Moral and social purpose of education

The environment and contested notions of sustainability are increasingly topics of public interest, political debate, and legislation across the world.

The environment and contested notions of sustainability are increasingly topics of public interest, political debate, and legislation across the world.

This timely volume explores essential themes, issues, and challenges related to adolescents' lives and learning in underserviced urban areas.

This timely volume explores essential themes, issues, and challenges related to adolescents' lives and learning in underserviced urban areas.

This third edition of Official Knowledge, a classic text from one of education's most distinguished scholars, challenges readers to critically examine how certain knowledge comes to be "e;official,"e; and whose agendas this knowledge represents.

This third edition of Official Knowledge, a classic text from one of education's most distinguished scholars, challenges readers to critically examine how certain knowledge comes to be "e;official,"e; and whose agendas this knowledge represents.

As the world seemingly gets smaller and smaller, schools around the globe are focusing their attention on expanding the consciousness and competencies of their students to prepare them for the conditions of globalization.

As the world seemingly gets smaller and smaller, schools around the globe are focusing their attention on expanding the consciousness and competencies of their students to prepare them for the conditions of globalization.

The importance of creating safe spaces for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) students in the school environment cannot be overstated.

The importance of creating safe spaces for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) students in the school environment cannot be overstated.

Homeless youth face countless barriers that limit their ability to complete a high school diploma and transition to postsecondary education.

Homeless youth face countless barriers that limit their ability to complete a high school diploma and transition to postsecondary education.

With recent attention to issues such as youth social exclusion, poverty, school underachievement, school violence, gang activity, sexuality, and youth's interactions with media and the internet, youth studies has emerged as a significant interdisciplinary field.

With recent attention to issues such as youth social exclusion, poverty, school underachievement, school violence, gang activity, sexuality, and youth's interactions with media and the internet, youth studies has emerged as a significant interdisciplinary field.

Economy, Work and Education: Critical Connections addresses effects of neoliberal capitalism in particular regard to work and education.

Economy, Work and Education: Critical Connections addresses effects of neoliberal capitalism in particular regard to work and education.

This book is a history of the genesis and development of vocational education for young women in the United States.

This book is a history of the genesis and development of vocational education for young women in the United States.

This book uses detailed case studies of two secondary schools to examine the relationship between curriculum choice and gender identity among fourteen-year-old pupils making their first choices about what subjects to pursue at exam level.

This book uses detailed case studies of two secondary schools to examine the relationship between curriculum choice and gender identity among fourteen-year-old pupils making their first choices about what subjects to pursue at exam level.

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

First Published in 2005.

First Published in 2005.

Emile Durkheim is widely lauded as one of the founding fathers of modern Sociology and for his substantial contribution to the sociology of education.

Emile Durkheim is widely lauded as one of the founding fathers of modern Sociology and for his substantial contribution to the sociology of education.

Education is a controversial subject in which difficult and contested discourses are the norm.

Education is a controversial subject in which difficult and contested discourses are the norm.

Education is a thoroughly political enterprise.

Education is a thoroughly political enterprise.

Calls to understand 'what works' in education are being made the world over.

Calls to understand 'what works' in education are being made the world over.

What is it that makes some children bully and some become victims?

What is it that makes some children bully and some become victims?

Immanuel Kant's moral philosophy, political philosophy, and philosophy of judgement have been and continue to be widely discussed among many scholars.

Immanuel Kant's moral philosophy, political philosophy, and philosophy of judgement have been and continue to be widely discussed among many scholars.

Few problems in education are as pressing as the severe crisis in urban schools.

Few problems in education are as pressing as the severe crisis in urban schools.

Educational Outcomes for Students With Disabilities provides readers with the most current perspectives on outcomes that are certain to have an influence on the services they provide.

Educational Outcomes for Students With Disabilities provides readers with the most current perspectives on outcomes that are certain to have an influence on the services they provide.

This book provides an original perspective on a range of controversial issues in educational and social research through case studies of multi-disciplinary and mixed-method research involving children, teachers, schools and communities in Europe and the developing world.

This book provides an original perspective on a range of controversial issues in educational and social research through case studies of multi-disciplinary and mixed-method research involving children, teachers, schools and communities in Europe and the developing world.

Education Networks is a critical analysis of the emerging intersection among the global power elite, information and communication technology, and schools.

Education Networks is a critical analysis of the emerging intersection among the global power elite, information and communication technology, and schools.

Black Men in College provides vital information about how to effectively support, retain, and graduate Black male undergraduates.

Black Men in College provides vital information about how to effectively support, retain, and graduate Black male undergraduates.

The focus of governments across Europe and the U.

The focus of governments across Europe and the U.

First published in 1985.

First published in 1985.

Over the last 20 years, international attempts to raise educational standards and improve opportunities for all children have accelerated and proliferated.