Author: Memorial University of Newfoundland. Institute for Educational Research and Development
Publisher: Calgary : Detselig Enterprises
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Essays from leading Canadian scholars in a wide variety of disciplines.
Foundations of Literacy Policy in Canada
Author: Memorial University of Newfoundland. Institute for Educational Research and Development
Publisher: Calgary : Detselig Enterprises
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Essays from leading Canadian scholars in a wide variety of disciplines.
Publisher: Calgary : Detselig Enterprises
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Essays from leading Canadian scholars in a wide variety of disciplines.
The Education Systems of the Americas
Author: Sieglinde Jornitz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783319934433
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This handbook focuses on and compares the education systems in the three Americas: North, Central and South America, and includes a chapter on most countries in the region. The chapters follow a common structure and include schematic diagrams of the structure of mainstream education from pre-primary to tertiary level. Each chapter starts with a description of the historical and social foundations of the education system from the post-World War II period up to today, including political, economic and cultural contexts and conditions. By highlighting important dates and structural decisions, the current education system can be understood as resulting from past developments. The first part ends with a description of the transitions to the labour market that are offered, and the way in which these are organized in the education system described. The second part consists of an overview of the institutional and organizational principles as well as the structure of education from pre-primary to tertiary level. It includes a focus on legislative bases and financial provisions for the education system and a description of the structure by using the ISCED-classification. It further includes information of the supply of human resources such as teachers and other educators. The third and final part of the handbook discusses selected educational trends and aspects. In this context, three topics are of particular interest: dealing with inequality, ICT and digitization activities, and STEM-related policies and programmes.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783319934433
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This handbook focuses on and compares the education systems in the three Americas: North, Central and South America, and includes a chapter on most countries in the region. The chapters follow a common structure and include schematic diagrams of the structure of mainstream education from pre-primary to tertiary level. Each chapter starts with a description of the historical and social foundations of the education system from the post-World War II period up to today, including political, economic and cultural contexts and conditions. By highlighting important dates and structural decisions, the current education system can be understood as resulting from past developments. The first part ends with a description of the transitions to the labour market that are offered, and the way in which these are organized in the education system described. The second part consists of an overview of the institutional and organizational principles as well as the structure of education from pre-primary to tertiary level. It includes a focus on legislative bases and financial provisions for the education system and a description of the structure by using the ISCED-classification. It further includes information of the supply of human resources such as teachers and other educators. The third and final part of the handbook discusses selected educational trends and aspects. In this context, three topics are of particular interest: dealing with inequality, ICT and digitization activities, and STEM-related policies and programmes.
Health Literacy in Canada
Author: Laurie Hoffman-Goetz
Publisher: Canadian Scholars’ Press
ISBN: 1551305593
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Why do we need health literacy? Through a health promotion and social justice lens, Laurie Hoffman-Goetz, Lorie Donelle, and Rukhsana Ahmed describe health literacy as an increasingly important determinant of health and highlight the necessity of health literacy skills for ensuring equitable access to health care information and services. This core text offers a critical examination of how culture, ethnicity, social media applications, and the literacy and digital divides affect individuals' ability to secure health information, services, and support. Health Literacy in Canada will inform the way we respond to public health issues in Canada and around the world. This pedagogically rich and highly accessible text is ideal for use in upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in public health, health promotion, health communication, risk communication and perception, and gerontology. Features: contains extensive learning tools for students, including summaries of key points, questions for reflection, learning exercises, a glossary, and a list of additional resources provides a comprehensive review of fundamental health literacy concepts including definitions, models, and measurement tools emphasizes Canadian-centred examples of health literacy policy milestones offers concrete recommendations for improving health literacy in everyday settings
Publisher: Canadian Scholars’ Press
ISBN: 1551305593
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Why do we need health literacy? Through a health promotion and social justice lens, Laurie Hoffman-Goetz, Lorie Donelle, and Rukhsana Ahmed describe health literacy as an increasingly important determinant of health and highlight the necessity of health literacy skills for ensuring equitable access to health care information and services. This core text offers a critical examination of how culture, ethnicity, social media applications, and the literacy and digital divides affect individuals' ability to secure health information, services, and support. Health Literacy in Canada will inform the way we respond to public health issues in Canada and around the world. This pedagogically rich and highly accessible text is ideal for use in upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in public health, health promotion, health communication, risk communication and perception, and gerontology. Features: contains extensive learning tools for students, including summaries of key points, questions for reflection, learning exercises, a glossary, and a list of additional resources provides a comprehensive review of fundamental health literacy concepts including definitions, models, and measurement tools emphasizes Canadian-centred examples of health literacy policy milestones offers concrete recommendations for improving health literacy in everyday settings
Reading Literacy in the United States
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literacy
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literacy
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
The Foundations of Adult Education in Canada
Author: Gordon Rex Selman
Publisher: Thompson Educational Pub.
