Children are educated within many different contexts - in their families, schools, communities and nations. Historically, book series have often looked at only one of these influences and have seen development in isolation from the others.
The purposes of the Contexts of Learning book series is to promote understanding of, and high quality interventions within, all these contexts that affect children. The series exhibits a broad range of topics, ranging from conventional studies of schools as learning environments to contemporary issues in mathematics education, and reflects the variety of perspectives that exist about these influences on children.
The series also includes a variety of genres - it contains multi-authored books, some single author volumes and some edited volumes in which researchers put together material which reflects their intellectual trajectory through their careers.
Although there is variation in the themes addressed and the particular genre, all volumes are encouraged to have an inclusive, international reach in their concerns and their source material.
Edited
By Alma Harris, Janet Hageman Chrispeels
May 25, 2006
School improvement has become a dominant feature of educational reform in many countries. The pressure upon schools to improve performance has resulted in a wide-range of improvement programmes and initiatives which can provide both inspiration and advice to everyone involved in school improvement....
By Cees Glas, Jaap Scheerens, Sally M. Thomas
January 01, 2003
This book looks at the foundations of school self-evaluation from a scientific as from a practical perspective. Planning concepts, restructuring of education systems, organizational theory on schools, evaluation methodology and models of school effectiveness and school improvement are discussed as ...
By Stephan Gerhard Huber
January 01, 2004
The quality and success of schools depend upon school leadership. Increasingly, in many countries worldwide, this belief has led to designing and implementing appropriate training and development programs for educational leaders. In an international comparative research project, current school ...
Edited
By Philip Hallinger
January 01, 2003
Reshaping the Landscape of School Leadership Development: A Global Perspective traces developments in this arena as they evolved since 1980. The book is comprised of chapters authored by the leading scholars in the fields of educational leadership and school leadership development from the United ...
Edited
By S.E. Anderson
January 01, 2002
This book presents a story of school improvement activity in East Africa from 1985 to 2000, which focused on sustained teacher development. The core of the book consists of six evaluations of school-and district-wide school improvement projects (SIPs) supported by the Aga Khan Foundation in ...
By Pamela Sammons
January 01, 1999
This volume explores the influence of students' background on educational outcomes, ways of contextualising school performance, and current issues and developments in school effectiveness research. Also investigated is how the research contributes to understanding of school and classroom processes....
By Robert E. Slavin
January 01, 1996
This work is a collection of previously published articles by Robert Slavin. The articles trace the evolution, over a quarter-century, of the powerful idea that given well-developed, rigorously evaluated methods and materials, teachers can succeed with virtually all children....