This Open Access volume by the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) is an outcome of the ICMI Study 24 and gives a status-quo of school mathematics reform around the world and what we can learn from this movement. Each theme and section of the book offers descriptions and analyses of multiple case studies in different countries and contexts, along with opportunities to co…
This open access book is the product of an international study which offers a state-of-the-art summary of mathematics teacher collaboration with respect to theory, research, practice, and policy. The authors – leading researchers and teachers on mathematics teacher collaboration – represent a wide range of countries and cultures. Chapters explore the various forms of teacher collaboration; …
This Open Access edited volume addresses the important role of education in society through the lens of theoretical concepts developed by Norbert Elias. This book sets out to challenge dominant perspectives within the sociology of education by reorientating traditional debates about socialisation, childhood, early years education, care, schooling and the curriculum, focusing on the relational l…
This open access report presents findings from the five Latin American countries that participated in the second cycle of the IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS 2016). ICCS 2016 investigated the ways in which a range of countries are preparing their young people to undertake their roles as citizens during the second decade of the 21st century. The study also responded…
Unzuverlässiges Erzählen ist ein faszinierendes Phänomen. Wenn unsicher ist, ob dem Geschilderten getraut werden kann, eröffnen sich Möglichkeiten der Interpretation. Das gilt nicht nur für klassische Belletristik, sondern bereits für Kinderliteratur und Bilderbücher, darüber hinaus auch für unterschiedliche Medien wie Hörspiele, Filme und sogar Computerspiele. Immer wieder trete…
Alter ist ein zentrales Merkmal literarischer Figuren. Es bedingt ihren Aktionsraum, ihr Verhaltensrepertoire, ihre sozialen Beziehungen zu anderen und vieles mehr. Besonders bedeutsam ist die Kategorie Alter für die Kinder- und Jugendliteratur: Über Alterskonstruktionen sind hier Fragen von Abhängigkeiten, Wissen, Erfahrungen, Erinnerungen und Entwicklung verhandelbar. Dabei treten Erwachse…
This open access book provides academic insights and serves as a platform for research-informed discussion about education in Finland. Bringing together the work of more than 50 authors across 28 chapters, it presents a major collection of critical views of the Finnish education system and topics that cohere around social justice concerns. It questions rhetoric, myths, and commonly held assumpt…
In the fields of management and organization, there is an ongoing debate about different ontological assumptions about people in and around organizations, and the dangers of self-fulling prophecies, i.e., the phenomena in which unsubstantiated, unethical, or dysfunctional assumptions about people can lead to adverse practical consequences. This open access book advances this debate, but in a se…
Teacher training; project based learning; educational technology; research methodology; network development; vocational teacher education; developing teaching skills; technical teacher education; Central Asia; GIZ Programme Professional Education in Central Asia; PBL; TVET; USPECH; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; vocational education
This open access book compares and analyses the results in twelve countries of the two latest international student assessments: Progress in International Reading Literacy Study 2021 (PIRLS) and the Programme for International Student Assessment 2022 (PISA) and tries to disentangle the effects of the pandemic from the long term trends in education.