Philosophy and theory of education

For 50 years, Star Trek has been an inspiration to its fans around the world, helping them to dream of a better future.

This book provides a critique of over two decades of sustained effort to infuse educational systems with education for sustainable development.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of research at interface between History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science (HPSS) and Science Teaching in Ibero-America.

This book explores, and problematizes, what it means to be 'critical' in education research.

This book delves into the heated political battles over what kids eat at school, shedding light onto how policymakers craft food policy for schools.

This book explores how antiracism theories can be translated into practice within formal education, as well as in other educational programs outside schools, as very often racism occurs outside the school environment.

This edited volume offers empirical, evaluative, and philosophical perspectives on the question of higher education as a human right in the Asia Pacific.

This book focuses on critical walking and mapping practices through the research methodology of a/r/tography.

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.

Winner of the 2019 AERA Division B (Curriculum Studies) Outstanding Book AwardThis book explores curriculum inquiry through the theoretical lens of governmentality as a site of disciplinary biopolitics and a system of heteropatriarchal political economy.

This book presents recent advancements in positive psychology, specifically its application across broad areas of current interest.

Is academic freedom threatened?

This book critically looks at the tensions between the promise to transform education through the use of digital technology and the tendency to utilize digital technology in instrumental and technical ways.

This anthology opens new perspectives in the domain of history, philosophy, and science teaching research.

This book traces the early history of the Montessori movement in the United States through the lives and careers of four key American women: Anne George, Margaret Naumburg, Helen Parkhurst, and Adelia Pyle.

This book considers Foucault as educator in three main ways.

This book presents and advocates for a framework of competing epistemologies and conceptions of ethics as a way of understanding modernist lifelong learning.

This book gives an introduction to Jean-Francois Lyotard (1924-1998) as an educational thinker whose philosophical encounters with politics and art offer a radical reconsideration of the aims of education and the nature of pedagogy.

This book provides a theoretical and philosophical examination of games, play and playfulness and their relationships to learning and wellbeing in adulthood.

This book covers Rudolf Steiner's biography, presented from an educational point of view and also unfolds the different aspects of Steiner's educational thought in Waldorf Education.

This book explores the development of practical wisdom, or phronesis, within the stories of four mature students studying for degrees in art and design.

This book examines Norwegian education throughout the course of the 19th century, and discusses its development in light of broader transnational impulses.

This book identifies and emphasizes the need for a holistic approach to school improvement when it comes to both the development of the whole child and the relationships among student, family, and community development.

This handbook brings together a range of global perspectives in the field of critical studies in education to illuminate multiple ways of knowing, learning, and teaching for social wellbeing, justice, and sustainability.

This book explicitly unites the concepts of higher education and love to examine how these concepts are mutually compatible.

This book presents a critique of neoliberalism within UK Higher Education, taking its cue from approaches more usually associated with literary studies.

This book investigates transdisciplinary, arts-based approaches to developing innovative and pertinent higher education pedagogy.

This book addresses a world-wide audience with reference to a global problem: how the PhD can serve the planet.

This book examines the European discussion about alternative schooling in the 20th century.

This book presents a critical analysis of the anti-democratic and pro-authoritarian ideologies that exist in rural communities in the United States.

Since its original publication, Conflicts in Curriculum Theory has firmly established itself as the key volume that not only advanced alternative ways to think about education and curriculum but also introduced innovative scholarship and a radical conceptual grammar for the field.

This volume examines Otto Friedrich Bollnow's philosophical approach to education, which brought Heidegger's existentialism together with other theories of what it is to be "e;human.

This book focuses on educational praxis-connecting work inside schools with work outside school-to produce a revitalized critical theory of education that shows its slide away from Marxism and toward culturalism.

Based on a three-year life story study of students from working-class backgrounds at four elite universities in China, this book offers a new way to understand and be inspired by Bourdieu.

This book provides an analysis of race and education through the lens of the work of Judith Butler.

This book explores education in the 21st century in post-modern Western societies through a philosophical lens.

In this book, Silin maps the common ground between early childhood and the period sociologists call "e;young-old age.

This edited collection brings together a robust range of philosophers who offer theoretically and critically informed proposals regarding the aims, policies, and structures of the university.

This book is a reflection on the complexity of educational change in China through the lens of a senior academic who has occupied many diverse roles in the academe, from political worker to dean of faculty.

This book provides an introduction to Hans-Georg Gadamer's thinking and shows how it might inform our own thinking about education as a lifelong process of engaging with one another and with the wider world.

This book is a succinct guide to Soren Kierkegaard's contribution to educational thought.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of Native American educational issues in the Northeast and highlights teacher training and instruction that address the experience and needs of the many Native students that attend reservation border town schools.

This book examines the history of Jewish education from the Biblical period to the present.

This book proposes a new way for scholars in, for example, Education, Literary Studies, and Philosophy to approach texts and other phenomena through the concept and practice of translation.

This book provides concise and effective tips spanning all relevant areas to deliver engaging scientific presentations.

This edited volume includes contributions on education within a world of challenges by authors with diverse experiences and perspectives.

This book offers a Christian engagement with the realities of academic life and work.

Die Beiträge dieses Bandes betrachten die Verbindung zwischen bildungsphilosophischen und philosophiedidaktischen Themen.

Higher education is increasingly unable to engage usefully with global emergencies, as its functions are repurposed for value.

This book explores the unique experiences of a sister school network in Canada and China contextualized through the lens of the Reciprocal Learning Project, which supports the relationship between a school network and teacher education exchange program of two countries.