Philosophy and theory of education

Teaching STEM to young children is about more than helping them learn their numbers and facts.

This volume focuses on language planning in the Cameroon, Sudan and Zimbabwe, explaining the linguistic diversity, historical and political contexts, current language situation (including language-in-education planning), the role of the media, the role of religion and the roles of non-indigenous languages.

This much-anticipated fifth edition of Exploring Education offers an alternative to traditional foundations texts by combining a point-of-view analysis with primary source readings.

From 'Aggressive Masculinity' to 'Rape Culture' is the fifth volume in this series and explores the relationship between gender and sex roles and socialisation and education, foregrounding issues of inequity and different forms of oppression in various contexts.

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

What's Ahead in Education?

The rates of bullying and dropouts due to lack of safety in colleges and universities and subsequent suicidality for LGBT+ young adults and college students are exponentially higher than for non-LGBT+ people.

In the era of information and communication, issues of misinformation and miscommunication are more pressing than ever.

In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions - so the world can read them in a single manageable volume.

Wellbeing, Education and Contemporary Schooling examines the role of wellbeing in schools and argues that it should be integral to core policy objectives in health and education.

This book brings together influential scholars of social and emotional learning (SEL) to discuss current issues in the field.

This book traces the impact of German educationists, such as Froebel and Herbart, on practice in Britain while stressing the important and lasting influence of German scientists, technologists, philosophers, sociologists and historians on our educational system.

This is the first-ever book to offer an analytical study of John Holt's philosophy of education.

This book brings together the work of eleven leading international scholars to map the contribution of teaching Sisters, who provided schooling to hundreds of thousands of children, globally, from 1800 to 1950.

Future Directions of Educational Change brings together timely discussions on social justice, professional capital, and systems change from some of the leading scholars in the field of education.

Focusing on a wide range of critical issues, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the linkage of different educational ideas, policies, and practices to a commitment for democratic schooling.

The social organization of teaching and learning, particularly in classrooms, has not yet been recognized as a foundational element of education.

This book takes on current perspectives on children's relationships to literacy, media, childhood, markets and transtionalism in converging global worlds.

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

This book is a comprehensive guide for instructors and graduate students on preparing scholarly manuscripts for peer-reviewed journals, theses, or dissertations in the humanities and social sciences.

This book is for the reader who believes that thinking about and making art is intelligent behavior and that art as a subject in the K-12 school curriculum should not be used as an alibi for other curricular objectives.

Teaching Legal Education in the Digital Age explores how legal pedagogy and curriculum design should be modernised to ensure that law students have a realistic view of the future of the legal profession.

Health promotion with young people has largely been framed by theories of behaviour change to target 'unsafe', 'unhealthy' and/or 'risky' behaviours.

Recognition of prior learning (RPL) has emerged in recent decades as an important policy area and policy concept.

Identity, power, and positionality play crucial roles in designing and implementing research critically and ethically across marginalized cultures and communities.

How is epistemology related to the issue of teaching science and evolution in the schools?

Due to the economic and social effects of globalization democracy is currently in crisis in many states around the world.

Global Youth in Digital Trajectories explores the most recent developments regarding youth and media in a global perspective.

Education as a concept has long been taken for granted.

Through accessible language and candid discussions, Storytelling for Social Justice explores the stories we tell ourselves and each other about race and racism in our society.

Diversifying the academic faculty remains an elusive goal marked by slow and uneven progress.

'This book is Masterful, Evidence-based, Memorable, Operational, Readable, and the best book for You on memory.

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

One of the five books in the Mental Health and Wellbeing Teacher Toolkit for teachers and other professionals working with children, this practical resource focuses on the topic of 'Emotional Literacy' and how to support children and young people on a journey of self-discovery where they learn to recognise, understand, share and manage a range of emotions.

This book aims to challenge and inspire readers with lived examples of alternatives to current paradigms in education, childhood and community, through new research into two important and neglected schools in the history of progressive and radical education.

First published in 1994.

Reimagining Adult Education as World Building offers a new way of thinking about adult education by re-envisaging how adult education works.

The Live Art of Sociology attends to the importance of 'the live' in contemporary social and political life.

Zygmunt Bauman on Education in Liquid Modernity evaluates the contribution that Bauman has made to education studies.

Originally published in 1988.

School choice is a hot topic in the United States.

This book makes the case for young children as both keenly materially aware of and highly dependent on sets of interrelated material-discursive circumstances.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was drafted by the UN Commission on Human Rights in the aftermath of the World War II in an attempt to address the wrongs of the past and plan for a better future for all.

Accreditation of teacher education programs is increasingly embraced internationally and is being modeled after the American experience, despite criticisms from some in the field of teacher education in the United States.

Shortlisted for the 2024 O.

This book explores the development of practical wisdom, or phronesis, within the stories of four mature students studying for degrees in art and design.