Moral and social purpose of education

La conversación civil (Brescia, 1574) de Stefano Guazzo (1530-1593) es uno de los diálogos renacentistas sobre la educación moral de mayor éxito e influencia en Europa: todo un análisis de los diferentes tipos de conversación, pública o privada, entre amigos, entre jóvenes y viejos, entre alfabetizados y analfabetos, entre nobles y plebeyos de la Italia del Renacimiento.

This book brings together diverse, international scholarly perspectives on education and democracy in response to contemporary challenges for educational leadership, policy and practice.

This book features theorized narratives from academics who inhabit marginalized identity positions, including, among others, academics with non-normative genders, sexualities, and relationships; nontenured faculty; racial and ethnic minorities; scholars with HIV, depression and anxiety, and other disabilities; immigrants and international students; and poor and working-class faculty and students.

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The papers in this volume show the origin and development of Bernstein's theoretical studies into the relationships between social class, patterns of language use and the primary socialization of the child.

The Big Book of Blob Trees features 70 different Blob trees that can be used as prompts to explore feelings.

The 'Get to Know Me' series is aimed at children with additional needs and those who support them in the classroom.

In recent years there has been an increase in the number of calls for moral education to receive greater public attention.

Discussions of achievement gaps are commonplace in education reform, but they are rarely interrogated as a symptom of white supremacy.

Representing the Middle East and Africa in Social Studies Education examines the lived classroom experiences of six social studies teachers and the relevance of their discourse in framing the knowledge students receive about populations in the Middle East and Africa.

The Role of Social Science in the Education of Professional Practitioners explores the inter-relation between the social sciences and professional practice, particularly in areas of health and social welfare, and the form that professional education takes.

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 takes an in-depth look at how education and psychology relate to each other, and at the current state of this relationship.

Responding to increasing concerns about the harmful effects of so-called 'lad culture' in British universities, and related 'bro' and 'frat' cultures in US colleges, this book is the first to explore and analyse the perspectives of university staff on these cultures, which students suggest foster the normalisation of sexism, homophobia, racism, sexual harassment and violence.

This book offers a paradigm shift in the framing of identity development by advancing a new, shock-sensitive framework for diverse young adult identity development after high school.

The decision to go to college is a big one.

The last half century has seen a dramatic expansion in access to primary, secondary, and higher education in many nations around the world.

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.

Offers insight into the challenges and promises of moral education from a variety of ethical perspectives.

Education and the Public Sphere conceptually and empirically investigates and unfolds several complexities embedded in the educational system in India by exploring it as a site of transforming the public sphere.

What is prejudice in the 21st Century and how can education help to reduce it?

Parts one and two of this volume present the theoretical lenses used to study the social contexts of education.

First published in 1988, Teachers as Intellectuals encourages us to see schools as democratic spaces in which teachers and students work together to transform society.

Across the world, cities are being reshaped in myriad ways by neoliberal forms of globalization, a process of urban restructuring with significant implications for educational policy and practices.

Originally published in 1984.

This book offers a positive and compelling exploration of how young south Asian women can be encouraged to study science further and to consider STEM as a career.

This book is an exploration of how children, educators, and things become implicated in gendered caring practices.

Joel Spring investigates the role of educational policy in the evolving global economy, and the consequences of school systems around the world adapting to meet the needs of international corporations.

Multiliteracies and Early Years Innovation: Perspectives from Finland and Beyond brings together internationally renowned scholars to investigate and reflect upon the significance of introducing multiliteracies in the education of children (0-8 years old) and the challenge of enhancing professional development opportunities of early years practitioners.

Citizenship is high on the agenda of education systems in many of the world's democracies.

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

To get the full Being With Our Feelings experience, this book can be purchased alongside the guidebook.

This volume brings together an international set of contributors in education research, policy and practice to respond to the influence the noted academic Professor Michael Young has had on sociology, curriculum studies and professional knowledge over the past fifty years, and still has on the field to this day.

Comprehensive and authoritative, this Handbook provides a nuanced description and analysis of educational systems, practices, and policies in Asian countries and explains and interprets these practices from cultural, social, historical, and economic perspectives.

Many parents feel uncomfortable with the thought of having 'the talk' with their children, especially teenagers.

Organized by the National Association of Multicultural Education (NAME), this volume explores the organic relationship between the past, present, and future of the discipline.

This book examines teachers' work in the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, where educators grappled with a worldwide virus that profoundly affected teaching and learning.

This book explores the importance of social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools to foster supportive environments and good relationships.

Decolonizing Educational Research examines the ways through which coloniality manifests in contexts of knowledge and meaning making, specifically within educational research and formal schooling.

Child safety is everybody's concern, but much professional activity is misinformed or based on a misrepresentation of the facts, and preventative action is rarely adequately evaluated.

Virtues and Virtue Education in Theory and Practice explores questions about the locality versus the universality of virtues from a number of theoretical and practical perspectives.

Promoting Children's Rights in European Schools explores how facilitators, teachers and educators can adopt and use a dialogic methodology to solicit children's active participation in classroom communication.

Originally published as a special issue of Christian Higher Education, this volume showcases diverse forms of community engagement work carried out by faith-based colleges and universities throughout the US.

This book explores Hui (one of the Muslim minority groups in China) students' lived experiences in an elementary school in central P.

Focusing specifically on educational contexts, this volume sheds light on how the increasing inequalities and issues of social exclusion found in the processes and systems of Nordic welfare states have a detrimental impact on the well-being and development opportunities of children and young people.

Queer Inclusion in Teacher Education explores the challenges and promises of building queer inclusive pedagogy and curriculum into teacher education.

This timely and thought-provoking book explores children's lives in modern cities.

The book, first published in 1983, explores the argument that justifies mixed ability groupings in schools and the consequences of practicing the different justificatory arguments.

Digital Learning in High-Needs Schools examines the challenges and affordances that arise when high-needs school communities integrate educational technologies into their unique settings.