Philosophy and theory of education

This book offers an account of religious schooling committed to 'queer-thriving' and envisions how queer staff and students can live their lives without being 'accommodated' within heteronormative religious traditions.

This book introduces three new subjects to the context of literacy research-play, the imaginary, and improvisation-and proposes how to incorporate these important concepts into the field as research methods in order to engage people, materials, spaces, and imaginaries that are inherent in every research encounter.

This book is about three complementary ideas: 1) learning is a practice of freedom; 2) liberating learning in public education requires widespread cultural change in classrooms, schools, and entire education systems; and 3) social movements have been the most powerful vehicles for widespread cultural change, and in their logic of operation lie the keys to liberate learning.

Critical studies of youth play an increasingly important role in educational research.

History of Higher Education Annual, Volume 23 provides insight into the struggle for civil rights and desegregation of Southern higher education, illuminating how this conflict affected private, historically black colleges and white denominational colleges, while interpreting the dynamics of segregation and desegregation in South Carolina.

For the past five to ten years researchers have been developing tools and guidelines for developing accessible e-learning experiences for students with disabilities.

Education and the Pursuit of Wisdom examines the ways in which the timeless human search for wisdom relates to current educational practices.

This book offers a remarkable range of research that emphasises the need to analyse the shaping of curricula under historical, social and political variables.

Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in an urban elementary school, this volume is an examination of how school division politics, regional economic policies, parental concerns, urban development efforts, popular cultures, gender ideologies, racial politics, and university and corporate agendas come together to produce educational effects.

In recent years most western democracies have experienced a shift from elite to mass higher education, with the United States leading the way.

This volume outlines powerful theoretical and methodological approaches for expanding the possibilities of educational research.

Rural Education in America provides a comprehensive framework for understanding the diversity and complexity of rural communities in the United States and for helping rural educators implement and evaluate successful place-based programs tailored for students and their families.

As a distinguished scientist, pacifist, and feminist, Ursula Franklin has been regularly invited by diverse groups to share her insights into the social and political impacts of science and technology.

Theories Bridging Ethnography and Evaluation is the first of two volumes examining the connections between ethnography and evaluation in educational spaces.

Drawing on the work of Nancy Fraser, this book offers a critical view of contemporary educational leadership and reform discourses, exploring how her key concepts of redistribution, recognition and representation may apply to social and therefore educational justice.

Written by leading scholars and activists from Brazil, Chile, Greece, Italy, Malta, the UK, and the USA, this book shows how vitally important education is in addressing the complex social and political problems which have been exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic.

Pedagogy of the Heart represents some of the last writings by Paulo Freire.

Music in Early Childhood is an accessible and practical handbook, which introduces theories and pedagogical approaches for early childhood music education from birth to 8 years and explains their practical application.

This book explores current research on young children's beliefs and knowledge about the biological world - otherwise known as 'folkbiology'.

Re-Imagining Relationships in Education re-imagines relationships in contemporary education by bringing state-of-the-art theoretical and philosophical insights to bear on current teaching practices.

Violence in schools is a pervasive, highly emotive and, above all, global problem.

First Published in 1929 A Handbook for History Teachers is an attempt on the part of a number of teachers (many of them members of the S.

This collection examines education in the light of a politics of becoming.

This book synthesizes the latest findings on neuroplasticity and learning, drawing on rich phenomenological research carried out with teachers, psychologists, parents and students from around the world to examine the implications for current teaching and for the advancement of learning methods.

2010 Notable Education Book, American School Board Journal';Why is it,' writes noted assessment expert W.

In this groundbreaking text, Youdell and Lindley bring together cutting-edge research from the fields of biology and social science to explore the complex interactions between the diverse processes which impact on education and learning.

Mindful Educational Leadership unpacks the literature of mindfulness as it applies to K12 school leadership.

Pedagogical interaction can be observed through many different landscapes, such as the graduate seminar, the writing skills center, the after-school literacy program, adult ESL classrooms, and post-observation conferences.

This volume investigates the "e;global education effect"e;-the impact of global education initiatives on institutional and individual practices and perceptions-with a special focus on the dynamics of border construction, recognition, subversion, and erasure regarding "e;Japan"e;.

WINNER 2016 Grawemeyer Award in EducationHelping students develop their ability to deliberate political questions is an essential component of democratic education, but introducing political issues into the classroom is pedagogically challenging and raises ethical dilemmas for teachers.

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.

Experiential Learning Design comprehensively demonstrates the key theories and applications for the design of experiential approaches to learning and training.

This book is an inter-disciplinary endeavour.

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.

Over the past three decades, our conceptualizations of literacy and what it means to be literate have expanded to include recognition that there is a qualitative difference in how we communicate through modalities such as the visual, audio, spatial, and linguistic and that different modes are combined in complex ways to make meaning.

Learning, Problem Solving, and Mindtools is inspired by the substantial body of learning research by David H.

Emotions are at the core of the educational enterprise but their role is mostly left unexamined.

First published in 1992.

This book studies the exclusion and discrimination that is meted out to Scheduled Caste (SC) students in the Indian Higher Education system, and the psychosocial consequences of such practices.

Over recent years, education systems across the globe have experimented with the concept of the autonomous school.

Is there an 'ideal' primary school curriculum?

This volume brings together eight case studies which describe a variety of initiatives to create more effective schools for children of poverty, especially in the Third World.

This book foregrounds postcolonial theory as a lens through which to explore the concept of 'global heritage' and argues that the meso-level spaces of institutional ethos and cultural pedagogy must take an active role in the pursuit of cultural equality.

Keine Chancengleichheit im Schulsystem – Österreichs härtester Schulkritiker kämpft weiterJedes Kind hat eine Vielzahl von Talenten – doch die Schule vernichtet sie.

This book provides new ways of thinking about educational processes, using quantitative and qualitative methodologies.

Much of current educational theory and research at the time was concerned with the effect that pre-school education should have in accelerating development throughout the years of compulsory schooling.