Moral and social purpose of education

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*Winner, 2022 Outstanding Book Award from the Society of Professors of Education**Winner, 2021 Book Award from the Globalization and Education SIG, Comparative and International Education Society*Examining Teach For All brings together research focused on Teach For All and its affiliate programmes to explore the organisation's impact on education around the world.

Boys, Masculinities and Reading explores elementary students' interpretations of their experiences of reading and the contextual influences that impact those experiences.

In this book, Fitzpatrick and May make the case for a reimagined approach to critical ethnography in education.

First published in 1975, this book offers a critique of some of the 'new perspectives' in the sociology of education.

This textbook equips students and educators committed to understanding how art and creative practice work as powerful communicative tools and have a substantial role in advancing civic participation.

In this book, first published in 1993, John Evans presents a guideline for challenging sexism, racism and elitism in programmes of physical education.

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

This volume is an orchestrated critique of the notion that individuals from lower socioeconomic status communities have inferior language skills as compared to middle- and upper-class groups.

Accessible and cutting-edge, this text is a pivotal update to the field and offers a much-needed critical perspective on world language education.

In most countries, whether secular or otherwise, education and religion are closely interlinked and no matter how hard the state tries, it can be very difficult to remove the ties between them.

Theorizing Equity in the Museum integrates the perspectives of learning researchers and museum practitioners to shed light on the deep-seated structures that must be accounted for if the field is to move past aspirations and rhetoric and towards more inclusive practices.

In a period of rapid cultural shifts, changing populations and new ideologies take hold and reshape political agendas and norms in the West.

This book approaches English instruction through the lens of "e;fi gured worlds,"e; which recognizes and spotlights how students are actively engaged in constructing their own school, peer group, extracurricular, and community worlds.

In 1972, Matthew Lipman founded the Institute of Advancement for Philosophy for Children (IAPC), producing a series of novels and teaching manuals promoting philosophical inquiry at all levels of schooling.

Global migration, the rise of popular nationalism, and the quest by diverse racial, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and religious groups for recognition, civic equality, and structural inclusion within their nation-states have complicated the attainment of citizenship in countries around the world.

Although multicultural education has made significant gains in recent years, with many courses specifically devoted to the topic in both undergraduate and graduate education programs, and more scholars of color teaching in these programs, these victories bring with them a number of pedagogic dilemmas.

This accessible book is a trusted companion for every teacher who has found themselves in charge of a tutor group.

Discover strategies to reinforce the strengths of the youngest members of society What assistance can be provided to a disadvantaged youngster to help them bounce back to conquer challenges while growing up?

Using a new model focused on four core capacities-intellectual complexity, social location, empathetic accountability, and motivated action--Teaching Civic Engagement explores the significance of religious studies in fostering a vibrant, just, and democratic civic order.

Introducing the New Sexuality Studies: Original Essays is an innovative, reader-friendly collection of essays that introduces the field of sexuality studies to undergraduate students.

Although bell hooks has long challenged the dominant paradigms of race, class, and gender, there has never been a comprehensive book critically reflecting upon this seminal scholar's body of work.

Imagining Windmills presents a compilation of scholarly chapters by selected authors of global standing in the arts therapies.

First published in 1959, Authority, Responsibility and Education focuses on the philosophy of education and is concerned with the question of moral education.

This text is a collection of case studies and readings on the subject of doing research in education.

The World Yearbook of Education 2009: Childhood Studies and the Impact of Globalization: Policies and Practices at Global and Local Levels examines the concept of childhood and childhood development and learning from educational, sociological, and psychological perspectives.

This book investigates the use of performative language pedagogy in working with refugees and migrants, exploring performative language teaching as the application of drama, music, dance and storytelling to second language acquisition.

This edited volume explores how Stephen Ball's work has shaped the field of the sociology of education worldwide.

In an era when rapid social change, the disappearance of traditional communities, the rise of political populism and the threat posed by radical religious movements makes it appear that 'all that is solid melts into air', the classical sociological problem of how peaceable societies can be created and maintained assumes renewed urgency.

The significance of Higher Education to national knowledge-based economies has made the sector the object of government policies, international monitoring, and corporatization.

We all encounter others whose gender identities differ from our own, whether it is in the classroom, in public, in the media or online.

Teaching for EcoJustice is a unique resource for exploring the social roots of environmental problems in humanities-based educational settings and a curriculum guidebook for putting EcoJustice Education into practice.

As standardization and "e;accountability"e; have continued to increase in the 21st century, educators and scholars of education have become increasingly frustrated.

In this book, Morris explores the intersection of curriculum studies, Holocaust studies, and psychoanalysis, using the Holocaust to raise issues of memory and representation.

In much of the world, religious traditions are seriously valued but, in the context of religious plurality, this sets educationalists an enormous challenge.

This book shares the thoughts of mostly North American scholars on many interrelated topics that have not previously been linked in academic research.

The rates of bullying and dropouts due to lack of safety in colleges and universities and subsequent suicidality for LGBT+ young adults and college students are exponentially higher than for non-LGBT+ people.

A Pedagogy of Equality in a Time of Unrest addresses education and teaching as fundamental democratic forms of equality.

For much of its history, the notion of talent has been associated with the idea of 'careers open to talent'.

Adriany explores gender discourses in early childhood education in Indonesia, as well as how teachers and children are engaged in the process of constructing, negotiating, and resisting dominant gender discourses in kindergartens.

The editors have compiled this critical and comparative study of changes which took place in the New Zealand education system in the second half of the twentieth century.

Theory for Education provides a concise and clear introduction to key contemporary theorists, including their lives, major works and ideas.

The importance of early childhood care and education (ECCE) in the lives of very young children is gaining increasing attention around the globe and yet there is a persistent lack of diverse knowledge perspectives on this critical phase.

To stop the downward spiral of intensifying environmental violence that inevitably leads to social violence we, as humans, need to better understand what is at stake and to determine how to make changes at the root levels.