Contexts of Learning
About the Book Series
Children are educated within many different contexts - in their families, schools, communities and nations. Historically, book series have often looked at only one of these influences and have seen development in isolation from the others.
The purposes of the Contexts of Learning book series is to promote understanding of, and high quality interventions within, all these contexts that affect children. The series exhibits a broad range of topics, ranging from conventional studies of schools as learning environments to contemporary issues in mathematics education, and reflects the variety of perspectives that exist about these influences on children.
The series also includes a variety of genres - it contains multi-authored books, some single author volumes and some edited volumes in which researchers put together material which reflects their intellectual trajectory through their careers.
Although there is variation in the themes addressed and the particular genre, all volumes are encouraged to have an inclusive, international reach in their concerns and their source material.
Profound Improvement: Building Capacity for a Learning Community
2nd Edition
By Coral Mitchell, Larry Sackney
January 30, 2025
The book discusses the idea of the learning community as a vehicle for professional learning and school development. As the authors show, the learning community develops in response to building capacity in three domains: personal, interpersonal and organizational. In the personal domain, educators ...
Preparing School Leaders for the 21st Century
1st Edition
By Stephan Gerhard Huber
September 30, 2020
The quality and success of schools depend upon school leadership. Increasingly, in many countries worldwide, this belief has led to designing and implementing appropriate training and development programs for educational leaders. In an international comparative research project, current school ...
Inquiry, Data, and Understanding: A Search for Meaning in Educational Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Lorin W. Anderson
August 25, 2020
Inquiry, Data, and Understanding is a reflective collection of papers in which Lorin Anderson offers his personal perspective on developments in educational research over thirty years. Following an introductory chapter, in which educational research is defined as disciplined inquiry, the remaining ...
Improving Schools Through Teacher Development: Case Studies of the Aga Khan Foundation Projects in East Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By S.E. Anderson
June 30, 2020
This book presents a story of school improvement activity in East Africa from 1985 to 2000, which focused on sustained teacher development. The core of the book consists of six evaluations of school-and district-wide school improvement projects (SIPs) supported by the Aga Khan Foundation in ...
Improving Schools and Educational Systems: International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Alma Harris, Janet Hageman Chrispeels
June 30, 2020
School improvement has become a dominant feature of educational reform in many countries. The pressure upon schools to improve performance has resulted in a wide-range of improvement programmes and initiatives which can provide both inspiration and advice to everyone involved in school improvement....
Reshaping the Landscape of School Leadership Development: A Global Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Philip Hallinger
June 30, 2020
Reshaping the Landscape of School Leadership Development: A Global Perspective traces developments in this arena as they evolved since 1980. The book is comprised of chapters authored by the leading scholars in the fields of educational leadership and school leadership development from the United ...
Organizing for School Change
1st Edition
By Karen Seashore Louis
February 04, 2019
Improving education is a key priority for governments around the world. While many suggestions on how best to achieve this are currently under debate, years of academic research have already revealed more about how to encourage change than is sometimes assumed. This volume brings together for the ...
International Perspectives on Student Outcomes and Homework: Family-School-Community Partnerships
1st Edition
Edited
By Rollande Deslandes
December 11, 2013
This synthesis of the latest knowledge on homework presents unique findings by researchers from various countries and diverse professional backgrounds. It approaches the topic of homework from several perspectives, including its political and cultural contexts aspects of parental ...
International Perspectives on Contexts, Communities and Evaluated Innovative Practices: Family-School-Community Partnerships
1st Edition
Edited
By Rollande Deslandes
March 28, 2013
Research and practice in the vast field of school-family-community relations have evolved dramatically over the last thirty years. Schools throughout the world face enormous challenges due to demographic changes and societal problems, making partnerships among schools, families and community groups...
Failure-Free Education?: The Past, Present and Future of School Effectiveness and School Improvement
1st Edition
By David Reynolds
March 03, 2011
David Reynolds is recognised internationally as one of the leaders of the school effectiveness and school improvement movement, and Failure Free Education? brings together for the first time many of his most influential and provocative pieces. Drawing on the author’s work from over three decades, ...
Improving Schools and Educational Systems: International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Alma Harris, Janet Hageman Chrispeels
September 19, 2008
School improvement has become a dominant feature of educational reform in many countries. The pressure upon schools to improve performance has resulted in a wide-range of improvement programmes and initiatives which can provide both inspiration and advice to everyone involved in school improvement....
Contexts of Learning Mathematics and Science: Lessons Learned from TIMSS
1st Edition
Edited
By Sarah J. Howie, Tjeerd Plomp
May 23, 2008
This book is the result of research from over fifteen countries, asking which background and environmental factors influence achievement in mathematics and science. This research is based on data from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), which was conducted under...