The Statesman's Year-Book 1982-83

The Statesman's Year-Book 1982-83
Author: J. Paxton
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 1718
Release: 2016-12-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230271111

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

The Statesman's Year-Book 1984-85

The Statesman's Year-Book 1984-85
Author: J. Paxton
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 1717
Release: 2016-12-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230271138

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

Cultures of Schooling

Cultures of Schooling
Author: Mary Kalantzis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2011-12-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0415504392

This volume examines the ways schools respond to cultural and linguistic diversity. A richness of accumulated experience is portrayed in this study of six Australian secondary schools; partial success, near success or instructive failure as the culture of the school itself was transformed in an attempt to meet the educational needs of its students. Set in the context of a general historical background to the development of multicultural education in Australia, a theoretical framework is developed with which to analyze the move from the traditional curriculum of cultural assimilation to the progressivist curriculum of cultural pluralism. The book analyzes the limitations of the progressivist model of multicultural education and suggests a new 'post-progressivist' model, in evidence already in an incipient and as yet tentative 'self-corrective' trend in the case-study schools.

Children With Special Needs

Children With Special Needs
Author: Katharine T. Bartlett
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Total Pages: 528
Release: 1987-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781412819572

The presence of children with special needs in public schools has created diverse and shifting tensions. During the 1970s, parents and advocates sought to remove existing barriers and secure greater educational opportunity for handicapped children in public education, insisting that all children can learn and that all children suffer adverse effects from the exclusion of the handicapped from public schools. The legislation that was the product of their efforts, The Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 (EAHCA), has become central to the continuing debate over the role of public schools in educating children with special needs. The authors of the essays included in this volume contribute to this debate in two ways. First, they evaluate the success of EAHCA and other legal mechanisms designed to ensure that the requirements of children with special needs are adequately met from a variety of historical, empirical, analytical and comparative perspectives. Second, they suggest steps that might be taken to help such legal strategems attain their goals. These suggestions respond to tensions that have shaped, and will continue to shape, the reaction of educators, parents, and the legal system to children with special needs during the years to come.

Schooling Reform In Hard Times

Schooling Reform In Hard Times
Author: Bob Linguard
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135722064

Based on research carried out under Labour governments throughout the 1990s in Western Australia, the authors consider the social, political and economic conditions under which policy is formulated, understood and enacted. They look at how the state structure affects the content and nature of policy statements and provide an outline of the history of policy developments and point to future possibilities and probabilities. Outcomes within funding ceilings, accountability frameworks and national guidelines are but some of the changes referred to. The emergence of competency-based standards in education and training in schools, workplaces and the professions is evident throughout Australia at state level, but the concern is whether issues of education should be played out within the state and outside civil society. The authors argue for the mediation in implementation of policy - rather than a lambasting of policy formulation and implementation. This text is intended for heads of education departments, PGCE, BEd. MEd. students and researchers interested in education policy and planning. Education policymakers, and educational historians.

Privatization and Its Alternatives

Privatization and Its Alternatives
Author: William T. Gormley (Jr.)
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1991
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780299117047

Emerging from a conference, Racine, Wisconsin, November 1987, 15 papers explore controversies around privatization in a number of policy areas--such as education, housing, and law-enforcement--in a number of countries, and from the perspective of several disciplines. Paper edition (unseen), for $19.75. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Democracy and Bureaucracy

Democracy and Bureaucracy
Author: Judith D. Chapman
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2024-05-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1040032575

First published in 1990, Democracy and Bureaucracy examines the tensions associated with the reorganization of public education in Australia. Contributors explore these tensions through a variety of related antimonies: bureaucracy and democracy, control and autonomy, centralism and devolution. The thesis generally propounded in this book is that democratic structures, participation and school-based decision-making are all elements of school improvement which enable a bureaucracy to be more responsive, less authoritarian, and in control only over the macro issues of policy, thereby leaving to schools the maximum degree of freedom possible for their own determination of principles, policies and practices. This book will be of interest to students of education, pedagogy, public policy and public administration.

Understanding Schooling

Understanding Schooling
Author: Miriam Henry
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2006-08-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134984944

The problems of class, gender and race in the Australian education system are similar to those in the UK.

Cultures of Schooling (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

Cultures of Schooling (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)
Author: Mary Kalantzis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2012-05-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136468315

This volume examines the ways schools respond to cultural and linguistic diversity. A richness of accumulated experience is portrayed in this study of six Australian secondary schools; partial success, near success or instructive failure as the culture of the school itself was transformed in an attempt to meet the educational needs of its students. Set in the context of a general historical background to the development of multicultural education in Australia, a theoretical framework is developed with which to analyze the move from the traditional curriculum of cultural assimilation to the progressivist curriculum of cultural pluralism. The book analyzes the limitations of the progressivist model of multicultural education and suggests a new ‘post-progressivist’ model, in evidence already in an incipient and as yet tentative ‘self-corrective’ trend in the case-study schools.