Philosophy and theory of education

This book offers a new perspective on the management of schools by bringing together the knowledge and understanding of school effectiveness and community education.

This volume examines the challenges weighing on the future of education in the face of globalization in the twenty-first century.

What does mentoring really mean?

This volume investigates the dissonance between the supposed advantage held by educated women and their continued lack of economic and political power.

Dieses Buch zeigt in umfassender Weise das ganze Spektrum an Ansätzen in der modernen Philosophie-Didaktik.

Offers insight into the challenges and promises of moral education from a variety of ethical perspectives.

By using critical ethnographic research to explore the practices and policies that sustain a residential outdoor school in the United States, this book problematizes the relationship between science education and climate change politics in the United States.

This volume seeks to identify and explore the dynamics of global forces on the development of higher education in Asia, in particular, how neoliberalism has affected reforms on university governance and management in the region.

Technologies of Being in Martin Heidegger attempts to deepen the dialogue between philosophy of education and philosophy of technology, while engaging with the thought of Heidegger, Jacques Derrida and Bernard Stiegler.

Originating in Finland in eighteen-sixty-five, Educational Sloyd used handicrafts practised in schools to promote educational completeness through the interdependence of the mind and body.

In the past several years, hundreds of challenges a year to books used in public schools have been reported across the nation.

The creative strategies in Design for Transformative Learning offer a playful and practical approach to learning from and adapting to a rapidly changing world.

This book investigates children's use of language and considers its implications for children's learning at home and at school.

This book explores some of the major processes involved in the definition of school subject knowledge.

In the World Library of Educationalists, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions - so the world can read them in a single manageable volume.

This book introduces Bourdieu in the context of higher education for unfamiliar readers or those who would like to see his theories applied in the higher education setting.

Teaching is a moral enterprise through which we reflect our most deeply held values.

The influence of Nazism on German culture was a key concern for many Anglo-American writers, who struggled to reconcile the many contributions of Germany to European civilization, with the barbarity of the new regime.

This book explores school processes that shape student learning and principals' leadership.

Although specific definitions may change over time, few goals are considered more important to education than the pursuit of academic excellence.

Drawing on case-study research that examined initiatives which engaged with global aspirations to advance gender equality in schooling in Kenya and South Africa, this book looks at how global frameworks on gender, education and poverty are interpreted in local settings and the politics of implementation.

Never have policy initiatives been so important than in today's society.

The educational writings of John Macmurray, one of the finest 20th century philosophers of his generation, have a special relevance for us today.

Undergraduate Research in Architecture: A Guide for Students supplies tools for scaffolding research skills, with examples of undergraduate research activities and case studies on projects in the various areas of architecture study.

This book, the first comprehensive, critical examination of the theory and pedagogy of the field of social foundations of education and its relevance and role within teacher education:*Articulates central questions in the field--such as "e;What is social foundations?

What is the meaning of peace, why should we study it, and how should we achieve it?

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of Steiner or Waldorf pedagogy and practice in schools.

In The Qualified Student Harold S.

In this book, first published in 1979, Kevin Harris explores the idea that in capitalist liberal democracies formal education functions essentially not to reveal reality, but rather to transmit to each new generation a structured misrepresentation of reality.

Mirroring worldwide debates on social class, literacy rates, and social change, this study explores the intersection between reading and social class in Singapore, one of the top scorers on the Programme for International Assessment (PISA) tests, and questions the rhetoric of social change that does not take into account local spaces and practices.

How and what to teach about religion is controversial in every country.

Delving into Levinas's ideas in nuanced and sophisticated ways, this book innovatively blends and juxtaposes Levinas with other thinkers, perspectives, and fields of thinking.

Through careful examination of Ted Aoki's life and work within its historical, societal and intellectual context, this text advances a new appreciation of the national distinctiveness of Canadian curriculum studies.

The contribution schools can make to improving students' health and wellbeing is increasingly recognised.

What are the First Amendment rights?

Honorable Mention-2021 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book AwardTeaching Toward a Decolonizing Pedagogy outlines educational practitioner development toward decolonizing practices and pedagogies for anti-racist, justice-based urban classrooms.

This book examines key theorists in depth in order to give some insight into cultural change as reflected in their curricular recommendations and in the interplay they reveal between the two fundamental educational concepts of 'artifice' and 'nature'.

This book examines jurisdictional differences in the role of the principle of the welfare interests of the child in common and civil law and focuses on differences within these two legal traditions.

Max Scheler and Nicolai Hartmann developed ethics upon a phenomenological basis.

Democratic societies thrive when citizens actively and critically engage with new ideas, developments and claims to truth.

This book pushes the theoretical boundaries of human rights education, engaging with complex questions of climate-related injustices, re-imagining education through a decolonising lens, and problematising the relationship between rights and responsibilities.

Increasingly, new academics are entering higher education without conventional research training and without a clear idea of what research actually involves.

The Brave Educator equips you with accessible and refreshingly useful tools for real conversations about race that prepare students for the world beyond the school walls.

Giving voice to researchers, policy-makers and practitioners through a range of international case studies, Educational Approaches to Internationalization through Intercultural Dialogue interrogates processes of internationalization strategy and practice, from an educational and intercultural dialogue perspective.

This book provides an empirical examination of the meso-level policy enactment of transnational higher education in the context of China.

Rooted in the day-to-day experience of teaching and written for those without specialist technical knowledge, this is a new edition of the go-to guide to using digital tools and resources in the humanities classroom.

This book details the key concepts, objectives and processes relating to the professional accreditation of engineering bachelor (honours) degrees.