Moral and social purpose of education

Diversifying the Teacher Workforce critically examines efforts to diversify the teaching force and narrow the demographic gap between who teaches and who populates U.

This book explores the impact of 'race', class and gender on the interaction of pupils and their teachers in the classroom setting.

This primer for prospective and practicing teachers asks students to question the historical present and their relation to it, and in so doing, reflect on their own understandings of what it means to teach, to study, to educate, and to become educated in the present moment in the places we inhabit.

As South Africa transitioned from apartheid to democracy, changes in the political landscape, as well as educational agendas and discourse on both a national and international level, shaped successive waves of curriculum reform over a relatively short period of time.

This impactful resource guide is for international educators and practitioners involved in Physical Education and Sport (PES) who want to learn evidence-based approaches to the teaching of values and character education.

This book begins with an analysis of the gradual extension of educational opportunities for women since the nineteenth century, with special attention given to the period since 1944.

The Millennium Development Goals aim to achieve basic education for all by 2015.

Social Problems in the UK: An Introduction contextualises the most pressing social problems of our times drawing upon the disciplines of sociology, social policy, education studies and health studies.

This volume is a major new contribution to Joel Spring reportage and analysis of the intersection of global forces and education-offers a new paradigm for global school systems.

The teacher who has an affair with a student.

Critical Articulations of Hope from the Margins of Arts Education presents perspectives on arts education from marginalized contexts and communities around the world.

This volume explores the twenty-first century classroom as a uniquely intergenerational space of religious disaffiliation, and questions about how our work in the classroom can be, and is being, re-imagined for the new generation.

This book explores the historical and social foundations of Canadian higher education and provides a detailed analysis of university boards within this broader context of university governance.

Do private and philanthropic solutions to the problems of education signal the end of state education in itswelfare form?

Published in 1981.

This book draws together theories, research, and practice on knowledges and pedagogies of place across educational settings.

This book challenges traditional, sanctioned, and official histories of reading comprehension by examining how ideological and cultural hegemony work to reproduce dominant ideologies through education in general and reading comprehension research and testing specifically.

There is a significant problem in our schools: too many boys are struggling.

Boys' underachievement in education has now become a global concern, taxing the minds of governments across the Western world.

Investigating the highly influential enrolment expansion policy in Chinese higher education, this book outlines how educational equity issues were understood and addressed in the formulation and implementation of the policy, and its impacts on the socio-economic fabric of China in the past decades.

In this volume, renowned literacy and language education scholars who have shaped policy and practice aimed toward social justice and equity address current intellectual and practical issues in the teaching of literacy in classrooms and educational environments across diverse and international settings.

There is more to education than teaching and learning, and more to anthropology than making studies of other people's lives.

Elite Education - International Perspectives is the first book to systematically examine elite education in different parts of the world.

Griffith and Smith explore the innumerable, hidden, seemingly mundane tasks like getting kids ready for school, helping with homework, or serving on the PTA can all have profound effects on what occurs within school.

Education policy is not designed to eliminate race inequality but to sustain it at manageable levels.

This book, first published in 1987, examines the notion of truth and then discusses knowledge and the way in which much of our knowledge revises or rejects the common-sense we start from.

Este libro se propone eliminar las barreras que la tradición académica ha construido lentamente, a lo largo del tiempo, entre dos actividades que en realidad son inseparables: la docencia y la investigación.

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

This book explores the relationship between social justice practices and the Arts in Education.

The Routledge Education Studies Textbook is an academically wide-ranging and appropriately challenging resource for students beyond the introductory stages of a degree programme in Education Studies.

Placing the UK in a global context, this book engages with the emerging international debate on the future of education in the 21st century.

A conservative college professor's compelling defense of liberal educationNot so long ago, conservative intellectuals such as William F.

Gender equality has been a major educational theme for the past two decades and has become interwoven with other policy themes, including those of marketisation and managerialism.

WINNER OF THE 2019 OUTSTANDING BOOK AWARD FROM AECT'S DIVISION OF DISTANCE EDUCATION!

Decolonising Knowledge and Knowers contributes to the current struggles for decolonising education in the global South, focusing on the highly illuminating case of South African higher education.

The study of 'education governance' is a significant area of research in the twenty-first century concerned with the changing organisation of education systems, relations and processes against the background of wider political and economic developments occurring nationally and globally.

Negotiating Ethical Challenges in Youth Research brings together contributors from across the world to explore real-life ethical dilemmas faced by researchers working with young people in a range of social science disciplines.

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.

Uncertainty is interwoven into human existence.

How do race and class intersect to shape the identities and experiences of Black middle-class parents and their children?

Published in 1983, this second edition builds on the success of the first edition which provided the first sociological account of classroom life.

This book foregrounds the voices of women in educational leadership to draw on the power of diverse perspectives and to create an environment that better embraces a broad range of leadership styles.

Doing Multicultural Education for Achievement and Equity, a hands-on, reader-friendly multicultural education textbook, actively engages education students in critical reflection and self-examination as they prepare to teach in increasingly diverse classrooms.

Social Goals in the Classroom is the first volume to comprehensively examine the variety of students' non-academic goals and motivations within the classroom.

First published in 1988, this work considers the ways in which the sociology of education can inform educational practice.

Wanda Pillow presents a critical analysis of federal law and polciy towards pregnant teens, representations of teen pregnancy in popular culture and educational policy assesses how schools provide educational opportunities for school aged mothers.

Culturally Contested Literacies is a vivid ethnographic account of the everyday cross-cultural living and schooling experiences of six culturally-diverse families in urban America.

Shortlisted for BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed's second Ethnography Awards in partnership with the British Sociological Association!

Like many countries around the world, China has been implementing policies aimed at improving parent-school relationships.