Improving Schools

04.11.2015

Englisch

9789812879295

Springer Singapore

Nein

Shaun Rawolle, Muriel Wells, Louise Paatsch, Russell Tytler, Coral Campbell

135

Gebundene Ausgabe

Productive Tensions Between the Local, the Systemic and the Global

Dr Shaun Rawolle’s research is focused on the way policy impacts on practice in education and education systems and published in the areas of communications, new contractualism, sociology of education and education policy and contributed to the development of theoretical, conceptual and methodological innovations in the study of education policy, comparative education and sociology of education drawing on the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu. Dr Muriel Wells’ research is located in the areas of emerging technologies in primary education, digital literacies, mobile technologies, action research based models of teacher professional learning and the use of emerging technologies in education generally. Associate Professor Coral Campbell’s research has been focused on science education, teachers’ and students’ learning in science learning. She has conducted science education research partnerships in Malaysia (STEM) and England. She has contributed to the enhancement of science education through school-based, science education programs and the Primary Science Specialist Professional Learning Program.Dr Louise Paatsch is currently involved in research projects in the areas of early childhood and primary-aged language and literacy, multimodal literacies and teaching literacy pedagogy, the investigation of pragmatic skills and narrative skills of children and adolescents with hearing loss. She hasexplored teacher strategies that scaffold children’s language and literacy learning; and investigated the home literacy practices and language skills of pre-school children. Professor Russell Tytler has researched and written extensively on student learning in science, teacher and school change, curriculum policy and development, public understanding of science, rural and regional issues in science and mathematics education. He has been involved with system wide curriculum development and professional development initiatives, STEM policy development and the study of teacher support for reasoning in primary school classrooms across different cultures.

International school improvement, School improvement, Schooling in Australia, classroom practice, education policy, effective teacher learning, enhanced school processes, global education reform, global policy travel, policy borrowing, policy travel, quality learning, school accountability, school change processes, school improvement rhetoric, school leadership, system change processes, system reform initiatives, teacher professional learning

JNF - Bildungsstrategien und -politik JNG - Frühkindliche Pflege & Bildung JNMT - Lehrerausbildung JNRV - Berufsausbildung JND - Bildungssysteme und -strukturen

235 mm

15.5 cm