Education and skills for inclusive growth, green jobs and the greening of eco…

This book presents an overview of the main research findings and case studies concerning education and skills for inclusive growth, green jobs and the greening of economies. Focusing on India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Viet Nam, it discusses government and business sector responses to these issues and how Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) systems and institutions are address…

Financing quality education for all: the funding methods of cumpolsory and sp…

In OECD countries the average expenditure on primary and secondary education institutions is about 3.5% of GDP. The investment in education has large implications for economic development and the proper functioning of democratic institutions, as well as overall well-being. However, clear consensus and guidance on which system leads to the best educational outcomes is lacking. This volume descri…

Diversity and Inclusion in Global Higher Education Lessons from Across Asia

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Sustainability, human well-being, and the future of education

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Theories in and of mathematics education theory strands in German speaking co…

In the 1970s and 1980s, mathematics education was established as a scientific discipline in German-speaking countries through a process of institutionalization at universities, the foundation of scientific media, and a scientific society. This raised the question of how far the didactics of mathematics had been developed as a scientific discipline. This question was discussed intensely in th…

Ebooks in education : realising the vision

Ebooks are coming of age in education, as this exciting collection commissioned by Jisc demonstrates. Case studies, reflecting ebook success stories across the higher and further education sectors, include: - An innovative app to encourage ebook take-up in a Welsh college. - A partnership between a library and research centre to create open access monographs and midigraphs. - …

The Governing-evaluation-knowledge nexus : Swedish higher education as a case

This Open Access book analyses the interplay between governing, evaluation and knowledge with an empirical focus on Swedish higher education. It investigates the origins, logics, and mechanisms of evaluation and quality assurance reforms and their dynamic interactions with institutional, national and European policy contexts. The chapters report findings from extensive empirical studies that of…

Empirical research in statistics education

This ICME-13 Topical Survey provides a review of recent research into statistics education, with a focus on empirical research published in established educational journals and on the proceedings of important conferences on statistics education. It identifies and addresses six key research topics, namely: teachers’ knowledge; teachers’ role in statistics education; teacher preparation; stud…

Inclusion in socio-educational frames : inclusive school cases in four Europe…

There are many publications about inclusive education although only a few review international comparative studies. This book presents the nexus of theory and practice, gives opportunities for the reader to observe inclusive education through socioeducational lenses and, thus, promotes reflective thinking. It is noteworthy, that the book makes the respondents’, i.e., parents’, teachers’ a…

Interdisciplinary mathematics education : a state of the art

This book provides an essential introduction to the state-of the-art in interdisciplinary Mathematics Education. First, it begins with an outline of the field’s relevant historical, conceptual and theoretical backgrounds, what “discipline” means and how inter-, trans-, and meta-disciplinary activities can be understood. Relevant theoretical perspectives from Marx, Foucault and Vygotsky ar…