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    Early Childhood Grows Up : Towards a Critical Ecology of the Profession (2012)
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    ISBN: 9789400727182
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 180p. 1 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: International perspectives on early childhood education and development 6
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Early childhood grows up
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    Keywords: Early childhood education ; Education ; Education ; Early childhood education ; Kleinkinderziehung ; Vorschulerziehung ; Kleinkinderziehung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Vorschulerziehung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Once the Cinderella of the education system, early years education has evolved into a much more substantially funded sector with staff experiencing greater opportunities for higher-level training and education as well as increasing demands. This book reflects practitioner debates about fundamental questions such as whether or not their field of work is a profession at all. Two key arguments are presented. The first is that early years education has matured to the point that pedagogical and regulatory frameworks have been introduced and linked to a terminology of professionalism. This has opene
    Abstract: Once the Cinderella of the education system, early years education has evolved into a much more substantially funded sector with staff experiencing greater opportunities for higher-level training and education as well as increasing demands. This book reflects practitioner debates about fundamental questions such as whether or not their field of work is a profession at all. Two key arguments are presented. The first is that early years education has matured to the point that pedagogical and regulatory frameworks have been introduced and linked to a terminology of professionalism. This has opene
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword; References; Acknowledgements; Contents; About the Editors; About the Authors; List of Acronyms; Part I Professionalism in Local and Cross-National Contexts: Towards a Critical Ecology of the Profession; 1 Early Childhood Grows Up: Towards a Critical Ecology of the Profession; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Our First Argument: Early Childhood Education Has Grown Up; 1.3 Our Second Argument: Towards a Critical Ecology of the Early Childhood Profession; 1.4 The Framework of the Day in the Life Project; 1.4.1 Who Is the Early Years Professional?
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.4.2 Getting Organised: What We Did and How We Did It1.4.3 Choosing Case Study Research; 1.4.4 Working as a Learning Community; 1.4.5 Capturing the Practitioner's Day; 1.4.6 Presenting the Case Studies: Singularities Versus Generalisations; 1.5 Concluding Thoughts; References; 2 Relationships, Reflexivity and Renewal: Professional Practice in Action in an Australian Children's Centre; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Understanding and Defining the Field of Early Childhood in Australia; 2.2.1 Purposes of Early Childhood Provision: Care and/or Education?; 2.2.2 Regulating Quality; 2.2.3 Curriculum
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.3 The Case Study Site2.3.1 Overview; 2.3.2 Setting the Scene: Context and Staffing; 2.3.3 Profiling the Practitioner; 2.3.4 The Structure of Josie's Day; 2.3.5 Curriculum and Pedagogical Approaches; 2.3.6 Stepping Up to the Role of the Educator; 2.3.7 Being Professional -- Critical Self-Reflection and Ongoing Professional Learning; 2.4 Relationships, Reflexivity and Renewal; 2.4.1 Professionalism in Context; 2.5 Concluding Comments; References; 3 Leading and Managing in an Early Years Setting in England; 3.1 Recent Developments: An Overview; 3.1.1 Background; 3.1.2 Early Years Provision
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.1.3 The Early Years Curriculum3.1.4 The Early Years Workforce; 3.2 The Day in the Life Project in England; 3.2.1 The Setting; 3.2.2 The Practitioner: Julie; 3.2.3 Julie's Day; 3.2.4 Narrative Account of Julie's Day; 3.2.4.1 Situation 1: In the Office; 3.2.4.2 Situation 2: Group Story Reading; 3.2.4.3 Situation 3: Meeting with the Pre-school Teacher; 3.2.4.4 Situation 5: Meeting with the Senior Management Team; 3.2.4.5 Situation 9: Meeting with a Parent; 3.2.4.6 Situation 13: Discussion with a Key Worker; 3.2.4.7 Situation 14: Outdoor Play
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.2.4.8 Situation 15: Meeting with the Financial Director3.3 Discussion; 3.3.1 Managing and Leading; 3.3.2 Acting as a Professional; 3.3.3 Perspectives on Professionalism; 3.4 Summary; References; 4 Acting as a Professional in a Finnish Early Childhood Education Context; 4.1 The Finnish Macro-level Context for Professionalism in Early Childhood Education; 4.1.1 Organisation and Funding of Services; 4.1.2 Professional Development; 4.1.3 Multi-professional Working; 4.1.4 Curriculum Guidelines; 4.1.5 The Micro-level Context of the Practitioner
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.1.6 What Is Happening During the Typical Day of the Practitioner?
