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Direct linkWonseok Kim – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2024
Despite the remarkable growth of Korean education, this book sheds light on 'repressive' Korean education where critical thinking and action, which are essential for living in a democratic society, are considered as threats to society and thus regulated. Drawing on research findings and many case examples, the author particularly highlights that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Thinking, Democratic Values, Democracy
Peer reviewedKrejsler, John Benedicto, Ed.; Moos, Lejf, Ed. – Educational Governance Research, 2023
This book discusses national school policy reforms in a number of key European countries and shows how these are framed in transnational collaborations that meet with national particularities and contestations. It gives an overview of school policy developments that represents the diversity of Europe within a comparative framework. It takes point…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Policy, Educational Change, Alignment (Education)
Cameron, Claire, Ed.; Moss, Peter, Ed. – UCL Press, 2020
Early childhood education and care has been a political priority in England since 1997, when government finally turned its attention to this long-neglected area. Public funding has increased, policy initiatives have proliferated and at each general election political parties aim to outbid each other in their offer to families. "Transforming…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Democratic Values
Mario Carretero, Editor; Everardo Perez-Manjarrez, Editor – Routledge Research in Education, 2024
Providing the first volume-length exploration of the role that dialogue can play in history education classrooms, this book explores the socio-cultural, psychological, and digital dimensions of dialogic practice to promote research into historical thinking, historical consciousness, and critical thinking in educational settings. This book's novel…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Global Approach, Dialogs (Language), Thinking Skills
Normand, Romuald, Ed.; Moos, Lejf, Ed.; Liu, Moos, Ed.; Tulowitzki, Pierre, Ed. – Educational Governance Research, 2021
This book identifies the cultural and moral foundations of country-specific educational governance and school leadership and presents the principles of justice and the diversity of common goods that guide leadership practices in schools. It contributes to an existing research field that studies diversity and ethical leadership in schools. The…
Descriptors: Governance, Instructional Leadership, Cultural Influences, Moral Values
Download full textBiseth, Heidi, Ed.; Hoskins, Bryony, Ed.; Huang, Lihong, Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2021
This open access book presents an in-depth analysis of data from ICCS. An international group of scholars critically address the state of civic and citizenship education in the four Nordic countries that participated in the IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) in 2009 and 2016. The findings are of particular relevance to…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Democracy, Teaching Methods
Treviño, Ernesto, Ed.; Carrasco, Diego, Ed.; Claes, Ellen, Ed.; Kennedy, Kerry J., Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2021
This Open Access book presents an international group of scholars seeking to understand how youth from different cultures relate to modern multidimensional concepts of citizenship, and the roles that education and society have in shaping the views of the world's future citizens. The book also explores how different aspects of citizenship, such as…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Citizenship, Role of Education, Citizenship Education
Uljens, Michael, Ed.; Ylimaki, Rose M., Ed. – Educational Governance Research, 2017
This volume argues for the need of a common ground that bridges leadership studies, curriculum theory, and Didaktik. It proposes a non-affirmative education theory and its core concepts along with discursive institutionalism as an analytical tool to bridge these fields. It concludes with implications of its coherent theoretical framing for future…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Curriculum Development, Governance, Educational Theories
Cunningham, Peter, Ed.; Heilbronn, Ruth, Ed. – Trentham Books, 2016
"Dewey in Our Time" brings together leading writers from around the world who are actively engaged in applying Dewey's thought to the challenges facing educational systems and teachers in school. Issues concerning equity, social justice, curriculum and pedagogy, teachers' roles and their professional identity are considered, with…
Descriptors: Progressive Education, Equal Education, Social Justice, Teacher Role
Levinson, Meira, Ed.; Fay, Jacob, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2019
Teaching in a democracy is challenging and filled with dilemmas that have no easy answers. For example, how do educators meet their responsibilities of teaching civic norms and dispositions while remaining nonpartisan? "Democratic Discord in Schools" features eight normative cases of complex dilemmas drawn from real events designed to…
Descriptors: Democracy, Citizenship Education, Problem Solving, Cooperation
Stein, Pippa – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
Multimodal Pedagogies in Diverse Classrooms examines how the classroom can become a democratic space founded on the integration of different histories, modes of representation, feelings, languages and discourses, and is essential reading for anyone interested in the connection between multimodality, pedagogy, democracy and social justice in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Pluralism, Social Justice, Student Diversity
Harber, Clive; Mncube, Vusi – Symposium Books, 2012
Education is often seen as the key agency in international development and poverty reduction. Frequently the emphasis is on the economic and social role of education in development. This book, on the other hand, is unusual in explicitly examining the political role of education in development. In particular, it sets out the theories, evidence and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Politics of Education
Porfilio, Brad J., Ed.; Viola, Michael J., Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2012
Illuminating hip-hop as an important cultural practice and a global social movement, this collaborative project highlights the emancipatory messages and cultural work generated by the organic intellectuals of global hip-hop. Contributors describe the social realities--globalization, migration, poverty, criminalization, and racism--youth are…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Critical Theory, Multicultural Education, Cultural Activities
Cahn, Steven M., Ed. – Oxford University Press, 2011
Now even more affordably priced in its second edition, "Classic and Contemporary Readings in the Philosophy of Education" is ideal for undergraduate and graduate philosophy of education courses. Editor Steven M. Cahn, a highly respected contributor to the field, brings together writings by leading figures in the history of philosophy and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Educational Philosophy, School Choice
Carr, Paul R., Ed.; Zyngier, David, Ed.; Pruyn, Marc, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2012
As the title of this book suggests, how one understands, perceives and experiences democracy may have a significant effect on how he/she actually engages in, and with, democracy. Within the educational context, this is a key concern, and forms the basis of the research presented in this volume within a critical, comparative analysis. The Global…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Preservice Teacher Education, Educational Change
