Inside Role-Play in Early Childhood Education

Inside Role-Play in Early Childhood Education
Author: Sue Rogers
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2008-01-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134136536

Based on extensive research, and grounded in everyday classroom practice, the authors of this book explore important issues surrounding play in the early years curriculum. The book presents children’s views on, and response to their role-play environment, alongside examples of good classroom practice, and addresses vital questions such as: Will structuring role play replace children’s own attempts to create scenarios that grow out of their interests and relationships? Has an over-emphasis on subjects like literacy and numeracy eclipsed the important processes inherent in children’s social play? How we can ensure that provision for role play fully benefits all young children? Critically, the authors present the child’s perspective on play in schools throughout, and argue firmly against a formal, inflexible learning environment for young children. This book will be fascinating to all students on primary education undergraduate courses and early childhood studies. Researchers and course leaders will also find this book a ground-breaking read.

Academic Leadership

Academic Leadership
Author: Marmar Mukhopadhyay
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2023-03-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000852563

This book provides contemporary knowledge on school effectiveness and proposes strategic interventions for enhancing it. It focuses on improving academic leadership for enhancing the effectiveness of schools and discusses how national education policies are helpful in providing a vision towards improving school effectiveness. It highlights the role of teachers as academic leaders in the implementation of policy recommendations at school and classroom levels. It offers methods and mechanisms for academic leaders to measure the learning of students for school assessment. The author also discusses how academic leadership involves creating a vision and mission based on science and research data for the organisation, inspiring innovation and creative ideas, developing teamwork, and a safe environment for staff to express their views. While providing an understanding of school as an organization, the volume outlines its management functions such as processes and quality of planning, management of curriculum, learner evaluation, institutional networks, and human resource management, among others. The volume is a guidebook for training and capacity building for school-level practitioners and leaders in education management. Embedded with real-life cases and episodes, this volume will be of interest to teachers, students, and practitioners of education, management, and education management. It will also be useful for academicians, educationalists, practitioners, management professionals, educational leaders, and policymakers.

Systems Thinking for Health Systems Strengthening

Systems Thinking for Health Systems Strengthening
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9241563893

Makes the case for systems thinking in an easily accessible form for a broad interdisciplinary audience, including health system stewards, programme implementers, researchers, evaluators, and funding partners.

Regulating Entrepreneurial Behaviour in European Health Care Systems

Regulating Entrepreneurial Behaviour in European Health Care Systems
Author: Richard B. Saltman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: Entrepreneurship
ISBN: 9780335209231

What have been the major trends in entrepreneurial behaviour and regulation in European health care?* To what degree do approaches to regulation and entrepreneurialism differ amongst subsectors and countries across Europe?* What does the evidence show about successes and failures, and which successful options are open to policy-makers?A wide range of entrepreneurial initiatives have been introduced within European health care systems during the last decade. While these initiatives promised more efficient management, they also triggered concerns about reduced equity and quality in service provision.This book explores emerging regulatory strategies that seek to capture the benefits of entrepreneurial innovation without sacrificing the core policy objectives of a socially responsible health care system. It opens with an extended essay on current trends and evidence across health care subsectors and across countries, presenting a wide range of alternatives for policy makers, and assessing their relative advantages and disadvantages. It then reviews entrepreneurialism and regulation in specific contexts (such as hospitals, primary health care, social services) and considers related issues including the impact of corruption and the potential lessons from deregulation of public utilities.Regulating Entrepreneurial Behaviour in European Health Care Systems brings together the perspectives of politics, economics, management, medicine, public health and law and will be a valuable resource for students, academics, practitioners and policy makers concerned with health policy and health reform.

The Quality of Medical Advice in Low-income Countries

The Quality of Medical Advice in Low-income Countries
Author: Jishnu Das
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2008
Genre: Medical care
ISBN:

Abstract: This paper provides an overview of recent work on quality measurement of medical care and its correlates in four low and middle-income countries-India, Indonesia, Tanzania, and Paraguay. The authors describe two methods-testing doctors and watching doctors-that are relatively easy to implement and yield important insights about the nature of medical care in these countries. The paper discusses the properties of these measures, their correlates, and how they may be used to evaluate policy changes. Finally, the authors outline an agenda for further research and measurement.