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Society, Schools and Progress in Australia

Author : P. H. Partridge

Publisher : Elsevier

Page : 265 pages

File Size : 11,76 MB

Release : 2014-05-17

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 148318630X

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Society, Schools, and Progress in Australia focuses on the principles, methodologies, practices, and measures employed in education in Australia. The book first offers information on historical influences and organization of public education. Discussions focus on local communities and schools, teaching in state schools, administration within states, educational policy, secondary education, geographical and social background, centralization, question of state aid, and background of the education acts. The book then ponders on schools and society, pattern of higher education, and teachers. Topics include economic change, organization of technical education, future development of technical colleges, adult education, diversification of tertiary education, teaching in universities, and reorganization of secondary education. The text examines education and national growth, including changing balance of the federation, social teaching, quality of teachers, aspects of national development, and social change and educational change. The manuscript is a dependable reference for students, teachers, and educators wanting to study the form of education in Australia.



Introducing Comparative Education

Author : A. R. Trethewey

Publisher : Elsevier

Page : 153 pages

File Size : 19,24 MB

Release : 2014-05-18

Category : Education

ISBN : 1483181847

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Introducing Comparative Education aims to familiarize newcomers with comparative education as a field of study and to provide a continuing reference as people become more actively involved with comparative studies and the problems associated with developing them in rigorous and productive ways. The purposes and methods of comparative education are also discussed. Comprised of eight chapters, this book begins by presenting a neat, simple, and generally accepted definition of comparative education. The reader is then introduced to the history and development of comparative education; the purposes of comparative education; some of the pitfalls in trying to compare education or educational systems across cultural and national boundaries; and some of the alternative methods open to those who would like to develop studies in comparative education. The approaches associated with Isaac Kandel, Nicholas Hans, and G. Z. F. Bereday, Brian Holmes, Edmund King, Harold Noah, and Max Eckstein are considered. The book concludes with a listing of resources for teaching and learning. This monograph is intended for students and educators.



Society, Schools and Progress in England

Author : G. Baron

Publisher : Elsevier

Page : 247 pages

File Size : 41,90 MB

Release : 2016-06-06

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1483180956

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Society, Schools and Progress in England analyzes the changing trend in English education. The title tackles the contemporary issues and problems, along with the efforts to restructure the English education system to fit the needs of an industrial society. The text first examines the historical foundations, and then proceeds to tackling the social and economic foreground. Next, the selection talks about education and government. Chapter 4 discusses the changing schools, while Chapter 5 covers higher education and new needs. The text also deals with education and industry, along with opportunities for education. The book will be of great interest to educators, sociologists, political scientists, economists, and behavioral scientists.



The Politics of School Government

Author : G. Baron

Publisher : Elsevier

Page : 307 pages

File Size : 33,10 MB

Release : 2014-06-28

Category : Education

ISBN : 1483296369

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Leading international scholars consider changes and developments in school government practice in the United States, Canada, England and Wales, Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, France, West Germany, Italy, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Each chapter looks at the introduction or reform of councils at school level designed to secure the involvement in decision-making of parents, teachers, students and the local community. Essential reading for everyone involved in educational administration this informative book will also be of interest to researchers of comparative education, the politics of education and participatory developments in the field.



Restructuring Schools

Author : W. Lowe Boyd

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 264 pages

File Size : 15,31 MB

Release : 2005-08-17

Category : Education

ISBN : 1135721998

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Education reform has become part of a political imperative in a number of developed countries around the world. The simultaneous movement to reform schooling and the administrative structures which deliver educational services therefore needs to be studied in order to lay bare its fundamental assumptions. This movement has been labelled "restructuring" and "reform", although the words carry different meanings in different countries.; The authors question why this reconstruction occurred at the same time in different places. What common themes are emerging in the restructuring movement? And in the 1990s, where will the movement lead schooling and what essential changes will it effect? They explore these questions by examining developments in the USA, Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.



