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  • The Case for Homeschooling: Free Range Home Education Handbook by Dusseau, Anna
    Anna Dusseau

    The Case for Homeschooling: Free Range Home Education Handbook

    "Many children's lives are so busy with school journeys, subject changes, after-school clubs, and homework that they have little time to think or to take ownership of the life they are leading. They spend an awful lot of time being 'processed' by well-intentioned adults.......
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  • Some Aspects of Education in Denmark by Thomsen, Ole B.
    Ole B. Thomsen

    Some Aspects of Education in Denmark

    In the past few years awareness of the importance of educational practices has increased: committees have been established to investigate curricula of study, to solve the problems of administration and to co-ordinate the different levels of the educational system. A significant part of these...
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  • Swear Word Coloring Book Vol.1: Flower Mandalas Adult Coloring Book Designs by Darkhead
    Darkhead

    Swear Word Coloring Book Vol.1: Flower Mandalas Adult Coloring Book Designs

    Get fantastic value for money with this huge Funny Swear Word Coloring Book These expertly illustrated funny swearing designs will provide hour upon hour of entertainment This swear word coloring book contains 40 single sided coloring pages. This allows you to remove each page...
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  • Stravinsky and Cubism by Weller, Bob
    Bob Weller

    Stravinsky and Cubism

    A study of the effect of Cubism on Stravinsky's compositional style. "The unescapable observation from such a multiple conjunction of personalities is that specific values, verifiably and properly referred to as Cubist, had been identified in art and literature, attributed to Le Sacre from...
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  • Defining the Good School: Educational Adequacy Requires More Than Minimums by Swensson, Jeff
    Jeff Swensson

    Defining the Good School: Educational Adequacy Requires More than Minimums

    The deck is stacked against educators and parents/caregivers looking for educational adequacy in contemporary US education. Too often, satisfactory quality in the good public school is identified based on opinion, the dubious value of standardized test results, and marketing ploys. Moreover, the contemporary purpose...
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  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Internationalization of Higher Education in the Global South by Thondhlana, Juliet
    Juliet Thondhlana

    The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Internationalization of Higher Education in the Global South

    This Handbook covers a wide range of historical perspectives, realities, research and practice of internationalization of higher education (IHE) in the global south and makes comparisons to IHE issues in the global north. Drawing on the expertise of 32 academics and policy makers based...
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  • Educating for Peace and Human Rights: An Introduction by Hantzopoulos, Maria
    Maria Hantzopoulos

    Educating for Peace and Human Rights: An Introduction

    Over the past five decades, both peace education and human rights education have emerged distinctly and separately as global fields of scholarship and practice. Promoted through multiple efforts (the United Nations, civil society, grassroots educators), both of these fields consider content, processes, and educational...
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  • Schooling as Uncertainty: An Ethnographic Memoir in Comparative Education by Vavrus, Frances
    Frances Vavrus

    Schooling as Uncertainty: An Ethnographic Memoir in Comparative Education

    In today's uncertain world, few beliefs remain as firmly entrenched as the optimistic view that more schooling will lead to a better life. Though this may be true in the aggregate, how do we explain the circumstances when schooling fails to produce certainty or...
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  • Critical Education in International Perspective by Mayo, Peter
    Peter Mayo

    Critical Education in International Perspective

    Critical Education in International Perspectivepresents new perspectives on critical education from Latin America, Southern Europe and Africa. While recognising the valuable work in critical education emerging from North America and the Northern hemisphere, testimony to Paulo Freire's influence there, this book sheds light on...
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  • Centering Global Citizenship Education in the Public Sphere: International Enactments of GCED for Social Justice and Common Good by Wiksten, Susan
    Susan Wiksten

    Centering Global Citizenship Education in the Public Sphere: International Enactments of GCED for Social Justice and Common Good

    This book brings together key perspectives from scholars in the Global South and Global North to illustrate diverse ways in which the UN's Global Citizenship Education (GCED) agenda can promote social justice and be used as a vehicle for negotiating and learning about diverse...
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  • Reconceptualizing Quality in Early Childhood Education, Care and Development: Understanding the Child and Community by Kinkead-Clark, Zoyah
    Zoyah Kinkead-Clark

    Reconceptualizing Quality in Early Childhood Education, Care and Development: Understanding the Child and Community

