Philosophy and theory of education

This book considers the diffusion and transfer of educational ideas through local and transcontinental networks within and across five socio-political spaces.

This book is a rhizomatic curriculum autobiography that charts the author's efforts to develop and promote Australian outdoor environmental education practices that are inclusive of, and responsive to, the places in which they are performed.

This volume presents the history of Western education through the biographies of some 70 individuals, past and present, who exemplify the education of their times or have made important contributions to the development of educational theory or practice.

This book introduces six pedagogues from the German context to an English-speaking audience, and demonstrates their significant contribution to the field of alternative education.

This book reconstructs the impact of Plato's words for the modern reader.

Drawing on the author's lifelong practice in the non-competitive and defensive Japanese art of Aikido, this book examines education as self-cultivation, from a Japanese philosophy (e.

This book newly interprets the educational implications of Thomas Jefferson's revolutionary thought.

This book spotlights design and media education in Asia, with contributors providing their reflections on curriculum development, pedagogy, and practice from Australia, China, Japan, India, Mongolia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Turkey.

This book discusses the relationship between pluralist economics and the case study method of teaching, advocating the complimentary use of both to advance economics education.

This book fills an existing gap within the practice of global citizenship education by offering Asian perspectives.

This book promotes collaborative ways of knowing and group accountability in learning processes to counteract the damaging effects of neoliberal individualism prevalent in educational systems today.

Offering the first developed account of political liberal education, this book combines a thorough analysis of the theoretical groundwork of political liberal education with application-oriented approaches to contemporary educational challenges.

This book invites readers to explore how fourteen different experts in their respective fields create deeper meaning in their profession and work with students through thinking, in multiple ways, about the self who teaches, the self who learns, and the ways in which these selves interact within the academy.

This book provides global perspectives on assessment and evaluation practices with young children in contemporary times within early childhood education systems.

This book revolves around curriculum making, reciprocal learning, and the best-loved self.

This book explores how the Montessori movement developed a cultural critique and gained momentum during the interwar years of political turbulence.

Was setzt es voraus, eine pädagogische Ironie zu identifizieren?

This book is about values education in early years settings and discusses theory and concepts, as well as methodological and empirical perspectives.

This book offers an up-to-date overview of the research on philosophy of mathematics education, one of the most important and relevant areas of theory.

This book seeks to re-envision the purpose and pedagogy of sexuality education, disrupting its conventional instrumental and health related aims.

This book explores the role of the university in upholding democratic values for societal change.

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

This book is a compilation of theoretical and empirical advances related to the phenomenon of inner speech  in education, and is aimed at academics and researchers in the area of psychology, education and culture.

This book asks what it means to live in a higher educational world continuously tempered by catastrophe.

This highly original collection presents speculative fiction as fiction-based research to re-imagine education in the  future.

This book investigates the interrelationship between educational reforms and pedagogical and technological innovations, as well as the implications of this relationship for the quality of human capital.

This volume informs the growing number of educational policy scholars on the use of critical theoretical frameworks in their analyses.

This book argues that the mainstream view and practice of critical thinking in education mirrors a reductive and reified conception of competences that ultimately leads to forms of epistemic injustice in assessment.

This books examines the increased prominence of children's rights in education to ask whether we are witnessing a paradigm shift within the education system.

The book offers a well-grounded vision of the significant theory and application of the concept of Capability as a lifecourse and lifespan development.

This book uses the metaphors of practice spaces and practice sessions to demonstrate the connection between creative and performance practices, and critical pedagogy.

This book explores the pedagogical applications of critical thinking in art education and scholarship.

This handbook provides an important overview of corporeality, embodiment and learning in education from both theoretical and empirical perspectives.

This book brings together voices and perspectives from across the world and draws in a new generation of curriculum scholars to provide fresh insight into the contemporary field.

This book draws on five philosophers from the continental tradition - Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, and Jacques Ranciere - in order to "e;think about thinking"e; and offer new and surprising answers to the question: How can we educate students to think creatively and critically?

This book explores why the concept of wild pedagogy is an essential aspect of education in these times; a re-negotiated education that acknowledges the necessity of listening to voices in a more than human world, and (re)learning how to dwell in a place.

This book examines the role of compassion in refiguring the university.

This book introduces readers to the writing of the French philosopher, Jacques Ranciere, and discusses the uptake of his work in education.

This book is a comparative study of the endeavors to create a socialist system of higher education in the Soviet Union under Stalin and in China under Mao.

Drawing on John Dewey and the later Ludwig Wittgenstein, this book employs philosophy as a conceptual resource to develop new methodological and analytical tools for conducting in situ empirical investigations.

This book explores the pedagogical possibilities of testimony and witnessing.

This book addresses issues related to ethics and the scholarship of teaching and learning, and pays special attention to ethical concerns and experiences that have arisen from engaging in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) work.

This collection presents strategies for trauma-informed teaching and learning in higher education during crisis.

This book explores what mindfulness could mean for teachers and educational researchers.

This book deals with the importance of interculturality in teacher education and training.

This book offers a moral rather than instrumental notion of university education whilst locating the university within society.

School lunch is often regarded as a necessary but inconvenient distraction from the real work of education.

This edited book explores the under-analyzed significance and function of paranoia as a psychological habitus of the contemporary educational and social moment.

This book features ten high academically achieving, low-income, inner city students from Newark, New Jersey, who graduated from public high schools at or near the top of their class and continued to excel in college.

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