Palgrave Studies in Excellence and Equity in Global Education – serie

Literacy is arguably the most important goal of schooling as, to a large extent, it determines young children’s educational and life chances and is fundamental in achieving social justice. New Zealand’s literacy education programme has long been regarded as one of the world’s most successful approaches to teaching literacy skills to young children. Excellence and Equity in Literacy Education questions this widely held assumption. In the late 1990s the New Zealand government developed a national literacy strategy aimed at reducing persistently large inequities in literacy achievement outcomes. The chapters in this edited volume present evidence indicating that the national literacy strategy has failed, examine the major factors responsible for the continuation of New Zealand’s comparatively wide spread of scores in literacy achievement, and describe the most effective strategies for reducing the literacy achievement gap and achieving excellence and equity in New Zealand literacy education.

This collection explores why powerful knowledge matters for social justice and discusses its implications for curriculum and pedagogy. The contributors argue that the purpose of education is to provide all students with access to powerful knowledge so that they acquire the means to move beyond their experiences and enhance their lives.

This book focuses on how to improve the teaching and learning of primary level mathematics education within resource-constrained contexts.

This collection explores why powerful knowledge matters for social justice and discusses its implications for curriculum and pedagogy. The contributors argue that the purpose of education is to provide all students with access to powerful knowledge so that they acquire the means to move beyond their experiences and enhance their lives.

This edited collection demonstrates how discourses and practices associated with marketisation, differentiation and equality are manifested in UK higher education today.

Across the world, higher education is witnessing exponential growth in both student participation and types of educational providers. This volume will be of interest and value to students and scholars of global higher education, representation and participation in education, and quality in higher education.

National debates on excellence and equity tend to focus largely on underachievement in mathematics and science rather than subjects in the arts or music: this is due to a belief that these curriculum areas are central to individual workplace success and national development in a competitive economic environment.

National debates on excellence and equity tend to focus largely on underachievement in mathematics and science rather than subjects in the arts or music: this is due to a belief that these curriculum areas are central to individual workplace success and national development in a competitive economic environment.

This book explores the history of higher education in Thailand, and the ways in which excellence and equity have played out over time.

This book explores the history of higher education in Thailand, and the ways in which excellence and equity have played out over time.

This book offers a comprehensive, in-depth examination of the ethical dimensions of affirmative action policies and distributive justice, and their far-reaching implications for achieving social equity within global higher education systems. Affirmative action, while often debated, plays a pivotal role in shaping the landscape of education, especially in addressing systemic inequalities faced by marginalized communities and underrepresented groups, particularly women. Through a philosophical inquiry into justice, fairness and equality, this work critically interrogates the moral grounds upon which affirmative action policies are based, assessing whether these policies can genuinely deliver equitable outcomes or if they perpetuate new forms of injustice. The book will appeal to academics, students and practitioners of higher education, philosophy, ethics, gender studies and social justice.

This edited collection demonstrates how discourses and practices associated with marketisation, differentiation and equality are manifested in UK higher education today.