Equity and Excellence in Education: Towards Maximal Learning Opportunities for All Students - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0415847451 ISBN 13: 9780415847452

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2013

Riassunto

Throughout the world, equity and excellence in education is a major issue of concern. International comparative studies such as those carried out by OECD (PISA) have launched a worldwide debate on the effectiveness of educational systems (macro level), schools (meso level) and teachers (micro level) in terms of enhancing equity and excellence. Inspired by the OECD research and spurred by national policy-making, quantitative and qualitative research studies have recently been conducted in different parts of the globe aiming to provide deeper insight into the crucial variables that have an impact on equity, excellence or both. Among the variables that have been identified as crucial in this respect are the pupils' gender and their socio-economic and linguistic background, teachers' expectations, cognitions and pedagogical approach in the classroom, parental support, financial aspects, educational policies (e.g. priority policies, multilingual policies, early start policies), and variables related to the structure of the educational structure and system (e.g. compulsory school age, comprehensive systems, support structures, system variables enhancing spread of learners). This volume aims to compile a rich collection of research-based contributions, providing a state-of-the-art resource on what we know about this topic today.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Kris Van den Branden is a Professor of Linguistics at the Faculty of Arts of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Piet Van Avermaet is the director of the Centre for Diversity and Learning at the University of Ghent, Belgium.

Mieke Van Houtte is lecturer in the Department of Sociology of Ghent University.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0415847451
• ISBN 13: 9780415847452
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 298
• Redattore: Van Den Branden Kris, Van Avermaet Piet, Van Houtte Mieke
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania