Education Policy

Edited by Gregory T. Papanikos

ISBN: 978-960-6672-92-7, 194 pages

First published in 2011 by ATINER

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Table of Contents

1.	Education Policy: An Introduction Gregory T. Papanikos	1
Part A: Education Policy Values
2.	Philosophy, Education, and Dewey: A Neglected Union David Diener	7
3.	The Full-Service Community School Movement and the Notion of the Common Good Pat Williams-Boyd	17
4.	The Role of Education in the Transmission of Intergenerational Inequalities: Reducer or Producer? Inga Mikutaviciene and Kestutis Pukelis	27
5.	Structuring Learning Experiences Aimed at Dynamic Emotional Issues: Teaching about Death and Loss, Ethics, and Violence Lindell Smith	41
6.	Do Principal-Educators Have the Ability to Transform Schools?: A South African Perspective Ivan November, Gregory Alexander and Micheal M. Van Wyk	53
7.	Traditional Culture in the Content of Current Education: Reality and Opportunities Zenta Anspoka and Gunta Silina-Jasjukevica	67
8.	Curriculum Reform and Life Orientation Education in Port-Apartheid South Africa Getahum Y. Abraham	79
Part B: Education Policy and its Stakeholders
9.	Secondary Stakeholders Attitudes about Educational Improvement Rebecca Bardwell	103
10.	The Current Status of Guidance and Counseling in the Turkish Education System Gurhan Can	113
11.	Career Choice in Pupils with Special Educational Needs -Comparison of Case Studies Zdenek Friedmann and Bohumira Lazarova	121
12.	The Investigation of the Effects of Individual and Group Mother Education Program on the Empathy Levels Fulya Temel and Zeynep Kurtulmus	135
13.	Teacher-Parent Co-Operation in Providing Quality Education of Pupils: What do Teachers and Parents Discuss and how are Discussions Approached? Barbara Steh and Jana Kalin	145
Part C: Education Policy and its Stakeholders
14.	Function of the Mandatory School Uniform Policy in Public Elementary Schools Filiz Meseci-Giorgetti	159
15.	A Historical Survey of PhD Students in Statistics Ayse Bilgin	171
16.	Turkish Pre-Service Teachers’ Perspectives on Student Teaching Practicum Tulin Guler, Arif Yilmaz and Eda Kargi	181