Philosophy and theory of education

Beginning from the premise that a range of Marxist theoretical tendencies, or Marxisms, inform recent critical scholarship in education, this volume reaffirms, rearticulates, and interrogates central philosophical and practical commitments in this tradition.

This volume explores the application of human rights to higher education through a critical lens.

What are the fundamental aims and values underlying education?

Impressive strands of research have shown the emergent reality of increasing world-level interconnection in almost every field of social action.

First published in 1973, Reason and Compassion showcases a collection of lectures by Professor Richard S.

Qualitative research has seen a surge of growth during the past decade.

This volume features the works of scholar-practitioners who embrace critical pedagogy and critical research as praxis in qualitative research about education.

In this fully revised and updated second edition, Early Childhood Teacher Research addresses the questions and concerns that pre- and in-service teachers of young children frequently have when engaging in teacher research.

This rich collection of essays offers a broad array of perspectives from prominent international 'philosophy for/with children' (P4wC) scholars and practitioners regarding the interface between P4wC and teacher education and training curricula.

"e;Sam Rocha's primer reminds me of a French adage: la philo descends dans la rue-- philosophy comes to the street.

Teaching in Transnational Higher Education examines current trends and challenges that face students, teachers and institutions of higher education around the globe.

This book provides an empirical examination of the meso-level policy enactment of transnational higher education in the context of China.

Uniquely written from inside the banking world this book gives a comprehensive account of the organization and activities of the major central European banks during the 1980s.

With Brexit looming, a major issue facing UK Higher Education is whether the UK will be able to stay in the Erasmus Programme.

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Recent decades have seen unprecedented growth in the number of students travelling abroad for the purpose of short-term academic study.

Originally published in 1958, this reconstruction of the lives of young children of nursery age is an excursion into the past, from the Middle Ages to the opening years of the twentieth century.

This book explores the racial rules that are often hidden but perpetuate vast racial inequities in the United States.

Based in the philosophy of critical realism, this book employs a range of Margaret Archer's theoretical concepts to investigate temporal and spatial aspects of Norwegian education.

At a time when debate over school reform commands unprecedented attention, Judith L.

Aimed at teachers and leaders looking to create greater impact on teaching and learning through the use of digital technology in schools, From EdTech to PedTech translates research on the effective integration of digital technology in education into relevant, accessible, and practical guidance for teachers and school leaders.

This book critically examines the international, geopolitical, policy, institutional, and curricular challenges facing Canadian offshore school programs.

Exploring how educators and institutions might embrace the STEAM turn to ensure that theatre and performance can be instrumental to the neoliberal university, without being instrumentalized by it, this volume showcases alternative models for teaching and learning in theatre and performance in a neoliberal age.

Where tradition meets bureaucracy-Native students redefine education on their own terms.

Based on a solid theoretical basis of assessment-as-learning and updated empirical evidences, this timely book significantly expands the existing scope of assessment-as-learning typically developed in Western contexts.

Bildung and Paideia examines traditional humanistic ideals in light of philosophical reflection on the need for education of the whole human being.

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

This book explores the writings of philosopher and educator, John Dewey, in order to develop an expansive vision of aesthetic education and everyday poetics of living.

As well as examining the history and contemporary state of primary and secondary education in England and Wales at the turn of the 19th Century, this volume provides comparative analyses of the education of Germany, Denmark and the British Empire (particularly India).

The best professional development for teachers focuses on issues they encounter in the classroom.

Decolonial Arts Praxis: Transnational Pedagogies and Activism illustrates the productive potential of critical arts pedagogies in the ongoing work of decolonization by engaging art, activism, and transnational feminisms.

'Philosophy' in the context of this book means that the author is looking at education as a whole, without restrictions or simplifications; looking at ends and purposes, not merely at methods and means.

This book introduces readers to the contemporary classroom through the lens of sociological theory.

Religion has achieved ever greater prominence in debates about citizenship at every level of cultural, economic, social and political life.

Ethics and Educational Technology explores the creation and implementation of learning technologies through an applied ethical lens.

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

In Britain the physical education curriculum has been experiencing a period of unrest.

This book draws together insights on the past, present, and future of youth participatory action research (YPAR) through interviews with ten scholars whose work has been central to the field.

Flourishing in the First Five Years: Connecting Mind, Brain, and Education Research to the Development of Young Children will take you on a fascinating journey of discovery about what you can do to experience the thrill of helping all young children realize more of their unique potential.

This book examines the evolving role played by the social studies classroom in shaping national identity and contributing to Orientalism, which depicts the peoples of the Middle East as "e;the Other"e; relative to those of the United States and Europe.

This book brings together key perspectives from scholars in the Global South and Global North to illustrate diverse ways in which the UN's Global Citizenship Education (GCED) agenda can promote social justice and be used as a vehicle for negotiating and learning about diverse and shared objectives in education and the global public sphere.

This book, drawing on a political economic perspective of education development, is a comprehensive account of the question "e;why some education systems flourish while others falter.

Discussing the relationship between social work and sociology, this book explores how the two have become more and more divided, moving from one single discipline, to two separate, but related, fields.

Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO).

La herramienta ideal para que familias y educadores desarrollen la inteligencia filosófica de los niñosLos niños tienen una extraordinaria capacidad de asombro y una curiosidad prácticamente ilimitada, dos cualidades que los convierten en pequeños grandes filósofos.

Listening to peace.

Based on three years of detailed anthropological observation, this account of undergraduate culture portrays students' academic relations to faculty and administration as one of subjection.

Published in 1985.

Too often in education there is a split between those concerned with children's personal and emotional wellbeing and those focusing on academic achievement.