM) of education through the lens of relational trust in the context of Ghana, revealing…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Foreign Countries, Administrator Attitudes, Conflict
Hougaz, Laura – Springer, 2020
This book examines the contribution of entrepreneurs in diversifying and redefining the tertiary education landscape in Australia. The book explores "how" and "why" entrepreneurs have decided to enter a sector which, traditionally, has been predominated by public providers. The book focuses on ways in which entrepreneurs have…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Foreign Countries, Educational Development
Evans, Ronald W. – Routledge Research in Education, 2019
By exploring the tensions, impacts, and origins of major controversies relating to schooling and curricula since the early twentieth century, this insightful text illustrates how fear has played a key role in steering the development of education in the United States. Through rigorous historical investigation, Evans demonstrates how numerous…
Descriptors: Progressive Education, Educational Development, Educational History, Fear
Xue, Eryong; Li, Jian – Springer, 2022
This book explores the holistic development of vocational education in Chinese education system. It investigates the vocational education policy development, student development, allocation of teachers' resources, financial mechanism and system, students' financial aid, examination and enrollment, private vocational education system, and…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Vocational Education, Educational Change
Marsden, George M. – Oxford University Press, 2021
"The Soul of the American University" is a classic and much discussed account of the changing roles of Christianity in shaping American higher education, presented here in a newly revised edition to offer insights for a modern era. As late as the World War II era, it was not unusual even for state schools to offer chapel services or for…
Descriptors: Universities, Educational History, Protestants, Christianity
Hess, Frederick M. – Harvard Education Press, 2017
In "Letters to a Young Education Reformer," Frederick M. Hess distills knowledge from twenty-five years of working in and around school reform. Inspired by his conversations with young, would-be reformers who are passionate about transforming education, the book offers a window into Hess's thinking about what education reform is and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Development, Parent School Relationship
Scott, Peter, Ed.; Gallacher, Jim, Ed.; Parry, Gareth, Ed. – Oxford University Press, 2017
The landscapes of higher education have been changing rapidly, with enormous growths in participation rates in many countries across the world, and major developments and changes within institutions. But the languages that we need to conceptualise and understand these changes have not been keeping pace. The central argument in this book is that…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Language Usage, College Role
McCloskey, Stephen – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021
This book argues that the international development sector is in crisis which can be mostly sourced to its side-stepping the dominant development question of our age, the neoliberal growth paradigm. It argues that this crisis can be addressed, at least in part, by the sector's re-engagement with the radical development education process that it…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Neoliberalism, Capacity Building, Educational Development
OECD Publishing, 2017
As Costa Rica's economy has developed in recent decades, the education system that helped propel the country to upper middle-income status now needs reform to respond to rising expectations and changing demands for skills. New challenges are emerging: economic growth has recently slowed, inequality is widening and productivity growth is weak. How…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Educational Change
OECD Publishing, 2016
This report reviews the collection, availability and quality of system-level data and metadata on education from countries participating in the PISA for Development project: Cambodia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Paraguay, Senegal and Zambia. PISA for Development aims to increase low income countries' use of PISA assessments for monitoring progress towards…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Data Collection, Achievement Tests
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