Student Equity in Australian Higher Education

Author : Andrew Harvey

Publisher : Springer

Page : 301 pages

File Size : 19,92 MB

Release : 2016-03-29

Category : Education

ISBN : 9811003157

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This book examines twenty-five years of the Australian framework for student equity in higher education, A Fair Chance for All. Divided into two sections, the book reflects on the legacy of equity policy in higher education, the effectiveness of current approaches, and the likely challenges facing future policymakers. The first section explores the creation of the framework, including the major elements of the policy, the political context of its development, and how it compares with international models developed during the same period. The performance of the six student equity groups identified within the framework is also examined. The second section of the book considers future trends and challenges. The Australian university sector has undergone seismic change in the past twenty-five years and faces further changes of equal magnitude. The twenty-fifth anniversary of A Fair Chance for All comes as Australian higher education is poised for another wave of transformation, with rising expansion, competition, and stratification. While the emerging landscape is new, the questions have changed little since A Fair Chance for All was first conceived: How should we define student equity, and what policies are likely to promote it?



Education and Social Change

Author : Edmund J. King

Publisher : Elsevier

Page : 254 pages

File Size : 24,42 MB

Release : 2014-05-16

Category : Education

ISBN : 1483138585

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Education and Social Change provides a basic introduction to educational studies, with a viewpoint for decision. This book discusses the increasing number of educational influences at work outside the schools and colleges. Organized into three parts encompassing 10 chapters, this book starts with an overview of the influences affecting the schools as well as affecting the entire life in which the schools have to take on a different meaning. This text then examines the educational institutions and describes how their purposes, structures, and populations are undergoing unprecedented change. Other chapters deal with the transformation of the teaching–learning role itself, with reference to the teachers. This book discusses as well the relevance of all educational sciences. The final chapter briefly examines some of the main questions that need to be asked again because of all the changes in education's purposes and instrumentality. This book is a valuable resource for students and teachers.



Rethinking Work and Learning

Author : Peter Willis

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 280 pages

File Size : 48,7 MB

Release : 2008-11-02

Category : Education

ISBN : 1402089643

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Rethinking a Sustainable Society Alan Mayne The world has already passed the midway point for achieving by 2015 the eight Millennium Development Goals for a “more peaceful, prosperous and just world” that were set by the United Nations in the wake of its inspirational Millennium Dec- 1 laration in 2000. These goals range from combating poverty, hunger, and disease, to empowering women, and ensuring environmental sustainability. However Ban Ki-Moon, the United Nations Secretary-General, conceded in 2007 that progress to date has been mixed. During 2008 the head of the United Nations World Food P- gramme cautioned that because of the surge in world commodity prices the program had insuf?cient money to stave off global malnutrition, and the World Health Or- nization warned of a global crisis in water and sanitation. Depressing news accounts accumulate about opportunities missed to achieve a fairer world order and ecolo- calsustainability:themanipulationofelectionresultsinAfrica,humanrightsabuses in China, 4000 Americans dead and another nation torn apart by a senseless and protracted war in Iraq, and weasel words by the world’s political leadership in the lead-up to negotiations for a climate change deal in 2009 that is supposed to stabilize global carbon dioxide emissions. It is clear that the parameters of the debates that drive progressive policy change urgently require repositioning and energizing. As is shown by the contributors to Rethinking work and learning, experts in the humanities and social sciences (HASS) couldhaveanimportantroletoplayinthisprocess.



Teacher Preparation in Australia

Author : Thomas O'Donoghue

Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing

Page : 220 pages

File Size : 23,38 MB

Release : 2019-10-30

Category : Education

ISBN : 1787439747

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The book is a study of teacher preparation policy and practice in Australia from the establishment of the first colony there in 1788, to the present day. It will highlight, within an international context, how the focus of preparation moved through the following five interrelated and overlapping phases.



International Higher Education Volume 2

Author : Philip Altbach

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 586 pages

File Size : 34,3 MB

Release : 2014

Category : Education, Higher

ISBN : 1136628851

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This encyclopedia is the result of a highly selective enterprise that provides a careful selection of key topics in essays written by top scholars in their fields. Comprehensive and in-depth coverage of a limited number of countries, regions and themes is provided. The essays not only feature statistical and factual information but significant interpretation of those facts and figures. The chapters on themes and topics are both analytic and interpretative and deal with the most important topics relevant to higher education everywhere. More than a compendium of facts and figures the encyclop.