Philosophy and theory of education

Work-Based Learning

First published in 1968, Problem Solving Interviews explores different elements relating to conversations concerned with finding a solution to a particular problem.

Early School Leaving in the European Union provides an analysis of early school leaving (ESL) in nine European Union countries, with a particular focus on young people who were previously enrolled in educational institutions inside and outside mainstream secondary education.

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School Education, the third volume of Charlotte Mason's Homeschooling Series, consists of thoughts about the teaching and curriculum of children aged 9-12, either at school or at home.

While it is quite clear that black and Latino students in general, and poor black and poor Latino students in particular do not do as well as white students in school, the road to real solutions to this very important and vexing problem is far from clear.

This book offers a variety of outlooks and perspectives on the constitutive values and formative norms of a society, reflected by discourses on ethical-political education.

Originally published in 1977.

First published in 1988, this work reports on a major British study of children's progress and behaviour in 33 infant schools.

The chapters in this book highlight the possibilities and complexities of putting decolonial theory to work in higher education in Northern and Southern contexts across the globe.

This book provides case studies written by practitioners from four organizations serving diverse adult learners in equitable, inclusive, and just ways.

Originally published in 1990, Classroom Ethnography examines the interplay between empirical research and methodological reflection.

How do language policies in schools create inequalities among learners?

Transnational Perspectives on Democracy, Citizenship, Human Rights, and Peace Education considers ways in which national systems of education could work together, across borders, to determine the meaning and significance of the principles of democracy, human rights and peace education, in ways that are comparative and relational.

Universalization of primary education has been high on the policy agenda in India.

Educational Progressivism, Cultural Encounters and Reform in Japan provides a critical analysis of educational initiatives, progressive ideas and developments in curriculum and pedagogy in Japan, from 1900 to the present day.

Every year, significant numbers of immigrant children from Mexico enter classrooms in the United States.

An acknowledged challenge for humanitarian democratic education is its perceived lack of philosophical and theoretical foundation, often resulting in peripheral academic status and reduced prestige.

This book focuses on education and power in Southeast Asia and analyzes the ways in which education has been instrumentalized by state, non-state, and private actors across this diverse region.

This 5-volume set tracks the various legal, administrative and social documentation on the progress of Indian education from 1780 to 1947.

Published in 1996, this volume includes the presidential address of Sara Delamont, the first female President of Bera written and presented in 1984.

This book sets out a clear and logical framework for the teaching of reading throughout different age groups, whereby systematic progression can be developed within a structured framework.

Early Childhood Education and Care in a Global Pandemic is a book that highlights how the international early childhood education and care sector responded to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Around the world, countries are searching for ways of making their schools more effective for all children and young people.

Across the United States, test publishers, software companies, and research firms continue to take advantage of the revenues made available by federal policies like the No Child Left Behind Act, Race to the Top, and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

This handbook represents the first comprehensive and evidence-based review of theory, research, and practice in the field of adapted physical education (APE).

Originally published in 1993.

It is sometimes said that the philosophy of education is not a serious and coherent philosophical area of inquiry.

Grounded in a critical sociocultural approach, this volume examines issues associated with teaching and learning difficult histories in international contexts.

Alex Kelly's internationally renowned TALKABOUT books are a series of practical workbooks designed to develop the self-awareness, self-esteem and social skills of people with special needs.

Doing Multicultural Education for Achievement and Equity, a hands-on, reader-friendly multicultural education textbook, actively engages education students in critical reflection and self-examination as they prepare to teach in increasingly diverse classrooms.

Write in Style is aimed at all for whom clarity and accuracy of expression are important skills.

This book demonstrates how humans can become sensitized to, and intervene in, environmental degradation by writing, reading, analyzing, and teaching poetry.

This book examines the impact of British education policies on the Muslims of Colonial Bengal.

Educational philosophies of self-cultivation as the cultural foundation and philosophical ethos for education have strong and historically effective traditions stretching back to antiquity in the classical 'cradle' civilizations of China and East Asia, India and Pakistan, Greece and Anatolia, focused on the cultural traditions in Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism in the East and Hellenistic philosophy in the West.

Drawing on insights from across Africa, this book investigates the discourses and practices that guide doctoral training today.

Recognizing the dominance of neoliberal forces in education, this volume offers a range of critical essays which analyze the language used to underpin these dynamics.

This edited volume brings together a collection of chapters from leading scholars in rural education with the purpose of linking knowledge from the rural education field to the wider discipline of education studies.

How can discerning critical hope enable us to develop innovative forms of teaching, learning and social practices that begin to address issues of marginalization, privilege and access across different contexts?

Schools and Food Education in the 21st Century examines how schools enact food policy, and through doing so, craft diverse foodscapes that create very different food experiences in schools.

This book is about boys' experiences of being educated in independent single-sex schools in Canada.

This comprehensive and uniquely organized text is aimed at undergraduate and graduate level statistics courses in education, psychology, and other social sciences.

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is a transformative and powerful approach to language education and has had a significant impact on educational pedagogy in recent years.

This significant text employs an intersectional analysis and considers the role of queer frameworks to understand the experiences of Queer People of Color at historically white institutions of higher education in the U.

Como profesionales de la educación disponemos de los conocimientos necesarios para afrontar la intervención educativa en todos los escenarios en los que interactúa la persona.

In recent years citizenship has emerged as a very important topic in the sciences, mainly as a result of the effects of migration, population displacements and cultural heterogeneity.