Moral and social purpose of education

This handbook covers the history, policy, practice and theories of African and Caribbean education and promotes the sustainability of socio-cultural beliefs, values, knowledge and skills in the regions.

Path-breaking research on women and literacy in the past decade established conventions and advanced innovative methods that push the making of knowledge into new spheres of inquiry.

Girls are now out-performing boys at GCSE level, giving rise to a debate in the media on boys' underachievement.

This edited volume explores the specific ability of the school setting to promote intercultural education as an approach to address contemporary, societal issues of justice and social inclusion.

This latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education Series focuses on educational elites and inequality, focusing particularly on the ways in which established and emergent groups located at the top of the social hierarchy and power structure reproduce, establish or redefine their position.

First published in 1937, The Children's Play Centre is an account of Gardner's Play Centre and her work in assessing its value in the education of children and the training of teachers.

In 1981, Liverpool Council ordered the closure of Croxteth Comprehensive School because of falling rolls.

The book draws from Foucault's notion of power-knowledge-resistance and feminist poststructuralism to offer a re-theorization of parent-child conflict.

First published in 1972, this book aims to provide an introduction to the teacher, or teacher in training, to society and its relationship to education.

Informative and mind-opening, this text uniquely provides a comprehensive overview of a range of non-western approaches to educational thought and practice.

International Student Education in Tertiary Settings addresses key issues in international student education programme design and implementation.

Literature, literacy, and citizenship took on new and contested meanings in early twentieth-century Canada, particularly in frontier work camps.

Originally published in 1981.

Originally published in 1987.

The ongoing neoliberalisation of education is complex, varied and relentless.

Focusing on contemporary childhood disability issues, and relevant to the lived experiences of disabled children and young people and their families, this book addresses themes such as transition, identity, education, inclusion, and service provision.

An indispensable book for parents, teenagers and anyone concerned with issues in adolescence, from former headteacher Tony Little and child psychiatrist Herb Etkin.

As the economy constricts, it seems living with a chronic sense of fear and anxiety is the new normal for a growing number of urban females.

Das Märchen vom eigensinnigen Kind ist kurz und schrecklich, und illustriert mit seltener Brutalität, was mit Kindern geschieht, die ›nicht tun, was ihre Mütter haben wollen‹.

This updated edition of Inventions of Teaching: A Genealogy presents an examination of the many and varied metaphors of teaching in English.

This book is a genealogical inquiry into the present problem of violence, in the United States and internationally, through the lens of curriculum theory.

First published in 1981, this book provides a basic introduction to the sociology of education.

While many initial education benchmarks are being met, new and continuing challenges exist for adolescent girls in the developing world.

This book provides a valuable route map to the development of thinking in gender and education over the last fifteen years.

This book is concerned with understanding the complex ways in which gender violence and poverty impact on young people's lives, and the potential for education to challenge violence.

For nearly two decades, E.

In this innovative book, David E.

Edy, el luchador contra las injusticias es un libro escrito, principalmente, para disfrutar de la lectura.

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.

With this book Jon Levisohn argues that current history education is set up in a way that sees students of history at one end of a continuum with the academic experts in the field of history at the other, and where the goal of history education is to help students to think like historians.

This volume charts the rise of the concept of "e;inclusive development"e; and simultaneously recognizes its problematic implications as it shifts the focus of development work from efficiency to justice.

This book examines Malaysia's ambitious reform agenda and educational landscape, drawing upon the eleven key shifts in the Malaysia Education Blueprint 2013-2025.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the use of microethnographic discourse analysis for researching, theorizing, and reconceptualizing the uses of language and literacy in educational settings.

Centered around the idea that literacy teaching is more than the transmission of strategies and skills, this volume serves as a foundation for approaching literacy from an identity perspective.

Highlighting Rita L.

While the issue of advancing equity occupies the pages of many education journals across the world and pursuing it in schools and classrooms is a common instructional goal, there is an obvious absence of established school policies combined with pedagogies on how to achieve educational equity.

This unique and visionary text is a compilation of fascinating studies conducted in a variety of cross-cultural settings where children learn language and literacy with siblings, grandparents, peers and community members.

This book explores ways in which education supports or negates the wellbeing and rights of young people in or from the Americas.

Neoliberal education reforms promise (but often don't succeed) to improve student outcomes and provide more equitable educational opportunities to students with different backgrounds.

An essential guide to dialogue in the college classroom and beyondTry to Love the Questions gives college students a framework for understanding and practicing dialogue across difference in and out of the classroom.

"e;Utopian in theme and implication, this book shows how the practices of critical, interpretive inquiry can help change the world in positive ways.

Recent decades have seen unprecedented growth in the number of students travelling abroad for the purpose of short-term academic study.

This highly successful introductory text has been updated in the light of recent legislative changes in education - such as the introduction of teacher appraisal, and the move towards more heavily school-based training.

Education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) is crucial for taking advantage of the prospects of new scientific discoveries initiating or promoting technological changes, and managing opportunities and risks associated with innovations.

It has long been recognised that specialised knowledge is at the core of what distinguishes professions from other occupations.

This timely volume challenges the ongoing underrepresentation of Latina women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), and highlights resilience as a critical communal response to increasing their representation in degree programs and academic posts.

2024 AESA Critics' Choice Book AwardThis volume demonstrates how multilingual schooling can enhance democracy through a connection with the policies and practices of critical education.

Basil Bernstein's theory of social control was the foundation for this pioneer study of the language mothers use to socialize their children, and how it affects their understanding of social values and social attitudes as they grow older.

This analytical volume uses qualitative data, quantitative data, and direct employee experiences to aid understanding of why workplace bullying occurs in universities throughout the US.