    Recognizing the various ecological contexts that support children's development while amplifying voices from across the globe, this book challenges narrow interpretations of quality and best practice. Each author offers a unique perspective on issues germane to the field of early childhood education: perceptions of...
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  • Education and International Development: An Introduction by McCowan, Tristan
    Tristan McCowan

    Education and International Development: An Introduction

    Education and International Development provides an introduction to the debates on education and international development, giving an overview of the history, influential theories, key concepts, areas of achievement and emerging trends in policy and practice. Written by leading academics from Canada, India, Netherlands, South...
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  • Education in South Korea: Reflections on a Seventy-Year Journey by Lee, Don-Hee
    Don-Hee Lee

    Education in South Korea: Reflections on a Seventy-Year Journey

    This book, the result of a landmark colloquium held in Korea to reflect on the role of education in Korean society, provides fascinating insights into the interplay of political evolution and pedagogy. Korea has gone from one of the world's poorest societies after the...
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  • Interrogating the Relations Between Migration and Education in the South: Migrating Americas by López López
    Ligia (Licho) Lez Lez

    Interrogating the Relations between Migration and Education in the South: Migrating Americas

    Adopting a uniquely critical lens, this volume analyzes the relationship between forced migration, the migrations of people, and subsequent impacts on education. In doing so, it challenges Euro-modern and colonial notions of what it means to move across 'borders'. Using Abiayala and its diasporas...
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  • Education for Social Change: Perspectives on Global Learning by Bourn, Douglas
    Douglas Bourn

    Education for Social Change: Perspectives on Global Learning

    This book introduces students to education as a vehicle for social change. Douglas Bourn begins by providing historical context of how education has been linked to social change around the world and moves on, in the second section of the book, to discuss potential...
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  • Education to Build Back Better: What Can We Learn from Education Reform for a Post-Pandemic World by Reimers, Fernando M.
    Fernando M. Reimers

    Education to Build Back Better: What Can We Learn from Education Reform for a Post-Pandemic World

    This open access book examines the implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic for education systems and argues that major education reforms will be necessary, particularly in the Global South, to address the learning loss caused by the pandemic. To inform those reforms, knowledge about the...
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  • Learning in the Global Era: International Perspectives on Globalization and Education by Suarez-Orozco, Marcelo
    Marcelo Suarez-Orozco

    Learning in the Global Era: International Perspectives on Globalization and Education

    An international gathering of leading scholars, policymakers, and educators takes on some of the most difficult and controversial issues of our time in this groundbreaking exploration of how globalization is affecting education around the world. The contributors, drawing from innovative research in both the...
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  • Reclaiming Composition for Chicano/As and Other Ethnic Minorities: A Critical History and Pedagogy by Ruiz, Iris D.
    Iris D. Ruiz

    Reclaiming Composition for Chicano/As and Other Ethnic Minorities: A Critical History and Pedagogy

    Winner of Honorable Mention for the 2018 Conference on College Composition and Communication Outstanding Book AwardThis book examines the history of ethnic minorities particularly Chicano/as and Latino/as--in the field of composition and rhetoric; the connections between composition and major US historical movements toward inclusiveness...
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  • The School Choice Roadmap: 7 Steps to Finding the Right School for Your Child by Campanella, Andrew
    Andrew Campanella

    The School Choice Roadmap: 7 Steps to Finding the Right School for Your Child

    WINNER OF THE 2020 FOREWORD INDIES GOLD AWARD IN EDUCATION WINNER OF THE SILVER IPPY AWARD FOR BEST EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES You want your children to benefit from a great education. But every student is unique. One type of school might be a great fit...
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  • Critical Human Rights, Citizenship, and Democracy Education: Entanglements and Regenerations by Zembylas, Michalinos
    Michalinos Zembylas

    Critical Human Rights, Citizenship, and Democracy Education Entanglements and Regenerations

    Critical Human Rights, Citizenship, and Democracy Education presents new scholarly research that views human rights, democracy and citizenship education as a critical project. Written by an international line-up of contributors including academics from Canada, Cyprus, Ireland, South Africa, Sweden, the UK and the USA,...
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  • Educational Experience as Lived: Knowledge, History, Alterity: The Selected Works of William F. Pinar by Pinar, William F.
    William F. Pinar

    Educational Experience as Lived: Knowledge, History, Alterity: The Selected Works of William F. Pinar

    In this volume, Pinar enacts his theory of curriculum, detailing the relations among knowledge, history, and alterity. The introduction is Pinar's intellectual life history, naming the contributions he has made to understanding educational experience. Study is the center of educational experience, as he demonstrates...
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  • Non-Western Educational Traditions: Local Approaches to Thought and Practice by Reagan, Timothy
    Timothy Reagan

    Non-Western Educational Traditions: Local Approaches to Thought and Practice

    Informative and mind-opening, this text uniquely provides a comprehensive overview of a range of non-western approaches to educational thought and practice. Its premise is that understanding the ways that other people educate their children-as well as what counts for them as "education"-may help readers...
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  • Inquiry-Based Teaching and Learning Across Disciplines: Comparative Theory and Practice in Schools by Kidman, Gillian
    Gillian Kidman

    Inquiry-Based Teaching and Learning Across Disciplines: Comparative Theory and Practice in Schools

    This research-based book dissects and explores the meaning and nature of Inquiry in teaching and learning in schools, challenging existing concepts and practices. In particular, it explores and contests prevailing attitudes about the practice of inquiry-based learning across the Science, Geography and History disciplines,...
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  • Each One Must Shine: The Educational Legacy of V.A. Sukhomlinsky by Cockerill, Alan Leslie
    Alan Leslie Cockerill

    Each One Must Shine: The Educational Legacy of V.A. Sukhomlinsky

    Each One Must Shine is an account of the life and work of Vasily Sukhomlinsky (1918-1970), one of the most influential educators of the twentieth century. Sukhomlinsky's writings inspired millions of Soviet school teachers, and continue to inspire educators in Russia, Ukraine, and China,...
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  • Learning to Teach in an Era of Privatization: Global Trends in Teacher Preparation by Lubienski, Christopher A.
    Christopher A. Lubienski

    Learning to Teach in an Era of Privatization: Global Trends in Teacher Preparation

    In an age of consumer choice, decentralization, and deregulation in education, policymakers often demonstrate surprisingly little awareness of how popular reforms impact teaching and teacher education. This raises a number of questions: To what extent has the push for privatization and marketization of education...
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  • Stratification in Higher Education: A Comparative Study by Shavit, Yossi
    Yossi Shavit

    Stratification in Higher Education: A Comparative Study

    The mass expansion of higher education is one of the most important social transformations of the second half of the twentieth century. In this book, scholars from 15 countries, representing Western and Eastern Europe, East Asia, Israel, Australia, and the United States, assess the...
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  • Cuba's Academic Advantage: Why Students in Cuba Do Better in School by Carnoy, Martin
    Martin Carnoy

    Cuba's Academic Advantage: Why Students in Cuba Do Better in School

    In this book, Martin Carnoy explores the surprising success of the Cuban educational system, where the average elementary school student learns much more than her Latin American peers. In developing the case for Cuba's supportive social context and centralized management of education, Carnoy asks...
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  • Education and Poverty in Affluent Countries by Raffo, Carlo
    Carlo Raffo

    Education and Poverty in Affluent Countries

    For the first time, researchers, policymakers and practitioners across the world will have access to a comprehensive mapping of research evidence and policy strategies about education and poverty in affluent countries. Although there is widespread agreement that poverty and poor educational outcomes are related,...
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  • Race and Early Childhood Education: An International Approach to Identity, Politics, and Pedagogy by Mac Naughton, Glenda
    Kenneth A. Loparo

    Race and Early Childhood Education: An International Approach to Identity, Politics, and Pedagogy

    This book critiques the often presumed racial innocence of young children. The authors challenge early childhood educators to engage with the racialized identity politics that form among their students, and to reform their own identities and intersect and frame children's identities throughout their earliest...
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  • Finnish Lessons 3.0 (Third Edition): What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland? by Sahlberg, Pasi
    Pasi Sahlberg

    Finnish Lessons 3.0 (Third Edition): What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland?

    The first two editions of Finnish Lessons described how a small Nordic nation built a school system that provided access to a world-class education for all of its young people. Now available in thirty languages, this Grawemeyer Award-winning book continues to influence education policies...
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  • School Is A Joke: Ethnography of Inner City Public School Students' Perception and Sensemaking of School and Schooling by Chukwunyere, Immaculata
    Immaculata Chukwunyere

    School Is A Joke: Ethnography of Inner City Public School Students' Perception and Sensemaking of School and Schooling

    School Is a Joke: Ethnography of Inner City Public School Students' Perception and Sensemaking of School and Schooling explored minority and low-SES inner-city high school students' perception and sense-making of school, schooling, learning, academic behaviors, and academic achievement through an integrated theory of human...
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  • Teaching Expertise in Three Countries: Japan, China, and the United States by Hayashi, Akiko
    Akiko Hayashi

    Teaching Expertise in Three Countries: Japan, China, and the United States

    A comparison of the development of expertise in preschool teaching in China, Japan, and the United States. In Teaching Expertise in Three Countries, Akiko Hayashi shows how teachers from Japan, China, and the United States think about what it means to be an expert...
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  • International Student Mobility to and from the Middle East: Theorising Public, Institutional, and Self-Constructions of Cross-Border Students by Hayes, Aneta
    Aneta Hayes

    International Student Mobility to and from the Middle East: Theorising Public, Institutional, and Self-Constructions of Cross-Border Students

    This volume investigates how international students in and from the Middle East are constructed by nations, institutions, other students, and themselves. Making a valuable contribution to understanding the nuances and complexities of educational politics and priorities affecting these constructions, the text considers the broader...
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  • Transformative Teaching Around the World: Stories of Cultural Impact, Technology Integration, and Innovative Pedagogy by Zhu, Meina
    Curtis J. Bonk

    Transformative Teaching Around the World: Stories of Cultural Impact, Technology Integration, and Innovative Pedagogy

    Transformative Teaching Around the World compiles inspiring stories from Fulbright-awarded teachers whose instructional practices have impacted schools and communities globally. Whether thriving or struggling in their classrooms, instructing in person or online, or pushing for changes at high or low costs and risk levels,...
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  • Epistemic Colonialism and the Transfer of Curriculum Knowledge Across Borders: Applying a Historical Lens to Contest Unilateral Logics by Zhao, Weili
    Weili Zhao

    Epistemic Colonialism and the Transfer of Curriculum Knowledge across Borders: Applying a Historical Lens to Contest Unilateral Logics

    This volume uncovers the colonial epistemologies that have long dominated the transfer of curriculum knowledge within and across nation-states and demonstrates how a historical approach to uncovering epistemological colonialism can inform an alternative, relational mode of knowledge transfer and negotiation within curriculum studies research...
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  • Risk Society and Education in Post-Disaster Fukushima by Miyazawa, Kaoru
    Kaoru Miyazawa

    Risk Society and Education in Post-Disaster Fukushima

    In response to the explosion of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in March 2011, this book examines how the concept of a risk society was handled in the various education programs implemented in post-disaster Fukushima. The explosion and subsequent radiation contamination that affected the...
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  • Europe's Lifelong Learning Markets, Governance and Policy: Using an Instruments Approach by Milana, Marcella
    Marcella Milana

    Europe's Lifelong Learning Markets, Governance and Policy: Using an Instruments Approach

    This book explores European governance and policy coordination within lifelong learning markets. Using an instruments approach, the editors and contributors examine the ways in which governance mechanisms employed by the European Union influence policy to regulate lifelong learning, and intervene in lifelong learning markets,...
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  • Primary and Secondary Education During Covid-19: Disruptions to Educational Opportunity During a Pandemic by Reimers, Fernando M.
    Fernando M. Reimers

    Primary and Secondary Education During Covid-19: Disruptions to Educational Opportunity During a Pandemic

    This open access edited volume is a comparative effort to discern the short-term educational impact of the covid-19 pandemic on students, teachers and systems in Brazil, Chile, Finland, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Spain, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States....
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  • World Yearbook of Education 2022: Education, Schooling and the Global Universalization of Nationalism by Tröhler, Daniel
    Daniel Trler

    World Yearbook of Education 2022: Education, Schooling and the Global Universalization of Nationalism

    The latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education Series explores the relationship between education and the globally prevalent principle of nationalism. This book identifies the diverse ways in which educational policies, discourses, curricula and pedagogy embed and promote the concept of "the nation"...
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  • Improving Inclusive Education Through Universal Design for Learning by Galkiene, Alvyra
    Alvyra Galkiene

    Improving Inclusive Education Through Universal Design for Learning

    This open access international scientific study provides an analysis of how the educational strategy of Universal Design for Learning can stimulate the process of inclusive education in different educational-cultural contexts and different areas of the educational system. The findings of the research deepen the...
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  • Changing Higher Education in East Asia by Marginson, Simon
    Simon Marginson

