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Edwards, D. Brent, Jr.; Moschetti, Mauro C.; Caravaca, Alejandro – Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education, 2022
This text explores how the dynamics of globalization and privatization have influenced State policy and impacted education reform in Honduras. It makes the argument that understanding education reform in post-colonial contexts requires that scholars go beyond a surface-level description of such trends as privatization to consider, in addition, the…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Postcolonialism, Guidelines, Privatization
Douglas E. Bell – Multilingual Matters, 2024
Since its inception in the 1960s, the field of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) has enjoyed a period of almost continual expansion and growth and now represents a multi-million dollar industry worldwide. This book provides readers with a critical and comprehensive overview of EAP's birth, its historical development and its ongoing trajectory,…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Privatization
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Paraskeva, João M., Ed. – Myers Education Press, 2021
"Critical Transformative Educational Leadership and Policy Studies - A Reader" is a comprehensive collection of critical contributions from most of the leading voices in the fields of educational leadership and educational policy studies, pushing back against the current neoliberal authoritarian environment. The volume offers alternative…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Instructional Leadership, Educational Policy, Neoliberalism
Santoro, Doris A., Ed.; Cain, Lizabeth, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2018
"Principled Resistance: How Teachers Resolve Ethical Dilemmas" brings together senior scholars and activist teachers to explore the concept of resistance as a necessary response to mandates that conflict with their understanding of quality teaching. The book provides vivid examples of the pedagogical, professional, and democratic…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Principles, Ethics, Teacher Attitudes
Watkins, William H., Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2011
In this timely interdisciplinary volume, William Watkins has brought together leading scholars and activists to address some of the most urgent issues facing public education. What is underneath and behind the language of choice, efficiency, and improvement in current neoliberal discourse? How will urban and poor populations be affected? Will…
Descriptors: Public Education, Educational Change, Politics of Education, Public Policy
Gabbard, David A., Ed.; Ross, E. Wayne, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2008
This highly acclaimed volume in the "Defending Public Schools" series is now available in paperback from Teachers College Press. It is a practical, necessary addition to the work of administrators, teachers, policymakers, and parents as they negotiate the difficult path of how to best teach and educate today's children and youth. This…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Schools, Privatization, Federal Legislation
Belfield, Clive R.; Levin, Henry M. – Paradigm Publishers, 2005
Controversies over the merits of public and private education have never been more prominent than today. This book evaluates public and private schooling, especially in regard to choices families must make for their children. While choice among public schools is widely advocated today by families and states, public support for private…
Descriptors: Parochial Schools, School Choice, Private Education, Public Education