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 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.
Teaching in Transnational Higher Education examines current trends and challenges that face students, teachers and institutions of higher education around the globe.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Das Jahrbuch für philosophiedidaktische Forschung (JpdF) ist eine wissenschaftliche Fachzeitschrift, die von der Gesellschaft für Philosophie- und Ethikdidaktik (GPED) herausgegeben wird.
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.
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.
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).
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 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.
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.
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.
Too often in education there is a split between those concerned with children's personal and emotional wellbeing and those focusing on academic achievement.