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An Agent-Based Model for Tertiary Educational Choices in Italy
Although the low level of tuition fees and the absence of other access barriers, Italy is characterized by low educational attainments at the...
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Calls for Alternative Purposes of Education
This chapter explores the limitations of the modern and mass education systems and the consequent calls for alternative purposes of education. The...
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Tuition Increases Also Don’t Stop for Pandemics: Student Debt Realities in the Age of COVID-19
In this chapter, we examine the relationship between pandemic tuition increases and student debt, the latter not only an American experience but a...
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Rethinking School Food: Innovative Programs and a Progressive Vision
This chapter focuses on innovative progressive school food programs in the United States. These include brief case studies of Alice Water’s school...
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Deconstructing the anthropocentrism versus ecocentrism binary through Māori oral fire traditions
At the heart of sustainability is the relationship between humans and the planet. The binary of anthropocentric or ecocentric worldviews appears to...
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“What Kind of Person Do You Want to Become?”: Analyzing Young Children’s Drawings on Gender Ideals
This study explores South Korean kindergarteners’ drawings on gender ideals in order to understand how they perceive the ideal man and woman with...
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English Medium Education in India: The Neoliberal Legacy and Challenges to Multilingual Language Policy Implementation
A parallel education industry largely unaddressed in national language education policy framings, English medium education (EME) in India thrives and...
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Conservative Resistance to Progressive Incrementalism: The Political Terrain of School Food in America
The main argument of the book is that school food in the United States and many other countries has been characterized by conservative resistance to...
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‘Teaching up’ at school and home: young people’s contemporary gender perspectives
This paper explores young people’s understandings of gender and investigates their gender-based experiences in high schools in Australia. The...
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A Global Dialectic
When the Arts and Crafts movement of the nineteenth century was established to protest against the new industrialisation of Mid-Victorian...
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The Emotional Life as a Pedagogical Concern
In the present era of narcissistic self-absorption and the sensationalization of feelings, the emotional life has largely become a spectacle and a...
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Integrating Initial Teacher Education and Induction in Scotland
Within the Scottish education system, initial teacher education (ITE) is based within universities, who work closely in partnership with schools and...
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Social Justice Leadership in Educational Market Contexts
Across the United States and around the globe, school districts have increasingly adopted educational market policies through which families choose...
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Leadership and the Political State
The requirement for schools to promote ‘fundamental British values’ appeared in the Ofsted inspection handbook for the first time in 2014, following...
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Re-visiting the Australian Media Arts curriculum for digital media literacy education
This paper re-visits the Media Arts curriculum 10 years after initial discussions within the Australian Media Education community helped to shape the...
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England: Neo-Liberalism, Regulation and Populism in the Educational Reform Laboratory
The analysis of school reform in England offered in this chapter seeks to make sense of a 35-year period of post-welfarist hyper-innovation in which...
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Curriculum tinkering in situations of crises and inequalities: The case of South Africa
This article interrogates a curriculum recovery plan designed to obviate the loss of time due to the national response to the Covid-19 pandemic. In...
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On the Relationship Between Education and Emancipation
This chapter provides a brief history of the concept of emancipation and its applications in and relationship with education, starting with the...
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Africa’s Position in the Global Private Higher Education Sphere: Progress and Trajectories
This chapter seeks to examine the place of Africa within the global PHE landscape. The contents of the chapters indicate that African PHE shares most...
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Parents as Teaching Allies: Some Cases in Japanese Schools
Parental involvement in their children’s education has been investigated in various ways, mainly regarding governance, the support provided to the...