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Title: Reforms and Innovations in Estonian Education

Reforms and Innovations in Estonian Education

by Jaan Mikk (Volume editor) Marika Veisson (Volume editor) Piret Luik (Volume editor)
©2008 Edited Collection 200 Pages
Education
Series: New Approaches in Educational and Social Sciences / Neue Denkansätze in den Bildungs- und Sozialwissenschaften, Volume 16

Summary

This collection of papers provides a small overview of educational research in Estonia. The papers in the collection treat school reforms since the renewal of independence in 1991, new approaches to teacher training, the implementation of a child-centred approach in school, the achieving of educational aims and other actual topics in education. The results of many surveys have been presented in the papers, for example, parental beliefs about home-school co-operation, novice teacher assessments of their induction year, student evaluations of teacher behaviour in the classroom, etc.

Details

Pages
200
Year
2008
ISBN (Softcover)
9783631582169
Language
English
Keywords
Estland Bildungsreform Aufsatzsammlung Educational reform Teaching in schools Teacher training
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2008. 200 pp., num. fig. and graphs

Biographical notes

Jaan Mikk (Volume editor) Marika Veisson (Volume editor) Piret Luik (Volume editor)

The Editors: Jaan Mikk, professor of Education at the University of Tartu (Estonia) since 1983; publications on school textbooks and achievement tests. Marika Veisson, professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of Tallinn (Estonia) since 1988; publications on early childhood, child and adolescent development, school and family partnership. Piret Luik, associate professor of Educational Technology at the University of Tartu (Estonia) since 2005; publications on ICT in education.

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