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This edited volume provides a comprehensive overview and discussion of the issues surrounding the Malaysian Indian community’s educational development. Malaysian Indian citizens who make up seven per cent of the population have their own set of strengths and weaknesses, while facing deep-seated socio-economic challenges. Education is seen as an enabler which could significantly facilitate social and economic upward mobility, as shown in policies and practices implemented under the New Economic Policy, many of which have unfortunately bypassed the Indian Community. This book explores and assesses the various aspects of the education endeavour of Malaysian Indians, including primary, seconda...
More than ever, schools are regarded as a learning community in which its leaders, and therefore the school's primary agents of change, are expected to stay abreast of the latest developments in education and instruction. This book provides important insights for improving professional development activities, school-university partnerships and networks, educational management, as well as teaching and learning in schools and colleges. It builds on research conducted in the 1990s, during which the pursuit of school improvement and skill development first converged.
Yifei Yan’s ambitious multi-method case study of government middle schools in Beijing and Delhi provides fresh insights into how educational accountability can be designed to work, in part and as a whole. Getting schools to work better is a challenge just about everywhere. Many policy experts prescribe measures for strengthening school accountability, either through government command and control or through alternative market and societal actors. In challenging this conventional wisdom, this book examines how China and India are tackling the challenge with a specific focus on supporting teachers along with traditional accountability-strengthening measures. The book draws implications from ...
Religion Seeking Justice and Peace not only highlights the values that the different religions share in their pursuit of justice and peace but also provides concrete examples of how individuals and institutions from different religious backgrounds have worked for justice and peach throughout history. The book also exposes the danger of religious extremism, religious exclusivism and other such negative traits to the struggle for justice and peace. It takes cognisance of the impact of the larger environment upon religious ideals and, at the same time, makes a plea for the application of universal values and principles embodied in the various religions to politics. Economics, culture and society. This is particularly important, some of the contributors argue, at a time like this when humanity is confronted with multiple global crises.
This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration, MIKE 2023, held in Kristiansand, Norway, during June 28–30, 2023. The 22 full papers and 16 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 87 submissions. They were grouped into various subtopics including Knowledge Exploration in IoT, Medical Informatics, Machine Learning, Text Mining, Natural Language Processing, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain, Application of Artificial Intelligence, and other areas.
TEDS-M 2008, die IEA-Studie Teacher Education and Development: Learning to Teach Mathematics, ist die erste internationale Vergleichsstudie, die Ergebnisse des tertiären Bildungsbereichs systematisch in den Blick nimmt. Analog zur Erfassung von Schülerleistungen als Monitoring der Leistungsfähigkeit des Schulsystems erfolgt eine Erfassung der Kompetenzen angehender Mathematiklehrkräfte für die Sekundarstufe I am Ende ihrer Ausbildung. Dies ermöglicht einen internationalen Vergleich der Effektivität des deutschen Lehrerausbildungssystems. Gleichzeitig gibt dies Auskunft, wie gut Lehrkräfte auf ihre beruflichen Kernaufgaben Unterrichten und Diagnostizieren vorbereitet sind. Die Ergebni...
TEDS-M 2008, die Teacher Education and Development Study der IEA, ist die erste internationale Vergleichsstudie, die Ergebnisse des tertiären Bildungsbereichs systematisch in den Blick nimmt. Analog zur Erfassung von Schülerleistungen als Monitoring der Leistungsfähigkeit des Schulsystems erfolgt eine Erfassung der Kompetenzen angehender Primarstufenlehrkräfte am Ende ihrer Ausbildung. Dies ermöglicht einen internationalen Vergleich der Effektivität des deutschen Lehrerausbildungssystems. Gleichzeitig gibt dies Auskunft, wie gut Lehrkräfte auf ihre beruflichen Kernaufgaben Unterrichten und Diagnostizieren vorbereitet sind. Die Ergebnisse zu ihrem fachlichen, fachdidaktischen und päda...