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Gunnulfsen, Ann Elisabeth, Ed.; Ă„rlestig, Helene, Ed.; Storgaard, Merete, Ed. – Educational Governance Research, 2023
This book discusses principals' prerequisites and work within the five Nordic countries and focuses on schools as formal institutions that carry out functions delegated to them by the social collective. It includes a discussion about what kind of state policy demonstrates autonomy in Nordic schools, as well as the ways in which school leaders as…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Leadership, Principals, State Policy
Brasof, Marc, Ed.; Levitan, Joseph, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2022
This powerful resource is for researchers and educational leaders who are interested in understanding and applying research methods that emphasize youth voice. The authors argue that most educational research either omits critical understandings of youth or, even worse, presents inaccuracies due to faulty techniques. Researching how youth…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Guidelines, Educational Research, Power Structure
Sarroub, Loukia K., Ed.; Nicholas, Claire, Ed. – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021
This book engages readers via the international contributions from "home" field sites around the world and international authors. Importantly, the various chapters address a wide spectrum of educational contexts -- ranging from higher education, to K-12 public and private schools, to prison schools. The realistic accounts portrayed in…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Ethics, Research Design, Higher Education
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Becnel, Kim, Ed. – IGI Global, 2019
The emergent phenomena of virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality is having an impact on ways people communicate with technology and with each other. Schools and higher education institutions are embracing these emerging technologies and implementing them at a rapid pace. The challenge, however, is to identify well-defined problems…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Simulation, Simulated Environment
Monkman, Karen, Ed.; Frkovich, Ann, Ed.; Proweller, Amira, Ed. – Routledge Research in Education, 2022
This volume offers a timely collection of research-based studies that engage with contemporary conditions of precarity across an array of locations, exploring how it is understood, experienced, and acted upon by educators in schools, universities, and nonformal educational spaces. Precarity presents as layered, unpredictable, destabilizing, and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Social Justice, Multicultural Education, Educational Policy
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Hollebrands, Karen, Ed.; Anderson, Robin, Ed.; Oliver, Kevin, Ed. – Research in Mathematics Education, 2021
This book brings together research from mathematics education and instructional design to describe the development and impact of online environments on prospective and practicing teachers' learning to teach mathematics. The move to online learning has steadily increased over the past decade. Its most rapid movement occurring in 2020 with most…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Online Courses, Educational Technology, Electronic Learning
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Ahmed Sahlane Ed.; Rosalind Pritchard Ed. – English Language Education, 2023
This volume provides an overview of current issues in English as an International Language (EIL) education and critical intercultural literacy pedagogy. The different chapters are inspired by 'critical interculturality' as a decolonial project that seeks to interrogate the structures, conditions, and mechanisms of colonial power relations that…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Literacy Education
Rokita-Jaskow, Joanna, Ed.; Ellis, Melanie, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2019
This book provides a holistic overview of what leads to success in foreign language learning at an early age and deepens our understanding of early foreign language learning. The studies use an array of methodological approaches to research learners aged between three and ten, as well as their parents and teachers, in instructional, minimal-input…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Young Children, Educational Policy, Teaching Methods
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Shahriar, Ambreen, Ed.; Syed, Ghazal Kazim, Ed. – IGI Global, 2017
The pursuit of higher education has become increasingly popular among students of many different backgrounds and cultures. As these students embark on higher learning, it is imperative for educators and universities to be culturally sensitive to their differing individualities. "Student Culture and Identity in Higher Education" is an…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Identification (Psychology), Cultural Awareness
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Terry, Krista, Ed.; Cheney, Amy, Ed. – IGI Global, 2016
The integration of emerging technologies in higher education presents a new set of challenges and opportunities for educators. With a growing need for customized lesson plans in online education, educators are rethinking the design and development of their learning environments. "Utilizing Virtual and Personal Learning Environments for…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Higher Education, Electronic Learning, Technology Uses in Education
Hannaway, Jane, Ed.; Carnoy, Martin, Ed. – 1993
In this book, eight contributors examine issues related to the likely effects of the decentralization of school governance on educational practice. Two major themes emerge in the book. The first (chapters 1 through 4) is that governance reforms in education may have little to do with what actually happens in schools, but have much to do with…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Governance
Solomon, R. Patrick, Ed.; Sekayi, Dia, Ed. – Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Bks), 2007
This volume illuminates the most pressing challenges faced by urban schools, teachers, teacher candidates, and teacher training programs and offers a range of insights and possibilities for urban teacher education and teaching. Covering issues spanning the broadly theoretical to the urgently practical, it goes beyond the traditional discourses in…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Cultural Pluralism, Justice
Crowther, Jim, Ed.; Hamilton, Mary, Ed.; Tett, Lyn, Ed. – 2001
These 15 papers share a common theme: seeking to promote literacy as a powerful tool for challenging existing inequalities and dependencies. "Powerful Literacies" (Jim Crowther et al.) is an introduction. Section 1 establishes the theoretical and policy frameworks that underpin the book and shows how literacy is situated in different…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs