Education Policy

Over the past two decades, the Arabian oil-rich Gulf countries have faced enormous social, political, economic, cultural, religious, ideological and epistemological upheaval. Through detailed, critical comparative investigation, Neoliberalism and English Language Education Policies in the Arabian Gu..

This title was first published in 2000. Emanating from a two year action research project aimed at devising higher education courses for excluded social groups, this book examines ways in which UK higher education can be accessed and valued by adults who have previously been excluded. It also explor..

_x005F_x000D_ This volume highlights the importance of recognizing opposing conceptualizations of education—some more educationally productive than others— and their core values, approaches to student learning, strengths and weaknesses, and justification. The authors analyze and critique what Jane R..

_x005F_x000D_ This volume highlights the importance of recognizing opposing conceptualizations of education—some more educationally productive than others— and their core values, approaches to student learning, strengths and weaknesses, and justification. The authors analyze and critique what Jane R..

Policy analysis has always tended towards focusing on the role of elite actors – those who write policy – with comparably little attention paid to those who actually enact it, except in cases of policy failure. This book attempts to get inside the process of enacting policy to understand what policy..

Students and researchers interested in how principles of inclusive education are being translated into educational practices around the world will find this book an enlightening read...

Increasing demands on institutions to deliver set targets and value for money has led to an erosion of the notion of staff development. The authors explore the tensions between the personal needs of the individual and the demands of managers...

The extent to which teachers should make use of theoretical and expert knowledge as opposed to tacit experiential knowledge, and how these might be combined, is a perennial issue in discussions on pedagogy. This book addresses these debates through a creative development of the concept of productive..

Race and Ethnicity in Education..

Recognition of prior learning (RPL) has emerged in recent decades as an important policy area and policy concept. This volume provides a range of empirically and theoretically based contributions from different parts of the world where RPL, or an equivalent, is mobilised as part of educational pract..

Recognition of prior learning (RPL) has emerged in recent decades as an important policy area and policy concept. This volume provides a range of empirically and theoretically based contributions from different parts of the world where RPL, or an equivalent, is mobilised as part of educational pract..

This book presents analyses of the problems with existing theories of teacher learning, which for example draw on ideas of ‘communities of practice’, and explores what network theories can be brought to the problem of how teachers and schools create and share new knowledge about practice...