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2718-2
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    Work and Education in America : The Art of Integration (2012)
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    ISBN: 9789400722729 , 128345632X , 9781283456326
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 269p. 10 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects 15
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Work and education in America
    RVK:
    DL 2002
    Keywords: Adult education ; Education ; Education ; Adult education ; Vocational education ; United States ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Berufsbildung ; USA ; Berufsbildung
    Abstract: This, the first comprehensive academic volume on vocational education and training (VET) or career and technical education in the United States, features insights into a variety of issues in this field of research. The international reader will find an up-to-date synthesis as well as a critical analysis of the relevant history, philosophy, governance, legislation and organizational structures. The coverage is structured according to the benchmarks applied to, as well as the theoretical discussions around, VET. The topics covered all have a strong contemporary relevance and include education ve
    Abstract: This, the first comprehensive academic volume on vocational education and training (VET) or career and technical education in the United States, features insights into a variety of issues in this field of research. The international reader will find an up-to-date synthesis as well as a critical analysis of the relevant history, philosophy, governance, legislation and organizational structures. The coverage is structured according to the benchmarks applied to, as well as the theoretical discussions around, VET. The topics covered all have a strong contemporary relevance and include education ve
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword; Contents; Contributors; About the Editors; About the Authors; 1 Introduction; References; 2 Dilemmas of Design: Education Versus Qualification in the US Vocational System; 2.1 The Empirical Context: The Place of Vocational Education in the United States---"Wanted: Qualification"; 2.2 Recent and Current Efforts at Reform: The Many Roles of Vocational Education; 2.3 The Political-Cultural Context: Efforts to Modernize Struggling Amidst Institutional Weakness; 2.4 Outlook: Crisis and Potential System Redesign; References
    Description / Table of Contents: 3 The Multitiered CTE/VET System in the United States---From High School to Two-Year Colleges3.1 Funding and Financing Vocational/Career and Technical Education; 3.2 Vocational/Career and Technical Education Within the US Educational System; 3.2.1 Secondary Vocational/Career and Technical Education; 3.2.2 Postsecondary Vocational/Career and Technical Education; 3.3 Program Areas Within Vocational/Career and Technical Education; 3.3.1 Agricultural Education; 3.3.2 Business Education; 3.3.3 Family and Consumer Sciences Education (Formerly Home Economics Education)
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.3.4 Health Occupations Education3.3.5 Marketing Education; 3.3.6 Trade and Industrial Education; 3.3.7 Technology Education; 3.4 Curricular Approaches Within Vocational/Career and Technical Education; 3.4.1 Career Clusters and Career Academies; 3.4.2 Tech Prep; 3.4.3 High Schools That Work; 3.4.4 Project Lead the Way; 3.5 Leadership Components of Vocational/Career and Technical Education; 3.5.1 Vocational/Career and Technical Student Organizations; 3.5.2 Advisory Committees; 3.6 Overall Effectiveness; 3.7 Conclusion; References; 4 The American Community College; 4.1 Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.2 History and Background4.3 Social Role; 4.4 Students; 4.5 Student Services; 4.6 Programs; 4.7 Organization and Leadership; 4.8 Finances; 4.9 Faculty; 4.10 Toward the Future; 4.11 Conclusion; References; 5 Governing VET in the United States: Localization Versus Centralization; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Local, State, and Federal Roles; 5.2.1 Regular Public Education; 5.2.2 State and Local Roles in Vocational Education; 5.2.2.1 State Role in VET; 5.2.2.2 Local Programs; 5.2.3 Federal Role in Vocational Education; 5.3 Federal Efforts to Implement Reforms; 5.3.1 The Context of VET Reform
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.3.2 Academic and Vocational Education5.3.3 Secondary and Postsecondary Education; 5.3.4 Curricula, Standards, and Certification; 5.3.5 The School-to-Work Transition; 5.4 Conclusion; References; 6 The Education Gospel and Vocationalism in US Higher Education: Triumphs, Tribulations, and Cautions for Other Countries; 6.1 Introduction: The Education Gospel and International Borrowing; 6.2 From Moral to Occupational Purposes: Vocationalizing the University; 6.2.1 The Rise of the Professions; 6.2.2 The Great Transformation of US Higher Education
    Description / Table of Contents: 6.3 The Dilemmas of the Professionalized University
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2272-9
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    International Handbook of Migration, Minorities and Education : Understanding Cultural and Social Differences in Processes of Learning (2012)
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    ISBN: 9789400714663
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXVI, 753p. 10 illus, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. International handbook of migration, minorities and education
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    DO 9000
