Philosophy and theory of education

This volume explores theories and practices of decolonizing education, drawing on international perspectives from scholars across the globe to engage new knowledges and build solidarities across different spaces.

This collection brings together African scholars in Africa and the diaspora to contribute to scholarly debates about critical issues in history teaching and learning in African schools.

This book provides readers with the opportunity to go beyond anecdote and supposition in order to get a fuller grasp of research around Catholic education and LGBTQ+ matters.

This book provides readers with the opportunity to go beyond anecdote and supposition in order to get a fuller grasp of research around Catholic education and LGBTQ+ matters.

As every astronomer knows, astronomy is one of the most approachable and inspiring of the natural sciences.

As every astronomer knows, astronomy is one of the most approachable and inspiring of the natural sciences.

This book is the first systematic attempt to analyse the growth of mass higher education in a specifically British context, while seeking to develop more theoretical perspectives on this transformation of elite university systems into open post-secondary education systems.

Complex problems can only be overcome with complex solutions.

In the last two decades, we have witnessed the quest for decolonization; through research, writing, teaching, and curriculum across the globe.

In the last two decades, we have witnessed the quest for decolonization; through research, writing, teaching, and curriculum across the globe.

The book brings together diverse views from around the world and provides a comprehensive overview of academic integrity and how to create the ethical academy.

The book brings together diverse views from around the world and provides a comprehensive overview of academic integrity and how to create the ethical academy.

Universities have long been dominated by a philosophy of inquiry that may be called knowledge-inquiry.

This book provides an overview of the Theory of Practice Architectures (TPA), and the associated Theory of Ecology of Practices, in a manner accessible for a broader audience.

Although difficult, change in academic structures is necessary today, especially in fast-changing fields today such as biology, computing, management, the social sciences, and others.

This book provides an overview of the Theory of Practice Architectures (TPA), and the associated Theory of Ecology of Practices, in a manner accessible for a broader audience.

Although difficult, change in academic structures is necessary today, especially in fast-changing fields today such as biology, computing, management, the social sciences, and others.

Subaltern theory emerged as a small voice within academia decades ago.

Subaltern theory emerged as a small voice within academia decades ago.

This book introduces readers to the ethical and goal-oriented functions of touch in professional practice.

This book examines the role of teaching within public education.

This book introduces readers to the ethical and goal-oriented functions of touch in professional practice.

This book examines the role of teaching within public education.

This book explores how stories can be used as 'data' that prefigure and make possible the numerous permutations of life that comprise existence, and examines how stories can be reconfigured to transform that existence into something 'other'.

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

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

This book explores how stories can be used as 'data' that prefigure and make possible the numerous permutations of life that comprise existence, and examines how stories can be reconfigured to transform that existence into something 'other'.

This book examines professional engineering education in the Asia-Pacific region in the context of the history of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tasmania.

Reaching deep into the wealth of Chinese philosophical wisdom, this book offers rich insights into a way of educating that has found staunch advocates among educators through the ages.

Reaching deep into the wealth of Chinese philosophical wisdom, this book offers rich insights into a way of educating that has found staunch advocates among educators through the ages.

This book thus explores the role of African epistemologies in addressing the myriad challenges posed by the inclusive education system in Africa and other contexts.

This book thus explores the role of African epistemologies in addressing the myriad challenges posed by the inclusive education system in Africa and other contexts.

The concepts of student motivation and student engagement have emerged from related but distinct fields of study.

This book explores in a theoretical and practical sense the challenges and opportunities arising in the initial and ongoing formation processes for teachers in Catholic schools.

In Climbing Parnassus, winner of the 2005 Paideia Prize, Tracy Lee Simmons presents a defense and vindication of the formative power of Greek and Latin.

In The Life of the Mind, Georgetown University's James V.

Frustrated with the continuing educational crisis of our time, concerned parents, teachers, and students sense that true reform requires more than innovative classroom technology, standardized tests, or skills training.

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

This exhaustively-researched, carefully-focused book asks whether imagination, emotion and art can enlighten our sense of right and wrong, looking at this question through the lens of moral philosophy with contributions from cognitive science, psychology and neurology.