Philosophy and theory of education

Incorporating Montessori Principles into Your Early Years Environments will allow readers to understand the developing child in their early years setting and how to adapt a Montessori approach to meet their pupils' needs.

Based on interrogation and review of historical and current cultural and indigenous knowledge combined with extensive curriculum and classroom analysis, this book identifies how indigenous science gender roles may be utilized to provide a more gender balanced and indigenous centered learning experience.

This multi-authored collection covers the methodology and philosophy of collective writing.

Drawing on the case of moral education reform, this book provides an authoritative picture of how policy is enacted between state policymaking and school practice in Japan, focusing on how national policy is enacted locally in the classroom.

Globalization and International Education introduces key international issues in education and considers the changes in education stemming from the rapid social, economic and cultural transformations associated with globalization.

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

This book speaks directly to issues of equity and school transformation, and shows how one indigenous minority teachers' group engaged in a process of transforming schooling in their community.

Die AutorInnen befassen sich mit dem innovativen Feld "Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung" in verschiedenen Segmenten der Bildung vom Kindergarten bis hin zur Erwachsenenbildung.

Theorising Identity and Subjectivity in Educational Leadership Research brings together a range of international scholars to examine identity and subjectivities in educational leadership in new and original ways.

How is creativity understood and facilitated across music education settings?

This volume presents the most current perspectives on the role of metacognition in diverse educationally relevant domains.

Most people would not associate Confucian philosophy with contemporary education.

Currently, linguistic minority students - students who speak a language other than English at home - represent 21% of the entire K-12 student population and 11% of the college student population.

The number of minority students, many of them not Catholic, who have enrolled in Catholic secondary schools is substantial.

Motivation and Emotion in Learning and Teaching across Educational Contexts brings together current theoretical and methodological perspectives as well as examples of empirical implementations from leading international researchers focusing on the context specificity and situatedness of their core theories in motivation and emotion.

Examines the relationship between sport and education from both social and moral points of view.

In this book various scholars explore the material in science and science education and its role in scientific practice, such as those practices that are key to the curriculum focuses of science education programs in a number of countries.

The global trend in educational participation has brought with it a cross-national consequence: the expansion of students with "e;special needs"e; (SEN) placed in special education and the growth of "e;low achieving"e; students diverted to vocational tracks.

Teachers are vital for the integration of immigrant, refugee and asylum-seeking students; however, they are not often prepared or supported to meet the needs of these students.

Research has proven that childhood trauma affects school engagement and success while at the same time recognizing that the majority of students have experienced it.

What does it mean to be good?

It has been asserted that there is no one universal proposition with which all philosophers would agree, including this one.

The third edition of the best selling collection, Chicano School Failure and Success presents a complete and comprehensive review of the multiple and complex issues affecting Chicano students today.

Emergent Teaching inspires teachers to teach with more spontaneity and creativity within an educational environment that is highly constrained.

Education is always evolving, consistently with a society in flux.

Decolonisation after Democracy addresses the provocative idea that we need to rid higher education of lingering forms of colonial knowledge.

Best known today for his novels, plays and short stories, but also an accomplished essayist, editor and journalist, Albert Camus was one of the most influential literary figures of the 20th century.

This monograph highlights the educational experiences of rural children who are 'left behind' by their migrant worker parents in China, analyzing how this situation impacts on their aspirations and self-identity.

Against the backdrop of equity-sensitive approaches within education policy and practice, inequalities in student attainment remain a persistent problem.

This book is about the lives of 11-year-old children growing up in a Midlands city in the late '60s and early '70s.

First published in 1979, this critical review covers further education in England and Wales, giving an overview of its administrative framework.

As the concept of community resilience moves from the margins of practice and theoretical research to more mainstream scholarship, critical issues of conceptualization and use emerge.

First published in 1977, Patterns of Education in the British Isles is the first modern discussion of the educational systems of the British Isles and the ways in which they influence each other.

The Education Reform Act introduced in England and Wales in 1988 brought about enormous changes in schools, both as management units and as educational institutions.

This books examines the increased prominence of children's rights in education to ask whether we are witnessing a paradigm shift within the education system.

This timely Handbook takes stock of the range of debates that characterise the field of international education and development, and suggests key aspects of a research agenda for the next period.

Within a context of rapid growth and diversification in higher degree research programs, there is increasing pressure for the results of doctoral research to be made public.

This edited collection brings together a series of conceptual explorations and practical case studies to illuminate a developing innovative praxis of transdisciplinary peace and education.

Social Justice Dialogues in the Classroom demonstrates how pre-service and in-service teachers can initiate and hold conversations about social justice and liberation with youth of all ages in their classrooms.

The teacher who has an affair with a student.

Originally published in 1989, this book differed from others on the topic of microcomputers and education at the time, in that it focuses on the influence that microcomputer technology has on children in their early years, specially pre-school and elementary ages.

What is the relationship of gender to the micropolitics of school reform?

This Handbook provides an authoritative account of international fieldwork education in social work.

Navigating the Common Good in Teacher Education Policy examines the changing relationships between the state and the common (or public) good.