Quality and qualities tensions in education reforms /

Quality and Qualities: Tensions in Education Reforms is a provocative call for understanding and further exploring the elusive concept of quality in education. Although education quality has acquired high priority in the past few decades, the multiplicity of conceptualizations of quality also reflec...

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Other Authors: Acedo, Clementina., Adams, Donald K., 1925-, Popa, Simona., SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Rotterdam ; Boston : SensePublishers, ©2012.
Rotterdam ; Boston : [2012]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (213 pages).
Series: Comparative and international education (Sense Publishers) ; v. 16.
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Table of Contents:
  • In Search of Quality Education /
  • Don Adams, Clementina Acedo and Simona Popa
  • Education Reform and the Discourse of Quality in Argentina /
  • Jorge M. Gorostiaga and Adrián Ferreira
  • The Quest for Educational Quality in Egypt : Active-Learning Pedagogies as a Reform Initiative
  • Quality Tensions and Endogenous Development : Venezuela's Bolivarian Education System /
  • Matthew Rhodes
  • A New Government's Policy Initiatives for School Reform In Korea /
  • Chong Jae Lee
  • Improving Educational Quality through English-Medium Instruction in Mathematics and Science : Ideals and Practices at Four Provincial Secondary Schools in Malaysia /
  • Geok Hwa Kee
  • The Development of Higher Education, and its Quality Assurance, in Vietnam /
  • Lam Quang Thiep and Vu Thi Phuong Anh
  • Education Development in Kenya : Enhancing Access and Quality /
  • Macrina C. Lelei and John C. Weidman
  • Globalization, Decentralization, and Equity : Post-Secondary English Language Policy in China /
  • Rebecca A. Clothey
  • Education Quality : Its Meanings in Chile /
  • Francisco Téllez and Maria José Ramirez.