Inciting Change in Secondary English Language Programs

Inciting Change in Secondary English Language Programs
Author: M. Coles-Ritchie
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2009-08-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0230101070

This book follows a group of teachers who worked to create a program that supported their students' native languages and funds of knowledge, finding that structures within the school and discourses from other teachers, administrators, and the nation/community both constrained/enabled the teachers to create an equitable learning environment.

The Comprehensive Public High School

The Comprehensive Public High School
Author: G. Sherington
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2006-02-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1403982910

This book traces the decline of the public comprehensive high school. New educational markets emphasized school diversity and parental choice rather than social equity through common schooling, and they were criticized for declining standards. The book also considers government education policies and their regional manifestations.

Secondary Education and the Raising of the School-Leaving Age

Secondary Education and the Raising of the School-Leaving Age
Author: T. Woodin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2013-10-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1137065214

The progressive raising of the school-leaving age has had momentous repercussions for our understanding of childhood and youth, for secondary education, and for social and educational inequality. This book assesses secondary education and the raising of the school-leaving age in the UK and places issues and debates in an international context.

The Handbook of Bilingual and Multilingual Education

The Handbook of Bilingual and Multilingual Education
Author: Wayne E. Wright
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 688
Release: 2017-09-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1119005493

The Handbook of Bilingual and Multilingual Education presents the first comprehensive international reference work of the latest policies, practices, and theories related to the dynamic interdisciplinary field of bilingual and multilingual education. Represents the first comprehensive reference work that covers bilingual, multilingual, and multicultural educational policies and practices around the world Features contributions from 78 established and emerging international scholars Offers extensive coverage in sixteen chapters of language and education issues in specific and diverse regional/geographic contexts, including South Africa, Mexico, Latvia, Cambodia, Japan, and Texas Covers pedagogical issues such as language assessment as well as offering evolving perspectives on the needs of specific learner populations, such as ELLs, learners with language impairments, and bilingual education outside of the classroom

Girls' Secondary Education in the Western World

Girls' Secondary Education in the Western World
Author: J. Goodman
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2010-05-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0230106714

The collection's focus is on girls' secondary education, and hence the gendered cultural expectations of the middle classes and upper classes, will provide the dominant narrative, given the relatively recent democratization of European educational systems.

Curriculum, Community, and Urban School Reform

Curriculum, Community, and Urban School Reform
Author: B. Franklin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2010-03-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0230105742

This book asserts that efforts to reform schools, particularly urban schools, are events that engender a host of issues and conflicts that have been interpreted through the conceptual lens of community.

English Teachers in a Postwar Democracy

English Teachers in a Postwar Democracy
Author: P. Medway
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2016-01-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137005149

Conflicting conservative and radical impulses in English society after WWII were played out in microcosm in education. They particularly shaped English teaching, examined in three post-war London schools in a detailed study that uses oral history—interviews with former teachers and students—and documents including mark books and students' work.

Teaching Harry Potter

Teaching Harry Potter
Author: C. Belcher
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2011-08-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0230119913

Given the current educational climate of high stakes testing, standardized curriculum, and 'approved' reading lists, incorporating unauthorized, popular literature into the classroom becomes a political choice. The authors examine why teachers choose to read Harry Potter , how they use the books, and the resulting teacher-student interactions.

The Invention of the Secondary Curriculum

The Invention of the Secondary Curriculum
Author: J. White
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2011-10-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0230337988

Across much of the world there is now a standard secondary school curriculum based on a traditional array of subjects. This is the first work to tell the story of its invention, from the sixteenth century until the present day. The book concludes with a sketch of an alternative: a curriculum based on a well-argued set of fundamental aims.

New Labour and Secondary Education, 1994-2010

New Labour and Secondary Education, 1994-2010
Author: C. Chitty
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2013-05-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137076321

New Labour and Secondary Education, 1994-2010 assesses New Labour's policy towards secondary education in Britain. It shows that, in many respects, New Labour education policy was a continuation of the policies pursued by the education ministers of Margaret Thatcher and John Major.