Overview
- Reviews the impact of economics, community, and inequality on educational achievement
- Examines teaching, learning, teacher employment, school leadership, university education, and relevant recent trends
- Includes summaries of educational policies in many developed countries
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Explorations of Educational Purpose (EXEP, volume 28)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- community inequality
- creativity education
- education policy
- education reform
- educational achievement
- educational systems
- free choice learning
- merit pay for teachers
- parental choice
- private schools
- public schools
- school leadership
- school reform
- standardized testing
- teacher employment
- tertiary education
- university education
About this book
This book pays special attention to the impact that a student's early childhood and socioeconomic status has on his or her educational achievement. It argues that discussions of education reform need a broader scope, one that encompasses a student's background as well as standardized testing, merit pay for teachers, and other issues regarding the quality of the teaching and learning.
Education Reform: the Unwinding of Intelligence and Creativity features cases and examples from schools in Australia, the USA, and Britain. It offers a breadth of coverage, from early childhood to effective teaching and learning to teacher pay and conditions, standardized testing and public and private (independent) schooling and universities as well as creativity. It also includes summaries of educational policies in many developed countries.
Reforms which emphasize concern for early childhood, school leadership and respect for teachers are contrasted with ones based on standardized tests, private schools and sacking bad teachers.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Education Reform: The Unwinding of Intelligence and Creativity
Authors: Des Griffin
Series Title: Explorations of Educational Purpose
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01994-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-01993-2Published: 09 January 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34439-3Published: 27 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-01994-9Published: 19 December 2013
Series ISSN: 1875-4449
Series E-ISSN: 1875-4457
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 320
Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education