Moral and social purpose of education

This edited volume showcases first-hand accounts of crafting and handling feedback during the peer review process from early career researchers (ECRs), journal editors and experienced reviewers to develop the concept of 'feedback literacy' in academic peer review contexts.

After a Damascene moment following a school trip to the US, Sir Iain Hall realised the UK's approach to urban education is all wrong.

Over the last forty years, the International Journal of Lifelong Education has become a global leader in the field of research on adult education and lifelong learning.

Doing Educational Research in Rural Settings is a much-needed guide for educational researchers whose research interests are located outside metropolitan areas in places that are generically considered to be rural.

This volume problematizes the historic dominance of Western classical music education and posits culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP) as a framework through which music curricula can better serve increasingly diverse student populations.

The 21st Century in the United States continues to be marked by persistent disparities between members of different classes, races, genders, and sexual orientations.

Conceptually rich and grounded in cutting-edge research, this book addresses the often-overlooked roles and implications of diversity and indigeneity in curriculum.

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

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This book offers an uncompromising and rigorous analysis of education and human rights by examining issues related to gender, race, sexuality, disability, and social class.

Focusing on the meaning of teaching, Transnational Curriculum Standards and Classroom Practices contributes to a deepened understanding of what it means to be a teacher in an institutional context ranked high on the policymakers' agenda.

This self-contained monograph reports the recent approaches, methods and practices of technology-enabled personalized learning.

This book explores the history of Nordic human rights politics and practices from the 1930s to present day.

Focusing on Singapore's education system from an equity perspective, Chiong's book describes the often unheard perspectives of socio-economically disadvantaged families in Singapore.

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.

This book offers a defence of ethical reading in secondary school English classes at a time when reformers and policy makers are trying to reorganize English language arts around technical skills or politics.

First published in 1981, Essays on Educators is a collection of essays on a variety of themes relating to Great Educators.

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

Talkabout Sex & Relationships 2 is a comprehensive toolkit for all therapists, educators and support staff who deliver sex education to people with special needs.

Offering a unique and original perspective on Bourdieu, language-based ethnographies,and reflexivity, this volume provides a nuanced, in-depth discussion of the complex relationship between these interconnected topics and their impact in real-world contexts.

ELT, a vast and growing field of research, has now moved beyond primary concerns related to developing learners' proficiency in the language and designing curricula, syllabi, materials and assessment tools.

This edited collection examines the ways in which the local and global are key to understanding race and racism in the intersectional context of contemporary education.

First published in 1992, this book presents unique quantitative data on the content coverage of primary education in a large number of countries since 1920.

Moral sensitivity affects whether and how we see others, note moral concerns, respond with delicacy, and navigate complex social interactions.

This edited collection highlights the diversity of perspectives within the broad field of intercultural education, focusing on education in modern multicultural societies, as well as exploring the role of migrant populations as modern citizens.

This book examines various aspects of school segregation and their complex interrelations with policy, structure, and context in diverse settings.

Published in 1995, this book comprises a group of original studies in education.

New Studies in Deweyan Education examines in detail some of John Dewey's most influential writings by connecting them with contemporary issues, perspectives, controversies, and debates.

What challenges are posed by changing transnational trends, agendas and movements that affect disabled people's lives, and what can disabled people, their representative organisations and their governments do to advance the agenda for self-determination and inclusion?

This definitive look at teaching English in rural secondary schools contests current definitions and discussions of rural education, examines their ideological and cultural foundations, and presents an alternative perspective that conceptualizes rural communities as diverse, unique, and conducive to pedagogical and personal growth in teaching and learning.

In the 1970s, Basil Bernstein's work on children's sociolinguistic codes and his formulation of the contexts in which they are transmitted were the most influential in the field.

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

Survival as a school teacher depends on an ability to achieve classroom control.

At a time when debate over school reform commands unprecedented attention, Judith L.

Originally published in 1963, this remarkable book discusses the results of the 'tests of culture' devised by the author, two of which, when published in The Times Educational Supplement, evoked such wide interest that he was almost overwhelmed with unsolicited test scores and correspondence.

Growing numbers of human beings live with profound and multiple learning difficulties and disabilities.

This book connects the dilemmas educators experience in daily practice with key theories, research and policy about democracy, ethics and equity in education.

Those engaging in research to reduce youth inequality know that robust and resonant theories are needed alongside strong methods to study racialization, racism, and the consequences of racial categorization.

This text is designed to help preservice and in-service teachers identify pathways to productive teaching and learning for students from culturally and experientially diverse backgrounds.

Calls for "e;deparochialization of educational research"e; (Lingard 2006) have directed educational ethnography from the conventional research designs and from the study of single sites and local situations to the study of "e;the circulation of cultural meanings, objects and identities in diffuse time-spaces"e; (Marcus 1995: 96).

Thomas Jefferson had a profoundly advanced educational vision that went hand in hand with his political philosophy - each of which served the goal of human flourishing.

Educators will find in this book an opportunity to examine the multiple, dynamic identities of the students they instruct and to consider the ways in which all teachers and students are shaped by their social and cultural settings.

This book offers a critical discussion on the necessity for 'difficult conversations' to take place in education, drawing on studies from across the UK.

To embrace today's culturally and linguistically diverse secondary English Language Arts (ELA) classrooms, this text presents ways in which teachers can use digital tools in the service of antiracist teaching and developing equity-oriented mindsets in teaching and learning.

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

Drawn from Disability & Society over the period 1997-2012, the twelve chapters in this book address a range of personal, cultural and institutional arenas in which challenges experienced by disabled children are played out.

In the new arena for anti-racist work in which we find ourselves, the neo-liberal, 'post-race' university, this interdisciplinary collection demonstrates common global political concerns about racism in Higher Education.

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This book explores Black educational leadership and the development of anti-racist, purpose-driven leadership identities.