    Keywords: Regional planning ; Migration ; Education ; Education ; Regional planning ; Migration ; Minorities ; Education ; Immigrants ; Education ; Educational sociology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Regionalplanung ; Migration ; Erziehung ; Minderheit ; Regionalplanung ; Migration ; Erziehung ; Minderheit ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Migrants and minorities are always at risk of being caught in essentialized cultural definitions and being denied the right to express their cultural preferences because they are perceived as threats to social cohesion. Migrants and minorities respond to these difficulties in multiple ways - as active agents in the pedagogical, political, social, and scientific processes that position them in this or that cultural sphere. On the one hand, they reject ascribed cultural attributes while striving towards integration in a variety of social spheres, e.g. school and workplace, in order to achieve so
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter-1; General Introduction; References; Part I Culture, Difference and Learning; Chapter-2; Movements and Migratory Processes: Roles and Responsibilities of Education and Learning; Contexts of Migration and of Culture; Contexts of Education and of Learning; Content of This Section; References; Chapter-3; Understanding Cultural Differences as Social Limits to Learning: Migration Theory, Culture and Young Migrants; Conclusion; References; Chapter-4; Beyond Limits and Limitations: Reflections on Learning Processes in Contexts of Migration and Young People; Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: Social Limits to Learning and AmbivalenceIdentity and Abstract Equalizing: Morality of Solidarity; Mergner and Education; University Education: Key Issues; Social Limits to Learning, Ambivalence and University Education; Identity, Abstract Equalizing, Morality of Solidarity and University Education; Migration, Learning, Ambivalence and Solidarity; References; Chapter-5; The Concept of Ethnicity and its Relevancefor Biographical Learning; Introduction; On the History of the Concept; Participation Through Contract, Exclusion Through Belonging: The Example of Kant; Ethnicity and Gender
    Description / Table of Contents: Ethnicity as Biographical PositioningSome Conclusions; References; Chapter-6; The Different Grammar of Integration; Social Self-understanding as Opposed to Integration!; References; Chapter 7; Introduction; New Swiss Policies on Foreigners; Integration as Education; The Birth of Coexistence; The Will to Unity; Integration as a Hegemonic Project; Community and Citizenship; Education, Population, Security: Towards an "Integration Society"; Conclusion; References; Chapter 8; Opportunities of Managing Diversity in Local Educational Programs; Theoretical Views on Diversity
    Description / Table of Contents: Diversity in the Field of Social SciencesThree Perspectives on Diversity; Reflectivity as a Key Qualification for Educational Programs; The Significance of Cultural Capital for Managing Diversity; Diversity in the Field of Cultural Studies; The Social Contribution of Culture; The Concept of Shifting Identities; Conflicting Scenarios on Cultural Difference; Political Background and Sociopolitical Challenges of Diverse Societies; Objectives for a Diversity-Based Local Educational Program; Conclusion; References; Chapter-10; Opening a Gate to Citizenship: Media for Migrants; Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: Conceptual FrameworkIsrael: Language, Ideologies, Immigration; Media in Simplified Language; Hanukkah: A Heroic Feast; Research Methodology; Hanukkah for Beginners: Findings; References; Chapter-11; Living in Different Worlds and Learning All About It: Migration Narratives in Perspective; Introduction; Methodology; Ali Garare; Qassim; Learning to Belong; Learning to Learn from Life: The Purpose of Education; Conclusion; References; Chapter-12; Early Childhood Education in Multilingual Settings; Introduction; Monocultural and Monolingual Traditions in Education Systems, Practice, and Research
    Description / Table of Contents: Research on Bilingualism and Its Implications for Language Education
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-1466-3
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    School Dropout and Completion : International Comparative Studies in Theory and Policy (2011)
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    ISBN: 9789048197637
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIX, 410p, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. School dropout and completion
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    Keywords: Education, Higher ; Education ; Education ; Education, Higher ; Dropouts ; Dropouts ; Prevention ; School attendance ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Schulabbruch ; Schulabschluss
    Abstract: School dropout remains a persistent and critical issue in many school systems, so much so that it is sometimes referred to as a crisis. Populations across the globe have come to depend on success at school for establishing careers and gaining access to post-school qualifications. Yet large numbers of young people are excluded from the advantages that successful completion of school brings and as a result are subjected to consequences such as higher likelihood of unemployment, lower earnings, greater dependence on welfare and poorer physical health and well-being. Over recent decades, most western nations have stepped up their efforts to reduce drop out and raise school completion rates while maintaining high standards. How school systems have approached this, and how successful they are, varies. This book compares the various approaches by evaluating their impact on rates of dropout and completion. Case studies of national systems are used to highlight the different approaches including institutional arrangements and the various alternative secondary school programs and their outcomes. The evaluation is based on several key questions: What are the main approaches? How do they work? For whom do they work? And, how successful are they in promoting high rates of completion and equivalent outcomes for all? This book examines the nature of the dropout problem in advanced industrialized countries with the goal of developing a broader, international understanding that can feed into public policy to help improve completion rates worldwide.
