Examining a different topical subject each year, these fascinating books put forward a wide range of perspectives and dialogue from all over the world. With the best and most pivotal work of leading educational thinkers and writers from 1965 to the present day, these essential reference titles provide a complete history of the development of education around the globe. Available individually or in library-ready sets, this is the indispensable atlas of education, mapping ever changing aspects of theory, policy, teaching and learning.
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By Xavier Dumay, Tore Sorensen, Lynn Paine
November 12, 2024
The World Yearbook of Education 2025 analyses teacher policies and the governance of the teaching profession in the contemporary context of major societal changes and globalizing processes. The first volume dedicated to an overview of globalized teacher policies and their implications for the ...
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By Ben Williamson, Janja Komljenovic, Kalervo Gulson
November 30, 2023
Providing a comprehensive, global overview of the digitalisation of education, the World Yearbook of Education 2024 examines the ways advanced digital technologies are transforming educational practices, institutions and policy processes.Establishing a critical research agenda for analysing the ...
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By Janelle Scott, Monisha Bajaj
November 09, 2023
The World Yearbook of Education 2023 centers on the intersection of racialization, inequality, and education. It critically examines how racial formation and its associated logics about citizenship, belonging, justice, equality, and humanity manifest in early childhood education, primary, secondary...
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By Daniel Tröhler, Nelli Piattoeva, William F. Pinar
June 30, 2023
The latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education Series explores the relationship between education and the globally prevalent principle of nationalism. This book identifies the diverse ways in which educational policies, discourses, curricula and pedagogy embed and promote the concept of "the ...
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By Sotiria Grek, Christian Maroy, Antoni Verger
May 30, 2022
Providing a comprehensive introduction to the topic of accountability and datafication in the governance of education, the World Yearbook of Education 2021 considers global policy dynamics and policy enactment processes. Chapters pay particular attention to the role of international organizations ...
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By Julie Allan, Valerie Harwood, Clara Rübner Jørgensen
August 02, 2021
A timely contribution to the debate on educational governance and equality, the World Yearbook of Education 2020 documents the significant changes that have occurred in the last 20 years reflecting a widespread shift from government to governance. Considering school context as well as specific...
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By Chris Bell, Duncan Harris
June 30, 2020
First Published in 2005. Assessment and evaluation are essential to education and training. Whether informal or formal, at their best they assist the learning process by providing feedback to 'learners' and 'teachers', facilitate quality assurance and control, and provide a mechanism whereby ...
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By Radhika Gorur, Sam Sellar, Gita Steiner-Khamsi
February 25, 2020
Digital methodologies, new forms of data visualization and computer-based learning and assessment are creating new challenges as well as opportunities for scholars in educational research. The World Yearbook of Education 2019 explores this highly relevant topic, opening a new discussion about the ...
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By Peter Mittler, Ron Brouillette, Duncan Harris
March 16, 2012
First published in 2005. The goal of Education For All, set by the United Nations at the 1990 Jomtien (Thailand) Conference and adopted by heads of state at the World Summit for Children in the same year, confronts all of us with the fundamental challenge of including children with disabilities in ...
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By George Z. F. Bereday, Joseph A. Lauwerys
March 03, 2016
First published in 2005. Broadly speaking, church-state relations in education turn nowadays upon two chief issues: I. Should religion be taught in state schools? And if so, may the state interfere with the teaching? 2. In countries where separate schools, under church control, exist should they ...
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By Julie Allan, Alfredo J. Artiles
July 30, 2018
This latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education Series focuses on assessment systems and efforts to advance equity in education at a time of growing inequalities. It considers new economic trends and investigates how constraints appear to be influencing assessment and identification practices...
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By Julie McLeod, Noah W. Sobe, Terri Seddon
December 06, 2017
This latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education Series considers changing space-times of education by asking how they become unevenly textured as our worlds globalise, horizons shift and familiar points of reference melt and are remade. Acknowledging the reach of economic and cultural change,...