Philosophy and theory of education

Although many schools and educational systems, from elementary to tertiary level, state that they endorse anti-homophobic policies, pedagogies and programs, there appears to be an absence of education about, and affirmation of, bisexuality and minimal specific attention paid to bi-phobia.

This compelling book takes a novel approach to the complexities of girls' and women's education in the global South.

In the United States, the causes and even the meanings of poverty are disconnected from the causes and meanings of global poverty.

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.

In Why Knowledge Matters, E.

Published in 1993, this book considers the needs of older teenage students and the various forms of provision made for them.

Originally published in 1986.

This text, first published in 1988, examines the underlying rationale of educational aims as applied to individual pupils, social policies and supposedly intrinsic values.

A provocative case for why immortalizing Greek and Roman culture as ';classical' marginalizes and devalues Black lifeGreek and Roman antiquity has been enshrined in disciplines and curricula at all levels of education, perpetuating what the historian of political thought J.

This book is an exploration of how children, educators, and things become implicated in gendered caring practices.

This book gives voice to the experiences of women of color--women of African, Native American, Latina, East Indian, Korean and Japanese descent--as students pursuing terminal degrees and as faculty members navigating the Academy, grappling with the dilemmas encountered by others and themselves as they exist at the intersections of their work and identities.

This volume illustrates how theatre arts can be used to enact peace education by showcasing the use of theatrical techniques including storytelling, testimonial and forum theatre, political humor, and arts-based pedagogy in diverse formal and non-formal educational contexts across age groups.

In Constructing Twenty-First Century Socialism: The Role of Radical Education, Motta and Cole explore the role of the politics of knowledge and pedagogy in the reinvention of socialism for the twenty-first century.

The essays in this volume bring together leading-edge scholars to illuminate the work of William E.

With new chapters and updated content throughout, this second edition of Higher Education Research Methodology is an essential guide to systematic inquiry into higher education.

The research teachers carry out into their own professional practice and environment is increasingly recognised as highly relevant and valuable.

Originally published in 1925, The Art Student's Vade-Mecum is a pocket guide for students and academics alike, to the world of painting and drawing.

Progress in Education.

In this lively and practical book, seasoned educator Jonathan Cassie shines a spotlight on gamification, an instructional approach that's revolutionizing K-12 education.

This book explores the world of international doctoral students in the Chinese higher education system.

This volume examines Otto Friedrich Bollnow's philosophical approach to education, which brought Heidegger's existentialism together with other theories of what it is to be "e;human.

Taking the postcolonial - or, more specifically, the post-apartheid - university as its focus, the book takes the violence and the trauma of the global neoliberal hegemony as its central point of reference.

This book shows, in detail and with concrete examples, how educational theory and research can be translated into practice.

In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks-writer, teacher, and insur-gent black intellectual-writes about a new kind of education, edu-cation as the practice of freedom.

The Humanities, the Social Sciences and the University is an intellectual history of research in the humanities and social sciences.

Beginning in the twentieth century, American faculty increasingly viewed themselves as professionals who were more than mere employees.

Teaching Music Differently explores what music teachers do and why.

In this captivating yet troubling book, Ian Shapiro offers a searing indictment of many influential practices in the social sciences and humanities today.

Cross cultural teaching and learning for home and international students maps and discusses the increasing internationalisation of teaching and learning at universities around the world.

This textbook shows how people can and do transform the world through transforming their practices and the practice architectures that shape them, and contributes to contemporary practice theory.

The Trials of Evidence-based Education explores the promise, limitations and achievements of evidence-based policy and practice, as the attention of funders moves from a sole focus on attainment outcomes to political concern about character-building and wider educational impacts.

The explosive emergence of net-based learning in higher education brings with it new possibilities and constraints in teaching and learning environments.

This compelling book introduces Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's capability approach and explores its significance for theory, policy and practice in education.

As moral educators we are more used to teaching others and researching their learning and moral development than reflecting on and writing formally about our own moral learning.

Self-evaluation is going global.

Kein Zweifel: Die Vorbilder sind zurück.

Based on extensive research, and grounded in everyday classroom practice, the authors of this book explore important issues surrounding play in the early years curriculum.

This Collection of fourteen essays by eleven different authors demonstrates the increasing breadth of enquiry that has taken place in art and design education history over the past two decades, and the expanding range of research models applied to the subject.

With a focus on seven Jesuit university leaders emeriti and the late University of Notre Dame President Father Theodore Hesburgh, this book offers a critical analysis of the common values, philosophies, and leadership practices of Jesuit-Catholic university presidents within the broader higher education context.

This book analyzes the deep historical and theoretical roots of self-directed learning models in order to put forward a new conceptual understanding of self-directed learning.

Exploring Educational Research Literacy offers beginning classroom teachers a comprehensive introduction to the topic of educational research literacy-that is, the ability to read educational research articles in a systemic and critical way.

Internationalization of higher education is a concept that is currently making its way to every corner of the globe.

This book develops an argument for a historicist and non-foundationalist notion of rationality based on an interpretation of Wittgenstein of the Philosophical Investigations and On Certainty.

Published in 1989, this book provides an international perspective on bullying.

Isocrates is one of the most remarkable and influential figures in the history of human thought.

In recent years the contribution of drama to second language learning has grown internationally as a field of interest to both teachers and researchers.

The rich and diverse contributions to this volume span a wide variety of disciplines, from psychology and philosophy to neuroscience, by some of the most influential scholars in the emerging science of personal wisdom.

Campus Power Struggle traces the explosive evolution of the student political movement from the Berkeley Free Speech Movement of 1964 to armed confrontation at Cornell in 1969.

This volume concentrates on the processes and practices of formal education, which shaped, and were shaped by, imperial values, attitudes and behaviour.