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  • The Search for Better Educational Standards

    A Cautionary Tale

    by Martin Thrupp ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book deals with the development of New Zealand’s standards system for primary school achievement, ‘Kiwi Standards’, which took effect from 2010 onwards and is becoming increasingly embedded over time. The approach, where teachers make ‘Overall Teacher Judgements’ based on a range of assessment tools and their own observations rather than using any particular national test, has created ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Finland’s Famous Education System

    Unvarnished Insights into Finnish Schooling

    Edited by Martin Thrupp, Piia Seppänen, Jaakko Kauko, Sonja Kosunen ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book provides academic insights and serves as a platform for research-informed discussion about education in Finland. Bringing together the work of more than 50 authors across 28 chapters, it presents a major collection of critical views of the Finnish education system and topics that cohere around social justice concerns. It questions rhetoric, myths, and commonly held ... Read more

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  • Adaptation of Western Economics by Russian Universities

    Intercultural Travel of an Academic Field

    by Tatiana Suspitsyna ...
    This book examines an intercultural translation of economics as an academic field from Western to post-Soviet university settings. ... Read more

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  • The Finnish Education Mystery

    Historical and sociological essays on schooling in Finland

    by Hannu Simola ...
    Finnish education has been a focus of global interest since its first PISA success in 2001. After years of superficial celebration, astonishment and educational tourism, the focus has recently shifted to what is possibly the most interesting element of this Finnish success story: that Finnish schools have been effectively applying methods that go against the flow of global education policy with no ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • European Social Policy and Social Work

    Citizenship-Based Social Work

    by Hans van Ewijk ...
    European Social Policy and Social Work explores shifts in international social policies and how they affect national trends and thus the context for social work practice.The book discusses international and national social work strategies and practice and investigates the responsibilities for social welfare held by the state, the market and civil society. Hans van Ewijk then elaborates a new ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Dynamics in Education Politics

    Understanding and explaining the Finnish case

    by Hannu Simola, Jaakko Kauko, Janne Varjo, Mira Kalalahti, Fritjof Sahlstrom ...
    Dynamics in Education Politics: Understanding and Explaining the Finnish Case introduces a new theoretical framework characterised as Comparative Analytics of Dynamics in Education Politics (CADEP). Albeit the topicality of comparative research is obvious in the current era of global large-scale assessment, with its concomitant media visibility and political effects, comparative education is still ... Read more

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  • Education in Political Science

    Discovering a neglected field

    Edited by Anja P. Jakobi, Kerstin Martens, Klaus Dieter Wolf ...
    Series series Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    This pioneering volume is devoted to the analysis of education from the perspective of political science, applying the full range of the discipline’s analytical perspectives and methodological tools.The contributions demonstrate how education policy can be explored systematically from a variety of political science perspectives: comparative politics, public policy analysis and public ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Young People as Agents of Sustainable Society

    Reclaiming the Future

    Edited by Päivi Honkatukia, Tiina Rättilä ...
    This book analyses young people’s societal participation as a central dimension of their well-being and as vitally important to secure the sustainable future of humankind and the whole eco-social system.It develops a theoretical framework for analysing youth participation holistically, embedded in its everyday context, and as a relational phenomenon, underpinned by universal human needs. It ... Read more

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  • Transforming Identities in Contemporary Europe

    Critical Essays on Knowledge, Inequality and Belonging

    Edited by Elisabeth L. Engebretsen, Mia Liinason ...
    Interdisciplinary in perspective, this book explores contemporary struggles around ‘identity politics’ in Europe, offering a unique glimpse into contemporary tensions and paradoxes surrounding identities, belonging, exclusions and their deep-seated gendered, colonial and racist legacies. With a particular focus on the Nordic region, it provides insights into the ways in which people who find ... Read more

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  • Higher Education and National Development

    Universities and Societies in Transition

    Edited by David Bridges, Palmira Juceviciene, Roberta Jucevicius, Terence H. Mclaughlin, Jolanta Stankeviciute ...
    Universities and societies around the world are involved in significant transition. Universities are now invited to expand their central aims and purposes in order to embrace a role in relation to the development of the societies in which they are located. This change of focus has major implications for curricula, modes of teaching and the student body.International contributors to this ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

  • A Marxist Education

    by Wayne Au ...
    Dialectics of Education is a rich collection of essays analyzing both the role of education in shaping ideology in the United States and the political implications of struggles for educational justice. This book seeks to recover and reframe the dialectical materialist tradition in critical education, studies and carries this tradition forward into theory and practice relevant for today.Building on ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Spatial Justice and Cohesion

    The Role of Place-Based Action in Community Development

    Edited by Matti Fritsch, Petri Kahila, Sarolta Németh, James W. Scott ...
    Place-based strategies are widely discussed as powerful instruments of economic and community development. In terms of the European debate, the local level – cities, towns and neighbourhoods – has recently come under increased scrutiny as a potentially decisive actor in Cohesion Policy. As understandings of socio-spatial and economic cohesion evolve, the idea that spatial justice requires a ... Read more

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