Equity and Excellence in Education (eBook, ePUB)

Towards Maximal Learning Opportunities for All Students
Redaktion: Branden, Kris Van Den; Houtte, Mieke Van; Avermaet, Piet van

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Taking an international perspective, this volume explores numerous issues - gender, socio-economic and linguistic background, teachers' expectations, pedagogical approaches, parental support, educational policies (e.g. priority policies, multilingual policies, early start policies) - and their effects on equity in education.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136835599
• Artikelnr.: 43074928

Autorenporträt

Kris Van den Branden is a Professor of Linguistics at the Faculty of Arts of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Piet Van Avermaet is the director of the Centre for Diversity and Learning at the University of Ghent, Belgium. Mieke Van Houtte is lecturer in the Department of Sociology of Ghent University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Promoting Equity and Excellence in Education: An Overview Piet Van
Avermaet, Mieke Van Houtte and Kris Van den Branden 2. Measuring Excellence
and Equity in Education: Conceptual and Methodological Issues Marie
Duru-Bellat and Alain Mingat 3. School Competition, Institutional
Differentiation, and the Quality and Equity of Education Systems: Evidence
from PISA 2006 Karin Zimmer, Miyako Ikeda and Elke Lüdemann 4. So Where's
the Teacher in School Effects Research? The Impact of Teachers' Beliefs,
Culture and Behaviour on Equity and Excellence in Education Mieke Van
Houtte 5. A Feminist Analysis of Gender and Educational Achievement Becky
Francis and Christine Skelton 6. Teachers' Adaptations to Ethnic Minority
Students in Belgium and England Peter Stevens 7. Early Childhood Education
and Care: Equity and Excellence in the Foundational Stage Michel
Vandenbroeck 8. Bilingualism for Equity and Excellence in Minority
Education: The United States Ofelia García and JoAnne Kleifgen 9. Finnish
Basic Education: When Equity and Excellence Meet Pirjo Linnakylä, Jouni
Välijärvi and Inga Arffman 10. Literacy for All Koen Jaspaert and Kris Van
den Branden 11. Caring Mothers and Teachers, Not Acting White, and
Religiosity: What Are the Success Factors of High Achieving DiaspoRicans
and Moroccan Students in Belgium? René Antrop-González, William Vélez,
Tomás Garrett and Dana Baldwin 12. Full Service and Extended Schools: The
Path to Equity? Alan Dyson