    Description / Table of Contents: School Dropoutand Completion; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Contributors; Role of Editors; Chapter 1: School Dropout and Completion: An International Perspective; Introduction; Defining and Measuring Completion and Dropout; Social Inequality and School Completion; Modern Growth in School Completion; Plan of the Book; References; Part I:Structures and Pathways; Chapter 2: Pathways to School Completion: An International Comparison; Part II:Case Studies; Introduction to the European Education Systems; Chapter 3: The Question of School Dropout: A French Perspective
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 4: School Dropout and Completion in SpainChapter 5: Towards Compulsory Participation in England; Chapter 6: Participation in Post-Compulsory Learning in Scotland; Chapter 7: Germany's Education System and the Problem of Dropouts: Institutional Segregation and Program Diversification; Chapter 8: School Dropout in Secondary Education: The Case of Poland; Chapter 9: School Dropout and Completion in Switzerland; Introduction to the Nordic Education Systems; Chapter 10: Dropout and Completion in Upper Secondary Education in Finland
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 11: Dropout in a Small Society: Is the Icelandic Case Somehow Different?Chapter 12: Early Leaving, Non-Completionand Completion in Upper Secondary Education in Norway; Introduction to the New World Education Systems; Chapter 13: High School Dropouts in the United States; Chapter 14: Educational Systems and School Dropout in Canada; Chapter 15: School Dropout and Completion in Australia; Part III:Programs, Equity and Policy; Chapter 16: Vocational Education and Training in France and Germany: Friend or Foe of the Educationally Disadvantaged?
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 17: Pathways to Completion for School DropoutsChapter 18: School Dropout and Inequality; Chapter 19: Policies to Reduce School Dropoutand Increase Completion; Index;
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9763-7
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    Changing Educational Landscapes : Educational Policies, Schooling Systems and Higher Education - a comparative perspective (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789048185344
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 290p, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Changing Educational Landscapes
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    Keywords: Educational tests and measurements ; Education, Higher ; Education ; Education ; Education, Higher ; Educational tests and measurements ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Bildungspolitik ; Schule ; Hochschule ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Bildungspolitik ; Schule ; Hochschule ; Internationaler Vergleich
    Abstract: Analyzing educational landscapes - the fundamental values, principles and institutions of the sector - is a highly complex and demanding task for any researcher. Like shifting desert sands, these aspects of education are in a constant state of flux, changing according to the unpredictable economic, social, cultural and geo-political circumstances of late modernity. Key aspects of the intricate, fluid and multifarious contemporary setting can always escape the researcher's necessarily selective observation. The contributors to this book share the view that it is wise, therefore, to take note of
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; About the Editor; About the Contributors; Changing Educational Landscapes: An Introduction; References; References; Part I Knowledge: Epistemological and Ideological Shifts; 1 The Owl of Athena: Reflective Encounters with the Greeks on Pedagogical Eros and the Paideia of the Soul (Psyche); The Question of This Modern European Symposium and the Comparative-Historical Approach; What Is Education and for What Purpose? The Classical Greek Paradigm of Paideia; The Paideia/Educational Culture of the Athenians; Psychagogia/Paideia of the Soul; The Soul (Psyche)
    Description / Table of Contents: Paideia of the Soul/Psyche and Civic Virtue, an All- Polis Affair (tis olis politeias hypothesis)The Athenian Theatre and the Paideia of the Soul 0 Aristotle0s Katharsis of the Soul; Athenian Paideia -- An Epilogue; The Modern World/ Kosmos We Live in and Education; The Imagined European Knowledge Society; Education and Knowledge for the Knowledge Society; The Imagined Brave New European Knowledge Cosmopolis/Society: A Dehumanized Technopolis? A Nonhumanist Dystopia ? A Philistine Empire? A Modern Virtual Cave?
