Philosophy and theory of education

This insightful book re-examines the concept of student voice through an exploration of children's implicit rights to silence and non-participation.

First published in 1983, Understanding Student Learning provides an in-depth analysis of students' learning methods in higher education, at the time.

This exciting new textbook provides a sophisticated examination of the Socratic method for teaching political science students in higher education.

This book argues that global crises such as the present Covid-19 pandemic are correlates of the contemporary thought regime that it calls technohumanism.

Discourses of Denial explores the myriad ways that the labor of those employed by universities is situated as somehow distinct from ordinary labor.

Historical and Conceptual Foundations of Measurement in the Human Sciences explores the assessment and measurement of nonphysical attributes that define human beings: abilities, personalities, attitudes, dispositions, and values.

Raise thriving humans with this practical, heartfelt approach based on the wisdom of Dr.

This volume offers critical analysis of national school reform policies intended to align with global agendas to promote educational quality and equity.

This book is a student-friendly guide to being a doctoral researcher.

This book discusses the relationship between faith, formation and education.

This book takes as its focus the key interactionist concept of 'strategy', a concept fundamental to many current concerns in the sociology of the school, including the understanding of the links between society and the individual, a more accurate description of certain areas of school life and implications for the practice of teaching.

Supporting Student and Faculty Wellbeing in Graduate Education recognizes new pressures impacting graduate students and their supervisors, teachers, and mentors globally.

First published in 1994.

This book aims to posit theory as a central component to the study of education and education policy.

This book derives from a 1993 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Knowledge, Teaching, and Wisdom.

This edited volume collates over a decade of Greg William Misiaszek's work on ecopedagogy, with a new focus on insights and possibilities for global citizenship education (GCE) scholarship.

One of the five books in the Mental Health and Wellbeing Toolkit, this practical resource is designed to help young children understand how the brain affects ways we see and interpret the world.

This compilation of empirical studies interrogates the global high-speed train of STEM education, particularly as a promise of social, economic, and political enfranchisement for marginalized communities.

Clergy have historically been represented as figures of authority, wielding great influence over our society.

The Heart of Teaching is a book about teaching and learning in the performing arts.

China enjoys a splendid ancient culture, which is inseparable from the role of cultural transmission played by the country's system of education.

Though certainly not a new idea, citizenship education manifests in unique and often unpredictable ways in our contemporary neoliberal era.

Foundations of Education: Essential Texts and New Directions helps aspiring teachers interpret the craft of teaching within the historical, philosophical, cultural, and social contexts of education, inside and outside of schools.

In Protectorate Cyprus, education was one of the most effective tools of imperial control and political manipulation used by the British.

The Native American Higher Education Initiative (NAHEI), a W.

Innovative Interventions for Today's Exceptional Kids provides teachers, parents, administrators, and school counselors with an intervention framework to help the struggling children.

Vygotsky Philosophy and Education reassesses the works of Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky work by arguing that his central ideas about the nature of rationality and knowledge were informed by the philosophic tradition of Spinoza and Hegel.

Volume One of three, this is a reprint of James Bowen's A History of Western Education originally published by Methuen in the 1970s.

Written specifically for education studies students, this accessible text offers a clear introduction to education policy.

The second volume in this Early Childhood Education in the 21st Century: International Teaching, Family and Policy Perspectives miniseries focuses on teacher and family perspectives of early childhood education and care from 19 different countries around the world.

In an age where official and sponsored violence are becoming normalised and conceived of as legitimate tools of peace keeping, a number of leading academics and activists represented in Pedagogy, Politics and Philosophy of Peace interrogate and resist the intensification of the militarisation of civil life and of international relations.

First published in 1980, Coming to Know offers an account which runs counter to orthodox educational psychology, in which learning and knowledge are reified, emotional aspects are excluded, the personal-social situation of the learner is ignored, and the created character of knowledge with all its social and political ramifications is denied.

This volume offers deeper exploration and advancement of critical race media literacy, a concept which fuses the genres of media literacy and critical media literacy with critical race theory to bring a new and salient frame to the discussion of media literacy across all levels of education in today's globalized, race-based, and media-saturated climate.

Originally published in 1974, a comprehensive history of Nigerian Education, from early times right through to the time of publication, had long been needed by all concerned with Education in Nigeria, students, teachers and educational administrators.

"e;Cookson and Berger provide a thoughtful summary and insightful critique of the charter school movement.

The Research Review for School Leaders, Volume III is specifically designed as a practical resource for school leaders whose schedules preclude opportunities to locate and review key research on every issue they must address.

"e;Unless we believe that those who have more are inherently superior to those who have less, we should be troubled by the fact that patterns of achievement are often fairly predictable, particularly with respect to students' race and class.

This book features reflections by scholars and practitioners from diverse religious traditions.

Inclusive education has become a phrase with international currency shaping the content of conferences and national educational policies around the world.

This book aims to be a reference for understanding an educational system throughout Latin America aligned with the Catholic Church.

The essays in this book examine various forms of popular culture and the ways in which they represent, shape, and are constrained by notions about and issues within higher education.

Sketches of Democracy is a captivating book that chronicles the first year in the life of a new urban high school.

This edited volume brings together experts from across the field of education to explore how traditional pedagogic and didactic forms and processes are changing, or even disappearing, as a result of new technologies being used for education and learning.

Notions of "community" are found in almost every educational context from primary schools to HE institutions.

This multidisciplinary overview introduces readers to the historical, sociological, anthropological, and political foundations of urban public secondary schooling and to possibilities for reform.

Establishing Scientific Classroom Discourse Communities: Multiple Voices of Teaching and Learning Research is designed to encourage discussion of issues surrounding the reform of classroom science discourse among teachers, teacher educators, and researchers.

This book details the development and impacts of anti-sexism professional development (PD) workshops for preservice teachers.

This introduction to one of the most influential philosophers in American history examines every major dimension of John Dewey's philosophy, from his early post-Hegelian idealism to pragmatic experimentalism, as well as his views on ethics and political theory, philosophy of education, aesthetics, and philosophy of religion.