Philosophy and theory of education

Discover the transformative power of Montessori education in this comprehensive guide from the Montessori Foundation.

In this book, first published in 1993, John Evans presents a guideline for challenging sexism, racism and elitism in programmes of physical education.

This volume investigates how international students in and from the Middle East are constructed by nations, institutions, other students, and themselves.

Challenging misconceptions related to Black academic achievement, this volume provides original perspectives on the policies, initiatives, and factors that facilitate the success of students of color as they progress along the educational pipeline.

This book examines the history, recent developments, and direction of travel of Russian teacher education.

Chinese students are the largest international student group in UK universities today, yet little is known about their undergraduate writing and the challenges they face.

Policy analysis has always attended to the role of elite actors, but much less often has the policy activity of 'street level' actors been attended to.

With life expectancy increasing, there is growing emphasis on encouraging older people to continue learning.

Class Strategies and the Education Market examines the ways in which the middle classes maintain and improve their social advantages in and through education.

Curriculum and Imagination describes an alternative 'process' model for designing developing, implementing and evaluating curriculum, suggesting that curriculum may be designed by specifying an educational process which contains key principles of procedure.

This book brings together social semiotics, cultural studies, multiliteracies, and other approaches in order to theorize very different learning environments, giving visibility to the modal effect in a range of disciplines.

Ilan Gur-Ze'ev and Education: Pedagogies of Transformation and Peace critically analyses and introduces the main ideas of Ilan Gur-Ze'ev, reflecting on his continuing theoretical and practical relevance to the field of education.

This book examines why study abroad is a marginal activity in American higher education and evaluates the role gender has played in the development and maintenance of this marginality.

This book explores the usage and significance of the word "e;like"e; across a wide range of disciplines, focusing in particular on its influence in education and pedagogy.

John Dewey's My Pedagogical Creed outlined his beliefs in regard to teaching and learning.

The ethical and emotional tolls paid by disadvantaged college students seeking upward mobility and what educators can do to help these students flourishUpward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students.

As charter schools enter their third decade, research in this key sector remains overwhelmingly contradictory and confused.

What are the experiences of children and young people?

Nietzsche's Philosophy of Education makes the case that Nietzsche's ?

A comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of play for children from birth to 8 years old.

This report, examining the lives of the women of Bryn Mawr, is designed to make the results of the 1970-1971 Bryn Mawr College Alumnae Survey accessible for general use.

This edited collection presents several research projects which examine issues concerning professional development, professional learning, and the 'Education for All' (EfA) ethos.

International Perspectives on Autoethnographic Research and Practice is the first volume of international scholarship on autoethnography.

Designed for introductory research courses in the professional fields and social sciences, this text acquaints students and beginning researchers with a broad view of research methodologies and an understanding of the assumptions that inform each of these approaches.

First published in 1933, experienced teachers describe the transition in a large infant school from formal teaching to project work and illustrate the methods by which children, free to play singly or in groups, gain general education and rapidly acquire skill in the three R's.

Sport coaching has grown significantly as an area of research interest with an expanding number of sport coaching programs offered.

This book on Philosophy for Children (P4C) is a compilation of articles written by its founders and the movement's leaders worldwide.

Medical Ethics and Moral Psychology: An Integrative Approach is a pioneering book which provides a comprehensive exploration of the ethical challenges in contemporary healthcare.

Originally published in 1992.

The main theme of the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Teacher Education and Professional Development (InCoTEPD 2019) is 'Teacher Education and Professional Development in Industry 4.

Offering first-hand insights from the early originators of Cooperative Learning (CL), this volume documents the evolution of CL, illustrating its historical and contemporary research, and highlights the personal experiences which have helped inspire and ground this concept.

This book explores the issues surrounding girls and young women who are seen as troubled or troublesome.

This volume critically and constructively discusses philosophical questions which have particular bearing on the formulation of educational aims.

Drawing on the latest research in futures studies, this book provides new insights into ways of helping both students and teachers think more critically and creatively about their own future and that of wider society.

Education Policy Unravelled examines the nature of contemporary education policy, its purposes and political formation.

This collection of original papers shows how women in Britain are still being discriminated against during schooling, despite the existence of legislation prohibiting such discrimination and despite apparent concern with promoting equality between the sexes in education.

The relationship between teacher education and internationalization is often regarded as one that has just begun, sparked by globalization and its knowledge economy.

This book is a case study of policy translation at an elite Japanese university.

This collection of Allan Luke's key writings on educational policy, curriculum, and school reform follows the development and use of critical discourse analyses to study educational policy and practice.

Advancing Equity and Achievement in America's Diverse Schools illustrates how educators, students, families and community partners can work in strategic ways to build on social, cultural, and ethnic diversity to advance educational equity and achievement.

Originally published in 1988.

The Roma (commonly known as "e;Gypsies"e;) have largely been depicted in writings and in popular culture as an illiterate group.

Remaining and Becoming: Cultural Crosscurrents in an Hispano School deals with the politics of identity and the concept of boundaries during a time of rapid change.

Best known as author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), if not also as mother of Frankenstein's author Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft survived domestic violence and unusual independent womanhood to write engaging letters, fiction, history, critical reviews, handbooks and treatises.

The subject of accountability warrants thoughtful and dispassionate attention in today's educational environment.

For both new academics and those with some experience, writing articles of publishable quality can be particularly challenging.

Presenting a compelling case for changing our system of education from a graded, curriculum-centered approach to a multiage, child-centered approach, Understanding Multiage Education is a comprehensive exploration of the philosophy and foundations of multiage education.

Mixed ability teaching was the subject of a lively debate in the early 1980s within the teaching profession.

Teaching and Learning as a Pedagogic Pilgrimage is premised on an argument that if higher education is to remain responsive to a public good, then teaching and learning must be in a perpetual state of reflection and change.