    Description / Table of Contents: Humanizing the Brave New European Knowledge Cosmopolis/Society Engaging and Learning from the Ancient Greeks, and the Re-enchantment of the Paideia of the Soul/PsycheThe Modernist Course of the Classical Concept of Liberal Humanistic Education and the Contemporary Crisis in the Paideia of the Soul; What Is to Be Done?; Epilogue '' ''Tending to the Soul'': Socrates and Today; References; 2 Implications of the New Social Characteristics of Knowledge Production; Introduction; Towards a Change of Traditions?; A Key Development: Massification in Higher Education
    Description / Table of Contents: Conflicting Modes of Knowledge ProductionReferences; 3 University Reform in Greece: A Shift from Intrinsic to Extrinsic Values; Introduction; The Emphasis on the Extrinsic Values in European Universities; An Account of the University Tradition in Greece; Evaluation and Quality Assurance Policies in Greek Universities in the 2000s: An Interpretation; Conclusions; Notes; References; 4 Universities and Pricing on Higher Education Markets; Marketisation Versus Increased Competition?; How Do Universities Set the Price of a Professor?; Academic Labour Markets as an Economy of Quality
    Description / Table of Contents: Different Mechanisms of PricingUniversities, Academics, Price and Quality; How Do Universities Set the Level of Fees?; The Expansion of the Market for Students: Introduction and Increase of Fees; Fees, a Price of What?; A Political Rationale; Fees to Compensate the Increase in Budget and the Decrease in Public Funding; The Price of Institutions to Which One Wants to Be Compared; Fees According to the Expected Individual Gains for the Students; Fees According to the Costs of Production; Fees According to Marketing Strategies; Fees to Make Profit; Conclusion; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Part II Access and Transitions
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8534-4
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    Educational Research - the Ethics and Aesthetics of Statistics (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789048198733
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 200p, digital)
    Series Statement: Educational Research 5
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Educational research: the ethics and aesthetics of statistics
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    Keywords: Education ; Education ; Education Philosophy ; Pädagogik ; Empirische Forschung ; Statistik ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Statistics are everywhere. Their power and their undoubted efficacy in many areas have given rise to faith in measurement and metrics. More of them will tell us all that we need to know. Their use carries with it a number of presuppositions: that reality can be satisfactorily represented and that it can be controlled or the risks managed. The papers in this book interpret the ethics and aesthetics of statistics in terms of representation, visualisation and accessibility, focus on the appeal of 'simplicity', of technical languages, numbers, diagrams and pictures, and pay attention to their connection with action plans. The book explores what has made educational researchers dependent on statistics, and deals with their use in areas such as the prevalence of maltreatment of children, European citizenship, well-being and happiness, illegal migrants, and university expansion. There is discussion of how the quest for more and better statistics finds its voice in policy initiatives that become slogans, and how public opinion polls are used to rationalise political decision-making. Can a more limited and modest use be made of statistics which does not deflect attention away from education's core business and which does not destroy the local practical knowledge that on which good education is based? 'Smeyers and Depaepe continue to bring together a significant international group of educational philosophers and historians on topics of importance to researchers. This fifth volume in their series takes up the 'gold standard' use of statistics in case studies not contributed elsewhere. I highly recommend this text to counter a current over-emphasis on technique in research methodology. Use of statistics remains but herein under new, insightful conceptualizations.' Lynda Stone, Philosophy of Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA 'Once again, Depaepe and Smeyers succeeded in bringing together distinguished international and cross-disciplinary scholars exploring very timely and critical issues in current educational research. This is a groundbreaking book on a theme that can't be ignored by educational researchers and those interested in a better understanding of the culture of science and science as culture. Moreover, the present book instigates to study history of educational research, a limited but developing field, and invites reflection to those who are sometimes too reliant on number crunching as a mode of interpretation and rather credulous in the acceptance of institutional records. Frank Simon, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium
