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This book hopes to provide other small-scale schools with replicable and low-cost local experience, meanwhile, to summarize and explore the development model and path of rural education in China. As the “nerve endings” of Chinese education system, rural small-scale schools have unique important values in guaranteeing equity in education and serving the compulsory education in rural areas. By telling ten vivid stories of the transforming path of rural small-scale schools in China, and inviting different experts and peers to comment on the stories, this book shows how the rural small-scale schools acted according to circumstances to improve education quality, how they broke through the difficult situation and got better, and how they achieved the status of “small and beautiful” and “small and good.” It tries to explore a new path for rural education changing and aims to provide some inspirations on rural and urban education development. .

Education, Rural --- Schools. --- Teachers --- School and Schooling. --- Teaching and Teacher Education. --- School Research. --- Training of.

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This open access book explores democratic schools and learning environments globally. The book focuses on a newly developed framework for democratic education. The authors describe existing schools and concept schools—those that are ideas but not in operation. The first section includes the editors’ own journeys. Pillar 1 includes schools that emphasize the open flow of ideas and choices, regardless of their popularity. Pillar 2 maintains that it is impossible to have a high quality education that ignores equity. Chapters explore how many diverse ‘marginalized’ communities experience education and some innovations that hold great promise for inclusion. Pillar 3 provides examples of schools where active engagement, consensus and compromise support the ‘common good.’ Pillar 4 investigates schools which organize students, parents, social institutions and the larger community collaboratively to achieve its goals and to solve theirs and society’s most urgent challenges. Linda F. Nathan brings over four decades of experience in designing schools and nonprofits, including serving as the founding principal of Boston Arts Academy, the city's first public high school for the visual and performing arts. Currently, she supports and mentors educational leaders nationally and internationally and is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, USA. Jonathan F. Mendonca is the CEO of Shikha Institute of Education & Co-founder of Barefoot Edu Foundation, a non-profit that builds school leadership for the twenty-first century across three states in India. He has served as an educator, educator trainer, institute builder and policy advocate improving the quality of education through human centered systems and policies. Gustavo Rojas Ayala currently serves as the general director for Mexicanos Primero Sinaloa, Mexico, a non-profit that advocates for children’s right to education through research and policy analysis. He has extensive experience leading school intervention projects aimed at increasing educational justice in underprivileged communities in Chile and Mexico.

Schools. --- Learning, Psychology of. --- School management and organization. --- School administration. --- School and Schooling. --- School Research. --- Learning Theory. --- Organization and Leadership.

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Mit Blick auf die berufliche Orientierung Jugendlicher bietet dieses Open-Access-Buch eine systematische, theoriegeleitete und empirische Analyse heterogener Unterstützungsbedarfe und ihrer vielfältigen Ursachen. Die Bedeutung regelmäßiger Bedarfs- und Entwicklungsdiagnostik sowie einer systematischen Verzahnung einzelner Elemente beruflicher Orientierung im schulischen Kontext wird eindrucksvoll anhand heterogener und gleichzeitig diskontinuierlicher Entwicklungsverläufe verdeutlicht. Die Autorin weist zudem auf Konsequenzen für rahmengebende Berufsorientierungsprogramme, die Konzeption berufsorientierender Maßnahmen sowie für die Planung und Umsetzung schulinterner Konzepte hin.

Education --- Adult education, continuous learning --- Gender studies, gender groups --- Education, general --- Personal Development --- Gender Studies --- School Research --- Berufliche Orientierung --- Berufsorientierung --- Berufswahl --- Heterogenität --- Kompetenz --- Schule --- Open Access

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Reaching deep into the wealth of Chinese philosophical wisdom, this book offers rich insights into a way of educating that has found staunch advocates among educators through the ages. The ‘free-spirit education’, which calls on educators to respect and nurture the natural goodness of each child, affords an educational principle that is embedded in one of the most important Confucian classics: The Doctrine of the Mean. This book analyzes the meaning, history, principles, and educational application of ‘free-spirit education’ and also explores its contemporary development in the context of a school improvement initiative. It introduces the intellectual origins of ‘free-spirit education’, the application in ’process-based inductive teaching’ and cases from the field. It presents the collection of pedagogical cases that are rooted in the traditions of Chinese philosophic inquiry and viewed through the lens of contemporary pedagogy for human development. This book is a useful reference for university faculty, educational researchers, school teachers and leaders, graduate and undergraduate students in curriculum studies and in philosophy, social science, and education, curriculum developers, and all those educators who are interested in understanding ‘free-spirit education’—a key component of the humanistic traditions of Chinese education.

Schools. --- Education—Philosophy. --- Education—Curricula. --- School Research. --- Educational Philosophy. --- Curriculum Studies. --- Public institutions --- Education --- Filosofia de l'educació --- Finalitats de l'educació --- Confucianisme

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This book provides important advice to scientists at all stages of their careers on how to be a more effective and impactful researcher. It provides tips on: designing, performing, and analyzing experiments; writing, submitting and revising manuscripts; preparing and giving scientific talks and posters; writing grant proposals; and writing and defending a graduate thesis. It also provides advice on soft skills, like communication, networking, creativity, critical thinking, and working in teams. A major emphasis of the book is the importance of writing and publishing scientific manuscripts, as this is the main way that scientific knowledge is disseminated, as well as being an important element for building a strong curriculum vitae. The book should be an extremely valuable resource for graduate students throughout their studies but should also be useful for postdocs and professors who want to hone their research skills. The book is written by three scientists from the same family who are each at different stages in their careers and can therefore provide different perspectives. David Julian McClements is a distinguished professor who is currently the most highly cited author in Food Science in the world. He has published over 1300 scientific articles and numerous books. Jake McClements is beginning his career as a lecturer in the United Kingdom, while Isobelle Farrell McClements is just starting her career as a graduate student in the United States.

Science --- Vocational guidance. --- Research --- Education --- Penmanship. --- Schools. --- Education. --- Research Skills. --- Educational Research. --- Writing Skills. --- Research Methods in Education. --- School Research. --- Methodology. --- Research.