Philosophy and theory of education

Introducing: 20 key educational thinkers who have offered challenging perspectives on educationExploring: Their ideas, how to apply them in practice and their relevance to teaching and learning today.

This book proposes a broad-based multiliteracies theory and praxis for college writing curriculum.

Academe Degree Zero brings together ten essays that identify and critically examine the key issues facing professionals in higher education today.

This book explores the significance of silence within and beyond pedagogical contexts.

Der Sammelband vereinigt Beiträge zum kulturellen Lernen aus theoretisch-konzeptioneller, empirischer und unterrichtspraktischer Perspektive.

The Intersection of Cultures: Multicultural Education in the United States and the Global Economy, Fourth Edition offers a unique, problem-solving approach to the complex issues involved in educating culturally and linguistically diverse students.

The first authoritative survey of the changing politics of the classroom since the Second World War.

This fully updated fourth edition of the highly successful guide, Teaching Thinking, explores how to use discussion in the classroom to develop children's thinking, learning and literacy skills.

This book amplifies the distinct, intersecting, and coalitional possibilities of education in the spaces of ongoing movements for Native and Black liberation.

Problem Solving for Teaching and Learning explores the importance of problem solving to learning in everyday personal and social contexts.

Your beginners guide to the study and exploration of education.

This collection of ground-breaking international essays address the educational, social, work and biographical experiences of young women who are routinely constructed as 'at risk' and on the margins.

In the early 1970s the crisis in schools, particularly in urban areas, had escalated.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the advances that have taken place in European higher education institutions (HEIs) over the last 20 years in response to the challenges of sustainable development.

The Audacity to Teach!

The contemporary young reader learns from a very early age to read and interpret through a broad range of media.

How coherent is the claim that Catholic education is both distinctive and inclusive?

How we understand education quality is inextricably linked with perspectives on social justice.

Surveillance Education explores the pervasive use of digital surveillance technologies in schools and assesses its pernicious effects on students.

Like Letters in Running Water explores ways in which fiction (prose, drama, poetry, myth, fairytale) yields transformative insights for educational theory and practice.

Teaching for Social Justice?

This book concerns the pursuit of wisdom in education, and the argument that wisdom - personified here as Sophia - is tragically marginalised or absent in current Western epistemological discourses.

Originally published in 1957,the first part of this volume examines physical education in classical Greece and Imperial Rome during the first and second centuries A.

This edited volume explores the specific ability of the school setting to promote intercultural education as an approach to address contemporary, societal issues of justice and social inclusion.

This fascinating book comprises a poetic ethnography, featuring poems that capture the experiences of students, professors, administrators, custodians, a chancellor, and other people who work in institutions of US higher education.

This book originated in an analysis of government bureaucracies.

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English Language Arts as an Emancipatory Subject explores the changing nature and history of the English Language as an emancipatory subject, as well as how its current activities and projects address and challenge inequalities.

This volume delves into the evolving landscape of education by examining innovative teaching practices across two distinct educational systems.

First published in 1974.

In Evidence, Politics, and Education Policy, political scientists Lorraine M.

This book critically interrogates the function of schooling in the United States of America using the writings of sociologist Zygmunt Bauman.

In this comprehensive resource for elementary school teachers, Kristina J.

This volume is a collection of articles that showcase new research that is emerging from laboratory schools, guided by principles of applied developmental science.

This book provides an opportunity to teach the exquisiteness of being human to our children.

This book offers cutting-edge expertise and knowledge in new and developing play therapy, therapeutic play, and expressive arts for families and children in crisis and challenging situations.

Mentoring is a hot buzzword these days.

Originally published in 1983.

Science has never been more important, yet science education faces serious challenges.

This book fully explores the question(s) of time in educational research and achieves the acceleration and merging of inquiry with action to understand change and implement these findings through practice.

Using cutting-edge and frontline research relating to present day problems in educational systems, this volume provides a critical discussion about political alternatives in education to neoliberalism.

This title explores the place of education in development debates and provides a systematic as well as a theoretical overview of the main approaches to education and development.

Actionable Research for Educational Equity and Social Justice advances a unique, engaged approach to promoting educational equity and social justice in higher education across China and beyond.

Fieldwork in Educational Settings is widely recognised as part of the essential reading for the researcher in education.

Over the last few years, Orthodox Jewish private schools, also known as yeshivas, have been under fire by a group of activists known as Young Advocates for Fair Education, run by several yeshiva graduates, who have criticized them for providing an inadequate secular education.

Based on the research of the Bristol Language Development Scales (BLADES), Chataway is a structured programme of work designed to help children develop speaking skills.

Originally published in 1968, at a time when the current public examination systems were coming under close scrutiny this volume discusses completely and fully the merits and demerits of various methods of educational measurement, starting with the theories from which they evolved and going on to observe their efficacy in practice.

Teachers often find that their training has not provided them with sufficient knowledge and understanding about underlying social forces and processes in their classrooms.

All areas of education policy and practice are driven by unconscious investments in ignorance, or idealised images of transformation of the individual, society and economy.