Philosophy and theory of education

Universities are primarily social institutions, but they are also physical, material structures.

Debates in English Teaching explores the major issues all English teachers encounter daily in their professional lives.

To be truly educated today, students need more than knowledge; they need higher-order thinking skills.

This book offers a groundbreaking resource designed to transform how experiential learning is integrated into educational settings across various disciplines.

In this valuable resource, well-known scholars present a detailed understanding of contemporary theories and practices in the fields of measurement, assessment, and evaluation, with guidance on how to apply these ideas for the benefit of students and institutions.

How can we understand what a transdisciplinary (TD) approach might actually comprise of, given its complex and various uses?

Whereas once young women's feminist activism could be easily identified, today this resistance seems obscure, transitory, and disorganized.

Coming of Age in U.

Procreation, Parenthood, and Educational Rights explores important issues at the nexus of two burgeoning areas within moral and social philosophy: procreative ethics and parental rights.

First published in 1982, Making the Difference has become a classic in the study of education and of Australian society.

Renaissance writers habitually drew upon the idioms and images of the schoolroom in their depictions of emotional experience.

This book is an analysis of the whole frontier between religion and the environment.

Reimagining Adult Education as World Building offers a new way of thinking about adult education by re-envisaging how adult education works.

This proceedings volume contains selected papers presented at the 2014 International Conference on Education Management and Management Science (ICEMMS 2014), held August 7-8, 2014, in Tianjin, China.

In Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell gives a description of different forms of suppression.

This book presents different approaches for answering the question: How do we assess computational thinking?

Originally published in 1976.

How can education be a vehicle for social change?

Much more than simply recording events, pedagogical documentation is a revolutionary educational approach that enables practitioners to capture and understand the ways in which children learn and think.

This work considers the potential of photographs for orienting in a critical direction the scope, questions and interests of the disciplinary conventions of the field of educational inquiry.

This book critically examines the impact of migration, education, development, and the spread of English on global bio-linguistic and cultural diversity.

What do we know about the outcomes of education in developing countries?

A clear and practical presentation of the workings of an experimental nursery school.

This book provides a systematic study of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) based on big data analysis, aiming to examine the contextual factors relevant to students' digital reading performance.

Erziehung war gestern - Beziehung ist heute!

Bullying is one of the most destructive but common social practices that young people experience in schools, and one of the most difficult for teachers to manage successfully.

Published in the year 1984, School Desegregation is a valuable contribution to the field of Education.

This book provides readers with the basic coping strategies of surviving within the political arena of their schools.

Originally published in 1993.

This book brings together leading scholars in Global Studies in Education to reflect on how various developments of historic significance have unsettled the neoliberal imaginary of globalization.

Queering the Stage: Inclusive Approaches to Performing Gender and Sexuality addresses a history of stereotyping and provides inclusive approaches to navigating gender and sexuality in a way that does not reduce the broad spectrum of LGBTQ+ communities into a single monolith.

Voices From American Prisons: Faith, Education and Healing is a comprehensive and unique contribution to understanding the dynamics and nature of penal confinement.

Responding to the sudden and far-reaching implications of the COVID-19 pandemic in college classrooms and on campus, Emerging Stronger assembles an original compilation of chapters that revisit, reframe, and refine the practice of teaching in a fundamentally altered landscape.

*How should education be organized in pluralistic and multicultural societies?

Fairness and ethicality have been at the center of the debates on the appropriate use of educational tests since the 1960s.

What's public about public schools?

There is a recent surge in the use of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) within education globally, with disproportionate claims being made about what they show, 'what works', and what constitutes the best 'evidence'.

Providing an overview of key issues in theory and practice, Replication Research in Education is designed to identify and discuss the benefits and challenges facing replication studies in education.

English as a Foreign Language in Saudi Arabia: New Insights into Teaching and Learning English offers a detailed discussion of key aspects of teaching and learning English in the Saudi context and offers a comprehensive overview of related research authored or co-authored by Saudi researchers.

This book introduces readers to the theory of practice architectures and conveys a way of approaching practice theory through developing a practice sensibility.

Literacy remains a contentious and polarized educational, media and political issue.

This book explores and builds on the extraordinary work of Professor Paul Black across assessment and pedagogy across the curriculum, including STEM, humanities and social science subjects.

These chapters contain the subject matter of a year's course of thirty lectures which have now, for several years past, been given in connection with the Training School for Music Teachers, London, W.

Providing a comprehensive introduction to the topic of accountability and datafication in the governance of education, the World Yearbook of Education 2021 considers global policy dynamics and policy enactment processes.

Contesting Governing Ideologies is the third volume in the Educational Philosophy and Theory: Editor's Choice series and represents a collection of texts that provide a cutting-edge analysis of the philosophy and theory of performances of neoliberal ideology in education.

Originally published in 1988.

The book examines ancient religious traditions and modernity in a globalized Asia that is as much in need of a moral compass as it is economic development.