Moral and social purpose of education

The authors provide a variety of perspectives on the conceptualisation of adult learning, drawing on sociology, psychology, adult education and applied research into how adults experience learning.

James Britton's work addresses central educational questions that are as relevant today as they were half a century ago.

How did we conclude that the best way to prepare kids for the future is to cluster them into classrooms by age and grade, forcing them to learn the same things, at the same time and pace, seven hours a day, five days a week, for twelve years?

Presenting original quantitative and qualitative data from a large-scale empirical research project conducted in British secondary schools, Reassessing 'Ability' Grouping analyses the impact of attainment grouping on pupil outcomes, teacher effectiveness and social equality.

The family is an important site for the transmission of knowledge and cultural values.

The role of language is central in education - but there is much debate about the exact relation between children's language and their educational success.

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.

Documenting the outcomes from three decades of transnational research conducted under the leadership of Antonio Teodoro, this volume offers a robust scaffolding of the social and political context in which global education is being challenged by the contradictions of neoliberalism, globalization, deregulation, governance, and democracy.

This edited book shows how critical race theory (CRT) can shape teacher practices in ways that improve educational outcomes for all children, especially those most marginalized in PreK-20 classrooms.

This volume follows one man's revolutionary journey from deficient early education to his incarceration on North Carolina's death row, where he was given the opportunity to pursue higher education.

While many books address the 'what' of change in education, this addresses the 'how'.

Work-Related Learning and the Social Sciences provides a clear and accessible introduction to the theory and practice of work.

This practical book provides an accessible framework for observing and assessing children's learning through play.

Everyday Ethics: Reflections on Practice looks at the moments that demand moral consideration and ethical choice that arise as part of a researcher's daily practice.

International statistical comparisons of nations have become commonplace in the contemporary landscape of education policy and social science.

Based on the commonly held assumption that we now live in a world that is 'on the move', with growing opportunities for both real and virtual travel and the blurring of boundaries between previously defined places, societies and cultures, the theme of this book is firmly grounded in the interdisciplinary field of 'Mobilities'.

Chinese students in the UK have been increasing in number for many years, yet competition from other Western educators and increasing investment in China's own education system has led to concern that UK institutions may soon see a decline in their market share.

This book constitutes a sociological, anthropological, and curricular inquiry into the factors surrounding high academic achievement rates of students in South Korea.

This book presents Combinations as a set of high-yield instructional strategies for advancing academic literacy for multilingual learners and all students.

While the genre of testimonio has deep roots in oral cultures and in Latin American human rights struggles, the publication and subsequent adoption of This Bridge Called My Back (Moraga & Anzaldua, 1983) and, more recently, Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios (Latina Feminist Group, 2001), have demonstrated the power of testimonio as a genre that exposes brutality, disrupts silencing, and builds solidarity among women of colour.

Centred around a philosophical argument for contemporary education as a fundamental good, this edited volume demonstrates the benefits that education brings in a civil and flourishing societal context while also critiquing the state's role in supporting and strengthening this educational focus.

This innovative book examines the aesthetic event of education.

This original book offers a meaningful window into the lived experiences of children from immigrant families, providing a holistic, profound portrait of their literacy practices as situated within social, cultural, and political frames.

Drawing from the ideas of Michel Foucault, this book offers a critical examination of today's dominant discourse of educational leadership.

If a civic education is the essential foundation for a functioning, discursive democracy, how should it be taught?

First-place winner of the Society for Education Studies' 2005 book prize, Education and Conflict is a critical review of education in an international context.

What will it take for the American people to enact a more democratic version of themselves?

Around the world, what it is to be a university is a matter of much debate.

How can schools best prepare themselves to successfully educate refugee children?

Originally published in 1975, Strategies for Postsecondary Education looks at how postsecondary education absorbs an increasing proportion of education budgets in developed countries.

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.

Aimed at the layperson, this book discusses education for the man or woman in the street and the advantages to society of having an educated population, with the aim of not just convincing people of the importance of education but persuading them to take participate actively in education.

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Why are children from disadvantaged and minority communities overrepresented among academic underachievers, poor learners, and school dropouts?

Many new approaches to school improvement are being proposed in the current climate of assessment and school accountability.

This book reports on an empirical study of oral feedback practices in doctoral supervision meetings, observing supervisors' and students' conduct to enable a new understanding of the social organisation of doctoral research supervision.

Do you know what makes boys tick?

Art and Social Justice Education offers inspiration and tools for educators to craft critical, meaningful, and transformative arts education curriculum and arts integration projects.

This book offers an alternative approach to developing media literacy pedagogies for marginalized communities and people in postcolonial countries, especially in the Global South, tackling unexplored issues such as media literacy of war, terrorism, pandemics, infodemics, populism, colonialism, genocide, and intersectional feminism.

Although late to industrialize, East Asia has witnessed rapid development whilst maintaining some of the highest educational enrollment rates and indicators of academic achievement globally.

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.

This edited collection contends that if women are to enter into leadership positions at equal levels with their male colleagues, then sexism in all its forms must be acknowledged, attended to, and actively addressed.

This text presents a new critical theory addressing religious diversity, Christian religious privilege, and Christian hegemony in the United States.

This collection aims to explore different conceptions of epistemological inquiry and their influence on pedagogy and the curricular content of primary and secondary education.

'This book tackles some of the most important educational questions of the day.

By showcasing international, European, and community-based projects, this volume explores how online technologies and collaborative and blended learning can be used to bolster social cohesion and increase students' understanding of what it means to be a global citizen.

Universal school-based social and emotional learning (SEL) interventions seek to improve the social-emotional competencies (e.

This volume explores how conservative Christian schools are shaping education in America and in turn, students' attitudes about diversity.

This timely volume uniquely illustrates how currere can be applied to the process of decolonizing subjectivity.