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School Leadership and Educational Change in Singapore: edited by B. Wong, S. Hairon, and P. T. Ng, Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2019, p. 220, € 50.28 (e-Book), € 59.99 (paper back), ISBN 978-3-319-74744-6 Chua and Chai conclude that successful ICT integration in schools depends largely on school leadership, which plays a critical role in understanding and interpreting the intentions of the Ministry's ICT policies. In the chapter findings, Ng elaborates on how the primary school principal applies various dimensions of instructional leadership in her interactions and meetings with school staff, pupils, and parents. [Extracted from the article]

Reviews books on education policy. "Brookings Papers on Education Policy 2004," edited by Diane Ravitch; "The Rhetoric of Rhetoric: The Quest for Effective Communication," by Wayne C. Booth; "Killing Thinking: The Death of the Universities," by Mary Evans; "The Good Teacher: Dominant Discourses in Teaching and Teacher Education," by Alex Moore.

While the bigger "manoeuvres" are relatively easy to bring into view, the question how all this impacts on teacher education and teacher educators, is an important question for research. In addition to these more detailed studies, Alexander provides a revealing analysis of 40 years of teacher education policy in Australia, not only providing a longer-term perspective on teacher education policy but also highlighting the way in which, over time, teacher educators have become more marginalised in the whole set up. The idea that teacher educators should "speak back" is also one of the key messages in the contribution by White, based on a study in which she asked twenty accomplished teacher educators what advice they would give to beginning teacher educators. [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the book 'Between Capitalism and Democracy: Educational Policy and the Crisis of the Welfare State,' by Svi Shapiro.

Inspiring artists to explore transcultural exchange: A book review of Sherman, M. (Ed.) This section, which presents art as a resource connected to the context around it, is in accordance with the section that follows, entitled I The critic's voice i , which deals with two concepts that put art at the service of the context. Artistic production from a critical approach Although the book edited by Sherman revolves around the ideas of I exchange i and I transcultural i , she does not forget to include chapters related to art and its production that can also respond to these ideas. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "John Dewey Reconsidered," edited by R.S. Peters.

Reviews the book `National School Policy: Major issues in education policy for schools in England and Wales, 1979 onwards,' edited by J. Docking.

Reviews the book "Education Answers Back: Critical Responses to Government Policy," edited by Clyde Chitty and Brian Simon.

The article reviews the book "Changing Policies, Changing Teachers: new directions for schooling?" edited by Stephen Walker and Len Barton.

The article reviews the book "Key Issues in Education Policy," by Stephen Ward and Christine Eden.

These sketches of a few chapters in the handbook can only hint at the depth of the commitments by scholars and practitioners to a marginal area of research and practice. Students' initiatives in adult literacy programs do not often appear in program descriptions, but a particular chapter offers an exception. The Wiley Handbook of Adult Literacy: Dolores Perin, Ed. 2019, 2020. [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the book `Advances in Educational Policy: rethinking school reform in Chicago,' by Kenneth K. Wong.

Reviews the book 'Education Policy Implementation,' edited by Allan R. Odden.

Reviews the book 'Educational Policy for Effective Schools,' edited by Mark Holmes, Kenneth A. Leithwood and Donald F. Musella.

Human capital theory (Becker, [2]; Mincer, [8]) has dominated higher education policy in Australia and in many other countries since the last quarter of the 20 SP th sp century and remains the dominant justification for governments investing in higher education. Vocational education has been dominated even more by human capital theory, partly because many who argue for lofty goals for universities do so in contrast to the prosaic and utilitarian goals they posit for vocational education (Moodie, [9]; Lum, [7], p. 2). Lesley Powell and Simon McGrath ([20]) advance the capabilities approach to vocational education considerably in their book I Skills for human development: transforming vocational education and training i . [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the book 'The Government of Education in Australia: The Origins of Federal Policy,' by P.D. Tannock.

Reviews the book 'The Sorting Machine: National Educational Policy Since 1945,' by Joel Spring.

The article reviews the book "Transnational and Temporary: Students, Community and Place-Making in Central Melbourne," by Ruth Fincher, Paul Carter, Kate Shaw, Paolo Tombesi and Andrew Martel.

The article reviews several books including "Education and Decentralization: A Case Study of India's Kerala State," by M. V. Mukundan, "Cultures of Arab Schooling: Critical Ethnographies from Egypt," edited by Linda Herrera and Alberto Torres, "Education Reforms and Teachers, Unions: Avenues for Action," by Denise Vaillant.

The article reviews the book "Women's Education in the United States, 1780-1840," by Margaret A. Nash.

The article reviews the book "Radical Possibilities: Public Policy, Urban Education, and a New Social Movement," by Jean Anyon.

The article reviews the book "Educational Policy and Social Reproduction: Class Inscription and Symbolic Control," by John Fitz, Brian Davies and John Evans

The article reviews the book "Holding Accountability Accountable: What ought to Matter in Public Education," edited by Kenneth A. Sirotnik.

Reviews the book "Political Education: National Policy Comes of Age," by Christopher Cross.

Reviews the book 'Making Sense of Education Policy: Studies in the Sociology and Politics of Education,' by Geoff Whitty.

Reviews the book 'The Struggle for Control of Public Education: MarketIdeology vs. Democratic Values,' by Michael Engel.

Reviews books about educational policy. 'Re-Making Teaching: Ideology, Policy and Practice,' by John Smyth and Geoffrey Shacklock; 'Apprenticeship: Towards a New Paradigm of Learning,' edited by Patrick Ainley and Helen Rainbird.

Reviews the book 'The Classroom Struggle: Policy and Resistance in South Africa 1940-1990,' by Jonathan Hyslop.

The article reviews the book "Education, Politics and the State," by Brian Salter and Ted Tapper.

Reviews the book "Knowledge and Nationhood: Education, Politics and Work," by James Avis, Martin Bloomer, Geoff Esland, Denis Gleeson and Phil Hodkinson.

Reviews the book 'Investing in U.S. Schools: Directions for Educational Policy,' edited by Bruce Anthony Jones and Kathryn M. Borman.

Reviews the book 'Universities and the Capitalist State: Corporate Liberalism and the Reconstruction of American Higher Education, 1894-1928,' by Clyde W. Barrow.

Reviews the book 'Our Children and Our Country: Improving America's Schools and Affirming the Common Culture,' by William J. Bennett.

Reviews the book 'The Politics of Excellence and Choice in Education,' edited by William Lowe Boyd and Charles Taylor Kerchner.

Reviews the book 'Excellence in Education: Perspectives on Policy and Practice,' edited by Philip G. Altbach, Gail P. Kelly and Lois Weis.

Reviews the book 'C.E.T.A.: Politics and Policy, 1973-1982,' by Grace A. Franklin and Randall B. Ripley.

Reviews the book 'Across the River: Politics and Education in the City,' by Joseph P. Viteritti.

The article reviews the book "Improving Learning, Skills and Inclusion: The Impact of Policy on Post-Compulsory Education," by Frank Coffield, Sheila Edward, Ian Finlay, Ann Hodgson, Ken Spours, and Richard Steer.

Reviews the book "Gender, Colonialism and Education: The Politics of Experience," edited by Joyce Goodman and Jane Martin.

Reviews the book 'Policy As Practice: Toward a Comparative Sociocultural Analysis of Educational Policy,' by Margaret Sutton and Bradley A.U. Levinson.