Philosophy and theory of education

In the face of a world in crisis, Digitalization and Learning as a Worlding Practice: Why Dialogue Matters examines the significance of digital technologies in human learning.

In his groundbreaking work, Martin Haberman identified key dispositions of "e;star"e; teachers that help them work successfully with students in poverty.

This book examines four distinct areas of education that suffered as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in Asian and African regions, and tackles the challenges and barriers that came as a result of the shift to online learning.

Thoroughly updated to reflect the challenges of diversity in today's schools, this new edition of Achievement and Inclusion in Schools shows how high levels of inclusion can be entirely compatible with high levels of achievement and that combining the two is not only possible but also essential if all students are to have the opportunity to participate fully in education.

For more than twenty years, Research on Educational Innovations has helped readers draw distinctions between truly innovative educational programs backed by sound empirical research and faddish policy trends of the day.

Positive Special Education spotlights the power of positive special education, combining insights from researchers and teachers in special education from several countries.

How are the arts important in young people's lives?

This book provides a timely review of learning style research.

Deep disagreements exist regarding what thinking and critical thinking are and to what extent they are teachable.

This thoroughly revised edition includes updated essays on cultural themes and literary analysis, and its new essays analyze the full scope of the seven-book series as both pop cultural phenomenon and as a set of literary texts.

At a time when race and inequality dominate national debates, the story of West Charlotte High School illuminates the possibilities and challenges of using racial and economic desegregation to foster educational equality.

Kate Phillippo evaluates the practice of having teachers also serve as advisors, tasked with providing social-emotional support to students.

This volume is an extended case study of a hypothetical school district--its residential communities, a middle school and secondary school, its students, teachers, administrators, parents and board members.

Due to globalization processes, foreign language skills, knowledge about other countries and intercultural competences have increasingly become important for societies and people's social positions.

Contemporary Issues in Childhood provides undergraduate students with a comprehensive introduction to the current influences and challenges that surround childhood, families and communities.

This volume focuses on the changing pattern of tertiary education in the UK and the emphasis of the contributions is on the challenges and opportunities rather than the problems and difficulties of educationists at this level.

Psychology and the Study of Education: Critical Perspectives on Developing Theories explores both the insights and applications that psychology can offer in a range of educational contexts.

Using a capability approach as an analytical framework, this timely volume examines how access to higher education, enabled through private universities, can transform students' lives and contribute to human development in low-income countries in the Global South.

The Palgrave International Handbook of Marxism and Education is an international and interdisciplinary volume, which provides a thorough and precise engagement with emergent developments in Marxist theory in both the global South and North.

Thirty years of spirited school reforms have failed to improve our schools and instead have left our public school systems in disarray.

Didactics of philosophy and ethics demands problem based orientation and relevance for real life experiences.

Perhaps no topic in higher education is more controversial than admissions, whether it be to a prestigious college, graduate schools, or professional schools.

Providing coherence in understanding the role that education and higher education played in the colonizing purposes of the rich nations of the North, this book draws from multiple geopolitical spaces across the world to consider how epistemic injustice has characterized colonial higher education systems.

A 2018 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleA thought-provoking contribution to the renaissance of interest in Bergson, this study brings him to a new generation of readers.

Jean Piaget was one of the most significant contributors to our current understanding of how children think and learn, from birth through to adolescence.

This book questions what 'educating the whole child' means in the context of our current neoliberal education system.

This book highlights decisions governments have to make about their public education systems, the options they have before them and the consequences of their decisions.

Demonstrates how some military presence on campus can contribute to the diversity of ideas and the education of all students.

Adopting an intersectional lens, this timely volume explores the lived experiences of members of the queer and trans community in post-secondary STEM culture in the US to provide critical insights into progressing socially just STEM education pathways.

This book seeks to offer the most up-to-date and relevant sample of contemporary research on Latin American education, by inviting the reader to understand the complexities, heterogenetics, nightmares, dreams, crisis and promises of education in the region.

Originally published in 1998, Sexual Harassment in Higher Education addresses the problem of sexual harassment on college campuses.

This volume uses interviews and narratives data from self-identified Black women reflecting on their childhood in the Canadian public school system, to explore voice and agency, girlhood, and identity in Canada's elementary schools.

This book is about helping troubled young people who are searching separately for security, identity, and purpose in their lives.

This volume introduces a new conception of political education and new roles for headteachers and parents in the creation of a more democratic educational system.

In the mid-20th century, university-based business schools re-oriented themselves to increased alignment with the preferences of the university and decreased alignment with the preferences of business.

This core text, now in its second edition, provides an easy-to-read, comprehensive introduction to educational research that will develop your understanding of research strategies, theories and methods, giving you the confidence and enthusiasm to discuss and write about your research effectively.

This book seeks to bring together the two disciplines of informal and outdoor education, and challenges readers to think differently about outdoor and adventure education.

This book documents a collaborative action research project in one school where researchers and practitioners worked together to develop multimodal literacies and pedagogies for diverse, multilingual elementary classrooms.

This book draws on the lessons from one of the most intensive periods of educational reform in any country during recent times.

Pinar documents that the field of curriculum studies in the United States is in the early stages of a second paradigm shift, this time stimulated by present political circumstances.

This book, first published in 1979, is the detailed study that arose from the visit of the US State Education Leaders Delegation to China in 1977.

This book reconstructs the idea and practice of education.

Since Michael Oakeshott spoke of education as initiation into 'the conversation of mankind' more than fifty years ago, the idea has inspired a diverse array of thinkers and continues to be invoked today by those seeking to resist the influence of managerialism and narrow instrumentalism in educational policy and practice.

The question about girls' attainment in mathematics is met with every kind of myth, false 'evidence', and theorizing about the gendered body and the gendered mind.

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY Primary education in Europe, as in the United States and other conti- nents, is passing through a period of profound change, affecting some of the fundamental educational aims at primary school level and teaching structure, content and methods.

This book takes a fresh look at the fundamental character of education, its history, interaction with society, purpose, changing focus over time and interactions with technology.

This volume engages with the idea of a university, the importance of intellectual inquiry and research, and the articulation of diverse political views and dissent.