
Quality and Qualities : Tensions in Education Reforms.
Başlık:
Quality and Qualities : Tensions in Education Reforms.
Yazar:
Pitman, Allan.
ISBN:
9789460919510
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (217 pages)
İçerik:
Quality and Qualities: Tensions in Education Reforms -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- IN SEARCH OF QUALITY EDUCATION -- INTRODUCTION -- THE EVOLVING CONCEPT OF DEVELOPMENT -- THE EVOLVING ROLE OF THE STATE: FEWER MANDATES AND MORE INCENTIVES -- THE EXPANDED ROLE OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR AND THE CIVIL SOCIETY -- DEFINING AND MEASURING EDUCATION QUALITY -- PROGRESS, PROBLEMS, AND THE TASK AHEAD -- Shifts in Educational Governance and Changes in Educational Choices -- Shifts in Focus to Post-basic Education -- Alternative Forms of Quality Education -- SEEKING MORE SYSTEMATIC ASSESSMENT AND PLANNING OF EDUCATION QUALITY -- International Tests and Aspirations for World-Class Education -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- EDUCATION REFORM AND THE DISCOURSE OF QUALITY IN ARGENTINA -- THE EMERGENCE OF THE DISCUSSION -- QUALITY AND EDUCATION REFORM IN ARGENTINA DURING THE 1990S -- THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE REFORM AND ITS EFFECTS ON QUALITY -- RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN EDUCATIONAL POLICY AND THE ISSUE OF QUALITY -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- THE QUEST FOR EDUCATIONAL QUALITY IN EGYPT: Active-Learning Pedagogies as a Reform Initiative -- EGYPT'S CULTURAL, POLITICAL, AND ECONOMIC CONTEXT -- DISCOURSES ON EDUCATIONAL REFORM: QUANTITY, QUALITY, AND PEDAGOGY -- Egyptian Discourses, Pre-1952 -- Egyptian and International Organization Discourses: 1952-1990 -- Egyptian and International Organization Discourses, 1991-2000 -- Egyptian and International Organization Discourses, 2001-2004 -- ERP SUPPORT FOR PROMOTING ACTIVE-LEARNING PEDAGOGIES -- ERP and Teacher Professional Development -- ERP and Instructional Leadership Development -- IMPACT OF ERP-SUPPORTED ACTIVITIES ON TEACHERS' CLASSROOM PRACTICES -- Quantitative Data on Changes in Teachers' Classroom Practices -- Qualitative Data on Teachers' Classroom Practices.
Factors Facilitating Movement toward Using Active-Learning Pedagogies -- Changes toward implementing the role of instructional supervision -- Factors influencing change toward instructional supervision -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- QUALITY TENSIONS AND ENDOGENOUS DEVELOPMENT: Venezuela's Bolivarian Education System -- QUALITY: A CONTESTED TERM -- ENDOGENOUS DEVELOPMENT -- ENDOGENOUS POLICY IN VENEZUELA -- EDUCATIONAL STRATEGY -- LEGAL BASIS FOR THE BOLIVARIAN EDUCATION SECTOR -- THE BOLIVARIAN SYSTEM -- EDUCATION FINANCE -- QUALITY AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- A NEW GOVERNMENT'S POLICY INITIATIVES FOR SCHOOL REFORM IN KOREA -- CHALLENGES AND TASKS OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN KOREA -- External Challenges: Globalization and the Advent of the Knowledge-based Society -- Internal Challenges and New Tasks -- CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS FOR DESIGNING A NEW STRATEGIC POLICY AND GOVERNING PRINCIPLES OF PUBLIC EDUCATION -- The Redesign of Strategic Policy -- Designing and Establishing Strategic Governing Principles -- INTRODUCTION AND ASSESSMENT OF THE LEE ADMINSTRATION'S EDUCATIONAL POLICY -- The Lee Administration's Educational Initiatives -- Directions and Governing Principles in the Educational Initiatives of the Lee Administration -- DISCUSSION AND POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS -- REFERENCES -- IMPROVING EDUCATIONAL QUALITY THROUGH ENGLISH-MEDIUM INSTRUCTION IN MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE: Ideals and Practices at Four Provincial Secondary Schools in Malaysia -- ETHICS IN FIELDWORK -- SUMMARY OF ANALYSES -- Findings for Research Questions on Language -- Findings for Research Questions on Teaching Practices -- Examples of instructional processes, from classroom observations -- IMPLICATIONS -- REFERENCES -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION, AND ITS QUALITY ASSURANCE, IN VIETNAM -- COUNTRY PROFILE -- Recent History.
National Education System -- CURRENT STATUS OF THE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM -- QUALITY ASSURANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN VIETNAM -- Perceptions of Quality in Higher Education in Vietnam during Three Phases of Development -- QA Activities in Vietnam's Higher Education: Achievements, Issues, and Future Directions Achievements so far. -- ORIENTATIONS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT -- Proposed Orientations for Developing Higher Education -- Some Issues in the Development of Higher Education -- Reasons for the Inadequate Development of Higher Education in Vietnam -- REFERENCES -- EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT IN KENYA: Enhancing Access and Quality -- BACKGROUND -- HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATION IN KENYA -- The Jomo Kenyatta Administration (1963-1978) -- Daniel Moi Administration (1978-2002) -- President Mwai Kibaki (2003-present) -- KESSP: Kenya Education Sector Support Programme (2005-2010) -- REFLECTIONS ON EDUCATION REFORM IN KENYA -- REFERENCES -- GLOBALIZATION, DECENTRALIZATION, AND EQUITY: Post-Secondary English Language Policy in China -- BACKGROUND -- Globalization, Quality, and Equality -- English in Higher Education Worldwide -- Economic Reforms and English Language Policies in China -- ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING IN CHINA -- ENGLISH AS A COMMODITY -- FOREIGN INTEREST -- NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS -- OTHER ALTERNATIVES -- CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX A -- REFERENCES -- EDUCATION QUALITY: Its Meanings in Chile -- EDUCATION QUALITY: A COMPLEX CONCEPT -- WHAT DOES EDUCATION QUALITY MEAN IN CHILE? -- An Answer from the Standardized Assessment Tests -- Education Focused on Learning Results -- Basic Conditions to Enhance Education -- Education Focused on Human Capital -- An Answer from the Legal Reforms -- An Answer from the Policy Reforms Applied in Chile -- Curriculum Reform -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- QUALITY EDUCATION: Challenges and Policy Choices.
CHALLENGES TO EDUCATIONAL QUALITY -- Changing Definitions of Quality -- High Expectations and Continuing Issues with Implementation -- Introducing a World Language -- PATHS TO QUALITY WITH EQUITY -- Extending the Length of Basic Education -- Navigating the Educational Organization -- Selecting Schools -- Developing School-Community Relations -- Making Within-School Decisions -- Implementing High-Stakes Examinations -- CHOICES: A GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE -- Model A: Education for Global Economic Competition -- Model B: A Community Learning Center -- Model C: Forward to the Basics -- REFERENCES -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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