Moral and social purpose of education

As scholars and administrators have sharpened their focus on higher education beyond trends in access and graduation rates for underrepresented college students, there are growing calls for understanding the experiential dimensions of college life.

The World Yearbook of Education 2023 centers on the intersection of racialization, inequality, and education.

Focusing on issues relating to gender, gender relations, and discrimination, this book provides nuanced insight into the experiences of young Latina women and their teachers in a North American middle school.

This book takes a critical perspective on international academic mobility and contextualizes this mobility through different key factors including global pandemics, identity construction, intercultural sensitivity, and cultural engagement.

In this book, first published in 1993, John Evans presents a guideline for challenging sexism, racism and elitism in programmes of physical education.

Challenging misconceptions related to Black academic achievement, this volume provides original perspectives on the policies, initiatives, and factors that facilitate the success of students of color as they progress along the educational pipeline.

Class Strategies and the Education Market examines the ways in which the middle classes maintain and improve their social advantages in and through education.

Ilan Gur-Ze'ev and Education: Pedagogies of Transformation and Peace critically analyses and introduces the main ideas of Ilan Gur-Ze'ev, reflecting on his continuing theoretical and practical relevance to the field of education.

This book examines why study abroad is a marginal activity in American higher education and evaluates the role gender has played in the development and maintenance of this marginality.

This book explores the usage and significance of the word "e;like"e; across a wide range of disciplines, focusing in particular on its influence in education and pedagogy.

Surveillance Education explores the pervasive use of digital surveillance technologies in schools and assesses its pernicious effects on students.

This edited collection presents several research projects which examine issues concerning professional development, professional learning, and the 'Education for All' (EfA) ethos.

Designed for introductory research courses in the professional fields and social sciences, this text acquaints students and beginning researchers with a broad view of research methodologies and an understanding of the assumptions that inform each of these approaches.

Medical Ethics and Moral Psychology: An Integrative Approach is a pioneering book which provides a comprehensive exploration of the ethical challenges in contemporary healthcare.

Originally published in 1992.

This book examines how social inequalities in higher education shape the positional competition in graduate labour markets.

Offering first-hand insights from the early originators of Cooperative Learning (CL), this volume documents the evolution of CL, illustrating its historical and contemporary research, and highlights the personal experiences which have helped inspire and ground this concept.

This book explores the issues surrounding girls and young women who are seen as troubled or troublesome.

Drawing on the latest research in futures studies, this book provides new insights into ways of helping both students and teachers think more critically and creatively about their own future and that of wider society.

Education Policy Unravelled examines the nature of contemporary education policy, its purposes and political formation.

This collection of original papers shows how women in Britain are still being discriminated against during schooling, despite the existence of legislation prohibiting such discrimination and despite apparent concern with promoting equality between the sexes in education.

This collection of Allan Luke's key writings on educational policy, curriculum, and school reform follows the development and use of critical discourse analyses to study educational policy and practice.

Advancing Equity and Achievement in America's Diverse Schools illustrates how educators, students, families and community partners can work in strategic ways to build on social, cultural, and ethnic diversity to advance educational equity and achievement.

Originally published in 1988.

Remaining and Becoming: Cultural Crosscurrents in an Hispano School deals with the politics of identity and the concept of boundaries during a time of rapid change.

Originally published in 1982, Learning to Learn in Higher Education analyses the factors that govern effective student learning and looks at the way that these can be improved by changing the way that courses are administered.

This book presents a wide-ranging and critical exploration of a topic that lies at the heart of contemporary education.

Based on a qualitative meta-analysis of data from five studies conducted with secondary and college students, this book explores the multiple ways in which sources of cosmopolitan agency exist in their lives.

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Success Against the Odds is an exciting book about effective schools in disadvantaged areas, written for a wide audience.

This wide ranging book offers a fresh survey of the pastoral needs of primary age pupils, and pupils in early adolescence for both trainee and practising teachers.

To stop the downward spiral of intensifying environmental violence that inevitably leads to social violence we, as humans, need to better understand what is at stake and to determine how to make changes at the root levels.

Revolutionary Learning explores the Marxist and feminist theorisation of dialectics, praxis and consciousness in education and learning.

High IQs don''t improve the world.

For at least a decade, university foreign language programs have been in decline throughout the English-speaking world.

By critically examining the legal, institutional, and social factors that prohibit or promote students' college choices, this Volume undermines the notion that African American students and their families are opposed to formal education, and reveals structural barriers which they face in accessing elite institutions.

The National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) held its 7th Annual Conference in 1997 with a theme of Daring to Educate for Equity and Excellence: A Multicultural and Bilingual Mandate for the 21st Century.

This book provides a new, empirically informed framework designed to equip higher education faculty with the tools to help students engage in humanizing, mutually beneficial, and anti-colonial experiential education alongside other students and communities around the world.

Arguing for an understanding of belonging in higher education as relational, complex and negotiated, particularly in reference to non-traditional students, Rethinking Student Belonging in Higher Education counters prevailing assumptions for what it means to belong and how institutional policy is shaped and implemented around traditional students.

This innovative, accessible book is an introduction to using digital storytelling in language teaching, with a focus on English as an Additional Language (EAL) instruction.

In many English-speaking countries, teachers are encouraged to differentiate their classrooms, and in some cases, through various policy mechanisms.

The Sociology of Early Childhood brings a new perspective to the field of early childhood education, offering insights into how children's diverse backgrounds shape their life chances.

Understanding Early Years Inequality uses critical sociological perspectives to examine the impact of changing assessment policy on primary school classrooms, with a particular focus on issues of inequality.

This book explores strategies, approaches, tools, challenges, and reflections that animate the conversation around decolonisation in UK law schools.

Currently, many children are unable to access emotional support services, and other members of a child's support network are required to provide this emotional guidance and support.

This volume presents a complex portrait of the American teacher through a fascinating range of "e;story"e; narratives, including fictional short stories, poetry, diaries, letters, ethnographies, and autobiographies.

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Originally published in 1994, Teachers: Constructing a Future is designed for teachers, as well as those interested in the future of schooling and education.