Moral and social purpose of education

Providing an original framework for the study of makerspaces in a literacy context, this book bridges the scholarship of literacy studies and STEM and offers a window into the practices that makers learn and interact with.

The subject matter of this book - what happens in schools, the effects of curriculum change, the reasons why some children are successful and others are not - explains just why the sociology of education is one of the most important areas to achieve political importance.

International Student Education in Tertiary Settings addresses key issues in international student education programme design and implementation.

This collection delivers an altogether unique perspective of research on American Indian/Alaska Native education policy and practice by creating a cultural lens, framed as tribal core values, to allow readers to rethink research on and about tribal populations.

We live in 'knowledge societies' and work in 'knowledge economies', but accounts of social change treat knowledge as homogeneous and neutral.

Modernising School Governance examines the impact of recent market-based reforms on the role of governors in the English state education system.

Sesame Street has taught generations of Americans their letters and numbers, and also how to better understand and get along with people of different races, faiths, ethnicities, and temperaments.

The book seeks to explore ways in which education research, policy and practice ought to be re-thought and re-enacted under present bio-political predicaments.

First published in 1968, Learning Begins at Home records an attempt by two researchers to initiate and assess an innovation in a school in a working-class neighbourhood.

Indigenous scholars have been gathering, speaking, and writing about Indigenous knowledge for decades.

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.

By employing the autobiographical method of currere and bifocalization, this book sheds light on the significance of love and the ethics of caregiving as means to transform curriculum studies into a post-reconceptualist and collective endeavor.

How and why we should educate children has always been a central concern for governments around the world, and there have long been those who have opposed orthodoxy, challenged perception and called for a radicalization of youth.

"e;I highly appreciate the quality of Fejes' and Dahlstedt's research and writing.

This book is a succinct and distinctive presentation of current research addressing educational issues in relation to children and young people with disabilities in Southern contexts.

This book theorizes and describes the concept of transformative critical whiteness pedagogies that are rooted in theories and practices of improvisation.

Women's Studies is a field that inspires strong reactions, both positive and negative, inside and outside of the classroom.

We live in a world where thousands make massive profits out of the labours of others, while those others exist as wage slaves, millions of whom die of starvation and poverty-related illness every year.

This fascinating volume introduces an international audience to citizenship in Japan.

Using Data for Monitoring and Target Setting is a clear and practical guide for teachers and school administrative staff that shows how to use spreadsheets to create orderly records of assessment.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, young people aged 18 to 25 are at a significant risk for acquiring and transmitting HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) and other STIs (sexually transmitted infections).

A comprehensive school, like any community, is split into many groups and sub-divisions and contains many different 'social worlds' within its structure.

This book examines the policy shifts over the past three decades in the Indian education system.

This book explores young people's perspectives on risk and harm in youth sexting, specifically privacy violations and unwanted, pressured and coerced sexting.

Although the idea of the reflective practitioner is embraced by many, there is still a need to understand how teachers' practical experience and the theoretical insights of researchers can be linked in teacher education.

This novel contribution examines the lived experiences of migrants in education in various international contexts, exploring common school system features that promote students' inclusion and challenge their exclusion.

This short critical introduction to Pierre Bourdieu's thought has been comprehensively brought up to date for the third edition.

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

With this fun, practical guide, you will have everything you need to re-envision and reinvigorate your world language classroom.

Starting with the 1972 publication of his seminal work, Education and the Rise of the Corporate State, Joel Spring has been documenting and analyzing the politics of knowledge and education.

This important and engaging guide details best practices for supporting the exploration and expression of gender in early years contexts.

This book examines teaching practices in international education, focusing on two significant meanings of the notion of 'practice': the concrete activities used by university lecturers and the role of education as a platform for transferring particular skills or approaches.

Originally published in 1969.

This book explores the design and implementation of effective supplementary education programs that best prepare students for post-secondary life.

Distance education and training provision has expanded dramatically over the past few years.

This book presents an integrated approach toward changing attitudes about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) students, faculty, and staff on contemporary college campuses.

Since the very first 'co-operative' school opened its doors in 2008, the complicated relations between 'co-operative' approaches to schooling and democratic subjectivity remain unexplored.

This book, first published in 1983, considers the whole problem of how social research can lead to improvement in practice in social policy and social work.

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.

Education and Muslim Identity During a Time of Tension explores life inside an Islamic Center and school in present-day America.

Centered on personal reflection and storytelling, this volume weaves together narratives of educational resilience, kinship, and auntie support to highlight the importance of Indigenous perspectives in all learning spaces.

This book presents a detailed ethnographic study conducted in an urban slum in India.

Although much has been written about leaders and leadership, we unfortunately know little about women, particularly minority women, who fill this particular role.

This collection of original work, within the sociology of education, draws on the 'spatial turn' in contemporary social theory.

In this study, first published in 1985, the author explores the construction of educational ideologies and assesses to what extent they are put into practice by the teachers.

This book identifies and celebrates the learning adult educators can gain from the numerous sites of community activism, learning, and social change that are currently taking place across the globe.

This volume brings together established and new scholarly voices to explore how participatory and situated approaches to learning can contribute to educational innovation.

Drawing on his widely read Huffington Post columns-rated one of the top educational blogs in the United States-Alan Singer introduces readers to contemporary issues in education in the United States.