Philosophy and theory of education

Tough Fronts takes the difficult issues in urban education head on by putting street-savvy students at the forefront of the discussion on how to best make successful changes for inner city schools.

First published in 1983, Moving from the Primary Classroom is concerned with what happens to pupils when they change teachers in the primary school and when they move to the secondary or middle school.

If the society that lies ahead is to be a better and more ethical one, schools play a key role in its realisation.

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Human Rights is an outstanding resource covering key questions, problems, and debates in scholarship on the nature, justification, authority and relevance of human rights.

This book explores British reflections of Japanese education between 1858 and 1914, by referring to accounts by British observers, derived from documentary sources such as newspapers, journal articles, published books, and official reports.

Scholars examining how women and people of color advance in academia invariably cite mentorship as one of the most important factors in facilitating student and faculty success.

This book examines minban teacher policies and their implementation in China between 1949 and 2000, when rural areas were in severe shortage of qualified teachers.

This book advocates for informed leaders who are aware of the larger historical, political-economic, sociological, and philosophical issues that surround the schools and communities they serve.

This book provides a rigorous examination into the realities of the current university system in Britain, America and Australia.

This book provides philosophical, political and practical insights that open ways for the university in going beyond its tightly controlled state and into more playful and imaginative futures.

From Europe and the USA to Sub-Saharan Africa and the emerging economic powers of Brazil, China and India, this book is an essential one-volume guide to the major issues in comparative and international education today and the insights that rigorous and appropriate study can offer for education provision, policy and practice.

This volume explores the deeply interwoven connection of education, art and nature in the context of East Asia.

It is often argued that education is concerned with the transmission of middle-class values and that this explains the relative educational failure of the working class.

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

This book systematically reviews the educational thought of Mr.

This work provides an overall review and analysis of the history of education and of its key research priorities in the British context.

Contemporary Debates in Education Studies gives the reader a vital and nuanced understanding of the key debates surrounding the field of education today.

Since the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, high-stakes testing has become a ubiquitous feature of public school children's daily rituals.

Originally published in 1971, this book was a critical introduction to the psychology of human development, learning and assessment.

We live in a world of stories; yet few of us pause to ask what stories actually are, why we consume them so avidly, and what they do for story makers and their audiences.

The radical transformation that universities are undergoing today is no less far-reaching than the upheavals that it experienced in the 1960s.

Originally published in 1966, the two authors combined skill in their subject with experience of teaching it to students in Africa and elsewhere.

This timely collection surveys and critiques studies of environmental and sustainability education (ESE) policy since the mid-1990s.

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

Now in its second edition, this Handbook offers a comprehensive review of rigorous, innovative, and critical scholarship profiling the scope and terrain of academic inquiry on Latinos and education.

One of the most important routes to employment within the social welfare sector worldwide is higher education, which equips students not only with the knowledge for employment, but with the tools to use and build on this knowledge.

This edited collection offers analyses of 'global citizenship education' within and across different national contexts.

The book's focus is the hegemonic role of so-called modernist, Western epistemology that spread in the wake of colonialism and the capitalist economic system, and its exclusion and othering of other epistemologies.

Do new technologies mean the end of the university as we know it?

Leading teacher of Arabic, Munther Younes, explores the realities of teaching Arabic as a foreign language (AFL) and outlines his groundbreaking approach to instruction, tried and tested over many years at Cornell University.

Winner of the 2014 AECT Design & Development Outstanding Book AwardAn Architectural Approach to Instructional Design is organized around a groundbreaking new way of conceptualizing instructional design practice.

Quality and Equity in Education draws attention to the importance of developing and testing theories of educational effectiveness and using these theories for improvement purposes.

The Role of English Teaching in Modern Japan examines the complex nature of Japan's promotion of English as a Foreign Language (EFL).

A methodology for using philosophy to guide teaching preparation and practice

This is the first hands-on methods guide for second-language (L2) reading research.

This collection offers a comprehensive account of the development of intercultural communication strategies through Virtual English as a lingua franca, reflecting on the ways in which we make pragmatic meaning in today's technology-informed globalized world.

The Routledge International Handbook of Research on Teaching Thinking is a comprehensive guide to research on teaching thinking.

This book, first published in 1994, explores the impact which changes in thinking and policy at national and local level have had upon the educational experiences of children and young people with special needs in England, Scotland and Wales.

First published in 1992.

With the growth of terrorism, instability in the EU following recession, and the acceleration of support for right-wing political parties in Europe, discussions on the nature of democracy and democratic citizenship have never been more important.

Published in 1985.

Education exists within a complex and changing world and many learners face a variety of risk factors - conditions, circumstances, situations, or events - that threaten to negatively impact upon their development and achievement.

The Culturally Responsive Instruction Observation Protocol (CRIOP) is a framework for implementing culturally relevant literacy instruction and classroom observation.

Assessment for Social Justice takes the established idea of 'assessment for learning' and extends it to consider how assessment contributes to social justice within and through higher education.

This book provides in-depth description, explanation, and discussion of goal frustration.

First published in 1992, this book presents unique quantitative data on the content coverage of primary education in a large number of countries since 1920.

Originally published in 1935, Testing Children's Development from Birth to School Age highlighted the greatly increased interest in measuring the development of pre-school children by other means than the older, inadequate "e;intelligence tests"e;.