Philosophy and theory of education

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, enlightenment philosopher and founder of 'natural education', is one of the most influential philosophers of education in the western world.

The Western tradition has long held the view that while it is possible to know that God exists, it nevertheless remains impossible to know what God is.

The Routledge Companion to Dyslexia is a ground-breaking analysis of the whole field of dyslexia by a distinguished team of international contributors and editors, engaged in literacy, inclusion and learning.

This novel volume delves into a specific and crucial aspect of early years pedagogy - the intersection between early childhood education and spirituality, offering tips on nurturing spirituality and a sense of connectedness with nature through outdoor learning.

This volume brings together a breadth of new research on how service-learning - combining community-based experiential learning with classroom instruction - can best be employed at community colleges.

This book, the first comprehensive, critical examination of the theory and pedagogy of the field of social foundations of education and its relevance and role within teacher education:*Articulates central questions in the field--such as "e;What is social foundations?

A comprehensive introduction to middle school teaching, this textbook focuses explicitly on instructional strategies that encourage adolescents to become active participants in their own learning within a world of accountability and standardized testing.

This book is about curriculum change in secondary schools and shows how the quality of education has been affected by increasing intervention from central government.

We presently live in an era dominated by scientism, an ideology that believes that science (and its rationalist foundation in modern epistemology) has an undeniable primacy over all other ways of seeing and understanding life and the world, including more humanistic, mythical, spiritual, and artistic interpretations.

As countries seek to develop their education systems, achieving sustainable improvements amongst students from disadvantaged backgrounds remains a major challenge.

Philosophy and Theory in Educational Research: Writing in the margin explores the practices of reading and writing in educational philosophy and theory.

With an increasing emphasis on the role of evidence in education, primary school teachers need to find meaningful ways to engage in research.

Though there has been much discussion on the academic aspects of Japanese education abroad (e.

This book applies the principles of Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852) to infant-toddler care and education today in England, the USA, New Zealand, and Hong Kong.

Scandals in College Sports includes 21 classic and contemporary case studies and ethical dilemmas showcasing challenges that threatened the integrity and credibility of intercollegiate sports programs at a range of institutional types across the country.

This text details the practical applications of Bourdieu's theories in a series of specific pedagogic research studies, showing how his ideas can be put into practice.

First published in 1985, this book explores the 'lived culture' of urban black students in a community college located in a large northeastern city in the United States.

Rural Education in America provides a comprehensive framework for understanding the diversity and complexity of rural communities in the United States and for helping rural educators implement and evaluate successful place-based programs tailored for students and their families.

Despite the growing urgency for Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the field of education, the "e;how"e; of this theoretical framework can often be overlooked.

For What Child, a must read for parents, future educators, and those interested in the education of the child.

This exciting new book provides a novel interdisciplinary introduction to Childhood and Youth Studies and Psychology.

Centred around a philosophical argument for contemporary education as a fundamental good, this edited volume demonstrates the benefits that education brings in a civil and flourishing societal context while also critiquing the state's role in supporting and strengthening this educational focus.

This edited volume shares the diverse experiences of immigrant professors in the United States.

This volume provides an international perspective on educational dependency in considering both theories and actual developments throughout the world.

This book proposes a pragmatist methodological framework for generating practically relevant political philosophy.

This book concerns the challenges and tensions rising from mass migration flows, unbalanced north-south and east-west relations and the increasing multicultural nature of society.

History of Higher Education Annual, Volume 23 provides insight into the struggle for civil rights and desegregation of Southern higher education, illuminating how this conflict affected private, historically black colleges and white denominational colleges, while interpreting the dynamics of segregation and desegregation in South Carolina.

This book presents diverse processes of crafting that bring humans, more than-humans and the environment closer to one another and, by doing so, addresses personal and educational developments towards ecological awareness.

By almost any measure, higher education is a vital part of the U.

This book offers strategies for the transfer of knowledge through combining information technology and visual arts, and examining how to visually enhance and convey knowledge.

The close-knit, personal nature of small rural communities results in school and community operating as a single integrated social structure.

In the 21st century myriad earth systems - atmospheric systems, ocean systems, land systems, neo-Liberal capitalism - are in crisis.

The focus of this book is the centrality of clinical experiences in preparing teachers to work with students from diverse cultural, economic, and experiential backgrounds.

China enjoys a splendid ancient culture, which is inseparable from the role of cultural transmission played by the country's system of education.

What can concerned parents and carers do to ensure their children, of all ages, develop great learning habits which will help them achieve their maximum at school and in life?

Distance education, for long the Cinderella of the educational spectrum, had emerged in the 1970s and early 1980s as a valued component of many national educational systems in both developed and developing countries.

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.

This book investigates the profound and complex impact of the opioid epidemic on schools in the United States, focusing on diverse aspects such as its history, legislative responses, trends, and implications for students, educators, and schools.

This book explores the evolution of Integrated approach to Technology in Education (ITE), an initiative of Tata Trusts in India, and the many innovative ways in which it has helped enrich the learning process and fostered new skills for young people, especially those living in challenging environments.

Subyace en este libro la reflexión de un pensador colombiano que ha emprendido un diálogo incesante con autores del siglo XX, cuyas propuestas marcaron una orientación decisiva y particular de la filosofía contemporánea y siguen constituyendo el derrotero de nuestro quehacer filosófico de la actualidad.

Learning takes place both inside and outside of the classroom, embedded in local practices, traditions and interactions.

Part of the Managing in the Early Years series, this book provides practical advice about management theory and practice.

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

Published in 1986 this book considers how relationships within the education system are growing more complicated as staff, pupils and parents are increasingly aware of their legal rights and willing to assert them.

College campuses have become rich sites of hip-hop culture and knowledge production.

This book uses Bourdieu's sociological approach for research as a jumping-off point for framing our understandings and analyses of China and Chinese education.

Originally published in 1975 How They Fared looks at some of the effects of 'going comprehensive'.

Examines the law governing American education and proposes social constructivist pedagogy as a model for reform efforts.

This book explores the idea of a childlike education and offers critical tools to question traditional forms of education, and alternative ways to understand and practice the relationship between education and childhood.