Moral and social purpose of education

Children spend more time in school than in any social institution outside the home.

The first volume to focus on the intersections of militarization, corporations, and education, Education as Enforcement exposed the many ways schooling has become the means through which the expansion of global corporate power are enforced.

Women continue to comprise a small minority of students in engineering education and subsequent employment, despite the numerous initiatives over the past 25 years to attract and retain more women in engineering.

Written for administrators, faculty, and staff in Higher Education who are working with low income and first-generation college students, Recognizing and Serving Low-Income Students in Higher Education uncovers organizational biases that prevent post-secondary institutions from adequately serving these students.

This book explores a profoundly negative narrative about legally segregated schools in the United States being "e;inherently inferior"e; compared to their white counterparts.

Deficit thinking is a pseudoscience founded on racial and class bias.

It has long been acknowledged that Jews and Christians distinguished themselves through charity to the poor.

Aprender parece una mala palabra.

Introducing Christian Ethics helps Christians form a sound basis for making ethical decisions in today's complex postmodern world.

An Irish Times Best Book for Summer 2025In this book Joseph Dunne exposes the damage done by obsession with measurable outcomes in schools and universities.

This volume celebrates cellphilm as an emerging Participatory Visual Method which effectively and powerfully engenders learning and catalyses social change.

This volume celebrates cellphilm as an emerging Participatory Visual Method which effectively and powerfully engenders learning and catalyses social change.

This comprehensive book brings together reflections, lessons and insights relating to the post Covid-19 era in Zimbabwe.

Although much has been written about leaders and leadership, we unfortunately know little about the women who fill this particular role.

Academe has made little progress in hiring and advancing faculty of color.

This book presents practical approaches for engaging with Hip Hop music and culture in the classroom.

This book presents practical approaches for engaging with Hip Hop music and culture in the classroom.

In the last four decades, Australia has resettled thousands of African refugees.

In the last four decades, Australia has resettled thousands of African refugees.

Universities are inherently and definitionally universal in their quest for the creation and dissemination of knowledge.

Universities are inherently and definitionally universal in their quest for the creation and dissemination of knowledge.

Vimos tiempos complejos, pero necesarios para pensar los retos y perspectivas de la educación superior en el siglo XXI.

Esta publicación presenta la historia del funcionamiento institucional y académico de la Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas durante sus primeros sesenta años.

This book offers a positive and compelling exploration of how young south Asian women can be encouraged to study science further and to consider STEM as a career.

This edited volume looks at the reproduction and transformation of family norms in contemporary times.

This edited volume looks at the reproduction and transformation of family norms in contemporary times.

This book offers a positive and compelling exploration of how young south Asian women can be encouraged to study science further and to consider STEM as a career.

Offers insight into the challenges and promises of moral education from a variety of ethical perspectives.

Offers insight into the challenges and promises of moral education from a variety of ethical perspectives.

This book explores the conceptual framework, opportunities for learning, as a transaction between literacy learners, mediating agents, and the literacy content to be learned within social, cultural, and historical contexts.

This book explores the conceptual framework, opportunities for learning, as a transaction between literacy learners, mediating agents, and the literacy content to be learned within social, cultural, and historical contexts.

En cada capítulo de este libro, Daniel Brailovsky entrelaza su voz y escritura con otros y otras, abordando preguntas contemporáneas de la educación inicial: ¿qué espacios de infancia se brindan a la niñez?

This book explores the everyday ways in which time marks the experience of education as well as the concerns and methods of education and youth research.

A COUNTERNARRATIVEThis groundbreaking book uncovers how anti-Black racism has informed and perpetuated anti-literacy laws, policies, and customs from the colonial period to the present day.

This book explores the everyday ways in which time marks the experience of education as well as the concerns and methods of education and youth research.

This edited volume takes the US-derived concept and praxis of funds of knowledge and applies it globally to critically analyse current education in line with social justice, antiracism, and culturally sustaining pedagogies.

This book offers new insights and methodological tools to improve our understandings of how prestigious schools in Poland navigate the major political, social and cultural crosscurrents.

This edited volume takes the US-derived concept and praxis of funds of knowledge and applies it globally to critically analyse current education in line with social justice, antiracism, and culturally sustaining pedagogies.

Building on and inspired by the work of Paulo Freire, this book offers an accessible introduction to how children's literature can be used in classrooms to explore cultural diversity and nurture collective qualities of shared joy, love and agency.

Building on and inspired by the work of Paulo Freire, this book offers an accessible introduction to how children's literature can be used in classrooms to explore cultural diversity and nurture collective qualities of shared joy, love and agency.

Desde el FLADEM nos enorgullece presentar este volumen, dedicado a la memoria de nuestro querido amigo, el maestro César Tort.

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This work is the first to examine the educational philosophy of Elijah Muhammad, the patriarch of the Nation of Islam and a pivotal leader in America's history.

Addressing the fact that under-representation has been a concern for medical educators, medical councils, and the government for some time, this book presents the first evidence-based monograph for pedagogies that can be applied to all aspects of widening participation, tackling chronic under-representation in medical settings.

This book uses perceptions and experiences of Qur'anic schools in West Africa to outline a much-needed postsecular approach, reconsidering the place of Islamic education within African decolonial debates about educational pluralism, and the contributions of religious perspectives in academic and international development spaces.

Critical Analysis of Parental Involvement in School presents in-depth explorations of parental involvement within culturally distinct contexts.

Joel Spring's history of school policies imposed on dominated groups in the United States examines the concept of deculturalization-the use of schools to strip away family languages and cultures and replace them with those of the dominant group.

Instructional Strategies for Middle and High School Social Studies: Methods, Assessment, and Classroom Management is an exciting methods-based text that integrates appropriate management and assessment techniques with seven distinct teaching strategies for pre-service social studies teachers.