    Description / Table of Contents: Earlier Volumes in this Series; Contents; 1 Representation or Hard Evidence? The Use of Statistics in Education and Educational Research; 2 The Lure of Statistics for Educational Researchers; 3 Dazzling Statistics? On the University Expansion in Flanders and the Need for Research into the History of Education that Transcends Quantifying Sociology; 4 Child Maltreatment in the Last 50 Years: The Use of Statistics; 5 Constructing Social Unity and Presenting Clear Predictions: The Promise of Public Opinion Pollsters to Measure and Educate Society
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 n = 1: The Science and Art of the Single Case in Educational Research7 To Frame the Unframable: Quantifying Irregular Migrants' Presence; 8 European Citizenship and Evidence-Based Happiness; 9 The Persuasive Power of Figures and the Aesthetics of the Dirty Backyards of Statistics in Educational Research; 10 The Good, the Beautiful and the Literate: Making Statistics Accessible for Action; 11 Statistics and the Inference to the Best Explanation: Living Without Complexity?; 12 Performativity, Statistics and Bloody Words; 13 A Bubble for the Spirit Level: Metricophilia, Rhetoric and Philosophy
    Description / Table of Contents: 14 Calling to AccountAbout the Authors; Author Index; Subject Index
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover13;Contents -- 1 Representation or Hard Evidence? The Use of Statistics in Education and Educational Research -- Note -- References -- 2 The Lure of Statistics for Educational Researchers -- 2.1 The Roots of Quantification -- 2.2 The Adoption of Statistics by Professions -- 2.3 Educational Research as a Soft and Applied Field -- 2.4 One Problem with Quantifying Educational Research: Missing the Point -- 2.5 Another Problem with Quantifying Educational Research: Forcing a Rectangular Grid onto a Spherical World -- References -- 3 Dazzling Statistics? On the University Expansion in Flanders and the Need for Research into the History of Education that Transcends Quantifying Sociology -- 3.1 The Context -- 3.2 Problem Statement -- 3.3 Questions from History on the Use of Statistics in Social Sciences -- 3.3.1 Too General? -- 3.3.2 Too A-Historical? -- 3.3.3 Presentist Pitfalls? -- Notes -- References -- 4 Child Maltreatment in the Last 50 Years: The Use of Statistics -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Diminution of the Prevalence of Maltreatment of Children? -- 4.3 No Diminution: Studies on the Prevalence of Child Maltreatment as Historical Sources -- 4.4 From Narrow to Broad: The Changing Definition of Child Maltreatment -- 4.5 The Impact of Children's Rights -- 4.6 Aesthetics of Statistics, or, the Appeal of Statistical Mapping for Policy-makers -- 4.7 Conclusion -- References -- 5 Constructing Social Unity and Presenting Clear Predictions: The Promise of Public Opinion Pollsters to Measure and Educate Society -- 5.1 The Creation of National Community: Dewey's and Gallup's Ethical Legitimation of Social Sciences and Polls -- 5.2 An Instrument for Democracy? Polls in the Public and Governmental Sphere -- 5.3 Contradictory Functions of Poll Statistics: Service for Efficient and Rational Government, National Coherence and the Gaining of Political Power -- 5.4 The Suggestive Aesthetics of Charts: The Clearness of Social Coherence or Camps, the Security of Prediction Due to Reliable Observation and Permanent Comparison -- 5.5 The Limits of Polls as an Instrument to Create the Great Communication Community -- 5.6 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6 n = 1: The Science and Art of the Single Case in Educational Research -- 6.1 Quantitative Research Methods and the Predilection for Large Numbers -- 6.2 The Function of the Single Case Within a Quantitative Research Tradition -- 6.3 Different Forms of the Single Case -- 6.4 Generalising from the Single Case? -- 6.5 The Single Case as a Source of Conjecture and Refutation -- 6.6 Relating the Particular to the Particular -- 6.7 The Case as Offering a Vicarious Experience -- 6.8 Case Study: Science or Art? -- 6.9 Historical/Biographical Note -- Notes -- References -- 7 To Frame the Unframable: Quantifying Irregular Migrants' Presence -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Techniques for Estimating Irregular Migration Numbers -- 7.3 Counting the Uncountable: Some Conceptual Problems -- 7.3.1 Different Definitions, Different People -- 7.3.2 The Homogenisation of Complexity -- 7.4 Does It Make Sense To Say ... -- 7.5 Appendix 1: Methods for Stock Estimates -- 7.5 Appendix 2: Methods for Flow Estimates -- References -- 8 European Citizenship and Evidence-Based Happiness -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 The New Science of Happiness -- 8.3 Beyond GDP -- 8.4 ''Learning to Be Together''; ''Keep on Learning''; ''Learning About Me'' -- 8.5 Conclusion -- References -- 9 T.
