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In Transnational Nationalism and Collective Identity among the American Irish, Howard Lune considers the development and mobilization of different nationalisms over 125 years of Irish diasporic history (1791–1920) and how these campaigns defined the Irish nation and Irish citizenship.  Lune takes a collective approach to exploring identity, concentrating on social identities in which organizations are the primary creative agent to understand who we are and how we come to define ourselves. As ex...

Policy Implications of International Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars in the United States explores the role and impact of students and scholars on US educational institutions and the US economy. The nation has drawn increasingly on human resources abroad for its science and engineering workforce. However, competition for talent has grown as other countries have expanded their research infrastructure and created more opportunities for international students. The report discusses trend...

In this revised and expanded guide, College Placement Bureau Director Loren Pope profiles forty colleges that excel at developing potential, values, initiative, and risk-taking in a wide range of students. This new edition includes a revised group of colleges and for the first time addresses the issues of home schooling, learning disabilities, and single-sex education. Pope encourages students to be hard-nosed consumers when visiting colleges, and shows how the college experience can enrich ever...

Many commentators feared that the Education Reform Act of 1988 sounded the death knell for teacher professionalism. This text explores the issue by setting the debates in their historical context and by drawing on detailed research findings.

Diese Arbeit ist eine Pilotstudie. Anhand einer Umfrage und umfangreicher Literatur beschreibt und analysiert sie die Situation katholischer Religionslehrerinnen nach dem II. Vaticanum. Aus den Biographien wird die religiose Sozialisation dieser Berufsgruppe hergeleitet. Die Studie beleuchtet die Berufsausubung zwischen Staat und Kirche. Die Frage nach dem Eingewobensein dieser Frauen in die Gesellschaft, in Familien und Pfarrgemeinden vertieft den Einblick in ihre Lebenssituationen. Die Hilfest...

From grade school to graduate school, from the poorest public institutions to the most affluent private ones, our educational system is failing students. In his provocative new book, cognitive scientist and bestselling author Roger Schank argues that class size, lack of parental involvement, and other commonly-cited factors have nothing to do with why students are not learning. The culprit is a system of subject-based instruction, and the solution is cognitive-based learning. This groundbreaking...

Der Bilinguale Unterricht in Deutschland entwickelt sich derzeit zu einem Regelangebot. Bei dieser Entwicklung wird jedoch die sachfachliche Kompetenz in Theorie, Forschung und Praxis noch nicht im wunschenswerten Masse berucksichtigt. In der europaischen Diskussion um Content and Language Integrated Learning interessiert vor allem die fremdsprachliche Kompetenz. Die Rolle der schulischen Erstsprache sowie der Aufbau fachlicher Literalitat in zwei Sprachen werden kaum berucksichtigt. Dieser Band...

The inside story of the most-watched attempt to transform a troubled high school Stray Dogs, Saints, and Saviors tells the real-life story of Locke High School. Locke High originally known for its excellence became one of the toughest, most dysfunctional schools in the nation. Then in 2007 teachers voted to bring in an upstart charter school organization called Green Dot to try and restore the Locke Saints' past glory. It was a brave and desperate move. Working in secrecy, the school principal,...

Originally published in 1995, this book offers a crucial view of the implementation of legislation for the integration of pupils with special educational needs in EU countries at the time. The match or mismatch between the rhetoric and reality, between the policy and the practice are reviewed by presenters from a recent appraisal of progress in individual national contexts. Authors are critical of the situation in their own countries and call upon recent and relevant research sources to support...

The Importance of Average calls attention to the policies and practices that discriminate against the silent majority of students in the American educational system. Arguments presented emphasize the collateral damage caused to average students by legislative mandates, administrative policies, teaching practices, parenting beliefs, and adherence to strict psychological constructs. Each of these factors has created a pervasive psycho-educational belief of average ability. The authors challenge wh...

An annual publication of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD), To Improve the Academy offers a resource for improvement in higher education to faculty and instructional development staff, department chairs, faculty, deans, student services staff, chief academic officers, and educational consultants.

"Schoolhouse Politics" tells the story of an experiment in curriculum design that was developed in the 1960s and called "Man: A Course of Study" (MACOS). In an attempt to teach anthropology to ten-year-olds, Jerome Bruner and his colleagues designed an elementary school course that combined fieldwork on the social behaviour of baboons, a film-based enthnographic study of an Eskimo tribe, and "hands-on" classroom materials. MACOS was hailed as an original and exciting way to promote science liter...

In 2014--for the first time--over 50% of those in U.S. public schools are students of color. Furthermore, children of immigrants, the majority of whom are of Asian and Latinx origin, are the fastest-growing population in the U.S. Addressing their needs has become an important issue facing educators, researchers, and policy makers nationwide. More importantly, working-poor and low-income immigrant families of color need support and resources to negotiate and navigate between their home/community...

Erfahrungen der ersten Weltausstellungen machten die relative wirtschaftliche Ruckstandigkeit Osterreichs gegenuber den westeuropaischen Staaten England und Frankreich offenkundig. Dies veranlasste die Regierung, nach dem Muster auslandischer Vorbilder Zentralanstalten zu errichten. 1875 wurde vom Unterrichtsministerium ein Organisations- und Ausbaukonzept fur Staatsgewerbeschulen vorgelegt. Sie sollten als gewerbliche Bildungszentren in den verschiedenen Regionen des Reiches zur Verbesserung de...

You can successfully develop your higher education research profile while balancing the demands of training teachers and administration. While teacher education is key to preparing qualified teachers who can educate pupils for the demands of the twenty-first century, many university-based teacher educators experience conflicting demands in their professional practice. Their lives are often so dominated by teaching and associated work that their aspirations to develop a research profile are hamp...

Over the past fifty years, the ""special"" status of education decision-making has been eroded. Once the province of local and state school boards, decisions about schools and schooling have begun to emerge in every level and branch of government. In The End of Exceptionalism in American Education, Jeffrey R. Henig traces the roots of this tectonic shift in school governance. Carefully reasoned, astutely observed, and thoughtfully presented, this volume promises to become a classic work in our...