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher: Thompson Educational Pub.
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Whose Knowledge Counts in Government Literacy Policies?
Author: Kenneth S. Goodman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135096678
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Accountability, in the form of standardized test scores, is built into many government literacy policies, with severe consequences for schools and districts that fail to meet ever-increasing performance levels. The key question this book addresses is whose knowledge is considered in framing government literacy policies? The intent is to raise awareness of the degree to which expertise is being ignored on a worldwide level and pseudo-science is becoming the basis for literacy policies and laws. The authors, all leading researchers from the U.S., U.K., Scotland, France, and Germany, have a wide range of views but share in common a deep concern about the lack of respect for knowledge among policy makers. Each author comes to the common subject of this volume from the vantage point of his or her major interests, ranging from an exposition of what should be the best knowledge utilized in an aspect of literacy education policy, to how political decisions are impacting literacy policy, to laying out the history of events in their own country. Collectively they offer a critical analysis of the condition of literacy education past and present and suggest alternative courses of action for the future.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135096678
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Accountability, in the form of standardized test scores, is built into many government literacy policies, with severe consequences for schools and districts that fail to meet ever-increasing performance levels. The key question this book addresses is whose knowledge is considered in framing government literacy policies? The intent is to raise awareness of the degree to which expertise is being ignored on a worldwide level and pseudo-science is becoming the basis for literacy policies and laws. The authors, all leading researchers from the U.S., U.K., Scotland, France, and Germany, have a wide range of views but share in common a deep concern about the lack of respect for knowledge among policy makers. Each author comes to the common subject of this volume from the vantage point of his or her major interests, ranging from an exposition of what should be the best knowledge utilized in an aspect of literacy education policy, to how political decisions are impacting literacy policy, to laying out the history of events in their own country. Collectively they offer a critical analysis of the condition of literacy education past and present and suggest alternative courses of action for the future.
Research Handbook on Adult Education Policy
Author: Marcella Milana
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1803925957
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Bringing together an impressive array of esteemed and emerging academics, the Research Handbook on Adult Education Policy addresses how adult learning and education policies are made, and the theories and methodologies which can be mobilised to study its developments.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1803925957
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Bringing together an impressive array of esteemed and emerging academics, the Research Handbook on Adult Education Policy addresses how adult learning and education policies are made, and the theories and methodologies which can be mobilised to study its developments.
Issues in African Education
Author: A. Abdi
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403977194
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
This book addresses major sociological issues in sub-Saharan African education today. Its fourteen contributors present a thoroughly African world-view within a sociology of education theoretical framework, allowing the reader to see where that theory is relevant to the African context and where it is not. Several of the chapters bring a much-needed cultural nuance and critical theoretical perspective to the issues at hand. The sixteen chapters thus aim to be of interest internationally, to those who work in such fields as social and political foundations of comparative and international education, and development studies, including university professors, teacher educators, researchers, school teachers, tertiary education students, consultants and policy makers.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403977194
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
This book addresses major sociological issues in sub-Saharan African education today. Its fourteen contributors present a thoroughly African world-view within a sociology of education theoretical framework, allowing the reader to see where that theory is relevant to the African context and where it is not. Several of the chapters bring a much-needed cultural nuance and critical theoretical perspective to the issues at hand. The sixteen chapters thus aim to be of interest internationally, to those who work in such fields as social and political foundations of comparative and international education, and development studies, including university professors, teacher educators, researchers, school teachers, tertiary education students, consultants and policy makers.
Resources in Education
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
Author: Colin Baker
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1847693563
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Written as an introductory text from a crossdisciplinary perspective, this book covers individual and societal concepts in minority and majority languages.
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1847693563
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Written as an introductory text from a crossdisciplinary perspective, this book covers individual and societal concepts in minority and majority languages.