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    Borderless Knowledge : Understanding the “New” Internationalisation of Research and Higher Education in Norway (2008)
    Dordrecht : Springer Science+Business Media B.V
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    ISBN: 9781402082832
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource , v.: digital
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Higher Education Dynamics 22
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Borderless knowledge
    DDC: 378.481
    RVK:
    AL 20000
    RVK:
    AL 33900
    RVK:
    AL 62500
    RVK:
    DM 2008
    Keywords: Education ; Education and state ; Education, Higher ; Europe Economic policy ; Labor economics ; Economics ; Research Norway ; Education, Higher Norway ; Universities and colleges Norway ; Education and state Norway ; Business and education Norway ; Institutional cooperation ; International cooperation ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Norwegen ; Hochschulpolitik ; Internationale Kooperation ; Norwegen ; Hochschulbildung ; Globalisierung
    Abstract: Processes of knowledge production and dissemination are increasingly set in an international context. In research and higher education the links between local actors and the international environments are both proliferating and intensifying. Individual level self-organised international collaboration is increasingly supplemented by national and supranational organised activities, and by market oriented activity with a global scope. Starting from these observations, this book analyses patterns of internationalisation comprising the national and supranational level, the level of higher education
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; 1 The Internationalisation of Research and Higher Education; 2 The Many Ways of Internationalisation; 3 All Cosmopolitans Now?; 4 Internationalisation of Industrial R&D; 5 Career Impacts of Student Mobility; 6 Justifications and Drivers; 7 Translation of Globalisation and Regionalisation in NordicCooperation in Higher Education; 8 The Internationalisation of National Knowledge Policies; 9 Crossing the Borders; Author Index; Subject Index
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8283-2
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    Comparative Education Research : Approaches and Methods (2007)
    Dordrecht : Springer Science+Business Media B.V
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    ISBN: 9781402061899
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource , v.: digital
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law
    Series Statement: CERC Studies in Comparative Education 19
    DDC: 370.9072
    RVK:
    DF 2500
    RVK:
    DV 3000
    Keywords: Education ; Comparative education ; Social sciences Methodology ; Humanities ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft
    Abstract: Approaches and methods in comparative education research are of obvious importance, but do not always receive adequate attention. This book contributes new insights within the longstanding traditions of the field. A particular feature is the focus on different units of analysis. Individual chapters compare places, systems, times, cultures, values, policies, curricula and other units. These chapters are contextualised within broader analytical frameworks which identify the purposes and strengths of the field. The book includes a focus on intra-national as well as cross-national comparisons, and
    Description / Table of Contents: FM.pdf; Ch 1-7.pdf; Ch 8-16.pdf; Contri.pdf; Biblio.pdf;
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6189-9
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    Computers and Education : E-learning, From Theory to Practice (2007)
    Dordrecht : Springer Science+Business Media B.V
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    ISBN: 9781402049149
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource , v.: digital
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DDC: 004
    RVK:
    DP 2600
    Keywords: Computer Science ; Education ; Aufsatzsammlung ; E-Learning
    Abstract: Miguel Angel Vega-R
    Abstract: This book contains a selection of contributions presenting the latest research in the field of Computers in Education and, more specifically, in E-Learning. The topics covered range from proposals regarding the newest "de facto" standards in E-Learning - such as IMS Learning Design - to the more practical aspects of the design, i.e. implementations and the actual application of educational tools in real settings. The volume reflects the diverse scenario of the application of computers
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; A History of E-Learning; .Lrn: E-Learning Inside and Outside The Classroom; Educational Modeling Languages; Representing Adaptive and Adaptable Units of Learning; SchoolsensesInternet; Design and Development of Digital Educational Content; Applying Semantic Techniques to Integrate Electronic Course Catalogues; Tele-Education of the Instruction Dynamic Scheduling Using a Web Simulator; Universalizing Chasqui Repositories with a Flexible Importation / Exportation System; An Approach for Modelling Interactive and Collaborative Aspects in CSCL Systems
    Description / Table of Contents: Skc: Measuring the Users Interaction IntensitySwad: Web System for Education Support; Towards the Everyday Computing in the Classroom Through Rfid; Using Java and C# for Educational Simulators: The Case of Simple-2; Iterative Design of Learning Processes; Design by Contract-Based Selection and Composition of Learning Objects; Online Evaluation at Higher and Secondary Education; Game Implementation: An Interesting Strategy to Teach Genetic Algorithms; Instructional Theories to Model Educational Content: A Case Study; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-4914-9
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    The Governance of British Higher Education : The Struggle for Policy Control (2007)
    Dordrecht : Springer Science+Business Media B.V
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    ISBN: 9781402055539
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource , v.: digital
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DDC: 379.12140941
    RVK:
    DI 1004
    Keywords: Education ; Education and state ; Education, Higher ; Großbritannien ; Hochschule ; Bildungspolitik
    Abstract: How has the system of governance changed? Do British higher education institutions still exercise autonomous control over their development? In this book, these questions are pursued through a three-pronged strategy. This book will have lessons for those examining higher education on a comparative/international basis. It is a serious piece of analysis i.e. it is purposefully non-polemical, and it is well-written, non-jargonised and accessible.
