Moral and social purpose of education

Many contemporary concerns in higher education focus on the student experience of learning.

Terrorism, ethnocentrism, religious tension, competition over limited resources, war - these are just a few of the problems and challenges that have emerged in today's global economy.

Based on policy analysis and empirical data, this book examines the problematic consequences of colonial legacies of language policies and English language education in the multilingual contexts of the Global South.

Thirty countries, thirty sumptuous menus offering everything you need to give your friends and family a taste of how vegetarians eat all around the world.

Growing up with Parents who have Learning Difficulties uses a life-story approach to present new evidence about how children from such families manage the transition to adulthood, and about the longer-term outcomes of such an upbringing.

This accessible and user-friendly resource will help a wide range of adults support children and young people with anxiety.

Corporate social responsibility is becoming rapidly embedded into the strategic planning and operational processes of all organizations, while at the same time our understanding of what is meant by this phenomenon continues to develop and to be extended beyond the domain of the corporate into that of all other organizations.

This book investigates professional practice at the interface of sociology and epistemology for progressive educational change.

Today's youth live in the interface of the local and the global.

Published in 1986, this selected bibliography considers private schools that are religiously affiliated.

Originally published in 1964 The Experience of Higher Education reports the findings of about 400 intensive interviews with final year undergraduates at three universities - Cambridge, Leeds and Southampton - and a College of Advanced Technology in London.

Whilst learning is central to most understandings of what it is to be human, we now live in a knowledge society where being educated defines life chances more than ever before.

The educational environment of the 1990's is characterized by increasing independence for schools in a more competitive climate.

In this volume, scholars, researchers, and teacher educators from across the United States present their latest findings regarding teacher education to develop meaningful learning experiences and meet the sociocultural, linguistic, and academic needs of Latino ELLs.

Discover how entrepreneurship can dismantle the structural, social, cultural, and internalized stigma of disability in this compelling book.

The idea of citizenship and conceptions of what it means to be a good citizen have evolved over time.

Dadansodda’r gyfrol arloesol hon, am y tro cyntaf erioed, ddylanwadau niferus ar dwf yr Ysgolion Cymraeg, gan godi cwestiynau i finiogi meddwl wrth i Gymru wynebu tonnau newydd o sialensau, ac ysbrydoli eraill i ymaflyd yn yr ymgyrchu dros Ysgolion Cymraeg a’n treftadaeth genedlaethol mewn byd plwralistig a chyfnewidiol.

Academics and professionals working with young women face a series of paradoxes.

What is the main problem of contemporary education?

The simple premise of this book is that the purpose of education is to serve the well-being of students.

This book presents a crisis of religion and belief literacy to which education at every level is challenged to respond.

Re-envisioning the role, impact, and goals of teacher education programs, this volume immerses readers in the inner workings of an innovative, field-based teacher preparation program in Chicago.

This title, first published in 1990, examines the work of teachers in the classroom and the school from a sociological perspective.

Traditionally, children have been considered from a primarily developmental perspective, in need of education in order to achieve autonomy, growth, and eventually adulthood.

Ask any moderately interested Briton to name a black intellectual and chances are the response will be an American name: Malcolm X or Barack Obama, Toni Morrison or Cornel West.

Finalist: PROSE Awards 2025 - Education Theory and PracticeWritten by activists and scholars based in Australia, Kenya, Pakistan, New Zealand, South Africa, Uganda and the USA, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Prison Education offers the first global state-of-the-field overview of research into educational practices and programs in prisons.

Marking the fiftieth anniversary of two of the most influential books in modern educational and social theory, Rethinking Freire and Illich introduces readers to the results of the symposium of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society.

This book presents a compelling range of international research on the issues of gender balance and gender bias in education.

A revealing look at the experiences of first generation students on elite campuses and the hidden curriculum they must master in order to succeedCollege has long been viewed as an opportunity for advancement and mobility for talented students regardless of background.

This book foregrounds postcolonial theory as a lens through which to explore the concept of 'global heritage' and argues that the meso-level spaces of institutional ethos and cultural pedagogy must take an active role in the pursuit of cultural equality.

'This book is a great genealogy of black women's unrecognised contributions within both education and the wide social context.

This book provides education scholars insight into current theoretical and methodological approaches to conceptualize, facilitate, and examine learning and identity in virtual learning environments such as games and simulations.

In the past couple of years, much has been said and written in the media about the notion of "e;cancel culture"e; and the way in which various celebrities, journalists, politicians, ideas, and monuments have been cancelled.

This edited volume provides a comprehensive overview and discussion of the issues surrounding the Malaysian Indian community's educational development.

As the world seemingly gets smaller and smaller, schools around the globe are focusing their attention on expanding the consciousness and competencies of their students to prepare them for the conditions of globalization.

This book presents a series of research biographies based on research experiences in the study of educational settings.

Pleasure and desire have been important components of the vision for sexuality education for over 20 years.

This is the first book to offer an overview of the ways in which the sweeping social and economic changes of the modern period have impacted on the education system.

With the increased focus on providing for children's mental health, there is ever more demand for resources that will support educational settings to help children develop the skills needed to cope in today's world.

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

Around the world, curriculum - hard sciences, social sciences and the humanities - has been dominated and legitimated by prevailing Western Eurocentric Anglophone discourses and practices.

This book tells us how various global regions are dealing with three major concerns within the field of multicultural education: *the conceptualization and realization of "e;difference"e; and "e;diversity"e;; *the inclusion and exclusion of social groups within a definition of multicultural education; and *the effects of power on relations between and among groups identified under the multicultural education umbrella.

Waking up to the reactivity of concepts, to their myriad possibilities for signification, to the range and strength of affective responses they provoke, can happen at any time, in any place.

The authors in this book use the metaphors of invisibility and visibility to explore the social and school lives of many children and young people in North America whose complexity, strengths, and vulnerabilities are largely unseen in the society and its schools.

Although Montessori's name is almost universally known in education circles today, and there are countless nursery schools throughout the world using the "e;Montessori Method,"e; the real core of her thinking has remained largely misunderstood.

The rise of the health, beauty and fitness industries in recent years has led to an increased focus on the body.

Drawing on the ideas of Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault, this book extends the theoretical understanding of public pedagogy and brings into sharp focus the elements that constitute the public realm; the site of public pedagogy.

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

Mobility of scholars for seeking knowledge has existed since the earliest ideal of universities.