Philosophy and theory of education

Children in care (CiC), or looked after children, in England achieve less well than their non-looked after peers and as such they receive pupil premium plus funding.

Internationalisation of the contemporary university has become a pervasive and powerful development theme during the past three decades.

How does contemporary education engage trauma in ways that explore its ethical and political implications for curriculum and pedagogy?

This volume brings together a selection of essential articles from the journal Revista Internacional de Educacion Musical (RIEM), a Spanish-language journal published by the International Society for Music Education, making this work available to an English-speaking audience for the first time.

Originally published in 1931, this title looks at the education received by children working in industry in England between 1833 and 1876.

This volume works towards overcoming the lack of systematic impact evaluation in higher education, particularly analyses which are not restricted to ex-post gathered data and expert assessments.

Elite Schools in Globalizing Circumstances foregrounds the richly theoretical and empirically-based work of an international cast of scholars seeking to break out of the confines of the methodological nationalism that now governs so much of contemporary scholarship on schooling.

The promise of a free, high-quality public education is supposed to guarantee every child a shot at the American dream.

In this unique examination of education for citizenship, Derek Heater covers two and a half millennia of history encompassing every continent.

Theoretical studies in curriculum have begun to move into cultural studies--one vibrant and increasingly visible sector of which is queer theory.

The book studies the educational needs of two disadvantaged groups of children in China (left-behind children in rural areas and migrant children in urban areas), aiming to optimize the social support system so that these disadvantaged children can realize their full potential.

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the ideas surrounding reflective practice, specifically in the areas of learning in management, development and education.

Parallel Societies of International Students in Australia explores the social and cultural spaces that international students occupy in destination countries.

Drawing from mindfulness education and social justice teaching, this book explores an effective Anti-Oppression pedagogy for university and college classrooms.

At a time when STEM research and new technologies are dominating the curricula of colleges and universities, this important book refocuses the conversation on holistic education for all students.

Critical Studies of Education in Asia features analyses that take seriously the complex postcolonial, historical, and cultural consciousnesses felt across societies in Asia, and that bring these to bear on the changing terrain of knowledge, subjectivities, and power relations constructed both within schools and across the public sphere.

John Locke is one of the great minds in educational history.

Children in care (CiC), or looked after children, in England achieve less well than their non-looked after peers and as such they receive pupil premium plus funding.

In developing countries across the world, qualified teachers are a rarity, with thousands of untrained adults taking over the role and millions of children having no access to schooling at all.

This short critical introduction to Pierre Bourdieu's thought has been comprehensively brought up to date for the third edition.

This edited collection illustrates the way in which women's experiences of academe could be both contextually diverse but historically and culturally similar.

The Global Classroom: An Essential Guide to Study Abroad (Second Edition) is a unique international studies text that provides students and practitioners with valuable resources for success in education abroad.

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

Featuring storytelling as a central theme, this book examines the role of narrative inquiry in social processes of establishing teacher knowledge and identity to provide new insights into the role of storytelling in education's teaching and learning paradigm.

Originally published in 1993, this volume will be of particular interest to primary school teachers who may never have taught history as a discreet subject before and who are worried by their negative memories of school history and lack confidence as to their own knowledge of the subject.

One of America's greatest challenges is to reverse the steep decline of the intellectual performance of its young men.

Religious Education as a Dialogue with Difference addresses current issues over the study of religion in publicly maintained schools.

Moral Development offers a comprehensive overview of classic and current theories of moral development and applications of these theories in various counseling and educational settings.

Teacher Preparation as Social Activism at Historically Black Colleges and Universities offers new insights into the historical educational perspectives of teacher preparation at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

This edited volume contributes a novel understanding of the past, present and future of higher education across the six countries that make up the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

This textbook develops early childhood teachers' capacity to effectively instruct democratic principles to our youngest citizens.

This book explores how design thinking can transform higher education, with solutions ranging from single course sessions to whole programs and universities.

Following a string of military defeats at the end of the eighteenth century, Ottoman leaders realized that their classical traditions and institutions could not compete with Russia and the European states' technological and economic superiority.

This book documents the political and economic ramifications of the policy impetus for a "e;science of education"e; and what this means for classroom teachers, their teaching practices and for the field of education.

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Academia is an important site for producing knowledge, which is crucial in driving economies and societies around the globe at the beginning of the 21st century.

In 1890 congressional legislation opened a new chapter in the history of higher education by allocating public support for black Land-Grant colleges and universities.

Thinking about teaching in educational terms has become increasingly difficult because of the conceptions of higher education that predominate in both policy and public debate.

This title, first published in 1971, provides a guide to the social psychology of learning.

This book explores the reflective potentialities offered by analyses of teachers' professional learning narratives.

First published in 1993 this volume is an extension and revision of the 1986 book entitled Religious Schools in America: A Selected Bibliography.

The book analyses how lines of (non)belonging are traced and how notions of (non)belonging circulate around and are attached to students from immigrant backgrounds.

In Language and Learning in the Digital Age, linguist James Paul Gee and educator Elisabeth Hayes deal with the forces unleashed by today's digital media, forces that are transforming language and learning for good and ill.

This is the first book-length study in English to investigate Freire's landmark educational theory and practice through the lens of his lifelong Catholicism.

Critical Race Theory in Mathematics Education brings together scholarship that uses critical race theory (CRT) to provide a comprehensive understanding of race, racism, social justice, and experiential knowledge of African Americans' mathematics education.