    Changing Higher Education in East Asia

    East Asia is a most dynamic region and its fast developing higher education and research systems are gathering great momentum. East Asian higher education has common cultural roots in Chinese civilization, each country has been shaped in different ways by Western intervention, and all...
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  • Primary Mathematics Pedagogy at the Intersection of Education Reform, Policy, and Culture: Comparative Insights from Ghana, Singapore, and the Us by Murray, Sarah
    Sarah Murray

    Primary Mathematics Pedagogy at the Intersection of Education Reform, Policy, and Culture: Comparative Insights from Ghana, Singapore, and the US

    This volume provides an in-depth, comparative examination of how primary mathematics education is influenced by national education reform, policy, local resources, and culture in three different countries. By drawing on first-hand observations and interviews, as well as analysis of policy documents and learning resources,...
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  • Manual for Developing Intercultural Competencies: Story Circles by Deardorff, Darla K.
    Darla K. Deardorff

    Manual for Developing Intercultural Competencies: Story Circles

    This book presents a structured yet flexible methodology for developing intercultural competence in a variety of contexts, both formal and informal. Piloted around the world by UNESCO, this methodology has proven to be effective in a range of different contexts and focused on a...
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  • Changing Higher Education in India by Chattopadhyay, Saumen
    Saumen Chattopadhyay

    Changing Higher Education in India

    Higher education is vital to India's future, creating democratic citizens and a modern economy, building communities and cities and conducting research the country needs to continue its advance. Yet, with two thirds of people of India living in rural areas and urban incomes below...
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  • Indigenous Identity Formation in Chilean Education: New Racism and Schooling Experiences of Mapuche Youth by Webb, Andrew
    Andrew Webb

    Indigenous Identity Formation in Chilean Education: New Racism and Schooling Experiences of Mapuche Youth

    This book offers rich sociological analysis of the ways in which educational institutions influence indigenous identity formation in Chile. In doing so, Webb explores the mechanisms of new racism in schooling and demonstrates how continued forms of exclusion impact minority groups.By drawing on qualitative...
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  • Law, Education, and the Place of Religion in Public Schools: International Perspectives by Russo, Charles
    Charles J. Russo

    Law, Education, and the Place of Religion in Public Schools: International Perspectives

    This text presents a comparative, cross-cultural analysis of the legal status of religion in public education in eighteen different nations while offering recommendations for the future improvement of religious education in public schools. Offering rich, analytical insights from a range of renowned scholars with...
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  • The International Handbook of Teacher Ethos: Strengthening Teachers, Supporting Learners by Oser, Fritz
    Fritz Oser

    The International Handbook of Teacher Ethos: Strengthening Teachers, Supporting Learners

    This volume is the first handbook that brings together cutting-edge international research on teacher ethos from a broad array of disciplines. The main focus will be on research that illustrates current conceptualizations of ethos and its importance for acting effectively and responsibly in and...
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  • Singapore Math and Science Education Innovation: Beyond Pisa by Tan, Oon Seng
    Oon Seng Tan

    Singapore Math and Science Education Innovation: Beyond Pisa

    This edited volume explores key areas of interests in Singapore math and science education including issues on teacher education, pedagogy, curriculum, assessment, teaching practices, applied learning, ecology of learning, talent grooming, culture of science and math, vocational education and STEM. It presents to policymakers...
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  • Theorizing Shadow Education and Academic Success in East Asia: Understanding the Meaning, Value, and Use of Shadow Education by East Asian Students by Kim, Young Chun
    Young Chun Kim

    Theorizing Shadow Education and Academic Success in East Asia: Understanding the Meaning, Value, and Use of Shadow Education by East Asian Students

    This volume tackles perceived myths surrounding the academic excellence of East Asian students, and moves beyond Western understanding to offer in-depth analysis of the crucial role that shadow education plays in students' academic success. Featuring a broad range of contributions from countries including Japan,...
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  • International Schooling: Privilege and Power in Globalized Societies by Bailey, Lucy
    Lucy Bailey

    International Schooling: Privilege and Power in Globalized Societies

    International schooling has expanded rapidly in recent years, with the number of students educated in international schools projected to reach seven million by 2023. Drawing on the author's extensive experience conducting research in international schools across the globe, this book critically analyses the concept...
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