Philosophy and theory of education

This book is dedicated to wonder and wondering, mundane phenomena that, despite their great value for education and other spheres of human experience, often go unnoticed both inside and outside the classroom.

The term 'outdoor learning' covers many forms of practice outside the classroom, including Forest School and outdoor play.

For nearly 200 years the organisational form of the school has changed little.

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

Recent years have shown the growth of federal legislation and programs having a profound impact on educational policy and practice, and a decline in reliance on broadly based educational justifications.

Within Citizenship for the Learning Society, the governance of the learning citizen is mapped in relation to European educational and cultural policy.

The relationship between teacher and student is an important element of school education and as such irreplaceable: If we want schools to be good places for those who teach and learn there, we must make sure that the educational relationships between teachers and students are good, too.

Ideology and Educational Reform traces the underlying ideological problems that make genuine educational reform difficult.

The successes of America's public schools are unrivaled throughout the globe providing an opportunity for every American to graduate from high school.

This book explores teaching, learning, and leadership in higher education following the Covid-19 pandemic.

Masculinities in Higher Education provides empirical evidence, theoretical support, and developmental interventions for educators working with college men both in and out of the classroom.

The book analyses and evaluates several key community college reform programs that emerged after the Recession of 2008 and as a result of major initiatives in California, New York, Tennessee, Florida, Connecticut and Wisconsin.

Offering an interdisciplinary approach, The Handbook of Classroom Discourse and Interaction presents a series of contributions written by educators and applied linguists that explores the latest research methodologies and theories related to classroom language.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - ein Klassiker der Erziehung.

This edited volume consolidates research from 32 countries in order to address the implications of the recent global wave of migration on educational opportunity and assess links between migration and bullying in Europe and further afield.

This book systematically reviews the educational thought of Mr.

This book, first published in 1985, provides a clear readable account of the principal sociological approaches to education.

Providing a comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of higher education this book steps nimbly through the field, leading it into new areas and advancing an imaginative ecological realism.

Higher education research is a developing field internationally, which is attracting more and more researchers from a great variety of disciplinary backgrounds within and beyond higher education institutions.

Calls to understand 'what works' in education are being made the world over.

Language Conflict in Educational Settings: International Perspectives delves into the intriguing intersection of contact linguistics and education, a topic that has been relatively unexplored until now.

The papers in this volume provide a coherent philosophical study of a group of important and pressing educational issues such as the selection of objectives for less able children, the fundamental characteristics of teaching and the integration of the curriculum.

This volume assembles the papers, presentations, and speeches from the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP) held in Oxfordshire in 2015.

This book introduces the educational philosophies of notable African and Asian thinkers who tend to be little recognized in Europe and North America.

In an era characterized by the rapid evolution of the concept of literacy, the Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts focuses on multiple ways in which learners gain access to knowledge and skills.

Bourdieu's sociology has traditionally been confined to the limits of its French national context.

A comprehensive guide for management and social science researchers to achieve a deeper understanding of the nature of explanation.

Education Networks is a critical analysis of the emerging intersection among the global power elite, information and communication technology, and schools.

Despite consistent improvements in the school systems of over recent years, there are still too many children who miss out.

This text offers a major reassessment of the life and thought of the distinguished 19th century industrial philanthropist and educational reformer, Robert Owen.

First published in 1988, this work was the product of extensive fieldwork in two evangelical communities.

Applying a critical lens to language education, this book explores the tensions that Latinx students face in relation to their identities, social and institutional settings, and other external factors.

First published in 1999, this volume attempts to draw the literature on school effectiveness and teacher effectiveness together in one volume.

Community education is now a worldwide phenomenon.

Confronting Global Gender Justice contains a unique, interdisciplinary collection of essays that address some of the most complex and demanding challenges facing theorists, activists, analysts, and educators engaged in the tasks of defining and researching women's rights as human rights and fighting to make these rights realities in women's lives.

This book explores innovative pedagogical practices and teaching and learning strategies in the engineering curriculum for empowered learning.

This updated edition of the Handbook of Autism explores and expands on the practical and jargon free information of the best-selling first edition.

There are many books about teaching in Geography, but this is the first dealing specifically with Pedagogic Research, its methods and practices.

The threat of utter tragedy does not arise directly out of man's greater mastery over nature, it comes, as Sir James Jeans has so pointedly stated, from the absence of man's moral control over himself.

Reconceptualizing STEM Education explores and maps out research and development ideas and issues around five central practice themes: Systems Thinking; Model-Based Reasoning; Quantitative Reasoning; Equity, Epistemic, and Ethical Outcomes; and STEM Communication and Outreach.

¿Qué está cambiando en el sistema educativo?

Starting in the early twentieth century and still thriving in the contemporary era, Black Greek-letter organizations (BGLOs) provide social support, networking opportunities, and service for the Black community.

Religion, Education, Dialogue and Conflict analyses the European Commission-funded REDCo project, which addressed the question of how religions might contribute to dialogue or conflict in Europe.

Understanding Inclusion is a rich, comprehensive exploration of inclusion in education, challenging us to think about being 'inclusive' in its broadest sense.

This unique and timely book focuses on research conducted into the experiences of students from rural backgrounds in South Africa: foregrounding decolonial perspectives on their negotiation of access and transitions to higher education.