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Educational Research and Schooling in Rural Europe
This book provides authentic accounts of the effects of the revolutionary political reform experienced in the past half century on education in Europe’s considerable rural hinterland. These reforms include the liberation of the Baltic and Eastern European states from Soviet communist domination, the ‘eurozone’ economic crises, and the current and future migration of people fleeing war and poverty from the Middle East and Africa. Overshadowing these events are so-called global forces which champion economies of scale and pressurize academic performance as keys to economic success. Trapped in this distal whirlwind of change are 1000s of small and/or rural elementary schools and the life ...
Masterliness in the Teaching Profession
This collection presents an international perspective on issues of training and accreditation at the Master’s level of course provision in the initial and continuing professional development of teachers, coining the phrase ‘masterliness in education’. It provides a comparative background to inform the debate about the level at which teachers’ knowledge bases make them most effective in terms of both pedagogic expertise and pupils’ outcomes. The book examines and illustrates the relationship between master’s level education and professionalism through the lenses of reflective evaluation, narrative inquiry and critique. Discussion of issues of professionalism and acculturation of t...
Doing Educational Research in Rural Settings
Doing Educational Research in Rural Settings is a much-needed guide for educational researchers whose research interests are located outside metropolitan areas in places that are generically considered to be rural. This book is both timely and important as it takes up the key question of how to conduct educational research within and for rural communities. It explores the impact of educational research in such contexts in terms of the lasting good of research and also those being researched. The authorship is international, which brings together researchers experienced in conducting educational inquiry in rural places from across European, Australian, American, and Canadian contexts, allowin...
Searching for the Ideal School around the World
Through this book, the author shares the nomadology of Alys-we searching for the Ideal School. Fed up with the System, traditional mainstream education directed by neoliberalism and high-stakes testing, Alys travelled to over 180 places of learning/schools in 23 countries that were educating differently. Through performative autoethnographic-we the author shares these embodied experiences in poems, vignettes, journaling and ethnodrama. Alys realised that the Ideal School is an oxymoron and she argues that schools and schooling, even within innovative education, are not the future for learning. By developing the edge-ucation and sharing stories from the ‘gems’ that currently exist in plac...
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rural Education in the United States
This handbook begins with a foundational overview of rural education, examining the ways in which definitions, histories, policies, and demographic changes influence rural schools. This foundational approach includes how corporatization, population changes, poverty, and the role of data affect everyday learning in rural schools. In following sections, the contributors consider how school closures, charter schools, and district governance influence decision making in rural schooling, while also examining the influence of these structures on higher education attainment, rural school partnerships, and school leadership. They explore curriculum studies in rural education, including place-based a...
Ethnographies of Education for Social Justice
Social justice is a complex construct that invariably lacks unproblematic operationalization within social research. This book uses ethnographic research to situate a rich and complex model of social justice, foregrounding the potential of the participant to generate emancipatory spaces. How can interactions between ethnographers and research participants influence the development of the research process, the practices being investigated, the perspectives of participants, and the contexts in which the research takes place? What are the possibilities for these approaches to ethnography of education to generate knowledge that is truly useful for educational change and social transformation for...
Life in Schools and Classrooms
This book discusses key aspects of life in schools and classrooms, and surveys the changes that have occurred over the years in educational research, policy making and practice in these school and classroom settings. It not only examines cutting-edge research in these areas, but also showcases good practices in the field. Among the topics reviewed are recent developments in assessment, methods for collecting and analysing data on classroom practice, school leadership and the pros and cons of class size and small-class teaching; topics which are currently hotly debated in education systems around the globe. As such, the book objectively examines the various debates, and surveys the full range...
Alfabeto della scuola democratica
Questo libro è uno strumento operativo per chi vuole conoscere le tante soluzioni immaginate e praticate per costruire una scuola democratica, ma soprattutto per chi vuole realizzarla, con lo sguardo orientato al futuro. È vero, la scuola è in crisi, ma non è detto che questo debba comportare una resa. Questo libro nasce da una presa di coscienza: la scuola democratica ha una storia luminosa in Italia che passa per il metodo montessoriano, la scuola media unica, l'eliminazione delle classi differenziali, le riforme dell'inclusione, Barbiana e le mille sperimentazioni di scuole attive, un'editoria dedicata di valore internazionale. Una storia che va conosciuta e che soprattutto va rinnova...
