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Local/Global Issues in Education


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This series investigates the interplay between the local and the global in contemporary education policy and practice. While globalisation is transforming local education systems, the local cannot be conceived as homogeneous or passive. Local policy advocates, educators and researchers mediate globalisation by adapting, resisting and amplifying its effects and influences. In this book series, the local perspective taken is from Australia, whose geographical and cultural positioning provides a unique analytical lens through which processes of globalisation in education can be explored and understood. Published in association by the Australian Association for Research in Education, this series includes high-quality empirical, theoretical and conceptual work that uses a range of qualitative and quantitative methods to address contemporary challenges in education.

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Temporality, Space and Place in Education and Youth Research

Temporality, Space and Place in Education and Youth Research

1st Edition

Edited By Julie McLeod, Kate O’Connor, Nicole Davis, Amy McKernan
June 29, 2023

This book explores the everyday ways in which time marks the experience of education as well as the concerns and methods of education and youth research. It asks: what do we notice afresh and what comes into sharper view when temporality becomes a focal point? What theories and ways of seeing offer...

Community Matters The Complex Links Between Community and Young People's Aspirations for Higher Education

Community Matters: The Complex Links Between Community and Young People's Aspirations for Higher Education

1st Edition

By Jennifer Gore, Sally Patfield, Leanne Fray, Jess Harris
December 30, 2022

Working towards equity of access to higher education remains a fundamental issue of social justice. Despite substantial efforts to redress historical exclusions via a wealth of government and institutional policies, longstanding enrolment patterns persist and new forms of inequality have emerged in...

Learning Under the Lens Applying Findings from the Science of Learning to the Classroom

Learning Under the Lens: Applying Findings from the Science of Learning to the Classroom

1st Edition

Edited By Annemaree Carroll, Ross Cunnington, Annita Nugent
December 02, 2020

Learning Under the Lens: Applying Findings from the Science of Learning to the Classroom highlights the innovative approach being undertaken by researchers from the disparate fields of neuroscience, education and psychology working together to gain a better understanding of how we learn, and its ...

Advances in Cognitive Load Theory Rethinking Teaching

Advances in Cognitive Load Theory: Rethinking Teaching

1st Edition

Edited By Sharon Tindall-Ford, Shirley Agostinho, John Sweller
June 25, 2019

Cognitive load theory uses our knowledge of how people learn, think and solve problems to design instruction. In turn, instructional design is the central activity of classroom teachers, of curriculum designers, and of publishers of textbooks and educational materials, including digital information...

Challenges for Public Education Reconceptualising Educational Leadership, Policy and Social Justice as Resources for Hope

Challenges for Public Education: Reconceptualising Educational Leadership, Policy and Social Justice as Resources for Hope

1st Edition

Edited By Jane Wilkinson, Richard Niesche, Scott Eacott
November 05, 2018

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 ...

The Relationality of Race in Education Research

The Relationality of Race in Education Research

1st Edition

Edited By Greg Vass, Jacinta Maxwell, Sophie Rudolph, Kalervo N. Gulson
October 26, 2017

This edited collection examines the ways in which the local and global are key to understanding race and racism in the intersectional context of contemporary education. Analysing a broad range of examples, it highlights how race and racism is a relational phenomenon, that interconnects local, ...

Literacy, Leading and Learning Beyond Pedagogies of Poverty

Literacy, Leading and Learning: Beyond Pedagogies of Poverty

1st Edition

By Debra Hayes, Robert Hattam, Barbara Comber, Lyn Kerkham, Ruth Lupton, Pat Thomson
June 23, 2017

How might educational leaders and teachers improve literacy achievement in schools serving communities experiencing high levels of poverty? This question is the focus of this book. Drawing on long-term case studies of four primary schools located in these communities, this book describes the ...

National Testing in Schools An Australian assessment

National Testing in Schools: An Australian assessment

1st Edition

Edited By Bob Lingard, Greg Thompson, Sam Sellar
November 18, 2015

Over the last two decades, large-scale national, or provincial, standardised testing has become prominent in the schools of many countries around the globe. National Testing in Schools: An Australian Assessment draws on research to consider the nature of national testing and its multiple effects, ...

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