    Abstract: How has the system of governance changed? Do British higher education institutions still exercise autonomous control over their development as was widely believed to be the case but a few years ago? These questions are pursued through a three-pronged strategy. Firstly, to examine the institutional changes which have occurred since the 1988 Education Reform and the emergence of the funding council model of governance. In particular, we want to know how the various institutional actors - the higher education institutions, the government departments and the funding councils - interact with one another to shape policy outcomes. Secondly, to explore the political context within which these institutional actors have to work. This means examining the role of the political parties, policy networks and the parliamentary forces all of which have a major stake in influencing the direction of higher education policy. This section of the book incorporates the move towards political devolution in the United Kingdom and examines what is different, and what is similar, about higher education policy-making in Scotland and Wales in comparison to England. Thirdly, the book observes the process of policy-making and change in relation to critical issues: the funding of higher education, the research assessment exercises, the quality assurance regime, and the widening participation agenda. In effect it examines policy-making in action.
    Description / Table of Contents: Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Understanding Change and Interpreting Modes of Governance; Setting the Scene; The State and The Governance of Higher Education: Contextualising The Changing Relationship; From the UGC and NAB to the Funding Council Model of Governance; State Power: Convergence and Fragmentation; Devolution and the Governance of British Higher Education; Shaping Policy; The Role of the Political Parties; Parliament as a Marginal Player?; The Policy Community and Policy Networks in British Higher Education; The Politics of Higher Education in Action
    Description / Table of Contents: Continuity and Change in the Funding of British Higher EducationThe Politics of Quality Assurance; The Rae: The Elusive search for Selectivity and Consensus; The Politics of Access: Higher Education and Social Engineering; Institutional Autonomy in the Age of Mass Higher Education; Who Has the Power?; Acronyms; References; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-250) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5553-9
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    The Missing Links in Teacher Education Design : Developing a Multi-linked Conceptual Framework (2005)
    Dordrecht : Springer Science+Business Media B.V
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    ISBN: 9781402033469
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXII, 303 p, digital)
    Series Statement: Self Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices 1
    Series Statement: SpringerLink
    Series Statement: Bücher
    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T.
    RVK:
    DN 7000
    Keywords: Teachers Training of ; Education ; Education ; Teachers Training of ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Lehrerbildung
    Abstract: Rather than promote a single teacher education design, this book discusses new ways to think about the problem. Key to such thinking is considering teacher education not independent elements but as a combination of links. This book offers four key links: conceptual ties across the university curriculum; theory-practice links between school and university settings; social-cultural links among the participants; and personal links that shape the identity of teacher educators.
    Abstract: Why do many beginning teachers not cope with the reality of schools? Why do beginning teachers often revert to conventional teaching methods when they hit the classroom? Why do 30% of new teachers leave in the first five years? At the beginning of the 21st Century we need a better way of educating preservice students by using a program design that mirrors how to best learn about teaching and portrays it as a complex profession.This book does not promote one particular teacher education design, but rather how to think about it. Key to such thinking is considering teacher education design as a combination of links, not independent elements to promote quality learning by preservice teachers. The four key links considered in this book include conceptual links across the university curriculum, theory-practice links between school and university settings, social-cultural links amongst the participants and personal links that shape the identity of teacher educators. Collectively, these are the missing links of teacher education design.
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3346-X
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