Philosophy and theory of education

This proceedings volume contains selected papers presented at the 2014 International Conference on Frontiers in Computer Education (ICFCE 2014), which was held December 24-25, 2014, in Wuhan, China.

Transforming Education for Sustainable Development documents and disseminates learning around education for sustainable development and associated pedagogical approaches, techniques, and experiences that have been generated across the Master of Development Practice (MDP) Global Association over the past 12 years.

​Pädagogisches Handeln ist auf Erfahrungen angewiesen und auf sie bezogen.

Diversifying the Teacher Workforce critically examines efforts to diversify the teaching force and narrow the demographic gap between who teaches and who populates U.

This concise biography tells the story of John Dewey, a pioneer of pragmatism and the first original school of philosophy created in America.

This book investigates the interrelationship between educational reforms and pedagogical and technological innovations, as well as the implications of this relationship for the quality of human capital.

Trayvon Martin, Race, and "e;American Justice"e;: Writing Wrong is the first comprehensive text to analyze not only the killing of Trayvon Martin, but the implications of this event for the state of race in the United States.

Learning to think is a complex process made up of reading, writing listening, speaking and remembering textual materials.

Since September 11, 2001, the profile of religion's role in our global society has increased significantly.

This book presents a showcase of discussions and critical perspectives about Nepalese higher education.

This original book offers a meaningful window into the lived experiences of children from immigrant families, providing a holistic, profound portrait of their literacy practices as situated within social, cultural, and political frames.

First published between 1985 and 1987, this set of books attempts to tackle some of the complex issues implied by the title Language, Education and Society.

Educators' daily stressors can easily accumulate without intentional wellness actions in place.

This book explores the complexities of investigating minorities, majorities, boundaries and borders, and the experiences of researchers who choose to work in these spaces.

Building on his seminal methodological contribution to the field - currere - here William F.

As scholars and administrators have sharpened their focus on higher education beyond trends in access and graduation rates for underrepresented college students, there are growing calls for understanding the experiential dimensions of college life.

Bullying: Effective Strategies for Long Term Improvement tackles the sensitive issue of bullying in schools and offers practical guidance on how to deal successfully with the issue in the long term.

This book calls for an expanded vision of holistic education that emphasizes togetherness and harmony through the discovery of oneself, others, and the larger society.

There is a flourishing literature on citizenship education in China that is mostly unknown in the West.

Many assume that a person's right to education terminates with high school, and that higher education is a luxury addition.

This first book-length collection on Levinas and education gathers new texts written especially for this volume by an international group of scholars well known for their work in philosophy, educational theory, and on Levinas.

Qualitative research is a key form of research in education; the findings of such projects frequently play a central role in shaping policy and practice.

This book focuses on educational praxis-connecting work inside schools with work outside school-to produce a revitalized critical theory of education that shows its slide away from Marxism and toward culturalism.

This book focuses on a long- neglected yet important topic in China's translation history: interpreter/ translator training and wartime translation studies.

This book, first published in 1990, takes a critical look at the major assumptions which support critical thinking programs and discovers many unresolved questions which threaten their viability.

Could global government be the answer to global poverty and starvation?

This book provides contemporary knowledge on school effectiveness and proposes strategic interventions for enhancing it.

In this book, author Helene Thiesen recounts her experience of being removed from her family in Greenland as a young Inuk child, to be 're-educated' in Denmark and an orphanage in Greenland.

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 timely volume challenges the ongoing underrepresentation of Latina women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), and highlights resilience as a critical communal response to increasing their representation in degree programs and academic posts.

This book presents a new vision of literacy that frames meaning-making and communication in relation to individual, collective, and ecological needs.

This book is an inter-disciplinary endeavour.

Children arrive in their science classrooms with their own ideas and interpretations of the phenomena they are to study even when they have received no systematic instruction in these subjects whatsoever.

Celebrating the spirit and need for increased multi-disciplinary working and co-operation in the care and education of children, this book addresses the emergence of a new type of early years professional.

 This volume presents an interdisciplinary and systematic review of Catholic Education Studies across Ireland and Britain.

This book examines the moral education policy system in China, discussing the challenges of promoting moral education policy in the country, and proposes relative strategies.

This book brings together the two fields of 'educational leadership' and 'rurality' and builds on the growing field of inquiry into the significance of 'adding the rural' to all aspects of education.

Many college students remain puzzled by card catalogs, can't find books they need, and fail to use many of the important resources of the library despite tours, explanations, and much assistance from librarians.

This book discusses the way in which those born into the British empire were persuaded to accept it, often with enthusiasm.

This book provides a wide-ranging, systematic, and comprehensive approach to the moral philosophy of John Dewey, one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century.

Visioning presents a roadmap for university leaders to vitalize higher education in response to global problems.

This book, first published in 1970 and revised in 1975, lays out the background to the Chinese educational system and attempts of the communist leadership to reform the school system.

Currently a great deal of public discourse around health is on the assumed relationship between childhood inactivity, young people's diets, and a putative steep rise in obesity.

Nationality and Ethnicity in an Israeli School: A Case Study of Jewish-Arab Students explores the intersection of ethnicity, nationality, and social structure which is experienced through schooling and its effects on the performance of disadvantaged students.

Memory work - the conscious remembering and study of individual and shared memories - is increasingly being acknowledged as a key pedagogical tool in working with children.

Taking on the pervasive issue of racism within education Badu offers a practical, no-nonsense guide on building an antiracist classroom.

This is an essential text for students, teachers and practitioners in a range of early childhood education and care settings.

The Handbook of Mental Wellness Strategies for Educators offers health-giving ways to reframe teaching work and the stresses that come with it, examining specific evidence-based strategies for dealing with teaching anxieties and trauma-related stressors.