Challenges for Public Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Challenges for Public Education write by Jane Wilkinson. This book was released on 2018-10-29. Challenges for Public Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An accelerating pattern in Australia and internationally is the dismantling of public education systems as part of a long-standing trend towards the modernisation, marketisation and privatisation of educational provision. Responsibility for direct delivery of education services has been shifted to contracting and monitoring under the clarion call of school and leadership autonomy and parental choice. Part of this pattern is an increasing blurring of boundaries between the state and private sector, a move from government to new forms of ‘strategic’ governance, and from hierarchy to heterarchy. Challenges for Public Education examines the educational leadership, policy and social justice implications of these trends in Australia and internationally. It maps this movement through early shifts to school-based management in Australia, New Zealand and Sweden and recent moves such as the academies programme in England and charter schools in the United States. It draws on recent studies of a distinct new phase in Australian school reform – the creation of ‘independent public schools’ (IPS) in Western Australia and Queensland – and global policy moves in public education in order to provide a truly international dialogue and debate on these matters. This book moves beyond critique. It innovatively brings together Australian and international perspectives and a rich range of diverse theoretical lenses: practice philosophy, feminism, gender, relational, and postmodernism. As such, it provides a crucial forum for illuminating alternate ways to conceptualise educational leadership, policy and social justice as resources for hope.
Opportunities and Challenges in Teacher Recruitment and Retention
Opportunities and Challenges in Teacher Recruitment and Retention - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Opportunities and Challenges in Teacher Recruitment and Retention write by Carol R. Rinke. This book was released on 2019-05-01. Opportunities and Challenges in Teacher Recruitment and Retention available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Opportunities and Challenges in Teacher Recruitment and Retention serves as a comprehensive resource for understanding teachers’ careers across the professional lifespan. Grounded in the notion that teachers’ voices are essential for understanding teachers’ lives, this edited volume contains chapters that privilege the voices of teachers above all. Book sections look closely at the particular issues that arise when recruiting an effective, committed, and diverse workforce, as well as the challenges that arise once teachers are immersed in the classroom setting. Promising directions are also included for particularly high-need areas such as early childhood teachers, Black male teachers, STEM teachers, and urban teachers. The book concludes with a call for self-care in teachers’ lives. Chapter contributions come from a variety of contexts across the United States and around the world. However, regardless of context or methodology, these chapters point to the importance of valuing and respecting teachers’ lives and work. Moreover, they demonstrate that teacher recruitment and retention is a complex and multifaceted issue that cannot be addressed through simplistic policy changes. Rather, attending to and appreciating the web of influences on teachers lives and careers is the only way to support their work and the impact they have on our next generation of students.
The Four Most Baffling Challenges for Teachers and How to Solve Them
The Four Most Baffling Challenges for Teachers and How to Solve Them - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Four Most Baffling Challenges for Teachers and How to Solve Them write by Sheryn Spencer-Waterman. This book was released on 2014-01-09. The Four Most Baffling Challenges for Teachers and How to Solve Them available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Award-winning teacher and best-selling author Sheryn Spencer Waterman shows teachers how to solve four of their most fundamental classroom challenges. The solutions provided in this book apply to elementary, middle, and high schools and are based on brain-based research, ethical development, the standards movement, and other practical factors.The four most baffling challenges for teachers are classroom discipline, unmotivated students, underinvolved or adversarial parents, and tough working conditions.
The Challenges of Education in Central Asia
The Challenges of Education in Central Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Challenges of Education in Central Asia write by Stephen P. Heyneman. This book was released on 2006-02-01. The Challenges of Education in Central Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A look at the challenges facing education in Central Asia. In this study, the author contests that understanding the challenges throughout the 15 former republics of the former Soviet Union is helpful in understanding the progress and setback in the Central Asian Republics.
Lawn Boy
Lawn Boy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lawn Boy write by Jonathan Evison. This book was released on 2019-03-19. Lawn Boy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the Alex Award “Mike Muñoz Is a Holden Caulfield for a New Millennium--a '10th-generation peasant with a Mexican last name, raised by a single mom on an Indian reservation' . . . Evison, as in his previous four novels, has a light touch and humorously guides the reader, this time through the minefield that is working-class America.” --The New York Times Book Review For Mike Muñoz, life has been a whole lot of waiting for something to happen. Not too many years out of high school and still doing menial work--and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew--he’s smart enough to know that he’s got to be the one to shake things up if he’s ever going to change his life. But how? He’s not qualified for much of anything. He has no particular talents, although he is stellar at handling a lawn mower and wielding clipping shears. But now that career seems to be behind him. So what’s next for Mike Muñoz? In this funny, biting, touching, and ultimately inspiring novel, bestselling author Jonathan Evison takes the reader into the heart and mind of a young man determined to achieve the American dream of happiness and prosperity--who just so happens to find himself along the way.
