Philosophy and theory of education

This book addresses the questions why citizenship education is an important subject for students in further and adult education and why we need democratic colleges to support the study of citizenship education.

This book explores a new pedagogical model called The Third Model, which places the encounter between the child and the curriculum at the center of educational theory and practice.

Jerome S.

Hoping to help transform engineering into a more socially just field of practice, this book offers various perspectives and strategies while highlighting key concepts and themes that help readers understand the complex relationship between engineering education and social justice.

Analysis of education policy often follows a particular orientation, such as conservative or neo-liberal.

This collection of fresh analyses aims to map the links between educational theory and research, and the geographical and physical spaces in which teaching is practiced and discussed.

Researchers agree that schools construct a particular image of science, in which some characteristics are featured while others end up in oblivion.

Corporations, and the environments in which they operate, are complex, with changing multiple dimensions, and an inherent capacity to evolve qualitatively.

This book examines the textual, social, cultural, practical and institutional environments to which the expression "e;teaching and learning contexts"e; refers.

A confluence of scholarly interest has resulted in a revival of Thomistic scholarship across the world.

The closely argued and provocative contributions to this volume challenge psychology's hegemony as an interpretive paradigm in a range of social contexts such as education and child development.

This book's original contribution to a crowded literature on work and learning will attract strong international interest.

Schooling in the region known as Micronesia is today a normalized, ubiquitous, and largely unexamined habit.

This volume gives educational theorists the chance to let rip and say what they really want to say.

This book examines the ways in which China's universities have changed in the dramatic move to a mass stage which has unfolded since the late 1990s.

The work of the Kyoto School represents one of the few streams of philosophy that originate in Japan.

Rhetorical Ways of Thinking focuses on how the co-construction of learning models the interpretation of a mathematical situation.

Interpreting the voices of under three year olds is central to early childhood education.

Exemplifying what it advocates, this book is an innovative attempt to retrieve the essay form from its degenerate condition in academic writing.

This first book in the series will describe the Net Generation as visual learners who thrive when surrounded with new technologies and whose needs can be met with the technological innovations.

Many sociological, historical and cultural stories can be and have already been told about why it is that parents in post-industrial, western societies face an often overwhelming array of advice on how to bring up their children.

Under the weight of a combination of forces, many of the older paradigms of learning are being questioned in our time.

The desire for knowledge is an abiding facet of human experience and cultural development.

In the recent educational research literature, it has been asserted that ethnic or cultural groups have their own distinctive epistemologies, and that these have been given short shrift by the dominant social group.

In recent decades, education at all levels has been seriously impoverished by a growing obsession with standards, targets, skills and competences.

This book argues that the 'constructivist metaphor' has become a self-appointed overriding concept that suppresses other modes of thinking about knowing and learning science.

Max Scheler and Nicolai Hartmann developed ethics upon a phenomenological basis.

Critical Praxis Research (CPR) is a teacher research methodology designed to bridge the divide between practitioner and scholar, drawing together many strands to explain the research process not just as something teacher researchers do, but as a fundamental part of who teacher researchers are.

Contributors to this volume examine structures and processes that school boards have in place directly relating to the process of principal or vice-principal succession.

This important book breaks new ground in addressing issues of gendered learning in different contexts across the (adult) life span at the start of the 21st century.

This book systematically elaborates Scott Eacott's "e;relational"e; approach to organizational theory in education.

This book draws upon Vygotsky's idea of perezhivanie, emotions and imagination, and introduces the concepts of subjective sense and subjective configuration.

For many White women teachers and teachers in training - who represent the majority of our teaching force today - the issue of race is fraught with discomfort.

Affirming the Rights of Emergent Bilingual and Multilingual Children and Families explores how the philosophy, principles, and practices of the internationally acclaimed Municipal Preschools and Infant Toddler Centers of Reggio Emilia, Italy, advance the social justice and linguistic human rights of emergent bilingual and multilingual children and their families, particularly immigrants and refugees.

This book reflects the considerable appeal of the Anthropocene and the way it stimulates new discussions and ideas for reimagining sustainability and its place in education in these precarious times.

This book is an inter-disciplinary endeavour.

This book continues the author's long-term reflections (over 20 years of scholarship and experience in intercultural communication education) around the fascinating and yet contestable notion of interculturality in education.

This book collects bold and challenging contributions to pedagogy that foster creative and critical thinking in the marketing classroom.

How to design a powerful learning environment so that learners can thrive in the 21st century?

This first book in the new OECD Insights Series examines the increasing economic and social importance of human capital - our education, skills, competencies, and knowledge.

Today's global policy climate underlines the importance of better addressing non-economic dimensions of well-being and social progress such as health, social engagement, political interest and crime.

This volume of the Schooling for Tomorrow series goes beyond the OECD's own set of educational futures already published.

Statistics are everywhere.

The primary mission of this text is clarifying many of the misconceptions about Paulo Freire's theories, concepts and his implications for education.

This book focuses on the language of educational research as well as on the language of education.

Globalization, Education and Social Justice, which is the tenth volume in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, presents up-to-date scholarly research on major discourses concerning global trends in education, social justice and policy research.

This book is an invitation to academic administrators, at every level, to engage in reflection on the ethical dimensions of their working lives.

This book has its origins in a special issue of the journal Science & Education (Volume 18 Numbers 6-7, 2009).

Preparing professionals to meet the demands of changes in practice is a compelling issue for the development of society, professions and individual professionals.

Changing preferencesis a phenomenonoften invoked but rarely properlyaccounted for.